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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

All the Succession Actors You Can See on Stage This Season by Diep Tran

Contrary to Logan Roy's assertion, they are very serious people.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM

Playwrights Horizons to Hold 10th Anniversary Benefit Reading of Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play by Diep Tran

The post-apocalyptic play by Anne Washburn was a hit when it premiered a decade ago.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM

Hit Edinburgh Fringe Show Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha to Play Off-Broadway by Diep Tran

Soho Playhouse will present Julia Masli's comedy show.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Why Do So Many Shows Open on Broadway in the Spring? by Diep Tran

Roughly half the new shows from the 2023–24 season are opening in March and April.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PM
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Video: The Composers of Water for Elephants, PigPen Theatre Co., Perform 'The Road Don't Make You Young' by Diep Tran

This band of theatre makers doesn’t know much about the circus, but they do know something about traveling on the road together.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

How Suffs on Broadway Built Its Team of Powerful Women by Diep Tran

Creator and star Shaina Taub and director Leigh Silverman on why leadership behind-the-scenes is just as important as who's on the stage.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PM
Friday, March 8, 2024

How the Cast of The Effect Put a New Spin on an 11-Year-Old Play by Diep Tran

The play had a hit run last year in London, and now it’s being performed at the Shed Off-Broadway with the original cast.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Amber Iman on Readying Lempicka While Advocating for Black Women on Broadway by Diep Tran

The actor has become a muse for the new Broadway musical, and for the industry at large.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM
Friday, March 1, 2024

Camille A. Brown, Heidi Schreck, Amber Iman, and Jessica Stone Discuss Being a Woman in the Theatre by Diep Tran

The four, all with projects coming this spring, gather for a roundtable conversation on that state of the industry.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Charity Angél Dawson on Balancing a Stage Career While Being a Budding Restaurateur by Diep Tran

Go backstage with the & Juliet actor as she dishes up vegan soul food with a side of joy.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

A History of Immersive Theatre on Broadway by Diep Tran

Why it’s rare that the Main Stem does away with the proscenium, and why it's glorious when it happens.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PM
Friday, February 9, 2024

Moses Ingram on Going From Star Wars to Sunset Baby by Diep Tran

Returning to theatre in Dominique Morisseau's play has been a healing experience for the actor.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Eden Espinosa Has Been Waiting a Long Time for a Role Like Lempicka by Diep Tran

After 16 years, the former Wicked actor is finally back on Broadway.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Sweeney Todd’s Nicholas Christopher and Jeanna de Waal on Their Craziest Understudy Stories by Diep Tran

The two understudies are leading the show until February 8, and they've been able to put their own spin on the lead characters.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM
Monday, January 22, 2024

Heather Christian Is Redefining the Musical by Diep Tran

The composer on Terce: A Practical Breviary, which straddles musical, opera, classical music, and the Holy Spirit.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Josh Radnor Is Exploring What It Is to Be Jewish Today by Diep Tran

The How I Met Your Mother star is in a new Off-Broadway play, The Ally, about discourse around Israel and Palestine.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Melanie La Barrie Forged a Successful Stage Career Without Giving Up Her Authenticity. Or Her Accent. by Diep Tran

The actor on leaving & Juliet after seven years, and why it's important to "say yes to life."

SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PM
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The Under the Radar Theatre Festival Was Pronounced Dead. Here’s How It Was Reborn by Diep Tran

Founder Mark Russell on the importance of creating space for experimentation and risk, and how the festival is like Mardi Gras.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM
Friday, December 29, 2023

Playbill's Favorite Theatre Moments of 2023 by Diep Tran

From Ruthie Ann Miles in Light in the Piazza to the puppets in Life of Pi, here are the things we loved this year.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PM
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

How Does Playbill Choose Our Covers? by Diep Tran

A behind-the-pages look on how a Playbill is put together.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PM
Monday, December 4, 2023

'Race Is a Hallucination': Sarah Paulson and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Appropriate by Diep Tran

The Broadway play is about a white family and their inability to talk about their troubled past.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Photos: See Cecily Strong, Patti Harrison, Miz Cracker and More Visit Off-Off Broadway's Snatch Adams by Diep Tran

The new play at Soho Rep, Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month, features a life-sized vagina.

SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PM

How The Gilded Age Got So Many Broadway Stars to Join Its Cast by Diep Tran

Casting Directors Bernie Telsey and Adam Caldwell explains why they prefer to cast theatre actors on the hit HBO TV show.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM

Krystal Joy Brown On Playing an Unlikeable Character in Merrily We Roll Along by Diep Tran

In the hit Broadway revival, the actor gives new dimension to the character of Gussie.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM
Monday, November 27, 2023

How Non-Profit Theatres Are Trying to Save Themselves. And the Theatre Industry by Diep Tran

Regional theatres are the birthplace of the next generation of theatremakers. And they’re in crisis.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Qui Nguyen Wrote a Play About His Family. Starring His Best Friends by Diep Tran

Poor Yella Rednecks at Manhattan Theatre Club Off-Broadway combines the real story of a Vietnamese family with kung fu, rap, and plenty of heart.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

How Playwright Larissa FastHorse Helped Improve the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by Diep Tran

The Broadway writer helped bring more Native American representation, a land acknowledgement—and no more pilgrims.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM
Friday, November 17, 2023

On the Red Carpet: The Cast of Spamalot Amp Up the Comedy on Opening Night by Diep Tran

The cast of the hit Broadway revival on how to make sure the audience laughs. Plus, Cobie Smulders, Rachel Dratch, and Montego Glover walk the red carpet.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PM
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

How the Company Cast Recording Documentary Inspired This New Play by Diep Tran

David Adjmi’s hit play Stereophonic, featuring original songs by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, takes audiences through the “horribly real” process of creating an album.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

King Arthur, Louis Armstrong—James Monroe Iglehart Is in His Leading Man Phase by Diep Tran

This fall, the Tony winner is doing two shows back to back: A Wonderful World and Spamalot on Broadway.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Constance Wu Has Been Trying to Get to the Stage for a Long Time by Diep Tran

As Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, the Crazy Rich Asians actor is fulfilling a longtime dream.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards