Miranda Cromwell on the impact of centering a Black family in Death of a Salesman on Broadway --- Miranda Cromwell admits she didn't think much of Death of a Salesman when she first read Art…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMIf you judged the state of playwriting by this year’s Tony nominations for best play, you might think some unidentified virus had wiped out a generation of American writers. Three of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 05:30AMEven before it got to Broadway, people were predicting that “The Band’s Visit” would win the Tony Award for Best Musical. And, indeed it is this year’s front-runner, …
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 05:30AMWe talk with Tony winners Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter and George C. Wolfe about illuminating the context behind the original musical and honoring their characters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBefore Miranda wrote the show, Chernow wrote the best-selling biography on the once-forgotten Founding Father. How involved was Chernow in the making of the musical? What does he thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21AMOver the past decade, women like Susan Stroman, Diane Paulus and Kathleen Marshall have moved to the front ranks of go-to directors for big Broadway musicals. But female composers have b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14AMRob Marshall, director of the anticipated movie musical "Into the Woods," and screenwriter James Lapine discuss bringing the beloved musical to the big screen — and the i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMS. Epatha Merkerson and Lillias White, collaborating for the first time in Billy Porter's While I Yet Live, share their experiences while working as African-American actresses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMTony nominee Norm Lewis will make history May 12 when he becomes the first African-American actor to play the title role in The Phantom of the Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAward-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney talks with Playbill.com about staging a new adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMInside the casting for Broadway’s “Motown The Musical” Casting a Broadway show is never easy, but finding the right actors for Motown: the Musical was especially daunting. …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:51PMInside the casting for Broadway’s “Motown: The Musical” Casting a Broadway show is never easy, but finding the right actors for Motown: the Musical was especially daunting.…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:22AMTrainers preach a new gospel of self-empowerment, even in the most collaborative of art forms
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:16AMPeter DuBois and Gina Gionfriddo collaborate at Playwrights Horizons It’s no surprise that playwright Gina Gionfriddo and director Peter DuBois are collaborating again. They’ve b…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:35PMThe actor’s brain injury guides his performance in “Sons of the Prophet” Welcome to Building Character, TDF STAGES ‘ongoing series about actors and how they create th…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:42AMA teenage playwright joins theatre legends Summer Shorts, the annual festival of new American short plays, has lined up a murderers’ row of playwrights for its fifth season. On deck ar…
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