Friday, October 2, 2015
Lea Salonga became a theatre phenomenon when she landed the role of Kim in the hit musical Miss Saigon in 1991. More than 20 years later, she's returning to the stage creating another ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Sheri M. Goldhirsch, who, as artistic director of Young Playwrights Inc., a program that gave budding young dramatists a leg up, died Sept. 22 in Manhattan. She was 55.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMCatherine E. Coulson, who was a stalwart at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, but was best known for her portrayal of the enigmatic Log Lady on the cult television series "Twin Peaks,&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMMonday, September 28, 2015
The fall Broadway season fattened up a bit last week with the addition of two new shows: revivals of the musical pastiche Dames at Sea and the two-hander The Gin Game.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Like many New Yorkers these days, the Tony Awards is struggling with the high premium put on real estate today in what was rated by a Swiss study this week as the most expensive city in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Arthur Wagner, who was a founding chairman of the department of theatre and dance at the University of California San Diego, and a major figure in the San Diego theatre community, died Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMA growing number of new stage productions just feel like a prison for theatregoers lately, and with good reason, for the onstage action is set behind bars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 21, 2015
The fall is officially here and that means more new shows are beginning to arrive on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMMelvin Bernhardt, a director who rose to prominence in the '70s as the director of such notable dramas as Da, Crimes of the Heart and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMFriday, September 18, 2015
The Willises will be spending quality time on Broadway this fall. We think.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMMonday, September 14, 2015
Two shows closed this past week, one a recent visitor, one a long-hauler.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMFrank D. Gilroy, who won fame and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with his 1964 domestic drama The Subject Was Roses, died Sept. 12 in Monroe, NY. He was 89.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMFriday, September 11, 2015
Every since the animated Disney film Frozen took over the world, becoming the most successful cartoon feature in film history, observers have been wondering how long it would take the Mouse …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
Overall box office across Broadway crept up a bit last week, from $21,736,746 to $22,192,862, and attendance was up, too, by a couple thousand, to 208,797. The number of shows on the marquee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMJune Winters, a singer and actress who appeared in the 1930s Broadway hit Hellzapoppin and became popular in the 1940s as the children’s music character "Lady in Blue," died Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMFriday, September 4, 2015
The Broadway theatre community got a shock this past weekend when young actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste died suddenly after falling from a Brooklyn fire escape. He was 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMMonday, August 31, 2015
With the number of shows along the Rialto still standing at 24, Broadway showed a slight slip in altogether box office this past week, dropping less than a million from $22,457,929 to $21,73…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMSunday, August 30, 2015
The fall Off-Broadway season is filled with award-winning actors who have gone behind the limelights to direct innovative new works that explore gender, race and politics.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 29, 2015
The fall 2015 Broadway season offers a wealth of re-envisioned productions of plays and musicals as well as new stage adaptations of famous films.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 28, 2015
Movie stars were causing all sorts of fuss in the theatre world this week, in all sorts of ways, some of them quite unexpected.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThursday, August 27, 2015
Playbill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, Tony Kushner, Jeanine Tesori and Tonya Pinkins discuss the creation and inspiration for the acclaimed m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
A field trip to the theatre is as old a school tradition as back-to-school (#BwayBacktoSchool) shopping and the Homecoming dance. Teachers pile the kids into a school bus and head to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 24, 2015
Broadway’s show count is down to 24, from 25 last week, and the money count is down accordingly. Last week, cumulative box office was $25,006,928. Today it’s $22,457,929.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMFriday, August 21, 2015
The Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson new musical Waitress — which announced last week that it would come to Broadway — officially opened Aug. 20 at the American Repertory…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMMonday, August 17, 2015
Penn & Teller on Broadway ended its limited run on Broadway this summer by playing before 72% capacity houses and selling 90% of its potential box office. The run was successful, and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMFriday, August 14, 2015
The Waitress musical that people have been saying for weeks will move to Broadway is indeed moving to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Samuel Liff, known to the entertainment industry for a half century by the more phonetically catchy handle "Biff" Liff, died Aug. 10 in Westchester County at age 96, Deadline.com r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Ken Davenport, David Cote and more theatrical insiders share their thoughts on frequent revivals of popular plays and musicals that keep finding their way to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 7, 2015
So, the most popular kid in class was voted Prom King. Surprise.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThursday, August 6, 2015
August 11 has been set as the date of a memorial service for Robin Phillips, who led Ontario's Stratford Festival in the mid-to-late-1970s, and died July 25 just out…
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