Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMMonday, August 3, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMFriday, July 31, 2015
The longstanding Off-Broadway theatre company Primary Stages has a new home, and its one of the most storied addresses in New York theatre history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMMonday, July 27, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMRobin Phillips, who led Ontario's Stratford Festival in the mid-to-late-1970s, died July 25 just outside of Stratford after a prolonged illness. He was 73.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMFriday, July 24, 2015
Who is going to have reputation as a psycho around Broadway this season? Benjamin Walker is.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThursday, July 23, 2015
Lani Ball, a theatrical stage manager who worked on Broadway, for touring companies and regional theatres, died from complications of a heart attack in Davis, CA,
on June 27. She was 74.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
E.L. Doctorow, the prolific novelist whose book "Ragtime" inspired the musical of the same name, died July 21 of lung cancer. He was 84.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Theodore Bikel, a stage and film actor who played Captain Von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, died July 21 in Los Angeles. He was 91.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMMonday, July 20, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PMGeorge Coe, an actor with numerous stage and television credits, but who was perhaps best known to theatergoers as a member of the cast of the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMFriday, July 17, 2015
It’s summer on Broadway, but you can still see some action on The Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Phil Black, a legendary New York jazz and tap dance teacher, died June 5 at the Actors Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, NJ. He had been fighting Parkinson’s disease for more than 20 years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMMonday, July 13, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Roger Rees, the Welsh actor who rocketed to fame as the title character in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a sprawling stage adaptation of an obscure novel by Charles Dickens, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Omar Sharif, the suave, handsome Egyptian-born film actor who soared to stardom in the 1960s as leading man of such sweeping cinematic epics as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PMIt was the week of the audience interference all across New York stages, with the battle over deteriorating audience etiquette reaching new highs, or lows, depending on how you look at it.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThursday, July 9, 2015
Playbill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, we celebrate the anniversary of Xanadu opening on Broadway by asking librettist Douglas Carter Beane an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 6, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PMSaturday, July 4, 2015
The current season of Shakespeare in the Park, at the Delacorte Theatre, easily evokes the long and rich history of the annual summer tradition. Many a critic remarked on how Sam Waterston, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 2, 2015
For years now, Broadway fans have been waiting for the next musical by Duncan Sheik, the pop composer who delivered a daring hit with his 2006 work Spring Awakening. Finally, it looks like B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Jack Carter, a versatile comedian who was an star in the early days of television, Died June 28 in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMMonday, June 29, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMFriday, June 26, 2015
The actor who played Harry Potter—Daniel Radcliffe—has appeared on stage now several times. Now, Harry Potter himself will take the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMPatrick Macnee, the insouciant British actor who gain famed as the suave star of the 1960s English spy series "The Avengers," died June 25 in Rancho Mirage, CA. He was 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
Dick Van Patten, whose acting career began when he was a kid on Broadway and reached its pinnacle with the television series "Eight Is Enough," in which he played the kind, but oft…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMMonday, June 22, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMFriday, June 19, 2015
You’ve won a Tony Award, Annaleigh Ashford! Congratulations! You’re on your way up. For your next big role, you’ll be playing, uh, a dog.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMMonday, June 15, 2015
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMWhen actors James Snyder and Anthony Rapp met during the pre-Broadway, Washington D.C. run of the musical If/Then, they searched — as all actors do — for a way to con…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 12, 2015
A lot of different shows won trophies at the Tony Awards, which were held June 7, but the real winner of the evening was Fun Home.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM 
