Monday, June 15, 2015
When 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
Ron Moody, the British actor who memorably played the lovable London crime lord Fagin in both the stage and movie versions of the musical Oliver!, died June 11. He was 91.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM[SHARE]Christopher Lee, the towering British actor who plays baddies in various forms, eras, worlds and galaxies for many decades, died June 7. He was 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2015
Dames at Sea, the kitschy 1966 musical that spoofs/celebrates the Busby Berkeley era of movie musicals, is mainly remembered today as the Off-Broadway show that launched the career of Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
An Act of God, the comedy starring Jim Parsons as you-know-who, opened to largely good reviews this week. Over four previews and four full performances, the show played to 92% capaci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
The new Broadway comedy An Act of God, which opened on Broadway this week, is a kind of throwback to that old theatre tradition, the star vehicle. You’ve never heard of the playwri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Anne Meara, the stage and film actress who forged a surprisingly durable career, both on her own and, more famously, as half of a comedy and acting duo with her longtime husband, Jerry Still…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Shakespeare's Globe in London confirmed plans this week to move forward with the completion of an indoor Jacobean theatre, the shell of which already exists on the Globe site in Southwark.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Living participants in the original productions of She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof and The Rothschilds -- as well as prominent Broadway revivals of those shows -- gathered at the American …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Actress Nina Arianda is currently entertaining the theatre world with the neatest Cinderella story to come along since Sutton Foster was pulled out of the chorus to star in Thoroughly Modern…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Milton Babbitt, a leading American composer of modernist classic music, and an early teacher of theatre composer Stephen Sondheim, died Jan. 29 in Princeton, NJ, where he lived. He was 94.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]An unusual Civil War story drew André Braugher to The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's three-character Off-Broadway play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Michael Tolan, a stage and television actor who helped found the important Off-Broadway forum American Place Theatre, died on Jan. 31 in Hudson, NY. He was 85. The cause was heart disease an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Things were cooking this week Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]We roost at the upstairs bar of the famous theatre restaurant to talk to producer and theatre owner Daryl Roth, whose projects include Broadway's Driving Miss Daisy and Off-Broadway's Throug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Mary Cleere Haran, a pure and ebullient stylist of the American songbook who became an important member of the cabaret circuit during the 1990s and early years of this century, died on Feb. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]This week, Spider-Man finally came face to face with the Daily Bugle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A question concerning the unusual interior design of Brooklyn's Harvey Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A question concerning the unusual interior design of Brooklyn's Harvey Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Betty Garrett, a comedic musical comedy actress whose brief film career, though curtailed by the McCarthy-era blacklist, nonetheless left a lasting impression on movie-musical fans, died in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Three bold imaginations give wing to a new theatrical chapter in the legend of Peter Pan in Off-Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Evelyn Page, an actress with several Broadway credits, died Feb. 6 in Manhattan, Variety reported. She was 90.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]There's no stopping the ascent of actor John Gallagher, Jr. these days. The veteran of Rabbit Hole, Spring Awakening and American Idiot, will be among cast members populating Jerusalem on Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]In Brooklyn, B.H. Barry and Broadway vets introduce Treasure Island to a new generation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]For the contemporary theatre buff, there's a double excitement in the announcement that The Normal Heart will play Broadway in April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Haila Stoddard, an unusual Broadway artist who transitioned from actress to producer during a lengthy theatre career, died at her home in Weston, CT. The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest. Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A question asking whether it's ever been possible to hear two different renditions of the same song on Broadway in the same season.
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