Monday, May 25, 2015
Jay Landesman, a semi-notorious, frenetically ambitious fringe figure of New York and London's Bohemian scenes whose unpublished novel "The Nervous Set" inspired the short-lived 1959 musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMJane Russell, a starlet of Hollywood westerns and musicals in the 1940s and 1950s who was as famous for her physique as she was for any of her films, died Feb. 28 at her home in Santa Maria,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHarry Connick, Jr., who scored a hit with his Broadway debut performance in The Pajama Game, is finally returning to Broadway, and the project is a far riskier venture this time around.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHugh Martin, the songwriter who enlivened the Judy Garland movie musical "Meet Me in St. Louis" with an indelibly melodic trio of evergreen songs "The Trolley Song," "The Boy Next Door" and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe replacement of Julie Taymor as director of the $65 million musical monster known as Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark was perhaps inevitable. Aside from a rather fawning profile in New York m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMFriends and family of Jill Haworth will gather in Manhattan on Feb. 3 to remember the late actress who created the role of Sally Bowles in the original Broadway production of Cabaret.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMFriends and family of Jill Haworth will gather in Manhattan on Feb. 3 to remember the late actress who created the role of Sally Bowles in the original Broadway production of Cabaret. Some o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTheoni V. Aldredge, the three-time Tony Award-winning costume designer, died Jan. 21 in a Stamford, CT, hospital after an illness, her husband actor Tom Aldredge announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLee Gallagher was active in the arts in the small town where he grew up. When he went to college, he at one point contemplated switching his major from business to the arts, but he was dissu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 22, 2015
There are a few people without whom, one feels, Broadway would grind to a halt. One is producer Jeffrey Richards, who seems to back half the productions on the Great White Way. Another is Sc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
In 2008, Second Stage first made public its plans to acquire the Helen Hayes, Broadway's smallest theatre. In April of this year, the news broke that the nonprofit had finally secured ow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOf all the theatre companies to win the Regional Theatre Tony Award over the years, perhaps no announcement was better timed that this year’s prize. The landmark honor coincides wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 15, 2015
And you thought the whacked-out, bizarre, bitter, comical tale of Rebecca was over.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PMMonday, May 11, 2015
Playbill.com examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMElizabeth Wilson, who distinguished herself many times on both stage and screen over a long, remarkably consistent and durable career, died May 9 at her home in New Haven, CT. She was 94.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMFriday, May 8, 2015
Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy is sizing up to be the playwright's best-known play, or, at least, his most honored.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMMonday, May 4, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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On May 10, 1849, a melee arose in Astor Place in lower Manhattan. Thousands took to the streets. By the time the riot was over, more than two dozen were dead, more than 100 injured and the m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 1, 2015
To quote Carmen Ghia in The Producers: "Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony..."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Betsy Von Furstenberg, a German-born actress with a royal title on her resume, who was a regular presence on the Broadway stage of the 1950s and '60s, died April 21. The cause was c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMMonday, April 27, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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The season wrapped up this week, as shows hurried to open up before the Tony Awards cut off date. Time was so tight that two shows had to open on the same day — usually a no-no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMMonday, April 20, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMPlaybill.com gives an overview of the plays considered leading contenders for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama by industry insiders.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 17, 2015
April in Times Square is nothing like April in Paris. It’s hectic, antic and tense. Last week a bunch of Tony-hopefuls opened on Broadway. This week, it was the same deal, with…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMMonday, April 13, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Broadway marquees are one of the most recognizable symbols of New York theatre that there is. People look up at them every day without thinking. Little do they know that they’re al…
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Judith Malina, the co-founder, with her husband Julian Beck, of The Living Theatre, and a central figure in the New York avant garde theatre during its most vital time, in the 1960s and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:16AMFriday, April 10, 2015
It’s that time of year, when a few shows open on Broadway every week, all vying to the same media attention and end-of-season awards. This week saw the openings of Hand to …
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