Friday, 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMMonday, April 6, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMJulie Wilson, a singer whose dominant presence in the cabaret world over the past few decades led her to be called “The Queen of Cabaret,” died April 5. She was 90.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMSunday, April 5, 2015
Playbill.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 3, 2015
The Broadway revival of David Hare’s Skylight — the first-ever Broadway revival of any Hare play — starring Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard rec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMWednesday, April 1, 2015
It's been almost a decade since Bill Nighy has appeared on Broadway, but the leading man is back: back to acting on Broadway, back to working with David Hare and back to starring in Sky…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 30, 2015
The new musical Finding Neverland, which began previews last week, had another good outing this week. The week before last it took in more that $1 million at the box office. This past week, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PMSunday, March 29, 2015
Gene Saks, who directed numerous works by Neil Simon, both on stage and on screen, winning Tony Awards for three of his efforts, died March 28 of pneumonia in East Hampton, NY. He was 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14PMFriday, March 27, 2015
Actors, they are a funny lot. During an era when most unions are crippled by government action and the lobbyist efforts of well-funded corporate interests, stage performers are still rat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMMonday, March 23, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMIn the old days of Broadway, often barely a year passed between the conception and staging for most shows. Theatre was a fast business. You got the show up, saw how it was received, and move…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 20, 2015
Kristin Chenoweth has had an odd career. She is rightly considered a top-tier, 21st-century Broadway musical theatre star. Yet her Broadway career contains a single hit (Wicked) amon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMMonday, March 16, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMFriday, March 13, 2015
Peter Morgan’s The Audience, which features Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in imagined meetings with eight of her Prime Ministers, officially opened March 8 and, to the surpris…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMOne of the hottest tickets of the spring, the Off-Broadway musical Hamilton, will move to Broadway in July after it concludes its run at the Public Theater. But will opening almost one y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 6, 2015
Larry David is used to praise. The two sitcoms he created, “Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm,” are recognized by critics and fans as seminal works in the his…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Margaret Croyden, a drama critic and author with firm knowledge of the various forms of 20th-century avant grade theatre, and who wrote books about the work of Jerzy Grotowski and Peter …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMFriday, February 27, 2015
Asked to name the top theatres cities in America, most people might name quite a few candidates before they mentioned Los Angeles. But the very considerable L.A. theatre community this week …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMHey, if Shrek and all those flying, swimming and scampering Disney characters can find a home on Broadway, why not that porous kitchen tool that lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMProducers Tom Kirdahy, Kevin McCollum and Tom Viertel talk with Playbill.com about the tax benefits available to film investors that are currently denied producers of Broadway shows and why …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Recently, a war of words spilled out on the digital pages of Florida Theatre on Stage, a website dedicated to Sunshine State theatre news. They concerned a production of the musical Shenando…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 23, 2015
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM“Blue-collar” and “Broadway” are not words you immediately associate with one another. While one brings up images of the grit, dirt and sweat that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 20, 2015
As Robert Falls, director of the successful revival of The Iceman Cometh at BAM tweeted on Feb. 18: “Damn. Had the biggest hit in town for 5 days.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Last week, Broadway got a super-hit in the form of Larry David’s new comedy Fish In the Dark, which began performances at the Cort Theatre. This week, it got another with Peter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMLarry David, the man behind "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," had no intention of starring in his new play Fish in the Dark. So how was he convinced to make his stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 13, 2015
The big New York opening of the week happened in Brooklyn. The Goodman Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's four-act epic The Iceman Cometh, starring Nathan Lane and Brian Denn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMMonday, February 9, 2015
Larry David’s new comedy Fish In the Dark began performances at the Cort Theatre last week, and—no surprise, since the show has been setting box-offices records since…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMFriday, February 6, 2015
More than two decades after its initial Broadway run, the William Finn and James Lapine Tony-winning musical Falsettos will return to Broadway in spring 2016. And, it will be directed on…
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