Friday, October 10, 2014
There were two big openings on Broadway this week, one an already proven box-office success that did well with the critics as well, and one a box-office success that, that did well w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Steve Curry, who was in the original cast of the seminal rock musical Hair, died Sept. 13 in New Hampshire. He was 68. The cause was sepsis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Marian Seldes, a career stage actress who was perhaps as famous for her grand and gracious off-stage manner as she was for her plentiful and expert turns on Broadway and off, died peacef…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13PMNon-union tours of Broadway shows have long been a thorn in the side of Actors' Equity, the union that represents stage actors and stage managers. But in the past, its weapons in fig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMGeoffrey Holder, a multi-talented stage and film artist who directed and designed the original Broadway production of The Wiz, an African-American musical retelling of "The Wiza…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMSaturday, October 4, 2014
Jonny Orsini chats with Playbill.com about starring in the Off-Broadway production of Almost Home before moving to Broadway in Larry David's Fish in the Dark.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 3, 2014
The big surprise of the week was the critical reception that greeted the new Broadway revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's 1936 comedy You Can't Take It With You, starring Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Sheldon Patinkin, who was a driving force in Chicago theatre, as a director, teacher and mentor, died Sept. 21. The cause was a heart attack, which he suffered three days prior. He was 79.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMTuesday, September 30, 2014
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMMonday, September 29, 2014
Michael McCarty, a veteran stage actor, died Sept. 26, in Santa Barbara, where he was performing in a production of Amadeus. The cause was heart failure. He was 68.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMSunday, September 28, 2014
Kristine Nielsen, who received her first Tony Award nomination in 2013 for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, returns to the Great White Way in another family comedy, You Can't Take It…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe mission of the nearly century-old American Theatre Wing has long been the celebration and advancement of excellence in the theatre. Yet for much of its history, the organization has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 26, 2014
The British can be depended upon to lend Broadway an old-fashioned double-bill every now and then. Last year, Mark Rylance came over with his hit alternating productions of Twelfth N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMMatthew Warchus, director of numerous Broadway musicals and plays, returns to the cinema for his second feature film, an inspiring true story of "Pride."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 25, 2014
The dynamic duo of Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane sit down with Playbill.com to discuss their latest onstage pairing in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
The new production of the Leonard Bernstein musical On the Town began previews this week at the Lyric, bringing the total of shows currently lighting up Broadway to 29, and nudging the overa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMSaturday, September 20, 2014
Jordan Strohl, from Lillian Booth Actors Home, shares the benefits of integrating music into the lives of patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia with Playbill.com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJordan Strohl, from Lillian Booth Actors Home, shares the benefits of integrating music into the lives of patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia with Playbill.com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 19, 2014
Some of the most exciting news this week came from the road. (What is this, the 1960s?)
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
What a different a single autumn week makes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
Paul C. Vogt, who has appeared on Broadway in Chicago and Hairspray, opens up to Playbill.com about his battle with cancer and returning to the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 12, 2014
Bob Crewe, the songwriter and producer who was to all intents and purposes the unseen fifth member of the Four Seasons, co-writing many of their greatest hits, including "Sherry,&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMBroadway went through its biggest social media episode since Shia LeBeouf started tweeting things about his erstwhile Orphans co-stars in early 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMThursday, September 11, 2014
In reflection on Sept. 11, Playbill.com looks back at our feature "When the Curtain Came Down on the American Heart," which interviewed Broadway industry members a decade after the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMTuesday, September 9, 2014
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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Playwright David Hare has been a fairly regular presence on Broadway since the early '80s. But, unlike fellow British dramatist Tom Stoppard, his plays usually visit once and never retur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Joan Rivers, a comedian whose tongue was often tart and whose talent for reinventing herself led to an unusually long and varied career, died Sept. 4. On Aug. 28, she was rushed to the hospi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMFriday, August 22, 2014
Like once-hot restaurants that suddenly shut their doors "for renovations," Motown, the Broadway show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, has announced that it is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMTuesday, August 19, 2014
Playbill's weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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