Friday, May 9, 2014
The New York Drama Critics Circle (yes, it still exists, though dramatic critics are dropping like flies these days) announced its 2014 Awards May 5.
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Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]Charles Marowitz, a playwright, director and critic with a reputation for avant garde approaches in production, and outspokenness in his writing and manner, died in Agoura Hills May 2 from c…
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Tonys, Tonys, Tonys.That was the story this week, and the only story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]Playbill.com looks at the rules, and resulting math, behind the Tony Award nominations.
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Nicholas Martin, a director who brought his crisp, smart, bright style to critical works by Mark Hampton, Becky Mode and, in particular, Christopher Durang, and was artistic director of two …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Nicholas Martin, a director who brought his crisp, smart, bright style to critical works by Mark Hampton, Becky Mode and, in particular, Christopher Durang, and was artistic director of two …
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The Pulitzer Prize in Drama was recently awarded to Annie Baker's The Flick, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons. Artistic director Tim Sanford spoke with Playbill.com about the priz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Scenic designer Robert Brill chats with Playbill.com about re-mounting the set design for the revival of Cabaret.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
It's spring on Broadway, and producers are deploying their usual gambit to kill off all critics once and for all by forcing them to attend and review an endless line of show openings. It…
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Playbill.com offers a look at the history of the rules determining which plays are considered revivals for the Tony Awards.
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Playbill.com offers a look at the history of the musical Violet, which opens on Broadway April 20.
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The snowstorm on Tuesday night might have been freakish for New York, but the fact that three Broadway shows opened this week was not. It's that pre-Tony time of year when the Street bea…
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Phyllis Frelich, the deaf actress who won a Tony Award for her performance as the female lead in the play Children of a Lesser God and who co-founded the National Theatre of the Deaf, died A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]The juries for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama have delighted in confounding expectations the past couple years. The last two winners were the unexpected Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar in 2013 and Wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[SHARE]The juries for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama have delighted in confounding expectations the past couple years. The last two winners were the unexpected Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar in 2013 and Wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PM[SHARE]The big opening of the week was Bullets Over Broadway, the stage adaptation of Woody Allen's popular 1994 film comedy of the same name, directed by Susan Stroman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]John Kander and Joe Masteroff discuss the history of Cabaret and the process of collaborating with Harold Prince while adapting the novel and play into a musical.
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Lawrence Hamilton, who appeared in several significant Broadway musicals over the past three decades, died April 3, 2014, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City due to complications followi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19PM[SHARE]Mickey Rooney, the diminutive, one-time Hollywood box-office champ whose career turned out to last nearly as long as his life, died April 6 at the age of 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Jeffry Denman, creator of the new casting app CastPRO, chats with Playbill.com about the inspiration and launch of the new tech-savvy way to cast a show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2014
Marc Platt, who provided fancy footwork in many musicals and films, most notably in the original 1943 Broadway production of Oklahoma!, died March 29 in San Rafael, CA. He was 100.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]John Travolta's favorite tongue-twister, Idina Menzel, made her long-in-coming return to Broadway this week, when If/Then, the new musical by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next t…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2014
Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, currently performing in The Threepenny Opera at Atlantic Theater Company, chats with Playbill.com about his lengthy career and recent resurgen…
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Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's musical Les Misérables enjoyed its third Broadway opening in 30 years this week, as a reimagined revival featuring fresh scen…
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