Friday, February 7, 2014
The theatre and film worlds received a unexpected shock this week when actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, a titanic creative force on stage and screen for more than a decade, was found dead in hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThursday, February 6, 2014
Jacques le Sourd, who, as the drama critic of the Gannett newspaper chain, covered the New York theatre scene for more than three decades, died Feb. 5, in Preston, England, where he had move…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
The all-male Shakespeare’s Globe repertory productions of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Richard III have been dependable house-fillers all through the box-office doldru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMSunday, February 2, 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Academy Award-winning stage and screen actor who brought his own unique presence and deep-delving intelligence to his every role, was found dead in his Manhattan …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:32PMFriday, January 31, 2014
The Arena Stage has exhibited some very canny casting for its upcoming production of the world premiere of the historical drama Camp David.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMTuesday, January 28, 2014
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Playbill.com offers a history of the expressionist drama Machinal, which was inspired by the real-life execution of Ruth Snyder.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMArena Stage artistic director Molly Smith searches for the fun in Brecht as she stages a music-filled Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Kathleen Turner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has had some critical successes and some outright misses in the ten years since Doubt made him a bankable writer. But he hasn't achieved a popular success…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMLeslie Lee, a playwright who chronicled the modern African-American experience in America, and a mainstay artist at the Negro Ensemble Company, died Jan. 20 in Manhattan. He was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Frank Gero, an actor and stage manager who reinvented himself mid-career as a producer, died Jan. 18 at age 84.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
Sarah Marshall, a British actress who racked up a collection of comedic Broadway credits in the 1950s in works by Neil Simon and Gore Vidal, culminating in a Tony nomination for her supporti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMPlaybill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMSunday, January 19, 2014
A revival of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men begins previews March 19 on Broadway. Playbill.com offers a look at the play's history, describing how the novel came to be adapted and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Was there ever a famous actor more determined to earn his stage stripes than Daniel Radcliffe?
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMA year after launching a Broadway-aimed tour, Flashdance producer Marc Routh and director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo speak about the ongoing out-of-town tryout of the musical and its cont…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMonday, January 13, 2014
Actors' Equity president Nick Wyman talks with Playbill.com about the recent controversy regarding the salaries of touring productions.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMAmiri Baraka, who both depicted and embodied the African-American experience, and frequently courted controversy through his poetry, fiction, essays and plays, died Jan. 9 at Beth Israel Med…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMProducer Marc Routh and director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo chat with Playbill.com about the ongoing out-of-town tryout of the musical Flashdance.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMProducer Marc Routh and director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo chat with Playbill.com about the ongoing out-of-town tryout of the musical Flashdance.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 11, 2014
Tony winner Duncan Sheik chats with Playbill.com about composing music for Classic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 10, 2014
Perhaps having exhausted the pop and rock catalogues of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, jukebox musicals are now venturing into rap territory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMTuesday, January 7, 2014
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMFriday, January 3, 2014
Though it is set to close Jan. 4, the Broadway production of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark continues to generously provide the press with stories. Over this quiet New Year's Eve week alon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMThursday, January 2, 2014
Juanita Moore, who made an impression as the long-suffering black friend of Lana Turner's famous actress character in the 1959 Douglas Sirk melodrama "Imitation of Life," died …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMJoseph Ruskin, the vaguely sinister-looking actor who acted in a host of films and television series, died Dec. 31 of natural causes in Santa Monica, CA. He was 89.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMTuesday, December 31, 2013
Anna Crouse, the widow of playwright Russel Crouse and mother of actress Lindsay Crouse, who had a hand in the revitalization of Lincoln Center Theater and the creation of the TKTS booth, di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMPlaybill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMMonday, December 30, 2013
Actors Julie Harris, Peter O'Toole, Joan Fontaine, Christopher Evan Welch, Jean Stapleton, Karen Black and Jane Connell, veteran press agent Shirley Herz, theatre pioneer Ruth Maleczech …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMPlaybill.com offers a look back at the year in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, the $75 million Broadway musical that will close Jan. 4, 2014.
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