Monday, 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 03:14PM[SHARE]Playbill.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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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2013
Playbill.com looks back at the members of the entertainment community who passed away during 2013.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 28, 2013
In the winter and spring months ahead, Off-Broadway will present new works by Sarah Ruhl, Charles Busch and David Henry Hwang, as well as a revival of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's A Man.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
On Christmas week, when all but the actors settle down for a short winter's nap, a story like who might go into a Broadway show can constitute a major news story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]In the winter and spring months ahead, Broadway offers Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig, Idina Menzel in a return to the stage and Bryan Cranston going All the Way.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2013
From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Business ticked along fairly steadily on this week before Christmas, with box office and attendance not much changed from last week. Total collections across the 30 Broadway shows (same numb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]It was a year for seeing theatre in duplicate, for seeing theatre on all sides, for seeing theatre from Boston. It was a good year for Jason Robert Brown, Christopher Durang and The Public T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2013
Playbill.com chats with Sherry Kondor, Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin, some of the people behind the story of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, currently in previews on Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2013
While Broadway bigwigs took off to holiday on sunny beaches and in snowy chalets, leaving Times Square to the tourists, London provided a bit of excitement for the theatre world. The Aldwych…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
Joan Fontaine, who rocketed to fame playing frightened wives in two landmark Hitchock films of the early 1940s, died Dec. 16 of natural causes at her home in Carmel, CA. She was 96.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]Playbill.com chats with Jeff Whiting, creator of the app Stage Write, which documents the stage blocking and choreography of shows and has been employed by Newsies, Mamma Mia!, The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2013
Peter O'Toole, the charismatic, devil-may-care film actor who brought charm, wit and intelligence to the roles he played on the screen, as well as to his daily persona and often dissolut…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]Peter O'Toole, the charismatic, devil-may-care film actor who brought charm, wit and intelligence to the roles he played on the screen, as well as to his daily persona and often dissolut…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2013
It turns out the producers of Eric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn meant it earlier this year when they said the new play would be coming to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Christopher Evan Welch, the prolific stage and film character actor who died Dec. 2 at the age of 48, had been diagnosed with lung cancer, according to a family statement that was sent to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PM[SHARE]Eleanor Parker, a film actress known for her versatility and wide variety of portrayals, died Dec. 9 at a medical facility near her home in Palm Springs. She was 91.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]Eleanor Parker, a film actress known for her versatility and wide variety of portrayals, died Dec. 9 at a medical facility near her home in Palm Springs. She was 91.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
In the New York premiere of How I Learned What I Learned, Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson takes on the role of playwright August Wilson — who also happened to be his collaborator and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
Three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie landed her biggest stage assignment in some time this week. She won the much-coveted part of temperamental stage diva Helen Sinclair in the new Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Christopher Evan Welch, a prolific character actor in television and film who performed in a host of plays on the New York stage, died Dec. 2 at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 48. The cause …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
Jane Kean, an actress with stage and cabaret credits who was best known for playing Art Carney's wife Trixie in a 1960s revival of the Jackie Gleason sitcom "The Honeymooners,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2013
Playbill.com chats with the founder of Fractured Atlas, a nonprofit dedicated "to building smart technology for artists," which recently launched the new software system …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2013
Film actor James Franco seems to have done a little bit of everything with his still young career — acting, screenwriting, directing, teaching and being a famously truant NYU graduate …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
Director James Lapine, journalist Frank Rich and composer Stephen Sondheim chat with Playbill.com about HBO's new film "Six by Sondheim."
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