Broadway mainstay Samuel "Biff" Liff, a manager, producer and talent agent whose career dates back to 1949 when he served as stage manager for the original Broadway production of G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMGina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, seen at Off-Broadway's Second Stage in 2009, kicks off London's Almeida Theatre's 2011 season featuring Billy Elliot's Haydn Gwynne.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's historical drama about a Confederate Jewish solider returning home to his former slaves, who are also Jewish, got its New York City premiere starting Jan. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Jeffrey DeMunn, freshly noticed for his elder-survivor role in the hot TV series "The Walking Dead," plays Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of Salesman, which began pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe City Center Encores! production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars played its final performance at the famed Manhattan venue Feb. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe 2011 Writers Guild Awards East Coast Ceremony was held Feb. 5 at the AXA Equitable Center in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTwo concerts celebrating the release of composer-lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver's first published songbook were performed Feb. 7 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMyra Lucretia Taylor, of Broadway's Nine and Macbeth, plays the title servant role in the 2011 Chicago world premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's absurdist comic drama Mary, which began previews Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Gregg Edelman is the anxious father of the groom, poised to offer a toast, in the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's comedy Black Tie, which officially opened Feb. 8 followin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe George Street Playhouse's production of the three-person Frank Gilroy drama The Subject Was Roses officially opened Feb. 11 following previews that began Feb. 8 at the New Jersey not-for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMKatrina Bowden ("30 Rock"), Sabrina Le Beauf ("The Cosby Show"), Orfeh (Legally Blonde), Barbara Rhoades (The Goodbye Girl) and Kim Zimmer ("One Life To Live") joined the rotating New York c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMA fresh adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical Working, inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling collection of oral histories about vocations, punched-in Feb. 15 at the Broadway Playhouse at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBen Vereen, the Tony Award-winning song-and-dance man of Pippin, Jesus Christ Superstar and Wicked, was honored with a portrait on the Tony's di Napoli Broadway "Wall of Fame" on Feb. 18. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe world premiere of David Hay's A Perfect Future opened Feb. 17 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Kneehigh Theatre production of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Michel Legrand's musical version of Jacques Demy's film of the same name, starring Spring Awakening alum Andrew Durand, begins …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe cast of Trevor Nunn's production of Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, starring Sienna Miller, James Purefoy and Sheridan Smith, is currently in rehearsals. Performances begin at the Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe American Repertory Theater explores the changed world faced by soldiers returning home from war in Sophocles' Ajax, which began performances Feb. 12 under the direction of Soho Rep artis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWilliam Finn and James Lapine's new musical comedy Little Miss Sunshine, featuring Broadway's Hunter Foster, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Malcolm Gets and Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, began a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMStage and screen star Alec Baldwin was honored at the Museum of the Moving Image's Annual Salute Feb. 28 at Cipriani's 42nd St. in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAcademy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham reprises his performance as the Shakespearean moneylender Shylock in the Theatre for a New Audience production of The Merchant of Venice, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-winning Addams Family star Bebe Neuwirth was honored at the Women's Project's 2011 Women of Achievement Ceremony March 7 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMKate Baldwin, the 2010 Tony Award nominee for Finian's Rainbow, returned to Feinstein's at Loews Regency March 8 for a tribute show called She Loves Him, celebrating the work of lyricist (an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, telling the origin of kid-lit hero Peter Pan in a bare-bones staging that encourages the audience to use its imaginatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe New York revival of Abe Burrows' classic farce Cactus Flower is now in full bloom: The production officially opened March 10 at the Westside Theatre Upstairs following previews that bega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLorna Luft retraced her mother's footsteps in the New York Pops 50th anniversary celebration of Judy Garland's legendary Carnegie Hall concert March 11 at the famed venue. Tony Award winners…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Drama League presented its 27th annual all-star gala, A Musical Celebration of Broadway, Feb. 7 in the Grand Ballroom at The Pierre New York. The evening honored two-time Tony Award winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMarisa Tomei, Gina Gershon, Liev Schreiber, Edie Falco and Lorraine Bracco were among the stars celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Off-Broadway theatre company Naked Angels on Valentine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAdam Rapp's ambitious trio of related 90-minute plays, The Hallway Trilogy, opened on consecutive nights Feb. 22-24 at the Off-Broadway home of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The cast cele…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGood People, David Lindsay-Abaire's humor-laced drama about a paycheck-to-paycheck single mom reaching out to an old flame, who is now a success, opened on Broadway March 3. Frances McDorman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBrian d'Arcy James, John Slattery, Kathryn Erbe, Joan Osborne, Adrian Grenier and "Giraffes" guitarist Damien Paris were among those in attendance at the Atlantic Theater Company's March 7 g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe nine-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, which opened to raves on Broadway March 24, 2011, celebrates its 1,000th performance Aug. 17 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatr…
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