Monday, February 4, 2013
Ladies like Amanda Wingfield, Tennessee Williams' overbearing mama of The Glass Menagerie, ring a belle for Southern-bred actress Cherry Jones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Meet Paul Gemignani, the frequent musical director of the shows of Stephen Sondheim, and currently leader of the raucous orchestra of Broadway's The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Jean-Luc Choplin, the director of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, is continuing his love affair with the American musical — and, he says, Parisians are now having …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMSaturday, January 19, 2013
Meet Sharr White, now making his Broadway playwriting debut with his lean 75-minute drama, The Other Place, about the splintering of a woman's world.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
The Stephen Schwartz-scored musical fable Pippin, about manhood, identity, love and conflict, gets a fresh and acrobatic approach by Hair and Porgy and Bess director Diane Paulus. American R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, December 16, 2012
Meet Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski, known for TV's "Chuck" and Dexter," currently wowing Broadway as the love-and-loyalty-pulled lady in the middle of Golden Boy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Meet Once scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley, whose passion for theatrical design was sparked in childhood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Danny Burstein, lauded for his work as a musical theatre character actor, works up a sweat as Golden Boy's boxing trainer in a new Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' American classi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 29, 2012
Inspired by the correspondence of 20th-century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, playwright Sarah Ruhl shapes Dear Elizabeth, starring Mary Beth Fisher and Jefferson Mays.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThursday, November 15, 2012
Sweet Smell of Success, Shrek and "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James steps into the cowboy boots of Texas rancher Bick Benedict in the new musical Giant at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Christopher Plummer, the octogenarian Oscar winner, talks about his theatrical roots in Canada, his plays and movies, and his recent return to a favorite character John Barrymore in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMSaturday, November 3, 2012
Tony and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner was so intrigued by Frank Marcus' The Killing of Sister George that she's directing and starring in it in New Haven. So, why did she also order…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 2, 2012
Meet the scenic designer who created stark whites for The Scottsboro Boys, blacks and grays for Chaplin, flood-drenched chaos for If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet and a kinetic sparene…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Meet John Miller, the longtime musical coordinator who helps match the right musicians to Broadway and touring musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 28, 2012
The acclaimed director of Off-Broadway's Our Town and Tribes gives wing to Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, September 22, 2012
In writing for the voice of the infamous 18th-century French noblewoman Marie Antoinette, playwright David Adjmi hears the echoes of today. His new play has two New England dates this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 30, 2012
Meet Joey and Terri Kveragas, longtime long-haul drivers who truck national touring sets and equipment across North America, from Alberta to Tulsa and beyond.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 25, 2012
Oscar Wilde's Victorian classic is placed in Prohibition-era Noo Yawk in an Earnest new staging conceived by David Hyde Pierce, starring Tyne Daly, at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, June 23, 2012
Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain star in a stage version of William Peter Blatty's demon-rich novel, "The Exorcist," adapted by Broadway's John Pielmeier and directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Meet Phyllis Newman, the Tony Award-winning Broadway, film and TV star who is also a busy women's health advocate and fund-raiser.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Beloved for playing a quirky social outsider on TV's "The Big Bang Theory," Jim Parsons talks about his passion for the stage as he begins crafting the equally odd misfit Elwoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
The Realistic Joneses, the new play by acclaimed writer Will Eno (Middletown, Thom Paine) considers the Big Questions. Parker Posey and Tracy Letts are among its stars at Yale Rep.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 6, 2012
Meet octogenarian actress Estelle Parsons, the "Bonnie and Clyde" Oscar winner currently tying up loose ends of the plot in Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Tony Award winner Nathan Lane takes on the role of Hickey in The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill's epic about booze and illusion, April 21-June 17 at the Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMMonday, April 16, 2012
Meet Abe Jacob, the veteran theatrical sound designer whose credits include the original productions of Hair, Evita, Chicago, A Chorus Line, The Rocky Horror Show and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 23, 2012
John Steinbeck's California coastal community of Cannery Row was described by the novelist as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise." Learn how Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 28, 2012
Octogenarian actor Alvin Epstein, recently of Off-Broadway's The Cherry Orchard, has worked with Orson Welles, Bert Lahr, Robert Brustein and more in a lifetime of roles around the world.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 16, 2012
Puckish Tony Award winner Joel Grey, the original Emcee from Cabaret, is youthful as ever after eight decades on the stage. Catch him as a comic fugitive in Broadway's Anything Goes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Lookingglass Theatre Company won the 2011 Tony for Regional Theatre for its commitment to ensemble and community. Its current season touches on major historical incidents.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 15, 2011
Meet groundbreaking playwright-director Athol Fugard, the major theatrical voice of South Africa who is the 2012 resident writer with Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 1, 2011
Science buff, actor and filmmaker Alan Alda has turned to playwriting to bring one of his heroes to life.
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