Friday, February 3, 2012
The lesson the theatre community learned this week is, Don't mess with producer Scott Rudin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMMonday, January 30, 2012
Ian Abercrombie, a British actor of stage, film and television, died in Hollywood, CA, on Jan. 26 of a fatal heart attack. He was 77.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMPatricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for her role as the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, died in Vermont on Jan. 24 of natural causes. She was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Wit, Margaret Edson's play about a starchy poetry professor facing cancer and mortality, premiered at the Friedman Theatre this week. And it's as big a critical hit on Broadway as it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMThursday, January 26, 2012
Eiko Ishioka, a designer who worked in film and theatre, and designed the costumes for the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, died on Jan. 21 in Tokyo. She was 73. The cause was pancreat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMGabe McKinley was on the scene during the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times. His new Off-Broadway play, CQ/CX, has the story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
James Farentino, a stage and film actor with a tough, masculine image, and a frequently tumultuous offstage life, died Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. The cause was heart failure. He was 73.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17PMNicol Williamson, a British stage and film actor of great range, talent and fire who was as well known for his brash antics offstage as he was for his work as a performer, has died. The caus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMTuesday, January 24, 2012
Marcia Gardner, a longstanding figure at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria after a battle with cancer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMEarle Gister, who, as associate dean, chair of the Acting Department, and the first Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting during his two-decade tenure at the Yale School of Drama, was a highly …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMFriday, January 20, 2012
The Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Athol Fugard's play The Road to Mecca, starring Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale, opened this week at the American Airlin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Athol Fugard's play The Road to Mecca, starring Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale, opened this week at the American Airlin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
Bradshaw Smith, who as the videographer of "Broadway Beat" indefatigably chronicled the New York theatre scene, died Jan. 16 following a sudden and severe stroke. He was 56.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMFriday, January 13, 2012
No opening this Broadway season, surely, has been placed under the microscope the way The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess has. Ever since composer Stephen Sondheim took a lengthy swipe, in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
Bill Schelble, a theatre press agent with a long string of stage credits, died Jan. 9 in Milwaukee. He was 81.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMSaturday, January 7, 2012
Mary C. Henderson, a leading historian of the American theatre and author of the seminal texts "Theatre in America" and "The City and the Theatre," died Jan. 3 at her hom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:30PMLin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist of In the Heights, has borrowed from the life of American founding father Alexander Hamilton for a new hip-hop-flavored musical s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, January 6, 2012
The Broadway star who turns down a project a week and the composer who once said he'd never write a musical again have decided they want to work again — and together!
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMWilliam Duell, a small, thin-faced character actor who was a familiar presence to generations of television, film and stage audiences, died at his home in Manhattan on Dec. 22. The cause was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AMThursday, January 5, 2012
David Wheeler, a stage director, educator and important figure in the Boston theatre community, died Jan. 3 of a combination of respiratory failure and heart failure. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
Barbara Lea, a cabaret singer and actress revered as a distinguished interpreter of the American Songbok, died Dec. 26, due to complications of Alzheimer's disease. She was 82.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMSunday, January 1, 2012
In the winter and spring months ahead, Off-Broadway stages will see plays by Gina Gionfriddo, Annie Baker, Dan LeFranc, John Patrick Shanley, David Rabe and more. A revised version of the mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, December 31, 2011
In the winter and spring months ahead, Broadway will see plays by Margaret Edson, Athol Fugard, David Auburn, Arthur Miller and others commingling with the musicals Newsies, Jesus Christ Sup…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, December 30, 2011
As is always the case when one theatre year folds into the next, and the powers that be in the stage world recharge their batteries through rigorous skiing and competitive champagne intake, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMThursday, December 29, 2011
Actress Rose Pickering, who, with her actor husband James, was a leading player in the Milwaukee theatre scene for nearly four decades, died Nov. 24. The cause was cancer. She was 64. Ms. Pi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33PMDramatists Arthur Laurents, Romulus Linney and Lanford Wilson, producer Ellen Stewart, actor Tom Aldredge and his costume-designer wife Theoni V. Aldredge were among theatre people who left …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, December 23, 2011
Doe Avedon, who was transformed by her Svengali husband, photographer Richard Avedon, into a model, and inspired the 1957 film musical "Funny Face," died Dec. 18 in Los Angeles. Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMIt's almost Christmas, so I'll begin this column with the casting of the upcoming Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. (No one will accuse this reporter of taking part in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMFollowing a year in which dancing-singing Mormons stop the show every night and a malfunctioning Spider-Man literally stopped the show some nights, Playbill.com put their heads together and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Susan Gordon, who was a child actress in a number of infamous "B" movies in the 1950s and '60s, died Dec. 11. The cause was cancer. She was 62.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMSusan Gordon, who was a child actress in a number of infamous "B" movies in the 1950s and '60s, died Dec. 11. The cause was cancer. She was 62.
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