Wednesday, 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 11:40AMTuesday, December 20, 2011
Graham Brown, an actor who worked on stages in New York and Minneapolis, died Dec. 13 to at the Lillian Booth Actors' Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, NJ. He was 87.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMMonday, December 19, 2011
Anthony Amato, founder of the Amato Opera Theatre, a scrappy cultural landmark on the Bowery for decades, died Dec. 13. The cause was cancer. He was 91.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThomas Martell Brimm, an actor who cut his teeth at Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, died Nov. 30. He was 75.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AMSunday, December 18, 2011
Vaclav Havel, who went from being an imprisoned dissident playwright in Communist Czechoslovakia to the elected president of the newly free Czech Republic, died Dec. 18. He was 75.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMFriday, December 16, 2011
The best thing to happen to the beleaguered basketball world this year was, arguably, Lysistrata Jones, which opened this past summer in a gymnasium downtown to surprisingly positive reviews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMSaturday, December 10, 2011
Western drama's first and most enduring sex comedy, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, circa 411 BC, struts her stuff in a new Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones. Don't know much about his…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Broadway newbee Lydia R. Diamond's play Stick Fly opened on Broadway on Dec. 8 at the Cort Theatre. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Dule Hill, Condola Rashad and Mekhi Phifer starred in the comed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMActors working at Salt Lake City's Pioneer Theatre Company and Connecticut's Goodspeed Musicals are seeing the future of artist housing — new and renovated living spaces.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 8, 2011
Harry Morgan, who played the salty but kindly career army man Col. Sherman T. Potter, in the long-running television show "M*A*S*H," and was a familiar Hollywood character actor, s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Leo Friedman, a photographer who captured many of the iconic images of the golden age of Broadway, died Dec. 2 at his home in Las Vegas. The cause was complications from pneumonia. He was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMMonday, December 5, 2011
Alan Sues, who found fame in the late '60s for his zany performances on the free-form television comedy "Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In," died Dec. 1 in his home in Los An…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMFriday, December 2, 2011
Judy Lewis, who had a number of stage and television parts during her career, but whose role of a lifetime was playing the secret child of two Hollywoods stars, died Nov. 25. She was 76.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMChances are, during the heyday of Studio 54 in the late '70s, plenty of the revelers at the discotheque saw their share of hallucination. Maybe one or two even saw a six-foot-tall invisi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMChances are, during the heyday of Studio 54 in the late '70s, plenty of the revelers at the discotheque saw their share of hallucinations. Maybe one or two even saw a six-foot-tall invis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMPlaybill.com answers a question about the history of Shubert Alley, in the heart of Broadway's theatre district.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 1, 2011
Edwin Judd Woldin, a musical composer best known for Raisin, an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's classic work A Raisin in the Sun, died Nov. 27. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMIrving Elman, a Broadway playwright and a writer and producer for movies and television, died Nov. 22 in La Jolla, CA, of cardiopulmonary arrest. He was 96.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMTuesday, November 29, 2011
Michael Hastings, a British playwright who was a contemporary of Shelagh Delaney, who died last week, and was—along with her—drafted unwillingly by critics as a member of the &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMFriday, November 25, 2011
How Seminar, the new Theresa Rebeck play on Broadway starring Alan Rickman, was going to be received was anybody's guess. The critics love Rickman. He can do no wrong. But they tend to b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who had an international hit with A Taste of Honey, a play she wrote when she was still a teenager, died Nov 20. The cause was cancer. She was 71.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMFriday, November 11, 2011
Actress Phyllis Love, a stage and film actress who originated the role of Rosa Della Rose in The Rose Tattoo, died Oct. 30. She was 85.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMNew York University's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimó will host Lei dunque capirà, the New York premiere of a monologue by writer and Nobel Prize for Literature nominee Claudi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMNina Arianda is a star. That's the big story this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
A memorial for Tony Stevens, the dancer, choreographer and director who worked with Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett and epitomized the life of a Broadway "gyspy," will be held Nov. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 4, 2011
The Best Man is a curious case. This Gore Vidal drama had a decent run when premiered in 1960. It was nominated for a number of Tonys and made into a movie. But then it promptly fell off the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMTony Award winner Bill Irwin, the famed American clown, discusses the challenge and joy of playing King Lear's Fool, the foul-weather friend of Shakespeare's famous broken monarch, n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
A memorial for Tony Stevens, the dancer, choreographer and director who worked with Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett and epitomized the life of a Broadway "gyspy," will be held Nov. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMJan Maxwell was sidelined from Follies for a few days after she was struck by vehicle in the theatre district on Oct. 29. Rested and ready, she returned to the show on Nov. 1. Days before th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTrue to its name, The Blue Flower, a multimedia musical from Jim and Ruth Bauer, proves to be anything but usual.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, November 1, 2011
Gilbert Cates, the founder and producing director at the Geffen Playhouse and the producer of 14 Oscar telecasts, has died, the trade papers Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported. He w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM 
