Sunday, September 4, 2011
Off-Broadway's 2011 fall season includes new plays by Nicky Silver, Zoe Kazan, Jesse Eisenberg and Stephen Karam, plus classics featuring stars — Dianne Wiest in The Cherry Orchard…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, September 2, 2011
Blizzards have caused Broadway to shut down in the past. The occasional blackout, too. And, of course, the 9/11 calamity, the tenth anniversary of which will be commemorated next week. But t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMBlizzards have caused Broadway to shut down in the past. The occasional blackout, too. And, of course, the 9/11 calamity, the tenth anniversary of which will be commemorated next week. But t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMThursday, September 1, 2011
Playbill.com answers a question about why so many Broadway theatres have gracious — but unused — lounges.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 26, 2011
It was rumored, and now it's confirmed. Ghost, the high-tech London pop musical based the 1990 film will indeed materialize on Broadway in March 2012 at a Nederlander theatre to be annou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMThursday, August 25, 2011
A celebration of the life and work of Broadway producer Randall L. Wreghitt will be held 1 PM Sept. 15 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. Friends, colleagues and family will gather to rememb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMFriday, August 19, 2011
Theresa Rebeck's new Broadway play — her second to grace that big stage — has netted a couple of great actors to support its already-announced greater star, Alan Rickman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PMFriday, August 12, 2011
I don't believe a letter to the editor has ever been newsworthy enough to make this column. Certainly, we've never led with such an item.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Jeffrey Ash, who followed his father in the Broadway advertising business and helped revolutionize it through a ground-breaking television spot for the musical Pippin, died suddenly on Aug. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMTuesday, August 9, 2011
John Wood, a versatile British actor with a particular gift for playing curious souls and for the plays of Tom Stoppard, died Aug. 6. He was 81.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMOne of Britain's most acclaimed stage actors, Simon Russell Beale, returns stateside to play a cab driver with the secret in Bluebird.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 8, 2011
Paul Libin, Jujamcyn Theatres vice president and Circle in the Square veteran, shares a drink — and stories — at the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restau…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 5, 2011
Producers of Ghost The Musical, currently playing at London's Piccadilly Theatre, hope to bring the new tuner to Broadway in April 2012, according to the New York Post. The show is based…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMMonday, August 1, 2011
We answer questions on how a few theatre-related addresses got their names.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 31, 2011
Sam Norkin, who captured seven decades of stage performance with fine-lined caricatures, died July 30. His age could not be learned at press time, but he was born in 1917.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMFriday, July 29, 2011
Stage actors who achieve fame and riches in Hollywood seem to follow one of three second-act career paths.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMThursday, July 28, 2011
Jane White, a stage veteran who created the role of Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a Mattress, died on July 24 in New York. She was 88.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
Actress Helen Beverley, who performed in Yiddish theatre and Yiddish films, and was married to actor Lee J. Cobb, died of natural causes July 15 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund hos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMFriday, July 22, 2011
It took 13 years, but Wit is finally coming to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMTuesday, July 19, 2011
Sharing a drink with Tony-winning Master Class playwright Terrence McNally at the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 18, 2011
Donald Grody, an actor who served as executive director of Actors' Equity Association from 1973 to 1980, died at his home in Manhattan on July 13. He was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMGoogie Withers, a sly, stylish British star who was best liked by her public when she was behaving wickedly, died July 15 in Sydney, Australia, where she had lived for many years. She was 94.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMFriday, July 15, 2011
Nathan Lane. Eugene O'Neill. They're both Irish. But otherwise, you wouldn't put them on the same page.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMDonald Lyons, a writer who served as drama critic at the New Criterion, Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, died on July 12. He was 73.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMThursday, July 14, 2011
Dancer, choreographer and director Tony Stevens, who worked with Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett and epitomized the life of a Broadway "gyspy," has died. He was 63. The cause was Hodgkin's Lym…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Danny Aiello returns to the New York stage in the 9/11 drama The Shoemaker.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMRoberts Blossom, a character actor whose portrayals on both stage and screen won acclaim, if not actual fame, died on July 8 in Santa Monica, CA. He was 87.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMFriday, July 8, 2011
Sixteen years after it had its premiere, Terrence McNally's Master Class opened again on Broadway on July 7. The Manhattan Theatre Club production was staged at the Friedman Theatre, and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMThursday, July 7, 2011
Edward Hastings, one of the founders of the American Conservatory Theater, and its artistic director from 1986-1992, died yesterday at his Santa Fe home from natural causes. He was 80 years …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMFriday, July 1, 2011
Some performances are inevitable. The actor is such a big star, and so perfectly suited to a classic role, that it's only a matter of time before the marriage of that thespian and that p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Philip Wm. McKinley, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Chase Brock weren't show doctors on just any old patient — they were operating on Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. The three artists ta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
