Wednesday, 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 12:00AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Margaret Tyzack, a mainstay in the British theatre acting world for more than four decades, died in London on June 25. She was 79.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMMonday, June 27, 2011
A question about why photographs can't be taken in theatres before the show begins.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, June 26, 2011
Alice Playten, who lent her quirky persona and comic voice to a memorable string of Broadway and Off-Broadway musical performances from the 1960s onward, died on June 25 at Sloan Kettering H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMFriday, June 24, 2011
Peter Falk, a stage, film and television actor whose quirky characterizationsnotably that of Columbo, the iconic detective he created in the television series of the same namecould be bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMBroadway has seen revues dedicated to the work of composers (Jerry's Girls, Oh Coward!, Side by Side by Sondheim) and choreographers (Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Fosse). But a revue fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMFriday, June 17, 2011
In any other year, the lead story for this week's column would have been a no-brainer: the Tony Awards. But this year, the hubbub surrounding the awards was quickly drowned by the offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
An unearthed skeleton in Harvard University's closet provides the real-life drama for Tony Speciale's Unnatural Acts, Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 10, 2011
A question about whether the June 12 Tony Awards can be seen in South Korea and elsewhere abroad.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMBroadway's holding its breath this week, as producers await the outcome of this weekend's Tony Awards, which are to be held for the first time at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMThursday, June 9, 2011
Over a quarter-century after the start of the AIDS epidemic, playwright–activist Larry Kramer's play, a work "full of ghosts," still haunts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
A 1960s sibling pop group, hailed as outsider artists, is the subject of a new Off-Broadway musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. The show's creators discuss their work.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 7, 2011
Tommy Brent, a producer on the New England straw hat circuit who put in more than two decades as producer at Rhode Island's historic Theatre-by-the-Sea, died on June 4 at his home in Man…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45PMClarice Taylor, a stage actress who won late fame playing Bill Cosby's mother in "The Cosby Show," died in Englewood, NJ, on May 30. She was 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AMMonday, June 6, 2011
A 1960s sibling pop group, hailed as outsider artists, is the subject of a new Off-Broadway musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. The show's creators discuss their work.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58PMFriday, June 3, 2011
The San Francisco-set musical Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin's novels, opened at the American Conservatory Theater in that same city on May 31. By the end of the week, addi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThursday, June 2, 2011
Philip Rose, a Broadway producer who bet—and sometimes won—on unlikely theatrical projects, including several works that advanced the cause of African-American stage artists&mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMWednesday, June 1, 2011
Giorgio Tozzi, an operatic bass who occasionally made forays into the theatre, including a Tony Award-nominated turn in The Most Happy Fella, died May 30. He was 88.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PMFriday, May 27, 2011
Jeff Conaway, who played Kenickie in the hit movie version of the musical "Grease" and was one of the stars of the classic sitcom "Taxi," died May 27 at a Los Angeles-are…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMWe haven't heard much from Baz Luhrmann since his stylized vision of La Boheme livened up the 2002-03 Broadway season. Back then, there was a lot of talk that Luhrmann's next st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMWednesday, May 25, 2011
Two questions in this column: One about the possibility of a Broadway show opening in the Tony Award season, and one about the number of people in a Broadway chorus.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 23, 2011
Michael Brenner, the German producer and impresario who founded and was managing partner of the Mannheim-based BB Promotion GmbH, died in the early hours of May 21. He and his wife were on a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMDouglas B. Leeds, an advertising executive who was a producer and vice-chairman of the American Theater Wing, died of cancer on May 9, in New York City. He was 63.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMSunday, May 22, 2011
Joseph Brooks, the Hollywood composer of "You Light Up My Life" and the Broadway musical In My Life, committed suicide on Sunday, May 22, in his Upper East Side apartment. He had been awaiti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34PMFriday, May 20, 2011
Evenings of one-acts were once a relative commonplace on Broadway. During the Golden Age, the Great White Way had room for dramas, comedies, musicals, farces, revues and concerts. Why not a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMWednesday, May 18, 2011
Randall L. Wreghitt, a theatrical producer known for bringing innovative dramatic work to Broadway and Off-Broadway stages, among them several of the works of Irish playwright Martin McDonag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMMonday, May 16, 2011
Pam Gems, who found stage plays in the lives of persons as diverse as French chanteuse Edith Piaf and English painter Stanley Spencer, died on May 13 at her home in England. She was 85.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMJerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth rejects the idea that he purposely embedded his acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated Broadway and London play with cultural references that inform A Big Alleg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 13, 2011
Following in the glorious footsteps of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the much-reported-about musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, which has been on hiatus since April 17, appeared again May 12 in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMJerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth rejects the idea that he purposely embedded his acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated Broadway and London play with cultural references that inform A Big Alleg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMThursday, May 12, 2011
Gerald Bordman, a theatre scholar who wrote the standard reference volume "The American Musical Theatre," died of cancer May 9, at Saunders House in Wynnewood, PA. He was 79.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM 
