Thursday, 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 11:15AMSunday, May 8, 2011
Doric Wilson, an early figure in New York's Off-Off-Broadway scene who was as big a champion of gay theatre as he was of gay rights in general, died May 7, according to friends. He was 7…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PMFriday, May 6, 2011
The Tony Award nominations for the 2010-11 Broadway season were announced on May 3, and managed to get a little bit of attention during a news week first dominated by the British Royal weddi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMSada Thompson, a Tony-winning actress of stage and film known for her way with maternal and earthy characters, died May 4 in Danbury, CT. She was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMThursday, May 5, 2011
Arthur Laurents, the irascible, enduring Man of the Theatre who wrote plays and screenplays and enjoyed a significant career as a director — but who made his lasting mark as the libret…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58PMMarian Mercer, who won a Tony Award for her performance in the hit 1960s musical Promises, Promises, died on April 27 in Newbury Park, CA. She was 75 and lived in Agoura Hills, CA. The cause…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMTuesday, May 3, 2011
Larry Kramer, who recently saw his AIDS play The Normal Heart open on Broadway to positive reviews and several Tony Award nominations, told Playbill that he may in the future write a new pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMA question about those front-of-orchestra Broadway seats labeled AA, BB and so on.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 29, 2011
Like taxpayers putting off filing until April 15, Broadway producers piled a year's worth of work into the final week of the season, opening a half dozen shows over seven days. So crowde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMThursday, April 28, 2011
Sidney Michaels, an American playwright who scored a string of notable Broadway productions in the 1960s, died April 22 in Westport, CT. He was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMFriday, April 22, 2011
As befitting a star of her caliber, Kathleen Turner made a dramatic entrance and a dramatic exit this week. Her new vehicle, a soapy play called High, by Matthew Lombardo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThursday, April 21, 2011
Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of such works as Balm in Gilead, Fifth of July, Hot l Baltimore and Talley's Folly, died on March 24 at the age of 73. He touch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 20, 2011
Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of such works as Balm in Gilead, Fifth of July, Hot l Baltimore and Talley's Folly, died on March 24 at the age of 73. He touch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 18, 2011
A question asking about a song used in the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed, but missing in the current revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA question asking about a song used in the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed, but missing in the current revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA question asking about a song used in the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed, but missing in the current revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 15, 2011
Lincoln Center Theater opened this week what one reviewer called "the most intense and epic children's entertainment ever mounted on Broadway." That would be War Horse, The Nat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMThursday, April 14, 2011
Last year was a season without an obvious choice for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. There was no critical home-run like Ruined by Lynn Nottage or August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, the vict…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, April 8, 2011
Anything Goes, Cole Porter's most popular show (save for Kiss Me, Kate, perhaps), opened on Broadway this week, and proved to be the perennial good luck charm is has in the past. The Rou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMLast year was a season without an obvious choice for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. There was no critical home-run like Ruined by Lynn Nottage or August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, the vict…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2011
Lynn Nottage pays homage to the "afterthought" black actors of yesteryear in the new Off-Broadway play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 4, 2011
A question asking how and when the now-common phenomenon of Sunday Broadway performances came about.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA question asking how and when the now-common phenomenon of Sunday Broadway performances came about.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, April 1, 2011
David Mamet has a new play. And like his other recent new plays, it has creeped onto the media radar like a cat burglar.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMThursday, March 31, 2011
You think you know Grease. An original Broadway production that ran eight years, a major revival that ran nearly four years, a third revival that ran a couple seasons, and a film versio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, March 30, 2011
You think you know Grease. An original Broadway production that ran eight years, a major revival that ran nearly four years, a third revival that ran a couple seasons, and a film versio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, March 29, 2011
Farley Granger, an edgy youthful lead in films following World War II, particularly two notable Hitchcock thrillers, died March 27 in New York. He was 85.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMFarley Granger, an edgy youthful lead in films following World War II, particularly two notable Hitchcock thrillers, died March 27 in New York. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMMonday, March 28, 2011
John Scoullar, a composer, lyricist, playwright and performer, died on March 25, his partner Bradshaw Smith said. He had been battling skin cancer. He was 61.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMFriday, March 25, 2011
Playwright Lanford Wilson, one of the most important American theatre voices of the last 40 years, died this week at the age of 73.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMThursday, March 24, 2011
Lanford Wilson, a playwright who emerged out of the scrappy Off-Off-Broadway scene to compose humane, lyrical dramas of American life, died March 24 after an illness, his longtime director M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PM 
