Antigone, A View From the Bridge, Lazarus and The Crucible. At 57, Ivo van Hove Bursts Onto Broadway With the Year of a Lifetime.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFalsettos is back on, Hughie opens and seven old Broadway theatres miss their bid for landmark status.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PMThe actor confides why he was willing to revisit Blackbird and the role that tested him nine years ago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Oscar winner thought he'd debut in an original work, but he chose Eugene O\u2019Neill\u2019s Hughie instead.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMIt was a big week for Off-Broadway, with openings of New Group's Buried Child and the opening of Off-Broadway transfer The Humans. Plus, news from&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PMHarper Lee, the Southern novelist who achieved lifelong fame with her first—and for many decades, only—book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Feb. 19 in Monroevill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMGeorge Gaynes, and opera and stage performer whose career bloomed late as a character actor, leading to success on the big and small screens, died Feb. 15 in North Bend, WA. He was 98.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMForest Whitaker garners audiences, Blackbird's totals continue to soar, but the greatest jump at the till belongs to the musical about a precocious young girl.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PMWarren Mazni, whose name was familiar to few theatregoers, though thousands upon thousands of them had seen his work, died Feb. 11 in Lawrence, MA. He was 60.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:32PMThis week, Disney announced the coming of its snow queen to Broadway, Harper Lee and Aaron Sorkin join forces for Mockingbird on Broadway, Prodigal Son pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMHerb Braha, who acted in the original production of Godspell and later founded a costume house that supplied stage and film productions in Los Angeles, died Feb. 6 of congestive heart failur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMThough many shows saw a dip in profits this past week, the season is still shaping up to be one for the books. Blackbird, the drama starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, mark…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMBetween the televised live musical event on Jan. 31 filmed in L.A., the postponement of The Crucible's first preview so its star could attend the Oscars, Robert De Niro's di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMBob Elliott, the surviving member of the long-lived comedy team of Bob and Ray, died Feb. 2 at his home in Cundy’s Harbor, ME. He was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMWith a regular slate of performances last week, uninterrupted by extreme weather, Broadway was back on its feet. King Charles III played its final shows, while Chi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMBlizzard Jonas slammed Broadway, Cate Blanchett announces her impending Broadway debut, Andy Karl will lead a new musical in London and Hamilton announces its first tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMThe blizzard that blanketed New York on Saturday, Jan. 23, had a major impact on traffic and business along Broadway. Every show along Broadway was down to six performances last wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PMFriends are planning to celebrate the life actor David Margulies, who died Jan. 11 at age 78. The celebration of the actor, who successfully moved back and forth from stage to TV to film wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMAbe Vigoda, the lovably curmudgeonly actor known for his hangdog turns in "The Godfather" and the sitcoms "Barney Miller" and "Fish," died Jan. 26 in his sleep …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMThe theatre world fell into a collective swoon Jan. 19 when it was announced that stage and screen star Bette Midler would return to the Broadway in a revival of the 1964 musical, Hello, Dol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMJanuary is typically a fallow period along Broadway, and accordingly box-office numbers stayed in the lower reaches this week, with only a couple shows selling out and most doing middlin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMEvery day, as Sondheim says,a little death. These past days, however, was particularly hard on the theatre community, with stalwart stage animals like Myra Carter and David Margulies making …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMAlan Rickman, the tall, urbane, classically trained British actor who, late in life, became internationally famous as the antagonist of Bruce Willis and Daniel Radcliffe in cinematic epics o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:53AMBrian Bedford, the British-born performer who was one of the great stage actors of his generation, with a peculiar affinity for the classics, and a particular association with Canada&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMBillie Allen, an African-American actress who was involved in original productions of such pivotal stage works as A Raisin in the Sun and Funnyhouse of a Negro, died Dec. 29 at her home …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMRichard Libertini, a tall, gangly character actor of unmistakable appearance who forged a career in film, television and theatre over several decades, died Jan. 7 at his home in Venice, CA. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMDavid Margulies, an actor who successfully moved back and forth from stage to TV to film with memorable portraits of harried ethnic characters, died Jan. 11 at age 78, according to his agent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMAfter a booming New Year's week, Broadway fell to Earth a bit during the first full week of January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMDavid Bowie, the pop music chameleon whose ever-shifting musical styles and stage personae kept him an object of fascination, innovation and inspiration in the music, film and fashion wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMCharlie and the Chocolate Factory finds a top director to add to it's golden creative team for its Broadway bow, and Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre names a new artisti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00PMElizabeth Swados, whose experimental and socially searching pieces of musical theatre were a mainstay of 1970s and '80s theatre in New York, died Jan. 5 from complications following sur…
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