Friday, November 20, 2015
This week, the critics take on Bruce Willis' Broadway debut, Miss Saigon will migrate to the U.S., Avenue Q hits a new kind of milestone, and David Bowie's Off-Broadway musical L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30AM[SHARE]With a million-dollar budget, the David Bowie/Enda Walsh co-creation Lazarus began performances Wednesday night and has already extended its run due to successful ticket sal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
Film star Mark Strong returns to the stage after a 12-year hiatus. We take him to the setting of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge in Red Hook, where we learn …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
The new revival of The Color Purple commanded crowds right out of the gate, and School of Rock — The Musical wasn't far behind.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
This week, two Broadway productions opened, one got pushed back, and the Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time. What were the rulings on the hit musical Hamilton, and w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2015
Michael Leonard, who composed the music for a number of short-lived Broadway musicals, died Oct. 31 at his home in Manhattan. He was 84.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Don Gregory, a theatre producer whose métier was solo shows starring famous actors, died Nov. 5 in his home in Boca Raton, FL. He was 80.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
Broadway bounced back last week. After a week that saw declines in box office and attendance at most shows, much of the news was sunny this last seven-day period, with all but a few show…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
King Charles III, Mike Bartlett’s new British play that imagines what would happen if Prince Charles became King of England—something Charles himself has probably been mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
It was a time of losses on Broadway last week. Overall box office fell from $27,391,967 to $22,819,827, a big drop, perhaps to be blamed on New Yorkers being occupied with watching the New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]Tim Pigott-Smith had watched Prince Charles grow up before his very eyes, so he felt prepared to embody the man onstage. Learn the one thing he forgot — and that emiss…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Karam's new comedy-drama The Humans, about a fraught family gathering during Thanksgiving, opened Oct. 25 at the Laur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Karam's new comedy-drama The Humans, about a fraught family gathering during Thanksgiving, opened Oct. 25 at the Laur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]Barbara Vann, an early figure in the burgeoning Off Off-Broadway scene in the early 1960s, who helped found two important avant-garde troupes, died Aug. 26 following a brief illness.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Leon Bibb, an actor and folksinger who performed on Broadway and was a prominent performer during the Civil Rights era, died Oct. 23 in Vancouver, Canada. He was 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Two starry new shows began previews on Broadway last week, and they did what starry shows often do: sell well. Given how the combination of actor Al Pacino and playwright David Mamet did whe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 25, 2015
"Best friends" or "bromance" may not be the first word that comes to mind when pondering the artists Al Pacino and David Mamet. But that's exactly what seems to have …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2015
The Public Theater has got its next Broadway show. The New York premiere of Eclipsed, starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o ("12 Years a Slave") is moving to Broadway.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
The new James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson revival of The Gin Game opened last week to good reviews and that arguably shows in the play’s attendance numbers. The show was nearly sol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
Veterans James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson returned to Broadway this week, playing two residents at a retirement home in a new Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PM[SHARE]The Broadway season presents famous people gracing the stage, both in person and in character. How do casting directors find the actors who can portray living, breathing legends? Playbill.co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
Many Broadway shows have recouped their monetary investments and been billed as a hit… But, what makes productions like Hamilton graduate to the standard of "cultural phenome…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Broadway added three new shows to the boards last week, the British import King Charles III, the Gloria Estefan jukebox musical On Your Feet!, and the George Takei-inspired musical about…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PM[SHARE]Robert de Michiell, an illustrator who created many posters familiar to theatregoers, died Oct. 12. The cause was cancer. He was 57.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]Hal Hackady, who wrote the lyrics for several Broadway musicals, as well as the theme song for the New York Mets, died Oct. 12 at Atria Riverdale, an assisted living facility in The Bronx. H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2015
Broadway had two big openings this past week. First, the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times officially opened at the American Airlines Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
Two more shows began previews on Broadway this past week, moving the total of shows lighting up the marquees to 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
John Doyle, the Scottish theatre director who directed several acclaimed production in New York over the past 15 years, will now have a home here. This week, he was named the next artistic d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Brian Friel, the Irish playwright who was for decades a leading voice on stages on both sides of the Atlantic, died Oct. 2 in Greencastle, County Donegal, Ireland. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Brian Friel, the Irish playwright who was for decades a leading voice on stages on both sides of the Atlantic, died Oct. 2 in Greencastle, County Donegal, Ireland. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Lea Salonga became a theatre phenomenon when she landed the role of Kim in the hit musical Miss Saigon in 1991. More than 20 years later, she's returning to the stage creating another ne…
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