Friday, June 28, 2013
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that Off-Broadway theatres in New York are now eligible to receive the Regional Theatre Award. Playbill.com reports on the decision and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Marc Blitzstein's 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock has one of the most celebrated origin stories in the history of American theatre. It was written for the Federal Theatre Project to be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 21, 2013
That Neil Patrick Harris loves Broadway and the theatre is made readily apparently by the effusive sincerity of his praised turns hosting the annual Tony Awards ceremony. That passion, howev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMThat Neil Patrick Harris loves Broadway and the theatre is made readily apparently by the effusive sincerity of his praised turns hosting the annual Tony Awards ceremony. That passion, howev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Stage and screen actor James Gandolfini, who was Tony Award-nominated for his performance in Broadway's God of Carnage and was best known for his work on the HBO series "The Soprano…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Bernard Sahlins, who, as the co-founder of Second City, the legendary improvisational comedy theatre group, had an incalculable affect on generations of American comedy, died June 16 in his …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36PMSunday, June 16, 2013
The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin explores the unavoidable mess one man makes after serving his time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 14, 2013
It was entertaining! It was filled with suspense and upsets! The ratings went up! The reviews were good!
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMDuring its first 100 years, Actors' Equity Association — which celebrated its centennial on May 26 — battled the forces of segregation, bigotry, blacklisting, economic depres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, June 8, 2013
Perhaps he got the idea watching the acting antics of playwrights like Tracy Letts, Christopher Denham, and Jonathan Marc Sherman — or, reaching farther back, to a member of his own ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 7, 2013
Today's young generation is too fresh to this planet to know a time when you couldn't escape the title "The Bridges of Madison County." Published in 1992 by an unknown auth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThursday, June 6, 2013
Every Broadway producer should be fortunate enough to have a playwright like Christopher Durang.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Leslie B. Cutler, who directed of hundreds of productions over a 50-year period at the Kenley Players in Ohio and other stock venues, died of congestive heart failure at St. Luke’s Roo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMSunday, June 2, 2013
Helen Hanft, a brassy performer who established herself as a regular presence on the small stages of the Off-Off-Broadway movement of the 1960s and '70s to such an extent that New York T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:17PMJean Stapleton, a seasoned stage and film actress who found lasting fame as the dimwitted and big-hearted wife of Archie Bunker on the 1970s social sitcom "All in the Family," died May 31 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMJean Stapleton, a seasoned stage and film actress who found lasting fame as the dimwitting and big-hearted wife of Archie Bunker on the 1970s social sitcom "All in the Family," died May 31 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Broadway's seen a lot of shows, but perhaps nothing like Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, which will begin previews at Broadway's C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMMonday, May 27, 2013
In 1991, actress Daisy Eagan became the youngest female stage performer ever to win a Tony Award. She was 11 when she won Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Mary Lenno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIn 1991, actress Daisy Eagan became the youngest female stage performer ever to win a Tony Award. She was 11 when she won Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Mary Lennox in The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 24, 2013
It was a fairly quiet week around Times Square, news-wise, with everyone's mind on June 9, the date two weeks from now when the Tony Awards will be handed out.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Michael Feingold, the long-serving lead drama critic of The Village Voice, and one of the most senior voices within the New York theatre critics corps, was let go from that post May 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMFriday, May 17, 2013
When Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike opened at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre last fall, it got respectful reviews—good, but not gre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AMThursday, May 16, 2013
Lisa Jalowetz Aronson, who, as assistant to her husband, the legendary scenic designer Boris Aronson, played a role in some of the most famous stage productions of the 20th century, died of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Jacqueline Brookes, a stage actress who was known for her facility with the work of dramatic authors, both modern and classic, died April 26 in Manhattan. She was 82.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMRuth Kraft, a theatre journalist and published who worked at Playbill magazine and was co-founder of Performing Arts magazine in Los Angeles, died in her sleep May 19. She had been battling …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMFriday, May 10, 2013
There was more Tony Awards nominations fallout—and fallout from that fallout—this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMRobert Sickinger, a director who played an significant role in shaping Chicago's modern theatre scene, died May 9 in Delray Beach, FL. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMIt's a tale nearly as old as Broadway and Hollywood. The successful playwright is lured to California with promises of riches and sunshine, hates the experience, then returns to New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Eugene V. Wolsk, a theatre veteran who rose through the Broadway ranks from company manager to general manager to producer, died May 2. He was 84.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMFriday, May 3, 2013
The big news in the theatre this week—in case you spent Tuesday under a rock—was the announcement of the 2013 Tony Awards nominations. The honors were done by Tony winner Sutton …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Broadway producer Roy Miller died suddenly on April 28, following a brief illness. He was 52.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PM 
