Broadway producer Roy Miller died suddenly on April 28, following a brief illness. He was 52.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMThe first time Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical, came to Sardi's was in 1977, "the summer Elvis died," as he put it. He didn't waste any time getting there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPick a day this week, any day. There was a Broadway opening. It's that time of year, friends.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMThe Broadway season is not quite over—still five shows left—but you wouldn't blame critics if they checked into a rest home after this week. They crammed in six opening in fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMBroadway producer Sam Crothers died April 13 in his Boynton Beach, FL, home after a year-long battle with lymphoma. He was 75.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMIs there peace in the web? Can it be?
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMHelena Carroll, a Scottish-born actress who did stage, film and television work in the United States, died on March 31 in Marina del Rey, CA. The cause was heart failure. She was 84.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMThe rules for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama state that "productions receiving a press opening in the United States between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012 are eligible."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMActors' Equity Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary. In Playbill's latest look at the union's history, learn about the ritual of The Gypsy Robe, honoring members of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTom Hanks and Cyndi Lauper had their Broadway debuts this week — working in very different capacities, of course — and faced sentencing by the local judiciary, i.e., the critics.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMTom Hanks and Cyndi Lauper had their Broadway debuts this week — working in very different capacities, of course — and faced sentencing by the local judiciary, i.e., the critics.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMMilo O'Shea, the Irish-born character actor who injected every role with a potent combination of puckishness, Gaelic charm and menace, died April 2 in Manhattan. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22PMTony Award winner Elaine Stritch offered stories and songs on April 2, the start of a weeklong engagement — her farewell to showbiz — at the Cafe Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMThis season Broadway welcomes (mostly) solo shows starring Holland Taylor, Fiona Shaw, Bette Midler and Alan Cumming.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMFay Kanin, a playwright and screenwriter who wrote for Broadway and Hollywood, often in collaboration with her husband, died March 27 in Beverly Hills, CA. She was 95.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:02PMGigi, the Oscar-winning film musical that was later adapted for the Broadway stage, will be adapted anew for a Broadway run, possibly as soon as 2013-14, producer Jenna Segal announced this …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMRichard Griffiths, the British character actor whose career bloomed late in life with numerous successes on the London and Broadway stage, and on film, including The History Boys and the Har…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMAfter years of writer's block, Tanya Barfield finds inspiration at home. The Call, her new play about parenthood, adoption and race, is now premiering Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCuriosity may have killed the cat, but it doesn't stop us from asking why plays and musicals seem to be populated more often with dogs than cats.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYou hear that? That rumbling in the distance? Feel that vibration under your feet? That's the Tony train coming! There's no stopping it, so don't try. Just brace yourself for its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMWhen you get Martin Charnin, Thomas Meehan and Charles Strouse together at one table at Sardi's, you know what they're going to talk about. Alan Jay Lerner, of course.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhat thoughts do actors juggle when considering taking a job in a national tour? You asked, we sought the answers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChristopher Durang enjoyed his first Broadway production in 17 years this week. (In the spirit of charity, we won't count the text he contributed to the 2010 Dame Edna outing All About M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMGloria Hope Sher, a Broadway producer who scored a success with the musical Shenandoah, died on March 9 at The Haven in New York. She was 85.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMLeonard A. Mulhern, veteran New York theatrical manager, passed away on Feb. 1 in Manhattan after a brief illness. He was 85.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMSybil Christopher, the actress, director and nightclub owner who helped found Long Island's Bay Street Theatre and was its artistic director for 22 years, died March 9. She was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMFirst-time Broadway director Charles Randolph-Wright is at the helm of one of the more pulse-quickening titles of the season, Motown: The Musical, about record producer Berry Gordy'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHolly Golightly, American literature's enigmatic party girl of Truman Capote's novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's," comes alive in a new memory-play adaptation by Richard …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCinderella didn't quite get the fairy-tale ending she might have hoped for when the Rodgers & Hammerstein show named after her opened on Broadway on March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMArthur Storch, the founding producing artistic director of Syracuse Stage and former chair of Syracuse University’s department of drama, has died. He was 87.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMThe Living Theatre may live up to its name yet.
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