Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Living Theatre may live up to its name yet.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Bonnie Franklin, who starred as a single mother navigating the dating and working worlds of the 1970s and early '80s in the popular sitcom "One Day at a Time," died March 1 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMFriday, March 1, 2013
One of the Broadway stage's 21st-century musical stars, Idina Menzel, will be returning to The Street in spring 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMThe recent news that The Living Theatre was no more probably surprised more than a few theatregoers — because they probably hadn't realized the decades-old company was still in exi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMFriday, February 22, 2013
Lou Myers, an actor who worked in film and theatre, but is best known for his regular role on the sitcom "A Different World," died Feb. 19 in West Virginia at Charleston Medical Ce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMNot since Jeremy Piven bolted the 2008 revival of Speed-the-Plow, citing mercury poisoning from excessive sushi binging, have we had a Broadway star exit as odd and awkward as what went down…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMNot since Jeremy Piven bolted the 2008 revival of Speed-the-Plow, citing mercury poisoning from excessive sushi binging, have we had a Broadway star exit as odd and awkward as what went down…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMThursday, February 21, 2013
Tony Award-nominated playwright and librettist Douglas Carter Beane muses on his new Broadway projects, Cinderella and The Nance, savoring opportunities and pushing to be more than glib.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Hollywood, TV and Broadway producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are producing the 2013 Academy Awards show, airing Feb. 24. During a busy week, Playbill caught up with the duo that helped sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 15, 2013
A Shakespearean musical? Who's ever heard of such a thing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Actors' Equity Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary. In Playbill's latest look at the union's history, learn about the union's early push for racial equality &mda…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Kevin Gray, a Broadway performer who appeared in productions of British mega-musicals like The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon, died on Feb. 11, according to The Hartt School in Hartfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMSaturday, February 9, 2013
Mark Brokaw, lauded for directing the works of Paul Vogel, Douglas Carter Beane, Nicky Silver and Kenneth Lonergan, brings his magic to the Broadway premiere of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 8, 2013
Daniel Craig — a rainmaker in A Steady Rain a couple seasons back — will head back to Broadway, accompanied by Rachel Weisz, in a new Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Garrett Lewis, an Academy Award-nominated set decorator, died Jan. 29 at his home in Woodland Hills, CA, of natural causes. He was 77.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMHow do the people who put on shows guard themselves from illness in a time of colds, flu and other bugs? We asked.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Amanda Wingfield, the loving, critical, smothering mother of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, is back in the limelight in a regional production starring Tony Award winner Cherry …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Actor-writer Martin Moran, a Drama Desk Award nominee for his autobiographical solo play, The Tricky Part, picks up the pieces of his story for his new work, All the Rage, about finding grac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 1, 2013
I'm not a betting man. And I'm not a rich man. But I would have bet you $100 a month ago that there was no way the Rebecca melodrama could get any weirder.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Susan Hight Denny, who starred on Broadway in the original production of Guys and Dolls and later taught musical theatre vocal performance at American University, died Jan. 20 in Silver Spri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMPlaying in repertory. Classic plays given regular top-tier productions. Film stars taking on challenging stage parts without making a big to-do about it. It's all very English, and Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMDancers know that the shoes they shake in Broadway choruses are called "character shoes." But why that name?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 24, 2013
The organizers of the Jan. 28 TEDxBroadway conference are hoping to change the fortunes of the theatre community through conversations spinning off from the question, "What Is the Best …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Paul Ainsley, who created the role of King Herod in the original Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar, died in Los Angeles from heart-related complications. He was 67.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMFriday, January 18, 2013
"That's a lot of thwarted sexuality for one day."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMJohn R. Powers, the author of the hit musical Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, died Jan. 17 of a heart attack. He was 67.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Conrad Bain, who became a familiar television face as a star of two popular sitcoms, "Maude" and "Diff'rent Stokes," while maintaining a steady stage career, died Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
It was perhaps inevitable that Aaron Thielen, the lead artistic director of Lincolnshire, Illinois' Marriott Theatre would one day produce a revue of the work of English composer Andrew …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMSunday, January 13, 2013
Maggie the Cat, Tennessee Williams' hungry lady at the center of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, has scratched her way back to Broadway. Scarlett Johansson now stars. It seemed like a perfect tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 11, 2013
Two very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMTwo very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM 
