Friday, January 11, 2013
Two very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMThursday, January 10, 2013
Amy Herzog's praised new play The Great God Pan ends its extended run at Playwrights Horizons Jan. 13, but her Belleville is in the wings at New York Theatre Workshop's home downtown…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
A question about the brief, bright light of Orson Welles and John Houseman's Mercury Theatre in New York City. Does the venue still stand?
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMMonday, January 7, 2013
Larry L. King, a Southern essayist and playwright who wrote the libretto for the long-running Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, died Dec. 20 in Washington, D.C. He was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMFriday, January 4, 2013
It was a Stephen Schwartz kind of week on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMTuesday, January 1, 2013
Richard Rodney Bennett, the accomplished English composer and musician who carved an elegant, witty profile in the cabaret world as the accompanist and foil to singer Mary Cleere Haran, died…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34AMSaturday, December 29, 2012
Everyone in the theatre gets excited by new work. Fresh dramatic ink, after all, is the lifeblood of the theatre. And we're going to get plenty of that this coming winter and spring Off-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, December 28, 2012
This week, all the producers were nestled all snug in their wee little beds, with visions of Tony-winning, spring smashes dancing in their heads. So there wasn't much doing in the theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMThis week, all the producers were nestled all snug in their wee little beds, with visions of Tony-winning, spring smashes dancing in their heads. So there wasn't much doing in the theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMIn the winter and spring months ahead, Broadway offers Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy, Benjamin Walker and Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plus Kinky Boots, Cinderella, Matilda, Motown …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 27, 2012
Songwriters Marvin Hamlisch, Hal David, Robert B. Sherman and Richard Adler, actresses Celeste Holm and Joan Roberts, producers Theodore Mann and Marty Richards, designer Eiko Ishioka and dr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 25, 2012
Charles Durning, a portly character actor who came into his own during his middle years, playing an endless array of comic and dramatic roles in every entertainment medium, died Dec. 24 in N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMJack Klugman, who brought a straight-forward, salt-of-the-earth quality to scores of roles over a long career, and became famous as the television embodiment of Neil Simon's Oscar Madiso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMSunday, December 23, 2012
Theatre companies unveiled new and improved homes, Rebecca collapsed, TV gave us a backstage drama, Les Miz hit the big screen, a hurricane bruised New York City. Read our recap of the major…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMActors' Equity Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary. In Playbill's latest look at the union's history, André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Julie Halston and Michae…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Big Fish will have to settle for Lake Michigan for its initial trawling waters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMWater by the Spoonful, a low-profile meditation on addiction, recovery, family and military legacy, came out of the shadows to nab a Pulitzer Prize. Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes ex…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, December 14, 2012
It took as long as Nick and Nora to open, but the Al Pacino revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross finally pulled back the curtain at the Schoenfeld Theatre and let the critics tak…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMThursday, December 13, 2012
From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
The film version of Glengarry Glen Ross features an additional character, named Blake, who is not seen in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. What gives?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMSunday, December 9, 2012
Playwright Arthur Bicknell is returning to the scene of a crime — his famous Broadway flop Moose Murders, which he is a revising for a New York City staging. With good nature intact, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, December 7, 2012
The New York Times called it "arguably the fastest failure of a major writer's new play on Broadway since the early-1980s duds of the Pulitzer winners Tennessee Williams, Arthur Mil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMFriday, November 30, 2012
A surprise addition to the Broadway season arrived this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMActors' Equity Association is engaged in a yearlong celebration of its 100th anniversary. Playbill's latest look at Equity's history explores the darkness and light of the AIDS e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 29, 2012
Meet Jordan Gelber, who gave up his apartment on Avenue Q and has moved to West 45th Street, to Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where he is the star of Elf.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2012
The 100-year history of Actors' Equity Association is celebrated in a new, lavishly illustrated book, "Performance of the Century," by Playbill writer Robert Simonson. We snagg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, November 26, 2012
Marty Richards, a stage and film producer who was among the backers of the Academy Award-winning 2002 film of the musical Chicago, and whose Broadway credits included Sweeney Todd, Crimes of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59PMSaturday, November 24, 2012
The 100-year history of Actors' Equity Association is celebrated in a new, lavishly illustrated book, "Performance of the Century," by Playbill writer Robert Simonson. We snagg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 23, 2012
You like Christmas? Like Santa? You can't get enough of kids? Lots and lots of tykes, both on stage and in the audience?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMYou like Christmas? Like Santa? You can't get enough of kids? Lots and lots of tykes, both on stage and in the audience?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 16, 2012
With Thanksgiving, and all its attendant preparations, coming up next week, the New York theatre got a handful of openings out of the way this week. And, yes, some of them were turkeys. (Sor…
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