Thursday, August 9, 2012
Dale C. Olson, an entertainment industry publicist, died Aug. 9 at the Burbank Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Michael Cristofer won the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his 1977 play The Shadow Box, a credit lost on viewers of the TV soap "Smash," on which the actor-playwright plays t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Marvin Hamlisch, who achieved theatre immortality as the composer of the iconic musical A Chorus Line, died Aug. 7. He was 68.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Joan Stein, who produced plays on Broadway and Off-Broadway, died Aug. 3. The cause was appendiceal cancer. She was 59.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Broadway openings in August? As recently as 20 years ago, they would have been unheard of. But no longer. We've got air-conditioning, don't we? And there's not a lot of competiti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMThursday, August 2, 2012
What happens when stage managers are sick or on vacation? Who are their understudies? We asked.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMBroadway practitioners Robyn Goodman, Michael Mayer, Douglas Carter Beane, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, plus entertainment critics David Cote and Robert Cashill, comment on Playbill'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Actor R.G. Armstrong, who appeared in the original Broadway productions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Orpheus Descending, died July 27. He was 95.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMMonday, July 30, 2012
Actress Lupe Ontiveros, who acted on Broadway in the musical Zoot Suit, died on July 26. The cause was liver cancer. She was 69.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Given that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman has a theatre background, it should come as no surprise that he named one of his signature initiatives after a T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 27, 2012
The phrase "hit Chekhov production" is such an oddity in the theatre that one must make a point of using it when one gets the rare chance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
Robert Schenkkan covered 200 years of American history in his Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Kentucky Cycle. His new world-premiere play, All the Way, at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, focuse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 20, 2012
Playwright Theresa Rebeck may not have yet found the formula for putting together a hit Broadway production, but one thing has become increasingly clear: Her plays have become star magnets.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMAsk Playbill.com answers your (and sometimes our own) theatre-related questions. To ask a question, email [email protected]. Please specify how you would like your name displayed and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Richard D. Zanuck, a scion of famed Hollywood producer Darryl F. Zanuck who became a successful producer in his own right, died July 13 at his Beverly Hills home. He was 77.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMSunday, July 15, 2012
Celeste Holm, a theatre and film actress who, through a small but select collection of indelible mid-20th century stage and cinema performances, achieved the somewhat legendary status in sho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMFriday, July 13, 2012
The retirement of a theatre company's executive director is typically not big news. Such behind-the-scenes characters — though their work is vital and their talents well-known to t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMThursday, July 12, 2012
Meet rising playwright Greg Pierce, whose Slowgirl is currently inaugurating Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow Theater, the new home of LCT3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 9, 2012
Ernest Borgnine, the craggy-faced, gravel-voiced actor who made a career out of playing various versions of the Everyman, both good and bad, died July 8 in Los Angeles. He was 95.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AMSunday, July 8, 2012
Tony Award winner Martin Pakledinaz, who for two decades was among the most sought-after costume designers on Broadway, died the morning of July 8. He was 58 and had been suffering from canc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMActors' Equity Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Here's a look at the union's efforts during American military conflicts in the past century.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, July 7, 2012
Ask Playbill.com answers your (and sometimes our own) theatre-related questions. To ask a question, email [email protected]. Please specify how you would like your name displayed and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 6, 2012
The Fourth of July week was a quiet one in the American theatre. Nevermind those throngs of people swarming around Times Square, the crowds flowing in and out of the theatres each evening, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMWhen the Supreme Court, on June 28, upheld President Obama's Affordable Care Act by a vote of 5 to 4, pundits on both sides of the issue—pro and con—declared the legislation …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMThursday, July 5, 2012
Jack Richardson, who had a sudden, but fleeting, impact on the New York theatre scene with two Off-Broadway plays, died July 1. He was 77.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMJames Grout, a British stage, television and radio performer who won a Tony Award nomination for his sole Broadway appearance, playing a histrionic playwright in the 1965 Tommy Steele musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMNews-wise, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is the Broadway musical that keeps on giving. During the first eight months of its life at the Foxwoods Theatre—otherwise known as the show'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Andy Griffith, who carved out a particularly American television persona as the beloved star of the series "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock," died July 3 at his home…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMSunday, July 1, 2012
The Theatre Development Fund establishes a new program introducing Broadway theatre to autistic children and their families. Read about the adjustments that shows are making for these new th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Playwright-screenwriter-essayist-director Nora Ephron died on June 26, inspiring countless written tributes to her talent and wit, and briefly occasioning concern that her passing would impe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMThursday, June 28, 2012
Actor Don Grady, who was best known for playing one of Fred MacMurray's sons on the long-running television sitcom "My Three Sons," died June 27. The cause was cancer. He was 6…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PM 
