Thursday, 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 12:24PMRichard Adler, the co-songwriter of the enduring musicals Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game, was remembered by friends and family on June 27 at a ceremony held at Saint Bartholomew's Chur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMSaturday, June 23, 2012
The playwright behind Freud's Last Session has crafted a new play about another doctor — sexpert Ruth Westheimer. Playbill catches up with Mark St. Germain.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 22, 2012
The Public Theater inaugurated its 50th summer at Central Park's Delacorte Theater by transforming the venue and its surroundings into Shakespeare's Forest of Arden for a new product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMRichard Adler, who with partner Jerry Ross, wrote the classic and tuneful workplace musicals Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game, died June 21 at his Southhampton home. He was 90.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMMaybe you've heard the song "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen"? A reader has a question about the venue's location, and we expand on it.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Victor Spinetti, whose fame as a successful British stage actor was trumped by the distinction of having appeared in three of the five films The Beatles made, died July 19. The cause was can…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMSteve Ben Israel, a regular participant in the unconventional productions of The Living Theatre who continued to exercise the troupe's artistic ethos even as the bohemian 1950s and '…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Susan Tyrrell, an actress whose willfully erratic career included an Oscar-nominated turn in the 1972 John Huston film "Fat City," died 2012. She was 67.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMJeremy Nussbaum, an entertainment lawyer who represented theatre artists such as Tom Meehan and John Weidman, died June 12 at his home. He was 70.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMFriday, June 15, 2012
The 2012 Tony Awards on June 10 represented a good night for comeback kids.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMThursday, June 14, 2012
Stephen Brockway, a stage actor who appeared in national tours of Broadway shows, died June 11, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. He was 39.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PMFriday, June 8, 2012
New York is pretty much holding its breath until Tony night on June 10, so there's not much going on on The Street. So let's take this opportunity to track the action across the pond.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMA street sign in Manhattan's theatre district indicates that West 44th Street is "Rodgers & Hammerstein Row." How come?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Meet busy actor Jeremy Shamos, the Clybourne Park Tony Award nominee who successfully walks the line between leading man and character actor.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
At the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant, Linda Lavin, of Broadway's The Lyons, reflects on a career path dotted with possibilities.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Rob McClure has been cast in the title role of the new Broadway musical Chaplin, which will open on Broadway on Sept. 10 at the Barrymore Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMThursday, May 31, 2012
Edgar Freitag, a Broadway producer currently represented by the New York productions of Memphis, Porgy and Bess, Nice Work If You Can Get It and End of the Rainbow, died May 30 in New York C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Playwright William Hanley, who after a brief heyday as a playwright in the 1960s became a successful writer of television movies and mini-series, died May 25 after suffering a fall in his ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Harvey Fierstein, Dana Ivey, Alfred Uhry, Alison Fraser, Mary Testa, Jonathan Hadary, Sarah Jones, Mandy Patinkin and more gathered May 24 at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre to celebrate …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMHenry Denker, a prolific writer who over a long career wrote numerous plays, novels, teleplays and radio plays, died May 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99. The cause was cancer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMCarrie Smith, a jazz and blues singer who achieved stage fame as one of the stars of the Broadway musical revue Black and Blue, died on May 20 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of the Actors …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMMonday, May 28, 2012
At the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant, three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall talks about Cole Porter, George Gershwin, leading ladies and new show…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Annie's gonna play the Palace.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMThursday, May 24, 2012
The Public Theater is changing the way it greets the world.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Janet Carroll, a film and TV character actress who starred as Aunt March in the 2004 Broadway musical Little Women, died May 22. She was 71.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMA reader wondered about the use of a certain tropical fruit in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher. Is there a story there? Of course there is!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMA reader wondered about the use a of certain tropical fruit in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher. Is there a story there? Of course there is!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Newsies, the Broadway musical now contending for Best Musical in the 2012 Tony Awards race is now playing an open-ended run, Disney Theatrical Productions announced on May 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMNewsies, the Broadway musical now contending for Best Musical in the 2012 Tony Awards race is now playing an open-ended run, Disney Theatrical Productions announced on May 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMThursday, May 17, 2012
Beatrice Terry, a theatre director who was the associate director on several Broadway shows, died May 15 at her home in Jackson Heights, Queens. She had been battling cancer.
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