Thursday, 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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Lincoln Center Theater this week joined New York's three-theatre club—members of this exclusive group include the Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club and, most recen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Bart Kahn, a dresser and stage manager who worked on Broadway, died April 19. He was 46.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMFriday, May 11, 2012
Two left coast stars of very different generations and personalities are coming to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMFriday, May 4, 2012
The breakneck horse race of last week over and done with, the standings were read aloud on May 1, as the nominees for the 66th Annual Tony Awards were announced at The New York Public Librar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMThursday, May 3, 2012
Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon, Comedians) reflects on the work of playwright Harold Pinter on the occasion of a new British production of The Caretaker, now playing BAM&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
There was never any question where the May 1 memorial for late theatre producer-director Theodore Mann would be held. Of course it would be at Circle in the Square, the Broadway theatre name…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMFriday, April 27, 2012
This week passed without reports that any critics had checked in at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital suffering from physical exhaustion. That was a minor miracle, given that reviewers had t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park, now on Broadway, takes a page out of A Raisin in the Sun. Did Norris have to pay for rights to the source material?
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMFriday, April 20, 2012
Well, hallelujah! Broadway has not one, but three critical hits this week!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMThursday, April 19, 2012
With an "adolescent need to piss people off," Bruce Norris may have reached his zenith with the success of the Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park, now on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Paul Bogart, a prominent television director who brought a number of well-known plays to the screen, died April 15 in Chapel Hill, NC. He was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMTennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois, living on the fumes of the romantic past, is back on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire. It seems a perfect time to choose five of our favorite Will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 13, 2012
How is it that Neil LaBute and August Strindberg haven't gotten together before now? If ever there were predestined BFFs, it's these two guys.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Ask Playbill.com got curious about the facts behind Newsies antagonist Joseph Pulitzer. Read all about it.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMFriday, April 6, 2012
If there are three Broadway openings in one week, it must be April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMLast year at this time, as Playbill was polling theatre pundits about possible recipients of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, many assumed that Jon Robin Baitz's widely praised family …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMLast year at this time, as Playbill was polling theatre pundits about possible recipients of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, many assumed that Jon Robin Baitz's widely praised family …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMFriday, March 30, 2012
John Arden, a British playwright with a pungent political conscience who rose to prominence in the 1950s and was often likened to an English answer to Bertolt Brecht, died March 28. He was 8…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:23PMThe theatrical arm of Disney woke up March 30 to something sunnier than a princess who gets her prince: good reviews.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Ask Playbill.com answers a question about Monday night previews on Broadway. Why do they tend to disappear after opening?
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Now, some other solo artist has to write a play called The Agony and the Ecstasy of Mike Daisey.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Ulu Grosbard, a Belgian-born American stage director who brought a naturalistic touch, intelligence, a low profile and unending patience to premieres by Frank D. Gilroy, David Mamet and Arth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Chris Alexander, who played one of the three sailors in the original Broadway production of the musical On the Town, died March 7 of natural causes. He was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMCris Alexander, who played one of the three sailors in the original Broadway production of the musical On the Town, died March 7 of natural causes. He was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMSunday, March 18, 2012
Talk about your tight-knit company. The cast of Broadway's Jesus Christ Superstar includes father-and-son Sandy and Jonathan Winsby and brothers Jason and Julius Sermonia. Here are their…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 16, 2012
The highly anticipated new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman — which, with every passing year, and every Broadway production, seems more and more to have…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Leonardo Cimino, a character actor whose distinctive, wizened features kept him in demand throughout his long stage and film career, died March 3 at his home in Woodstock, NY. He was 94.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Donald Smith, a major figure in the cabaret world who produced the engagements for the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room for the decade beginning in 1982, died the morning of March 13, accordin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:09PMTom Murrin, the long-time theatre critic for Paper magazine, and a downtown playwright and performance artist, has died, following a battle with cancer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMMonday, March 12, 2012
Jesus Christ Superstar director Des McAnuff reveals his rock 'n' roll heart over a glass of wine at the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant. Turns out, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04AM 
