Monday, 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 12:04AMJesus Christ Superstar director Des McAnuff reveals his rock 'n' roll over a glass of wine at the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant. Turns out, his he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Scott Shepherd is closing the chapter on Blood Knot at Signature Theatre and opening the book of "The Great Gatsby" — literally — in Gatz at The Public Theater. He talk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 9, 2012
Lincoln Center Theater announced new productions of plays by Clifford Odets — with whose work they've had some recent success — and Christopher Durang — with whom …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Milton Stanzler, a founding member of Trinity Repertory Company in Rhode Island, has died. He was 91.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMJean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, will be remembered at a gathering of friends and colleagues 5:30…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Robert B. Sherman, the American songwriter who, with his brother Richard, wrote the cheerful, upbeat scores to several memorable family films — most notably "Mary Poppins" &m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMMonday, March 5, 2012
Tony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare adapted Homer's Trojan War classic with director Lisa Peterson. Now they're sharing it with New York — and Stephen Spinella.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare adapted Homer's Trojan War classic with director Lisa Peterson. Now they're sharing it with New York — and Stephen Spinella.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 2, 2012
The loosely affiliated community of American theatre geeks had a Mecca this week. It was the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, where MCC Theater opened its retooled pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Davy Jones, who gained lasting worldwide fans as the cute, diminutive, self-effacing English member of the manufactured 1960s pop group The Monkees — but was also the original Artful D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMSaturday, February 25, 2012
Howard Kissel, a critic who covered New York's theatre scene for nearly four decades, died Feb. 24. He was 69.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMHoward Kissel, a critic who covered New York's theatre scene for nearly four decades, died Feb. 24. He was 70.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMFriday, February 24, 2012
Theodore Mann, who, as the co-founder of Circle in the Square Theatre, was one of the foremost figures in the birth of the Off-Broadway theatre movement, died Feb. 24 following a brief illne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMBroadway learned of an unexpected, late edition to the Broadway spring-season play sweepstakes this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMThursday, February 23, 2012
Ask Playbill.com answers a question about the music that you hear when you're leaving the theatre after a performance of a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Dick Anthony Williams, a stage and film actor who was twice nominated for a Tony Award, died Feb. 16 in Los Angeles. He was 77.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMFriday, February 17, 2012
Producers of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark reached a settlement with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society this week. And the agreement was probably to the liking of the musical'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMThursday, February 16, 2012
Daniel C. Gerould, a professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at CUNY's graduate Center who held the Lucille Lortel Chair in Theatre, died in his sleep in the early hours of Feb. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Dory Previn Shannon, a lyricist, composer and singer who wrote songs for film soundtracks in the 1960s, often in collaboration with her then husband, Andre Previn, and later became a noted r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Zina Bethune, a dancer and choreographer who worked with children who had disabilities, died Feb. 10. She was 66.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMMonday, February 13, 2012
Phil Bruns, a supporting player in theatre, television and film, perhaps best known for his role on the 1970s cult series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," died on Feb. 8 in Los Angele…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMIstvan Csurka, a Hungarian playwright whose achievements on the stage were overshadowed and undermined by his vocal advocacy of nationalistic and bigoted politics, died Feb. 4 in Budapest. H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
James Houghton, founding artistic director of Signature Theatre Company, talks about the expanded mission of the Off-Broadway company now that it has a new three-venue complex on West 42nd S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 10, 2012
Here's one I didn't see coming.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMAsk Playbill.com answers a question about the fireplace in the Broadway production of Other Desert Cities. Is it a metaphor or just a set?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 9, 2012
Norma Langworthy, a life-long theatre devotee who produced plays Off-Broadway and on, died Jan. 28 at her home in New York City. She was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09PMSaturday, February 4, 2012
"This is one of my favorite spots," said James Houghton, standing at the confluence of a few corridors and doors in the sprawling new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMFriday, February 3, 2012
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor of stage and film who created the role of Brick in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48PMJean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, died on Feb. 2 in her Lower East Side home. The cause was lung c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMThe lesson the theatre community learned this week is, Don't mess with producer Scott Rudin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AM 
