Miranda Cromwell on the impact of centering a Black family in Death of a Salesman on Broadway --- Miranda Cromwell admits she didn't think much of Death of a Salesman when she first read Art…
If you judged the state of playwriting by this year’s Tony nominations for best play, you might think some unidentified virus had wiped out a generation of American writers. Three of t…
Even before it got to Broadway, people were predicting that “The Band’s Visit” would win the Tony Award for Best Musical. And, indeed it is this year’s front-runner, …
We talk with Tony winners Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter and George C. Wolfe about illuminating the context behind the original musical and honoring their characters.
Before Miranda wrote the show, Chernow wrote the best-selling biography on the once-forgotten Founding Father. How involved was Chernow in the making of the musical? What does he thi…
Over the past decade, women like Susan Stroman, Diane Paulus and Kathleen Marshall have moved to the front ranks of go-to directors for big Broadway musicals. But female composers have b…
Rob Marshall, director of the anticipated movie musical "Into the Woods," and screenwriter James Lapine discuss bringing the beloved musical to the big screen — and the i…
S. Epatha Merkerson and Lillias White, collaborating for the first time in Billy Porter's While I Yet Live, share their experiences while working as African-American actresses.
Tony nominee Norm Lewis will make history May 12 when he becomes the first African-American actor to play the title role in The Phantom of the Opera.
Award-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney talks with Playbill.com about staging a new adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra at the Public Theater.
Inside the casting for Broadway’s “Motown The Musical” Casting a Broadway show is never easy, but finding the right actors for Motown: the Musical was especially daunting. …
Inside the casting for Broadway’s “Motown: The Musical” Casting a Broadway show is never easy, but finding the right actors for Motown: the Musical was especially daunting.…
Trainers preach a new gospel of self-empowerment, even in the most collaborative of art forms
Peter DuBois and Gina Gionfriddo collaborate at Playwrights Horizons It’s no surprise that playwright Gina Gionfriddo and director Peter DuBois are collaborating again. They’ve b…
The actor’s brain injury guides his performance in “Sons of the Prophet” Welcome to Building Character, TDF STAGES ‘ongoing series about actors and how they create th…
A teenage playwright joins theatre legends Summer Shorts, the annual festival of new American short plays, has lined up a murderers’ row of playwrights for its fifth season. On deck ar…