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Rob Ashford, Patrick Stewart and Ethan Hawke weigh in on the recent popularity of Macbeth on the New York stage.
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Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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If you like Shakespeare and live in New York, you are an exceedingly happy camper this autumn.
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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After Midnight, the jazz revue which celebrates Duke Ellington's years at the famed Harlem nightclub the Cotton Club — using his original arrangements and performed by a world-clas…
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William Dodds, a veteran stage manager with dozens of Broadway credits, died Nov. 1 in his sleep. He was 91.
Former Presidential candidate Fred Dalton Thompson talks with Playbill.com about making his Broadway debut as Judge Noose in the legal thriller A Time to Kill.
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The Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's time-bending drama Betrayal, starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall, officially opened Oct. 27 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Playbill.com reports on the ground-breaking ceremony for St. Ann's Warehouse's new location at the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Playbill.com gets an inside look at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Theatre for a New Audience's new Brooklyn home, with artistic director Jeffrey Horowitz.
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John Grisham, playwright, got his day in Broadway court this week.
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Byron Nease, who originated the role of Raoul in the Canadian production of The Phantom of the Opera, died Oct. 16. He was 59.
Ralph Cook, who, as founder of Theatre Genesis, was a significant figure in the formation of the Off Off-Broadway scene in the 1960s, died Sept. 23 in Bay Minette, AL. He was 85.
It was a week of surprises. But none was perhaps more surprising — or more talked about — than the news that the Roundabout Theatre Company was considering producing a new reviva…
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Paul Rogers, the British actor who won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the brutish father of a twisted family in the original Broadway production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, die…
Big Fish, the new musical by composer Andrew Lippa and librettist John August, and directed by Susan Stroman, opened on Broadway this week.
Stanley Kauffmann, a thinking-man's drama and film critic who spent a half century mulling over the arts of stage and screen, their histories and practitioners, died of pneumonia at St. …
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Henry Guettel, for whom musical theatre was both work and home life, died of pneumonia Oct. 7 in Southampton, NY. He was 85.
Two Broadway hits enjoyed palpable evidence of their popularity this week.
June Reimer Springer, an actress, singer and dancer who—as June Reimer—appeared in several shows in the 1940s and '50s, including the original production of Kiss Me, Kate, di…
