Tom Hanks and Cyndi Lauper had their Broadway debuts this week — working in very different capacities, of course — and faced sentencing by the local judiciary, i.e., the critics.
Milo O'Shea, the Irish-born character actor who injected every role with a potent combination of puckishness, Gaelic charm and menace, died April 2 in Manhattan. He was 86.
Tony Award winner Elaine Stritch offered stories and songs on April 2, the start of a weeklong engagement — her farewell to showbiz — at the Cafe Carlyle.
This season Broadway welcomes (mostly) solo shows starring Holland Taylor, Fiona Shaw, Bette Midler and Alan Cumming.
Fay Kanin, a playwright and screenwriter who wrote for Broadway and Hollywood, often in collaboration with her husband, died March 27 in Beverly Hills, CA. She was 95.
Gigi, the Oscar-winning film musical that was later adapted for the Broadway stage, will be adapted anew for a Broadway run, possibly as soon as 2013-14, producer Jenna Segal announced this …
Richard Griffiths, the British character actor whose career bloomed late in life with numerous successes on the London and Broadway stage, and on film, including The History Boys and the Har…
After years of writer's block, Tanya Barfield finds inspiration at home. The Call, her new play about parenthood, adoption and race, is now premiering Off-Broadway.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it doesn't stop us from asking why plays and musicals seem to be populated more often with dogs than cats.
You hear that? That rumbling in the distance? Feel that vibration under your feet? That's the Tony train coming! There's no stopping it, so don't try. Just brace yourself for its…
When you get Martin Charnin, Thomas Meehan and Charles Strouse together at one table at Sardi's, you know what they're going to talk about. Alan Jay Lerner, of course.
What thoughts do actors juggle when considering taking a job in a national tour? You asked, we sought the answers.
Christopher Durang enjoyed his first Broadway production in 17 years this week. (In the spirit of charity, we won't count the text he contributed to the 2010 Dame Edna outing All About M…
Gloria Hope Sher, a Broadway producer who scored a success with the musical Shenandoah, died on March 9 at The Haven in New York. She was 85.
Leonard A. Mulhern, veteran New York theatrical manager, passed away on Feb. 1 in Manhattan after a brief illness. He was 85.
Sybil Christopher, the actress, director and nightclub owner who helped found Long Island's Bay Street Theatre and was its artistic director for 22 years, died March 9. She was 83.
First-time Broadway director Charles Randolph-Wright is at the helm of one of the more pulse-quickening titles of the season, Motown: The Musical, about record producer Berry Gordy'…
Holly Golightly, American literature's enigmatic party girl of Truman Capote's novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's," comes alive in a new memory-play adaptation by Richard …
Cinderella didn't quite get the fairy-tale ending she might have hoped for when the Rodgers & Hammerstein show named after her opened on Broadway on March 3.
Arthur Storch, the founding producing artistic director of Syracuse Stage and former chair of Syracuse University’s department of drama, has died. He was 87.
The Living Theatre may live up to its name yet.
Bonnie Franklin, who starred as a single mother navigating the dating and working worlds of the 1970s and early '80s in the popular sitcom "One Day at a Time," died March 1 at …
One of the Broadway stage's 21st-century musical stars, Idina Menzel, will be returning to The Street in spring 2014.
The recent news that The Living Theatre was no more probably surprised more than a few theatregoers — because they probably hadn't realized the decades-old company was still in exi…
Lou Myers, an actor who worked in film and theatre, but is best known for his regular role on the sitcom "A Different World," died Feb. 19 in West Virginia at Charleston Medical Ce…