Not since Jeremy Piven bolted the 2008 revival of Speed-the-Plow, citing mercury poisoning from excessive sushi binging, have we had a Broadway star exit as odd and awkward as what went down…
Not since Jeremy Piven bolted the 2008 revival of Speed-the-Plow, citing mercury poisoning from excessive sushi binging, have we had a Broadway star exit as odd and awkward as what went down…
Tony Award-nominated playwright and librettist Douglas Carter Beane muses on his new Broadway projects, Cinderella and The Nance, savoring opportunities and pushing to be more than glib.
Hollywood, TV and Broadway producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are producing the 2013 Academy Awards show, airing Feb. 24. During a busy week, Playbill caught up with the duo that helped sh…
A Shakespearean musical? Who's ever heard of such a thing.
Actors' Equity Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary. In Playbill's latest look at the union's history, learn about the union's early push for racial equality &mda…
Kevin Gray, a Broadway performer who appeared in productions of British mega-musicals like The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon, died on Feb. 11, according to The Hartt School in Hartfor…
Mark Brokaw, lauded for directing the works of Paul Vogel, Douglas Carter Beane, Nicky Silver and Kenneth Lonergan, brings his magic to the Broadway premiere of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinde…
Daniel Craig — a rainmaker in A Steady Rain a couple seasons back — will head back to Broadway, accompanied by Rachel Weisz, in a new Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's…
Garrett Lewis, an Academy Award-nominated set decorator, died Jan. 29 at his home in Woodland Hills, CA, of natural causes. He was 77.
How do the people who put on shows guard themselves from illness in a time of colds, flu and other bugs? We asked.
Amanda Wingfield, the loving, critical, smothering mother of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, is back in the limelight in a regional production starring Tony Award winner Cherry …
Actor-writer Martin Moran, a Drama Desk Award nominee for his autobiographical solo play, The Tricky Part, picks up the pieces of his story for his new work, All the Rage, about finding grac…
I'm not a betting man. And I'm not a rich man. But I would have bet you $100 a month ago that there was no way the Rebecca melodrama could get any weirder.
Susan Hight Denny, who starred on Broadway in the original production of Guys and Dolls and later taught musical theatre vocal performance at American University, died Jan. 20 in Silver Spri…
Playing in repertory. Classic plays given regular top-tier productions. Film stars taking on challenging stage parts without making a big to-do about it. It's all very English, and Broad…
Dancers know that the shoes they shake in Broadway choruses are called "character shoes." But why that name?
The organizers of the Jan. 28 TEDxBroadway conference are hoping to change the fortunes of the theatre community through conversations spinning off from the question, "What Is the Best …
Paul Ainsley, who created the role of King Herod in the original Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar, died in Los Angeles from heart-related complications. He was 67.
"That's a lot of thwarted sexuality for one day."
John R. Powers, the author of the hit musical Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, died Jan. 17 of a heart attack. He was 67.
Conrad Bain, who became a familiar television face as a star of two popular sitcoms, "Maude" and "Diff'rent Stokes," while maintaining a steady stage career, died Jan…
It was perhaps inevitable that Aaron Thielen, the lead artistic director of Lincolnshire, Illinois' Marriott Theatre would one day produce a revue of the work of English composer Andrew …
Maggie the Cat, Tennessee Williams' hungry lady at the center of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, has scratched her way back to Broadway. Scarlett Johansson now stars. It seemed like a perfect tim…
Two very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.