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Two very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.
Amy Herzog's praised new play The Great God Pan ends its extended run at Playwrights Horizons Jan. 13, but her Belleville is in the wings at New York Theatre Workshop's home downtown…
A question about the brief, bright light of Orson Welles and John Houseman's Mercury Theatre in New York City. Does the venue still stand?
Larry L. King, a Southern essayist and playwright who wrote the libretto for the long-running Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, died Dec. 20 in Washington, D.C. He was 83.
It was a Stephen Schwartz kind of week on Broadway.
Richard Rodney Bennett, the accomplished English composer and musician who carved an elegant, witty profile in the cabaret world as the accompanist and foil to singer Mary Cleere Haran, died…
Everyone in the theatre gets excited by new work. Fresh dramatic ink, after all, is the lifeblood of the theatre. And we're going to get plenty of that this coming winter and spring Off-…
This week, all the producers were nestled all snug in their wee little beds, with visions of Tony-winning, spring smashes dancing in their heads. So there wasn't much doing in the theatr…
This week, all the producers were nestled all snug in their wee little beds, with visions of Tony-winning, spring smashes dancing in their heads. So there wasn't much doing in the theatr…
In the winter and spring months ahead, Broadway offers Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy, Benjamin Walker and Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plus Kinky Boots, Cinderella, Matilda, Motown …
Songwriters Marvin Hamlisch, Hal David, Robert B. Sherman and Richard Adler, actresses Celeste Holm and Joan Roberts, producers Theodore Mann and Marty Richards, designer Eiko Ishioka and dr…
Charles Durning, a portly character actor who came into his own during his middle years, playing an endless array of comic and dramatic roles in every entertainment medium, died Dec. 24 in N…
Jack Klugman, who brought a straight-forward, salt-of-the-earth quality to scores of roles over a long career, and became famous as the television embodiment of Neil Simon's Oscar Madiso…
Theatre companies unveiled new and improved homes, Rebecca collapsed, TV gave us a backstage drama, Les Miz hit the big screen, a hurricane bruised New York City. Read our recap of the major…
Actors' Equity Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary. In Playbill's latest look at the union's history, André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Julie Halston and Michae…
Big Fish will have to settle for Lake Michigan for its initial trawling waters.
Water by the Spoonful, a low-profile meditation on addiction, recovery, family and military legacy, came out of the shadows to nab a Pulitzer Prize. Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes ex…
It took as long as Nick and Nora to open, but the Al Pacino revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross finally pulled back the curtain at the Schoenfeld Theatre and let the critics tak…
From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity pla…
The film version of Glengarry Glen Ross features an additional character, named Blake, who is not seen in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. What gives?
Playwright Arthur Bicknell is returning to the scene of a crime — his famous Broadway flop Moose Murders, which he is a revising for a New York City staging. With good nature intact, h…
The New York Times called it "arguably the fastest failure of a major writer's new play on Broadway since the early-1980s duds of the Pulitzer winners Tennessee Williams, Arthur Mil…
A surprise addition to the Broadway season arrived this week.
Actors' Equity Association is engaged in a yearlong celebration of its 100th anniversary. Playbill's latest look at Equity's history explores the darkness and light of the AIDS e…
Meet Jordan Gelber, who gave up his apartment on Avenue Q and has moved to West 45th Street, to Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where he is the star of Elf.
