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Joel Friedman, who was a director, actor, teacher and playwright, died Sept. 29. He was 91.
Colman Domingo returns to The Public Theater, where he helped populate Passing Strange. This time, he's a playwright-actor, conjuring a new play about dealing with death.
The most riveting drama on Broadway this week took place off stage. And even in the long annals of New York theatre chicanery, this yarn is one for the books.
Those who have been longing to hear Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrap his nasal New-York-by-way-of-Boston accent around the Bard's verse got their wish Oct. 4, when Hizzoner spoke a few lines…
Supporters and donors and artists who attended the Oct. 1 unveiling of the Atlantic Theater Company's newly renovated mainstage home in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan were treated…
Herbert Lom, a prolific and versatile film actor who became best known for playing the frustrated boss of Peter Seller's bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the "Pink Panther" film …
Manny Fox, a producer and director who worked with a host of American theatre and musical artists and was one of the producers of the hit 1980s musical revue Sophisticated Ladies, died Sept.…
As the Presidential political season enters its final lap, Manhattan Theatre Club treated Broadway to a heavy dose of political drama with its production of Ibsen's fiery social tract An…
As the Presidential political season enters its final lap, Manhattan Theatre Club treated Broadway to a heavy dose of political drama with its production of Ibsen's fiery social tract An…
Composer and lyricist Billy Barnes, whose topical material was featured in a series of revues in the 1950s and '60s, died in his home in Los Angeles on Sept. 24. He was 85.
Jerome Robbins' indelible, tribal choreography for Fiddler on the Roof is evident in productions around the world. Why is that?
Jaylee Mead, who, with her husband Gilbert, gave millions of dollars to arts organizations throughout the Washington, D.C., area, died Sept. 14, of congestive heart failure. She was 83.
The first Broadway opening of the fall season was Chaplin, the scrappy little musical that debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010 and stars the little-known Rob McClure as the Little…
Macy's is reaching out to school theatre programs across the country to provide seed money and support for productions of a new musical based on the famous 1897 newspaper column popularl…
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the coming Off-Broadway musical attraction Sounding Beckett — and there are several — is that this is director Joy Zinoman's first N…
Jerome Kilty, an actor who, as director and playwright, created several epistolary dramas, including Dear Liar, died Sept. 9, following a car accident in Weston, CT. He was 90.
The film "Flashdance," about the aspirations of a sexy, dancing, female welder who can't afford a decent sweatshirt, came out in 1983 and proceeded to stun the world by grossin…
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Albert Marre, the director of the original production of Man of La Mancha, died Sept. 4 at Mr. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, following a long illness. He was 86.
The coming months on Broadway will offer a new play by David Mamet, Chita Rivera in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an essential social drama by Henrik Ibsen, two Christmas-themed musicals, plus…
Variety is center-stage in the fall 2012 Off-Broadway season. David Schwimmer, Bill Irwin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Bebe Neuwirth are among the stars. Terrenc…
British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz shares her thoughts on the anti-hero at the center of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, which she has adapted for a new generation. It's ge…
Marianne Challis, an award-winning cabaret singer and one of Broadway's busiest voice teachers, died Aug. 29 at her apartment and voice studio in Manhattan. She was 58.
Finally. After months of squabbling and headlines, the producers of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Julie Taymor have reached a tentative deal settling a dispute over her ro…