Robert Schenkkan covered 200 years of American history in his Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Kentucky Cycle. His new world-premiere play, All the Way, at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, focuse…
Playwright Theresa Rebeck may not have yet found the formula for putting together a hit Broadway production, but one thing has become increasingly clear: Her plays have become star magnets.
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Richard D. Zanuck, a scion of famed Hollywood producer Darryl F. Zanuck who became a successful producer in his own right, died July 13 at his Beverly Hills home. He was 77.
Celeste Holm, a theatre and film actress who, through a small but select collection of indelible mid-20th century stage and cinema performances, achieved the somewhat legendary status in sho…
The retirement of a theatre company's executive director is typically not big news. Such behind-the-scenes characters — though their work is vital and their talents well-known to t…
Meet rising playwright Greg Pierce, whose Slowgirl is currently inaugurating Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow Theater, the new home of LCT3.
Ernest Borgnine, the craggy-faced, gravel-voiced actor who made a career out of playing various versions of the Everyman, both good and bad, died July 8 in Los Angeles. He was 95.
Tony Award winner Martin Pakledinaz, who for two decades was among the most sought-after costume designers on Broadway, died the morning of July 8. He was 58 and had been suffering from canc…
Actors' Equity Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Here's a look at the union's efforts during American military conflicts in the past century.
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The Fourth of July week was a quiet one in the American theatre. Nevermind those throngs of people swarming around Times Square, the crowds flowing in and out of the theatres each evening, t…
When the Supreme Court, on June 28, upheld President Obama's Affordable Care Act by a vote of 5 to 4, pundits on both sides of the issue—pro and con—declared the legislation …
Jack Richardson, who had a sudden, but fleeting, impact on the New York theatre scene with two Off-Broadway plays, died July 1. He was 77.
James Grout, a British stage, television and radio performer who won a Tony Award nomination for his sole Broadway appearance, playing a histrionic playwright in the 1965 Tommy Steele musica…
News-wise, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is the Broadway musical that keeps on giving. During the first eight months of its life at the Foxwoods Theatre—otherwise known as the show'…
Andy Griffith, who carved out a particularly American television persona as the beloved star of the series "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock," died July 3 at his home…
The Theatre Development Fund establishes a new program introducing Broadway theatre to autistic children and their families. Read about the adjustments that shows are making for these new th…
Playwright-screenwriter-essayist-director Nora Ephron died on June 26, inspiring countless written tributes to her talent and wit, and briefly occasioning concern that her passing would impe…
Actor Don Grady, who was best known for playing one of Fred MacMurray's sons on the long-running television sitcom "My Three Sons," died June 27. The cause was cancer. He was 6…
Richard Adler, the co-songwriter of the enduring musicals Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game, was remembered by friends and family on June 27 at a ceremony held at Saint Bartholomew's Chur…
The playwright behind Freud's Last Session has crafted a new play about another doctor — sexpert Ruth Westheimer. Playbill catches up with Mark St. Germain.
The Public Theater inaugurated its 50th summer at Central Park's Delacorte Theater by transforming the venue and its surroundings into Shakespeare's Forest of Arden for a new product…
Richard Adler, who with partner Jerry Ross, wrote the classic and tuneful workplace musicals Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game, died June 21 at his Southhampton home. He was 90.
Maybe you've heard the song "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen"? A reader has a question about the venue's location, and we expand on it.