Victor Spinetti, whose fame as a successful British stage actor was trumped by the distinction of having appeared in three of the five films The Beatles made, died July 19. The cause was can…
Steve Ben Israel, a regular participant in the unconventional productions of The Living Theatre who continued to exercise the troupe's artistic ethos even as the bohemian 1950s and '…
Susan Tyrrell, an actress whose willfully erratic career included an Oscar-nominated turn in the 1972 John Huston film "Fat City," died 2012. She was 67.
Jeremy Nussbaum, an entertainment lawyer who represented theatre artists such as Tom Meehan and John Weidman, died June 12 at his home. He was 70.
The 2012 Tony Awards on June 10 represented a good night for comeback kids.
Stephen Brockway, a stage actor who appeared in national tours of Broadway shows, died June 11, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. He was 39.
New York is pretty much holding its breath until Tony night on June 10, so there's not much going on on The Street. So let's take this opportunity to track the action across the pond.
A street sign in Manhattan's theatre district indicates that West 44th Street is "Rodgers & Hammerstein Row." How come?
Meet busy actor Jeremy Shamos, the Clybourne Park Tony Award nominee who successfully walks the line between leading man and character actor.
At the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant, Linda Lavin, of Broadway's The Lyons, reflects on a career path dotted with possibilities.
Rob McClure has been cast in the title role of the new Broadway musical Chaplin, which will open on Broadway on Sept. 10 at the Barrymore Theatre.
Edgar Freitag, a Broadway producer currently represented by the New York productions of Memphis, Porgy and Bess, Nice Work If You Can Get It and End of the Rainbow, died May 30 in New York C…
Playwright William Hanley, who after a brief heyday as a playwright in the 1960s became a successful writer of television movies and mini-series, died May 25 after suffering a fall in his ho…
Harvey Fierstein, Dana Ivey, Alfred Uhry, Alison Fraser, Mary Testa, Jonathan Hadary, Sarah Jones, Mandy Patinkin and more gathered May 24 at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre to celebrate …
Henry Denker, a prolific writer who over a long career wrote numerous plays, novels, teleplays and radio plays, died May 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99. The cause was cancer.
Carrie Smith, a jazz and blues singer who achieved stage fame as one of the stars of the Broadway musical revue Black and Blue, died on May 20 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of the Actors …
At the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant, three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall talks about Cole Porter, George Gershwin, leading ladies and new show…
Annie's gonna play the Palace.
The Public Theater is changing the way it greets the world.
Janet Carroll, a film and TV character actress who starred as Aunt March in the 2004 Broadway musical Little Women, died May 22. She was 71.
A reader wondered about the use of a certain tropical fruit in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher. Is there a story there? Of course there is!
A reader wondered about the use a of certain tropical fruit in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher. Is there a story there? Of course there is!
Newsies, the Broadway musical now contending for Best Musical in the 2012 Tony Awards race is now playing an open-ended run, Disney Theatrical Productions announced on May 16.
Newsies, the Broadway musical now contending for Best Musical in the 2012 Tony Awards race is now playing an open-ended run, Disney Theatrical Productions announced on May 16.
Beatrice Terry, a theatre director who was the associate director on several Broadway shows, died May 15 at her home in Jackson Heights, Queens. She had been battling cancer.