James Houghton, founding artistic director of Signature Theatre Company, talks about the expanded mission of the Off-Broadway company now that it has a new three-venue complex on West 42nd S…
Here's one I didn't see coming.
Ask Playbill.com answers a question about the fireplace in the Broadway production of Other Desert Cities. Is it a metaphor or just a set?
Norma Langworthy, a life-long theatre devotee who produced plays Off-Broadway and on, died Jan. 28 at her home in New York City. She was 92.
"This is one of my favorite spots," said James Houghton, standing at the confluence of a few corridors and doors in the sprawling new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd …
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor of stage and film who created the role of Brick in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New Y…
Jean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, died on Feb. 2 in her Lower East Side home. The cause was lung c…
The lesson the theatre community learned this week is, Don't mess with producer Scott Rudin.
Ian Abercrombie, a British actor of stage, film and television, died in Hollywood, CA, on Jan. 26 of a fatal heart attack. He was 77.
Patricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for her role as the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, died in Vermont on Jan. 24 of natural causes. She was 92.
Wit, Margaret Edson's play about a starchy poetry professor facing cancer and mortality, premiered at the Friedman Theatre this week. And it's as big a critical hit on Broadway as it…
Eiko Ishioka, a designer who worked in film and theatre, and designed the costumes for the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, died on Jan. 21 in Tokyo. She was 73. The cause was pancreat…
Gabe McKinley was on the scene during the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times. His new Off-Broadway play, CQ/CX, has the story.
James Farentino, a stage and film actor with a tough, masculine image, and a frequently tumultuous offstage life, died Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. The cause was heart failure. He was 73.
Nicol Williamson, a British stage and film actor of great range, talent and fire who was as well known for his brash antics offstage as he was for his work as a performer, has died. The caus…
Marcia Gardner, a longstanding figure at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria after a battle with cancer.
Earle Gister, who, as associate dean, chair of the Acting Department, and the first Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting during his two-decade tenure at the Yale School of Drama, was a highly …
The Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Athol Fugard's play The Road to Mecca, starring Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale, opened this week at the American Airlin…
The Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Athol Fugard's play The Road to Mecca, starring Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale, opened this week at the American Airlin…
Bradshaw Smith, who as the videographer of "Broadway Beat" indefatigably chronicled the New York theatre scene, died Jan. 16 following a sudden and severe stroke. He was 56.
No opening this Broadway season, surely, has been placed under the microscope the way The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess has. Ever since composer Stephen Sondheim took a lengthy swipe, in the…
Bill Schelble, a theatre press agent with a long string of stage credits, died Jan. 9 in Milwaukee. He was 81.
Mary C. Henderson, a leading historian of the American theatre and author of the seminal texts "Theatre in America" and "The City and the Theatre," died Jan. 3 at her hom…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist of In the Heights, has borrowed from the life of American founding father Alexander Hamilton for a new hip-hop-flavored musical s…
The Broadway star who turns down a project a week and the composer who once said he'd never write a musical again have decided they want to work again — and together!