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William Duell, a small, thin-faced character actor who was a familiar presence to generations of television, film and stage audiences, died at his home in Manhattan on Dec. 22. The cause was…
David Wheeler, a stage director, educator and important figure in the Boston theatre community, died Jan. 3 of a combination of respiratory failure and heart failure. He was 86.
Barbara Lea, a cabaret singer and actress revered as a distinguished interpreter of the American Songbok, died Dec. 26, due to complications of Alzheimer's disease. She was 82.
In the winter and spring months ahead, Off-Broadway stages will see plays by Gina Gionfriddo, Annie Baker, Dan LeFranc, John Patrick Shanley, David Rabe and more. A revised version of the mu…
In the winter and spring months ahead, Broadway will see plays by Margaret Edson, Athol Fugard, David Auburn, Arthur Miller and others commingling with the musicals Newsies, Jesus Christ Sup…
As is always the case when one theatre year folds into the next, and the powers that be in the stage world recharge their batteries through rigorous skiing and competitive champagne intake, …
Actress Rose Pickering, who, with her actor husband James, was a leading player in the Milwaukee theatre scene for nearly four decades, died Nov. 24. The cause was cancer. She was 64. Ms. Pi…
Dramatists Arthur Laurents, Romulus Linney and Lanford Wilson, producer Ellen Stewart, actor Tom Aldredge and his costume-designer wife Theoni V. Aldredge were among theatre people who left …
Doe Avedon, who was transformed by her Svengali husband, photographer Richard Avedon, into a model, and inspired the 1957 film musical "Funny Face," died Dec. 18 in Los Angeles. Sh…
It's almost Christmas, so I'll begin this column with the casting of the upcoming Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. (No one will accuse this reporter of taking part in the …
Following a year in which dancing-singing Mormons stop the show every night and a malfunctioning Spider-Man literally stopped the show some nights, Playbill.com put their heads together and …
Susan Gordon, who was a child actress in a number of infamous "B" movies in the 1950s and '60s, died Dec. 11. The cause was cancer. She was 62.
Susan Gordon, who was a child actress in a number of infamous "B" movies in the 1950s and '60s, died Dec. 11. The cause was cancer. She was 62.
Graham Brown, an actor who worked on stages in New York and Minneapolis, died Dec. 13 to at the Lillian Booth Actors' Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, NJ. He was 87.
Anthony Amato, founder of the Amato Opera Theatre, a scrappy cultural landmark on the Bowery for decades, died Dec. 13. The cause was cancer. He was 91.
Thomas Martell Brimm, an actor who cut his teeth at Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, died Nov. 30. He was 75.
Vaclav Havel, who went from being an imprisoned dissident playwright in Communist Czechoslovakia to the elected president of the newly free Czech Republic, died Dec. 18. He was 75.
The best thing to happen to the beleaguered basketball world this year was, arguably, Lysistrata Jones, which opened this past summer in a gymnasium downtown to surprisingly positive reviews…
Western drama's first and most enduring sex comedy, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, circa 411 BC, struts her stuff in a new Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones. Don't know much about his…
Broadway newbee Lydia R. Diamond's play Stick Fly opened on Broadway on Dec. 8 at the Cort Theatre. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Dule Hill, Condola Rashad and Mekhi Phifer starred in the comed…
Actors working at Salt Lake City's Pioneer Theatre Company and Connecticut's Goodspeed Musicals are seeing the future of artist housing — new and renovated living spaces.
Harry Morgan, who played the salty but kindly career army man Col. Sherman T. Potter, in the long-running television show "M*A*S*H," and was a familiar Hollywood character actor, s…
Leo Friedman, a photographer who captured many of the iconic images of the golden age of Broadway, died Dec. 2 at his home in Las Vegas. The cause was complications from pneumonia. He was 92.
Alan Sues, who found fame in the late '60s for his zany performances on the free-form television comedy "Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In," died Dec. 1 in his home in Los An…
Judy Lewis, who had a number of stage and television parts during her career, but whose role of a lifetime was playing the secret child of two Hollywoods stars, died Nov. 25. She was 76.
