Chances are, during the heyday of Studio 54 in the late '70s, plenty of the revelers at the discotheque saw their share of hallucination. Maybe one or two even saw a six-foot-tall invisi…
Chances are, during the heyday of Studio 54 in the late '70s, plenty of the revelers at the discotheque saw their share of hallucinations. Maybe one or two even saw a six-foot-tall invis…
Playbill.com answers a question about the history of Shubert Alley, in the heart of Broadway's theatre district.
Edwin Judd Woldin, a musical composer best known for Raisin, an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's classic work A Raisin in the Sun, died Nov. 27. He was 86.
Irving Elman, a Broadway playwright and a writer and producer for movies and television, died Nov. 22 in La Jolla, CA, of cardiopulmonary arrest. He was 96.
Michael Hastings, a British playwright who was a contemporary of Shelagh Delaney, who died last week, and was—along with her—drafted unwillingly by critics as a member of the &qu…
How Seminar, the new Theresa Rebeck play on Broadway starring Alan Rickman, was going to be received was anybody's guess. The critics love Rickman. He can do no wrong. But they tend to b…
Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who had an international hit with A Taste of Honey, a play she wrote when she was still a teenager, died Nov 20. The cause was cancer. She was 71.
Actress Phyllis Love, a stage and film actress who originated the role of Rosa Della Rose in The Rose Tattoo, died Oct. 30. She was 85.
New York University's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimó will host Lei dunque capirà, the New York premiere of a monologue by writer and Nobel Prize for Literature nominee Claudi…
Nina Arianda is a star. That's the big story this week.
The Best Man is a curious case. This Gore Vidal drama had a decent run when premiered in 1960. It was nominated for a number of Tonys and made into a movie. But then it promptly fell off the…
Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, the famed American clown, discusses the challenge and joy of playing King Lear's Fool, the foul-weather friend of Shakespeare's famous broken monarch, n…
Jan Maxwell was sidelined from Follies for a few days after she was struck by vehicle in the theatre district on Oct. 29. Rested and ready, she returned to the show on Nov. 1. Days before th…
True to its name, The Blue Flower, a multimedia musical from Jim and Ruth Bauer, proves to be anything but usual.
Gilbert Cates, the founder and producing director at the Geffen Playhouse and the producer of 14 Oscar telecasts, has died, the trade papers Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported. He w…
Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, the famed American clown, discusses the challenge and joy of playing King Lear's Fool, the foul-weather friend of Shakespeare's famous broken monarch, n…
Tony Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang — whose most recent Broadway credits include curious musical items like Tarzan and Flower Drum Song, for which he wrote, or rewrote…
Liviu Ciulei, an influential Romania-born director who was artistic director of Minnesota's Guthrie Theater for five years in the early 1980s, died Oct. 25. He was 88.
Gary Holcombe, a leading actor in the Kansas City theatre scene, died Oct. 10. He was 66.
Monologuist Mike Daisey, who has put in a several dog years toiling at his craft (if you don't know the extensive Daisey oeuvre, you won't get that reference), finally has the bigges…
Margaret Ruth Draper, a stage and radio actress, died of natural causes on Oct. 14. She was 94.
It's hard to remember the last time Frank Langella appeared on a New York stage without the critical corps not appreciating him being there. Ever since his reemergence in the late '9…
Doris Belack, a film and stage actress with decades of credits, died Oct. 4. She was 85. Ms. Belack's longtime husband, producer Philip Rose, died on May 31. They had been married for 65…
If things go right this season, Broadway will truly welcome Jesus into its heart.