Producers of Ghost The Musical, currently playing at London's Piccadilly Theatre, hope to bring the new tuner to Broadway in April 2012, according to the New York Post. The show is based…
We answer questions on how a few theatre-related addresses got their names.
Sam Norkin, who captured seven decades of stage performance with fine-lined caricatures, died July 30. His age could not be learned at press time, but he was born in 1917.
Stage actors who achieve fame and riches in Hollywood seem to follow one of three second-act career paths.
Jane White, a stage veteran who created the role of Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a Mattress, died on July 24 in New York. She was 88.
Actress Helen Beverley, who performed in Yiddish theatre and Yiddish films, and was married to actor Lee J. Cobb, died of natural causes July 15 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund hos…
It took 13 years, but Wit is finally coming to Broadway.
Sharing a drink with Tony-winning Master Class playwright Terrence McNally at the upstairs bar of Manhattan's famed theatre-district restaurant.
Donald Grody, an actor who served as executive director of Actors' Equity Association from 1973 to 1980, died at his home in Manhattan on July 13. He was 83.
Googie Withers, a sly, stylish British star who was best liked by her public when she was behaving wickedly, died July 15 in Sydney, Australia, where she had lived for many years. She was 94.
Nathan Lane. Eugene O'Neill. They're both Irish. But otherwise, you wouldn't put them on the same page.
Donald Lyons, a writer who served as drama critic at the New Criterion, Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, died on July 12. He was 73.
Dancer, choreographer and director Tony Stevens, who worked with Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett and epitomized the life of a Broadway "gyspy," has died. He was 63. The cause was Hodgkin's Lym…
Danny Aiello returns to the New York stage in the 9/11 drama The Shoemaker.
Roberts Blossom, a character actor whose portrayals on both stage and screen won acclaim, if not actual fame, died on July 8 in Santa Monica, CA. He was 87.
Sixteen years after it had its premiere, Terrence McNally's Master Class opened again on Broadway on July 7. The Manhattan Theatre Club production was staged at the Friedman Theatre, and…
Edward Hastings, one of the founders of the American Conservatory Theater, and its artistic director from 1986-1992, died yesterday at his Santa Fe home from natural causes. He was 80 years …
Some performances are inevitable. The actor is such a big star, and so perfectly suited to a classic role, that it's only a matter of time before the marriage of that thespian and that p…
Philip Wm. McKinley, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Chase Brock weren't show doctors on just any old patient — they were operating on Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. The three artists ta…
Margaret Tyzack, a mainstay in the British theatre acting world for more than four decades, died in London on June 25. She was 79.
A question about why photographs can't be taken in theatres before the show begins.
Alice Playten, who lent her quirky persona and comic voice to a memorable string of Broadway and Off-Broadway musical performances from the 1960s onward, died on June 25 at Sloan Kettering H…
Peter Falk, a stage, film and television actor whose quirky characterizations—notably that of Columbo, the iconic detective he created in the television series of the same name—could…
Broadway has seen revues dedicated to the work of composers (Jerry's Girls, Oh Coward!, Side by Side by Sondheim) and choreographers (Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Fosse). But a revue fo…
In any other year, the lead story for this week's column would have been a no-brainer: the Tony Awards. But this year, the hubbub surrounding the awards was quickly drowned by the offici…