The Tony Award nominations for the 2010-11 Broadway season were announced on May 3, and managed to get a little bit of attention during a news week first dominated by the British Royal weddi…
Sada Thompson, a Tony-winning actress of stage and film known for her way with maternal and earthy characters, died May 4 in Danbury, CT. She was 83.
Arthur Laurents, the irascible, enduring Man of the Theatre who wrote plays and screenplays and enjoyed a significant career as a director — but who made his lasting mark as the libret…
Marian Mercer, who won a Tony Award for her performance in the hit 1960s musical Promises, Promises, died on April 27 in Newbury Park, CA. She was 75 and lived in Agoura Hills, CA. The cause…
Larry Kramer, who recently saw his AIDS play The Normal Heart open on Broadway to positive reviews and several Tony Award nominations, told Playbill that he may in the future write a new pla…
A question about those front-of-orchestra Broadway seats labeled AA, BB and so on.
Like taxpayers putting off filing until April 15, Broadway producers piled a year's worth of work into the final week of the season, opening a half dozen shows over seven days. So crowde…
Sidney Michaels, an American playwright who scored a string of notable Broadway productions in the 1960s, died April 22 in Westport, CT. He was 83.
As befitting a star of her caliber, Kathleen Turner made a dramatic entrance and a dramatic exit this week. Her new vehicle, a soapy play called High, by Matthew Lombardo…
Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of such works as Balm in Gilead, Fifth of July, Hot l Baltimore and Talley's Folly, died on March 24 at the age of 73. He touch…
Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of such works as Balm in Gilead, Fifth of July, Hot l Baltimore and Talley's Folly, died on March 24 at the age of 73. He touch…
A question asking about a song used in the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed, but missing in the current revival.
A question asking about a song used in the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed, but missing in the current revival.
A question asking about a song used in the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed, but missing in the current revival.
Lincoln Center Theater opened this week what one reviewer called "the most intense and epic children's entertainment ever mounted on Broadway." That would be War Horse, The Nat…
Last year was a season without an obvious choice for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. There was no critical home-run like Ruined by Lynn Nottage or August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, the vict…
Anything Goes, Cole Porter's most popular show (save for Kiss Me, Kate, perhaps), opened on Broadway this week, and proved to be the perennial good luck charm is has in the past. The Rou…
Last year was a season without an obvious choice for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. There was no critical home-run like Ruined by Lynn Nottage or August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, the vict…
Lynn Nottage pays homage to the "afterthought" black actors of yesteryear in the new Off-Broadway play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.
A question asking how and when the now-common phenomenon of Sunday Broadway performances came about.
A question asking how and when the now-common phenomenon of Sunday Broadway performances came about.
David Mamet has a new play. And like his other recent new plays, it has creeped onto the media radar like a cat burglar.
You think you know Grease. An original Broadway production that ran eight years, a major revival that ran nearly four years, a third revival that ran a couple seasons, and a film versio…
You think you know Grease. An original Broadway production that ran eight years, a major revival that ran nearly four years, a third revival that ran a couple seasons, and a film versio…
Farley Granger, an edgy youthful lead in films following World War II, particularly two notable Hitchcock thrillers, died March 27 in New York. He was 85.