Friday, November 2, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the opening of Broadway's new production of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PM[SHARE]Meet the first-nighters at the opening of Broadway's new production of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2012
Composer-lyricist-librettist Rupert Holmes loves a good musical mystery. A revival of his first, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaves a lot to the imagination — and the audience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2012
The sprawl of Edna Ferber's "Giant" — the character-rich novel of cattle, oil and race, best known as a movie — gets a Texas-sized musical makeover by Michael John …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 14, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the opening of the new Broadway production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the Oct. 4 Broadway opening of Craig Wright's play Grace.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]THERE WAS AN Annie before the original 1977 Annie we all know and love"before its much-hyped 1990 sequel, Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge, crashed on takeoff and burned out of town at the K…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Prolific Tony Award-winning librettist Thomas Meehan has three musicals on Broadway this season — Annie, Elf and Chaplin. And he's got three more in the works.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2012
Meet Kathleen McNenny, the wife — on stage and off — of An Enemy of the People's Boyd Gaines.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2012
Tape and Match playwright Stephen Belber plays both sides of the ethical fence in his new Off-Broadway play Don't Go Gentle, starring Michael Cristofer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of An Enemy of the People.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2012
The American theatre's most booze-happy, vicious married couple, George and Martha, of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, are celebrating their 50th anniversary on Broadway. Actor Trac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Chaplin the Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2012
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's new comedy, premieres at the McCarter Theatre Center in New Jersey prior to its Lincoln Center Theater life. Durang talks about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2012
Former "Friends" star David Schwimmer teams up with Amy Ryan for Playwrights Horizons' production of Detroit, about neighbors in an age of isolation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2012
Tony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon talks about her brushes with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights of Clybourne Park, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Harrison, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2012
Jake Gyllenhaal is the last to arrive among the dysfunctional family of four inhabiting If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, the prize-winning Nick Payne dramedy that has been imported fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
What Marvin Hamlisch did for love was acknowledged and honored by family, friends, fans and presidents at his funeral Aug. 14 at Congregation Emanu-El, the Fifth Avenue synagogue where, it w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2012
Forbidden Broadway, the satiric revue that pokes commercial theatre in the eyes, is back. And no one, not even Jesus, is spared.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the opening of The Public Theater's new Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods, in Central Park's Delacorte Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of the one-man show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of the new musical Bring It On.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
For lovers of musical theatre, The Paley Center for Media unearthed two television musicals written by master songwriters Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. One show ("The Canterville Ghos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning, Pulitzer-honored playwright of August: Osage County, talks about adapting his plays Killer Joe and Bug for the movies, and his collaboration with famed directo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Nice Work If You Can Get It Tony winner Judy Kaye admits that she has the heart of a vaudevillian. How else to explain her willingness to swing from a chandelier?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
As he prepares a new solo show about his favorite writing, Tony and Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer reflects on the lives that late he led — on stage, screen and radio. Will th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2012
Inching nearer to Broadway, Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plays Yelena in Sydney Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya for Lincoln Center Festival. She talks with Playbill about the tug-of-war bet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
On the occasion of the posthumous publication of Shubert Organization chairman Gerald Schoenfeld's memoir, "Mr. Broadway," his widow Pat Schoenfeld reflects on a theatrical lif…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
After a car accident sidelined The Best Man actor Michael McKean, Mark Blum got the call to return to a role he played over a decade ago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. and composer David Shire discuss their process and the songs of their beloved 1989 revue Closer Than Ever, which has resurfaced in a revised New York City reviva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2012
The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park celebrates its 50th anniversary at the al fresco Delacorte Theater in Central Park this month. More than five million people have enjoyed pro…
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