Friday, September 28, 2012
As the Presidential political season enters its final lap, Manhattan Theatre Club treated Broadway to a heavy dose of political drama with its production of Ibsen's fiery social tract An…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMThursday, September 27, 2012
Composer and lyricist Billy Barnes, whose topical material was featured in a series of revues in the 1950s and '60s, died in his home in Los Angeles on Sept. 24. He was 85.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMThursday, September 20, 2012
Jerome Robbins' indelible, tribal choreography for Fiddler on the Roof is evident in productions around the world. Why is that?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 17, 2012
Jaylee Mead, who, with her husband Gilbert, gave millions of dollars to arts organizations throughout the Washington, D.C., area, died Sept. 14, of congestive heart failure. She was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMFriday, September 14, 2012
The first Broadway opening of the fall season was Chaplin, the scrappy little musical that debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010 and stars the little-known Rob McClure as the Little…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMMacy's is reaching out to school theatre programs across the country to provide seed money and support for productions of a new musical based on the famous 1897 newspaper column popularl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the coming Off-Broadway musical attraction Sounding Beckett — and there are several — is that this is director Joy Zinoman's first N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMonday, September 10, 2012
Jerome Kilty, an actor who, as director and playwright, created several epistolary dramas, including Dear Liar, died Sept. 9, following a car accident in Weston, CT. He was 90.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMFriday, September 7, 2012
The film "Flashdance," about the aspirations of a sexy, dancing, female welder who can't afford a decent sweatshirt, came out in 1983 and proceeded to stun the world by grossin…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Albert Marre, the director of the original production of Man of La Mancha, died Sept. 4 at Mr. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, following a long illness. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMMonday, September 3, 2012
The coming months on Broadway will offer a new play by David Mamet, Chita Rivera in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an essential social drama by Henrik Ibsen, two Christmas-themed musicals, plus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, September 2, 2012
Variety is center-stage in the fall 2012 Off-Broadway season. David Schwimmer, Bill Irwin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Bebe Neuwirth are among the stars. Terrenc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, September 1, 2012
British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz shares her thoughts on the anti-hero at the center of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, which she has adapted for a new generation. It's ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 31, 2012
Marianne Challis, an award-winning cabaret singer and one of Broadway's busiest voice teachers, died Aug. 29 at her apartment and voice studio in Manhattan. She was 58.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMFinally. After months of squabbling and headlines, the producers of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Julie Taymor have reached a tentative deal settling a dispute over her ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMFriday, August 24, 2012
Let's begin this week's column with one of the strangest theatre stories I've encountered in 25 years of covering the scene. Here's how the lead to the Playbill.com news stor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThursday, August 23, 2012
Gore Vidal's friends and colleagues — including Dennis Kucinich, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Moore, Elaine May and others — toasted the late essayist-novelist-playwright-screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMWhen the Public Theater stages shows at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, are there discussions between the creative team and the keepers of Central Park?
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Phyllis Diller, the outrageous stand-up comic who was one of the first women to find wide success in her field, died Aug. 20 at her home in Brentwood, CA. She was 95.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMTony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley, currently in Broadway's The Best Man, reflects on tequila, Gore Vidal, growing up in Louisiana, Tennessee Williams, director Michael Wilson and how sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 20, 2012
Lee Silver, a longtime executive at the theatre-owning Shubert Organization, died Aug. 15 at Cedar Manor in Ossining, NY, where he had been recovering from a brief health setback, according …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMWilliam Windom, a stage and television actor who found brief critical fame as the star of the television series "My World and Welcome to It," died Aug. 16 at his home in Woodacre, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMPlaybill magazine's tribute to the 100th anniversary of Actors' Equity continues with a look at how The Cradle Will Rock represented empowerment for struggling actors during the Grea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 17, 2012
The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods got mixed reviews, included a pretty negative one from the New York Times. But the show m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Ron Palillo, who fashioned an indelible impression as an awkward Brooklyn teen in the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Aug. 14. He was 63.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
A shadowy chapter in American history — and in the young life of "Star Trek" and stage actor George Takei — has inspired Allegiance - A New American Musical, in which T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Al Freeman, Jr., and actor of dignity and range who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, when opportunities for African-American stage actors expanded greatly, died Aug. 9. He was 78.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMFriday, August 10, 2012
Pyotr Fomenko, a rebellious Russian stage director who often ran afoul with Soviet authorites, died Aug 9 in Moscow. He was 80.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMSondheim in the Park opened this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Dale C. Olson, an entertainment industry publicist, died Aug. 9 at the Burbank Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM 
