558 stories by "Harry Haun"
The Tony Award-winning writer on how he found inspiration for Falsettos.
The Cy Coleman, Ira Gasman, David Newman musical, which opened April 26, 1997, put a human face on the inhabitants of 42nd Street.
James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack, and John Larroquette were among the many boldface names on the ticket when the revival opened on Broadway April 1, 2012.
The actor talked complexity, ambiguity, and unanswerable questions in the most recent revival of the Arthur Miller classic, which opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre March 31, 2016
The Kander and Ebb musical, with a book by Terrence McNally, opened February 9, 1984.
This week's column of amusements from Harry Haun covers David Byrne, Annie B Parson and the dancing musicians of "American Utopia," and Edward Norton's thoughts on his new film "Motherless B…
In honor of the Tony and Oscar nominee's birthday, we look back at a 1990 interview about starring in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
It's three in the afternoon, and the chairs at The Laurie Beechman Theater, the basement cabaret of the West Bank Cafe, are stacked atop tables awaiting rearrangement by the night staff. But…
There's an unfortunate guffaw in the otherwise well-calibrated British thriller of '46, 'Dead of Night,' when Mervyn Johns Glynis' dad, sensing he's sinking into insanity, brings a shaky han…
Remember Henry Albertson Sure, you do. He's that ancient, arthritic, fragileagile but eternally game actor who traveled by stage trunk from scene to scene throughout the longest-running musi…
Playbill spoke to the country superstar in 2001 when she made her Broadway debut as a replacement Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun.
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In his third-floor dressing room at the Barrymore Theater, Ari'el Stachel harbors a priceless little trinket his brand-new Tony Award for Featured Actor in a Musical.
In the black at the back of the Vineyard Theater during one of the final previews of The Beast in the Jungle the other night sat its composer, disguising himself as a member of the audience …
The most honorable of the honorable mentions in 2018's Tony race will likely turn out to be Travesties, Tom Stoppard's 1974 tragifarce which took top Tony honors for Best Play and Best Actor…
In time for the opening of the latest revival, we look back at the 1994 feature about the production that made Audra McDonald a star.
In this 1994 interview, Tony-winning director Nicholas Hytner talks about casting Carousel in a way that has trickled down to this 2018 production.
You know this is the first time I ever heard of NOT sleeping with the author to get the part, cracked a profoundly p.o.-ed Phyllis Newman at the fourth of five auditions she had to endure in…
Its 20th anniversary season features The Apple Tree, Bells Are Ringing, and the New York premiere of Calamity Jane.
The Off-Broadway house behind New York premieres of Jitney and Dear Evan Hansen will soon be represented on Broadway, itself.
The Off-Broadway company finds success in previously unproduced and unpublished plays like this month’s Suitcase Under the Bed.
This latest biography for theatrelovers, Anne Bancroft: A Life, examines the life of the two-time Tony winner and Oscar-winning Mrs. Robinson.
In memory of the star, we take a look back at this 1995 interview with Lewis as he took the stage as the infamous Applegate.
Looking back at the Tony-nominated Broadway debut of Shepard’s classic work, which featured stars John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman swapping roles nightly.
Playing at NYMF August 1–5, Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical shines a musical spotlight on a powerful moment in American history.
