178 stories by "Mervyn Rothstein"
Meet Joe Masteroff, librettist for Cabaret, She Loves Me and more.
Tony-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall shares the story behind the revised production of the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Meet Sonia Friedman, who shares her evolution from telling stories with milk bottles to producing award-winning shows.
Meet Tony nominee Kenny Leon, currently at the helm of A Raisin in the Sun and the upcoming production of Holler If Ya Hear Me.
Meet Maury Yeston, award-winning composer of Nine, Grand Hotel and Titanic.
Meet Michael P. Price, who has served as executive director of Goodspeed Musicals since 1968.
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Meet Tony-winning actor and director Roger Rees (Peter and the Starcatcher, Uncle Vanya, Indiscretions, The Red Shoes), currently starring on Broadway in The Winslow Boy.
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Jean-Luc Choplin, director of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, talks with Playbill.com about his upcoming production of the musical movie "An American in Paris"…
Meet veteran press agent Chris Boneau, whose roster of Broadway projects include Angels in America, Lucky Guy, Jersey Boys, Motown, Pippin and Mamma Mia!, as well as the upcoming productions…
After recently wrapping up the hit AMC series "Breaking Bad," Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston is returning to the legit stage as Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way, the new p…
Playbill.com sits down with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, stars of the upcoming productions of No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot.
Meet Kenneth Posner, the prolific lighting designer who has been lighting up Broadway for 30 years.
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Kenneth Posner, the prolific lighting designer who received three Tony nominations for the 2012-13 season, talks about 30 years in the industry.
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"I like everything that happens in theatre," said director Nicholas Martin, "from the time you meet with your designers through opening night."
Playbill explores the rich history of the theatrical residence, The Rehearsal Club, whose many inhabitants included Blythe Danner, Carol Burnett and original Ziegfield girl Doris Eaton Travi…
Meet Tony Award-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber, whose duds will decorate the denizens of Far From Heaven and The Big Knife this spring season in New York.
Tony Award-nominated actress Fiona Shaw talks about the responsibility she feels to deliver both the sacred and the imaginative aspects in Broadway's The Testament of Mary, a new one-wom…
Meet octogenarian usher Sylvia Bailey, a former dancer and singer who returned to the theatre late in life for a long run at Broadway's Majestic Theatre.
Ladies like Amanda Wingfield, Tennessee Williams' overbearing mama of The Glass Menagerie, ring a belle for Southern-bred actress Cherry Jones.
Meet Paul Gemignani, the frequent musical director of the shows of Stephen Sondheim, and currently leader of the raucous orchestra of Broadway's The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Jean-Luc Choplin, the director of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, is continuing his love affair with the American musical — and, he says, Parisians are now having …
Meet Sharr White, now making his Broadway playwriting debut with his lean 75-minute drama, The Other Place, about the splintering of a woman's world.
The Stephen Schwartz-scored musical fable Pippin, about manhood, identity, love and conflict, gets a fresh and acrobatic approach by Hair and Porgy and Bess director Diane Paulus. American R…
Meet Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski, known for TV's "Chuck" and Dexter," currently wowing Broadway as the love-and-loyalty-pulled lady in the middle of Golden Boy.
Meet Once scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley, whose passion for theatrical design was sparked in childhood.
