Last week, Broadway got a super-hit in the form of Larry David’s new comedy Fish In the Dark, which began performances at the Cort Theatre. This week, it got another with Peter…
Larry David, the man behind "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," had no intention of starring in his new play Fish in the Dark. So how was he convinced to make his stag…
The big New York opening of the week happened in Brooklyn. The Goodman Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's four-act epic The Iceman Cometh, starring Nathan Lane and Brian Denn…
Larry David’s new comedy Fish In the Dark began performances at the Cort Theatre last week, and—no surprise, since the show has been setting box-offices records since…
More than two decades after its initial Broadway run, the William Finn and James Lapine Tony-winning musical Falsettos will return to Broadway in spring 2016. And, it will be directed on…
Don Harron, a Canadian stage and television actor who was perhaps best known as a cast member of the long-running rural comedy sketch show “Hee Haw,” died Jan. 17 at …
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Geraldine McEwan, a well-respected actress of the British stage who was adept at both comedy and drama, and who may be best known as the Agatha Christie detective Miss Marple in a series…
That old Shakespearean Sam Waterston is using his golden years to get around to some of the Bard’s mature roles.
Peter Neufeld, a prolific producer and general manager on Broadway with nearly three decades of credits, died Jan. 27 at The Lillian Booth Actors Home of The Actors Fund in Englewood, NJ. Hi…
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s increasingly familiar musical Into the Woods got another go-round with the public this week, when a new, pared-down production &mdas…
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Broadway got a late Christmas miracle this week. Honeymoon in Vegas, the forever-previewing Jason Robert Brown-Andrew Bergman musical comedy that has been struggling with box-off…
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Jack Dabdoub, an actor who performed in more than a dozen Broadway shows, including the original production of Man of La Mancha, died Dec. 11, according to his daughter, Alison Dabdoub.
Tony Award winner John Lithgow, currently starring in A Delicate Balance on Broadway, talks about his bucket list of roles with Playbill and recalls his favorite stage experience in what he …
There was news this week from musicals that have been kicking around for quite some time.
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
The controversy over the sudden dismissal of artistic director Ari Roth from Washington D.C. nonprofit Theater J, a group he has led for nearly two decades, continued to unfold last week.
Edward Herrmann, a magisterial acting presence who made his mark in theatre, film and television, including a few memorable turns at Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and a Tony-winning perform…
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Luise Rainer, the German-born, Max Reinhardt-trained film actress who made history by being the first performer to win two Academy Awards, only to see her career effectively end a ha…
Director Mike Nichols, actors Elaine Stritch and Marian Seldes and journalists Martin Gottfried and Arthur Gelb were among those who left us in 2014. At year's end, Playbill remembers th…
Playbill.com offers a round-up of some of the productions, ranging from rare revivals to new original works, playing Off-Broadway during the spring season.