It was a big week for Off-Broadway, with openings of New Group's Buried Child and the opening of Off-Broadway transfer The Humans. Plus, news from&…
Harper Lee, the Southern novelist who achieved lifelong fame with her first—and for many decades, only—book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Feb. 19 in Monroevill…
George Gaynes, and opera and stage performer whose career bloomed late as a character actor, leading to success on the big and small screens, died Feb. 15 in North Bend, WA. He was 98.
Forest Whitaker garners audiences, Blackbird's totals continue to soar, but the greatest jump at the till belongs to the musical about a precocious young girl.
Warren Mazni, whose name was familiar to few theatregoers, though thousands upon thousands of them had seen his work, died Feb. 11 in Lawrence, MA. He was 60.
This week, Disney announced the coming of its snow queen to Broadway, Harper Lee and Aaron Sorkin join forces for Mockingbird on Broadway, Prodigal Son pr…
Herb Braha, who acted in the original production of Godspell and later founded a costume house that supplied stage and film productions in Los Angeles, died Feb. 6 of congestive heart failur…
Though many shows saw a dip in profits this past week, the season is still shaping up to be one for the books. Blackbird, the drama starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, mark…
Between the televised live musical event on Jan. 31 filmed in L.A., the postponement of The Crucible's first preview so its star could attend the Oscars, Robert De Niro's di…
Bob Elliott, the surviving member of the long-lived comedy team of Bob and Ray, died Feb. 2 at his home in Cundy's Harbor, ME. He was 92.
With a regular slate of performances last week, uninterrupted by extreme weather, Broadway was back on its feet. King Charles III played its final shows, while Chi…
Blizzard Jonas slammed Broadway, Cate Blanchett announces her impending Broadway debut, Andy Karl will lead a new musical in London and Hamilton announces its first tour.
The blizzard that blanketed New York on Saturday, Jan. 23, had a major impact on traffic and business along Broadway. Every show along Broadway was down to six performances last wee…
Abe Vigoda, the lovably curmudgeonly actor known for his hangdog turns in "The Godfather" and the sitcoms "Barney Miller" and "Fish," died Jan. 26 in his sleep …
The theatre world fell into a collective swoon Jan. 19 when it was announced that stage and screen star Bette Midler would return to the Broadway in a revival of the 1964 musical, Hello, Dol…
January is typically a fallow period along Broadway, and accordingly box-office numbers stayed in the lower reaches this week, with only a couple shows selling out and most doing middlin…
Every day, as Sondheim says,a little death. These past days, however, was particularly hard on the theatre community, with stalwart stage animals like Myra Carter and David Margulies making …
Alan Rickman, the tall, urbane, classically trained British actor who, late in life, became internationally famous as the antagonist of Bruce Willis and Daniel Radcliffe in cinematic epics o…
Brian Bedford, the British-born performer who was one of the great stage actors of his generation, with a peculiar affinity for the classics, and a particular association with Canada&…
Billie Allen, an African-American actress who was involved in original productions of such pivotal stage works as A Raisin in the Sun and Funnyhouse of a Negro, died Dec. 29 at her home …
Richard Libertini, a tall, gangly character actor of unmistakable appearance who forged a career in film, television and theatre over several decades, died Jan. 7 at his home in Venice, CA. …
David Margulies, an actor who successfully moved back and forth from stage to TV to film with memorable portraits of harried ethnic characters, died Jan. 11 at age 78, according to his agent…
After a booming New Year's week, Broadway fell to Earth a bit during the first full week of January.
David Bowie, the pop music chameleon whose ever-shifting musical styles and stage personae kept him an object of fascination, innovation and inspiration in the music, film and fashion wo…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory finds a top director to add to it's golden creative team for its Broadway bow, and Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre names a new artisti…