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Robert de Michiell, an illustrator who created many posters familiar to theatregoers, died Oct. 12. The cause was cancer. He was 57.
Hal Hackady, who wrote the lyrics for several Broadway musicals, as well as the theme song for the New York Mets, died Oct. 12 at Atria Riverdale, an assisted living facility in The Bronx. H…
Broadway had two big openings this past week. First, the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times officially opened at the American Airlines Theatre…
Two more shows began previews on Broadway this past week, moving the total of shows lighting up the marquees to 28.
John Doyle, the Scottish theatre director who directed several acclaimed production in New York over the past 15 years, will now have a home here. This week, he was named the next artistic d…
Brian Friel, the Irish playwright who was for decades a leading voice on stages on both sides of the Atlantic, died Oct. 2 in Greencastle, County Donegal, Ireland. He was 86.
Brian Friel, the Irish playwright who was for decades a leading voice on stages on both sides of the Atlantic, died Oct. 2 in Greencastle, County Donegal, Ireland. He was 86.
Lea Salonga became a theatre phenomenon when she landed the role of Kim in the hit musical Miss Saigon in 1991. More than 20 years later, she's returning to the stage creating another ne…
Lea Salonga became a theatre phenomenon when she landed the role of Kim in the hit musical Miss Saigon in 1991. More than 20 years later, she's returning to the stage creating another ne…
Sheri M. Goldhirsch, who, as artistic director of Young Playwrights Inc., a program that gave budding young dramatists a leg up, died Sept. 22 in Manhattan. She was 55.
Catherine E. Coulson, who was a stalwart at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, but was best known for her portrayal of the enigmatic Log Lady on the cult television series "Twin Peaks,&qu…
The fall Broadway season fattened up a bit last week with the addition of two new shows: revivals of the musical pastiche Dames at Sea and the two-hander The Gin Game.
Like many New Yorkers these days, the Tony Awards is struggling with the high premium put on real estate today in what was rated by a Swiss study this week as the most expensive city in the …
Arthur Wagner, who was a founding chairman of the department of theatre and dance at the University of California San Diego, and a major figure in the San Diego theatre community, died Sept.…
A growing number of new stage productions just feel like a prison for theatregoers lately, and with good reason, for the onstage action is set behind bars.
The fall is officially here and that means more new shows are beginning to arrive on Broadway.
Melvin Bernhardt, a director who rose to prominence in the '70s as the director of such notable dramas as Da, Crimes of the Heart and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-…
The Willises will be spending quality time on Broadway this fall. We think.
Two shows closed this past week, one a recent visitor, one a long-hauler.
Frank D. Gilroy, who won fame and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with his 1964 domestic drama The Subject Was Roses, died Sept. 12 in Monroe, NY. He was 89.
Every since the animated Disney film Frozen took over the world, becoming the most successful cartoon feature in film history, observers have been wondering how long it would take the Mouse …
Overall box office across Broadway crept up a bit last week, from $21,736,746 to $22,192,862, and attendance was up, too, by a couple thousand, to 208,797. The number of shows on the marquee…
June Winters, a singer and actress who appeared in the 1930s Broadway hit Hellzapoppin and became popular in the 1940s as the children's music character "Lady in Blue," died March …
The Broadway theatre community got a shock this past weekend when young actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste died suddenly after falling from a Brooklyn fire escape. He was 21.
With the number of shows along the Rialto still standing at 24, Broadway showed a slight slip in altogether box office this past week, dropping less than a million from $22,457,929 to $21,73…
