PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Elizabeth McCann
Producer Elizabeth I. McCann is ready for a much-needed vacation following her role as a producer of two Broadway plays in 2001-2002 and the managing producer of 2002 Tony Awards. But before…
Producer Elizabeth I. McCann is ready for a much-needed vacation following her role as a producer of two Broadway plays in 2001-2002 and the managing producer of 2002 Tony Awards. But before…
Six years ago, few theatregoers had ever heard of playwright Jeff Whitty.
You imagine Denis O'Hare is hiring a team of librarians to catalog and store the awards and nominations he has earned this past year for Take Me Out.
In The Musical of Musicals — The Musical! Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell do double duty: Not only did they write the wickedly funny parody of musical-theatre styles, they star in it.
Passing Strange may not have run long on Broadway, but demand for its creator, songwriter-actor-musician Stew, shows no sign of ceasing.
Roundabout has announced SNOW DISCOUNT PRICES for PERFS SUN. EVE 1226 AND MON. EVE 1227.
Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre recently turned 25 years old. For the majority of those years, its artistic director has been Douglas Aibel.
The last time British director Adrian Noble came to town, he was employing a flying car to foil a tyrannical despot. This time around, he'll just use Macduff.
Kathie Lee Gifford meant it when she titled her new show Saving Aimee, which will have its debut at Virginia's Signature Theatre April 10.
Acclaimed British actress Joanna Lumley is making her Broadway debut in David Hirson's verse comedy La Bête. The "Ab Fab" star plays an imperious Princess who sets into motion a battle…
Anna D. Shapiro made theatre history on June 15 by becoming only the fifth woman to win a Tony Award for Directing, for her work on Tracy Letts' August: Osage County.
The Broadway premiere of Brief Encounter, the Kneehigh Theatre's highly theatrical and widely acclaimed adaptation of Noël Coward's stage and film romance, has been extended by four wee…
Hollywood's Garry Marshall discusses Happy Days: A New Musical.
Prolific playwright Robert Aguirre-Sacasa, a lover of science fiction, horror and comics, landed a dream job: working on a musical about Superman.
Take Me Out, the hot Off-Broadway drama about a professional baseball star who comes out of the closet, will be playwright Richard Greenberg's first Broadway credit in 14 years when it begin…
Rising young actor Bobby Steggert could have done worse than 110 in the Shade for his first professional musical.
Ben Vereen, the man who sang "Magic to Do" as the Leading Player of Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz's musical Pippin, has more magic up his sleeve, after all these years.
The actor Raul Esparza was not always a musical theatre performer, having eight years of Chicago and regional theatre plays under his belt. But he's now one of the most sought-after actors-w…
Lately, for busy director Jack O'Brien, things come in threes.
Tony Award winner Rosemary Harris is Queen of the new Broadway production of The Royal Family.
Many theatre aficionados nodded their heads knowingly when they heard that Charlotte D'Amboise had been cast in A Chorus Line.
Broadway choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler is beginning to earn a reputation nearly as big as his surname.