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David Henry Hwang, best known as the Tony-winning playwright of M. Butterfly, is no stranger to musicals, having contributed to the book of Aida. But for his latest musical project, Flower D…
Engaging and unconventional. Inventive and romantic.
Every so often a theater piece comes to town that is so brilliantly conceived and executed, so entertaining on every level, that you want everyone you love or even like just a bit to see it.…
Lanford Wilson admits he hasn't written anything in about a year, but that doesn't mean his work isn't being seen. Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is devoting its current season to …
Indeed, if you thrust the Coward screenplay at Luis Bunuel, demanding he treat the discreet charm of its bourgeoisie with the utmost affection rather than scorn, you'd have something very cl…
Today is a red letter day in the 11-year history of this Playbill.com Q&A feature: A Brief Encounter with Brief Encounter.
Justin Bartha doesn't exactly have a hangover at the end of each performance of Lend Me a Tenor, but something close to it.
Meet the new executive director of The League of American Theatres and Producers.
Karen Ziemba, a star of the American musical stage, sheds the songs to play the mirthless mother in The Old Globe's in-rep productions of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bo…
Newsweek culture writer Jeremy McCarter, the former theatre critic at New York magazine, talks about his passion for theatre, art and culture.
Post-"Wicked," Kristin Chenoweth sets her sights high as an actress-singer.
The elder statesmen of Broadway must have looked on with bemusement 12 years ago when Jeffrey Seller announced his intention to bring the rock musical Rent to Broadway.
For a leading theatre talent, director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell sure is spending a lot of time on television lately.
Subversive playwright Christopher Durang's plays are known not only for their darkly comic streaks but for going after such sacred institutions as the church (Sister Mary Ignatius Explains I…
Brendan Fraser, the film star of "The Mummy," "Crash" and "Gods and Monsters," has acted on the London stage, but never on Broadway — until now.
T.R. Knight, the former star of TV's "Grey's Anatomy," has shed his scrubs for a theatre rehearsal room. And, what a room: David Mamet, Neil Pepe and Patrick Stewart are h…
Lewis J. Stadlen might as well have the world on his shoulders. Every road market in America is waiting to be wowed by the national tour of The Producers, and Stadlen will have to deliver th…
T.R. Knight, the former star of TV's "Grey's Anatomy," has shed his scrubs for a theatre rehearsal room. And, what a room: David Mamet, Neil Pepe and Patrick Stewart are h…
The five-time Oscar nominee ("Blame Canada"), Emmy winner (Billy Crystal's Oscar broadcast medleys) and multi-ASCAP Award recipient talks about Hairspray, his collaboration with his professi…
The director who gave New York audiences the serious drama Judgment at Nuremberg and the complex chronology of House and Garden, now lends his hand to a farce on the topic of cultural cliche…
Sixty minutes of attitude, soft satirical jabs and romantic angst, Edith Freni's "Kidstuff" can seem more like a collection of jokes than a play.
Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman talks about bringing her touch to the Metropolitan Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor.
The treacherous tribe in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is an inscrutable one, but perhaps no character is as difficult to fathom as Teddy, the "homecomer" played by James Frain.
Paula Vogel, the author of How I Learned to Drive, has sent an American family on another fateful car trip in her latest play The Long Christmas Ride Home.
