The Encounter

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Dan Lauria

It didn't take much for actor Dan Lauria to slip into the skin of famed American football coach Vince Lombardi for the new Broadway play Lombardi.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Rupert Holmes

Rupert Holmes, the Tony Award-winning songwriter, librettist and orchestrator of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is solving a new mystery this summer: the puzzle of putting together a new Broad…

Broadway's Brief Encounter Extends at Studio 54

British import Brief Encounter, currently charming audiences at Roundabout Theatre's Studio 54, has been extended by four weeks. The show, originally scheduled to close December 5, will now …

Kneehigh Theatre's <em>Brief Encounter</em> to Play the Guthrie in February

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Gregory Maguire

Wicked is arguably the defining Broadway hit of the first decade of the 21st century. It started with Gregory Maguire.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Bob Boyett

Broadway producer Bob Boyett and his business partner Bill Haber (working under the umbrella Boyett Ostar Productions) do not have a lot of free time.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Des McAnuff

Director Des McAnuff likes a good yarn about unforgettable people living and yearning in remarkable eras.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Danny Hoch

With his new show, Taking Over, performance artist Danny Hoch is back where his career first took off, The Public Theater.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Mic Pool

Not too many people took notice of the veteran English sound designer Mic Pool's first work on Broadway, even though the play, Art, did win a Tony Award.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER announces 4-week extension by Boneau/Bryan-Brown

Roundabout Theatre Company Announces a four-week extension of Noël Coward's BRIEF ENCOUNTER Now through Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 Adapted and Directed by Emma Rice “By the show's en…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Rhys Coiro

If you blinked, you missed Rhys Coiro's previous New York stage experience.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Edie Falco

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Walter Bobbie

Few works of contemporary art can boast the long life span of English writer Nick Hornby's 1996 novel "High Fidelity."

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jeff Calhoun

Director and choreographer Jeff Calhoun is an old pro when it comes to Broadway musical revivals. But with the new Big River, he takes on a much grander venture.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jim Norton

Any dedicated New York theatregoer knows that actor Jim Norton has been on a roll for some time.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Lucy Prebble

What would former Masters of the Universe Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow think if they knew the story of their late, great corporation, Enron, was being told on stage by a twentysomethin…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Sutton Foster

Culture Monster: Review: André Previn's 'Brief Encounter' premieres in Houston by Mark Swed

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Stephen Schwartz

Composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz, one of the creative wizards behind the smash Wicked, was recently in Kansas City to help bring his TV musical, "Geppetto," to the stage.

Slide Show: 'Brief Encounter'

Photos from Kneehigh Theater's stage adaptation of the 1946 film.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Thomas Meehan

Thomas Meehan's major hit project prior to co-writing the libretto of The Producers was penning the smash, Annie. Now, he brings his know-how for structure and craft to the expected smash, H…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With John Breglio

John Breglio has long been an important player in the New York theatre community.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Neil Pepe

A chat with the artistic director of the Atlantic Theater Company, Neil Pepe.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jim Walton

Time goes by, everything else keeps changing, but Jim Walton still has the same boyish looks of 20 years ago, when he played Franklin Shepard in the flop Broadway staging of Stephen Sondheim…