Today is the birthday of Nance O’Neil (Gertrude Lamson, 1874-1965). O’Neil was a major stage and screen star of her day, called “the American Bernhardt“, managed by M…
This October,New Conservatory Theatre Center presents the return ofDouglas Carter Beane'ssophisticated wit and thrilling theatrical ambition with theregional premiereofThe Nance.After hit pr…
Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news Nathan Lane appears for a screening of…
Screen Actors Guild Foundation and BroadwayWorld.com have partnered for a filmed Conversations QampA series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the …
It was a cold day in 1978 when Second City producer Joyce Sloane found herself sitting in her office talking to a young man from Evanston named Jeffrey Sweet.
Veteran stage actress June Squibb will star as family matriarch Stella Gordon in Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate, which will begin performances March 11 at the Dallas Theater Center.
For a generation that grew up humming "Day by Day" from "Godspell" or "Corner of the Sky" from "Pippin," it may be difficult to understand why Stephen Schwartz, the composer-lyricist of thos…
Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane may have found his next stage project: The Nance, a new comedy from Tony Award-nominated Little Dog Laughed playwright Douglas Carter Beane.
When Chicago theater producer Dan Roche got the idea last year of producing a revival of "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" (which opens Wednesday at Victory Gardens Theater), the first person h…
David Foley's stodgy nondrama is about the relationship between the notorious Lizzie Borden and Nance O'Neil, an otherwise little-remembered stage and screen actress.
When the League of Chicago Theatres marks its 25th anniversary on Monday night with a gala at the Goodman Theatre, the text -- to be spoken by Windy City theater alumni William Petersen and …
Ms. Movsesian, who once managed the Wilbur Theatre for 12 years and operated the theatrical publicity firm Ideas Associates of Boston on Newbury Street for more than three decades, died of c…
