Interview
Read interviews with luminaries of the stage.
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Interview
By Mark Peikert | 07/04/2019Tony-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber and Tony-winning scenic designer Derek McLane create a den of opulence and sensuality. -
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By Dan Meyer | 07/03/2019Encores! Off-Center’s production of María Irene Fornés’ absurdist musical plays July 10–11 at New York City Center.
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By Olivia Clement | 07/03/2019The lost story of the woman who created a saint takes the LCT3 stage in Off-Broadway’s In The Green.
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By Ruthie Fierberg | 07/03/2019The 17-time Tony-nominated costume designer reveals the secrets behind his Tim Burton-inspired design.
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By Ruthie Fierberg | 07/03/2019Costume designer William Ivey Long reveals secrets behind the red dress and more.
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By Olivia Clement | 07/02/2019This Second City alum created Off-Broadway’s #DateMe based off of 38 fake online dating profiles and the messaging that ensued.
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By Matt Weinstock | 07/01/2019A meeting of the minds between Broadway’s original Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.
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By Ruthie Fierberg | 07/01/2019Hamilton’s Alex Lacamoire and La La Land’s Steve Gizicki teamed up to deliver the A-plus music for the FX series.
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Interview
By Patrick Pacheco | 06/30/2019From the Jonathan Larson Grant to the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative, financial assistance programs look to level the playing field for the next theatre greats.
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Interview
By Mervyn Rothstein | 06/29/2019The longtime director reveals stories of working with Wendy Wasserstein and why he’ll never tire of Shakespeare.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/28/2019The solo performer shares his first audition story and the process behind his new musical memoir at the Public Theater.
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Video
By Roberto Araujo | 06/28/2019The Last Five Years and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels co-stars talk to Playbill about Twohander.
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Lists
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/28/2019The people and productions that make this Tony-winning regional theatre one to visit.
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Special Features
By Dan Meyer | 06/27/2019Director Jo Bonney, star Kate del Castillo, and playwright Isaac Gomez discuss exploring the Juárez murders and how the play's structure translates to Audible after its Off-Broadway run.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/27/2019The murmur around Broadway’s straight plays like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Ferryman has risen to a roar—with audiences clamoring in a renewed way.
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Interview
By Barry Singer | 06/26/2019Seven people at the helm of current Broadway shows share why their associate directors are indispensable.
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By Olivia Clement | 06/26/2019A conversation with Maria Manuela Goyanes of Woolly Mammoth and Studio Theatre's David Muse about what makes theatre political.
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Interview
By Ryan McPhee | 06/25/2019Each year, dozens of high schoolers travel to New York to compete in the National High School Musical Theatre Awards—better known as the Jimmy Awards.
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Interview
By Mark Peikert | 06/21/2019Christopher Gattelli reveals how ingenuity and a bit of luck allowed him to create the high-kicking, high-flying routines for Cher.
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Playbill Pride
By Mark Peikert | 06/20/2019The Tootsie swing and Legacy Robe recipient celebrates being and out and proud woman in the Tony-winning musical.
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Playbill Pride
By Olivia Clement | 06/19/2019Broadway’s Mike Iveson talks about his three purposes in the show and what he’s learned from Tony nominee Heidi Schreck.
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From the Archives
By Harry Haun | 06/19/2019In honor of the Tony and Oscar nominee's birthday, we look back at a 1990 interview about starring in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Playbill Pride
By Mark Peikert | 06/18/2019Part of the Hadestown and What the Constitution Means to Me teams, respectively, Sally Cade Holmes and Rachel Sussman want to open more doors.
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Playbill Pride
By Mark Peikert | 06/17/2019Co-produced by Michael Urie and Doug Nevin, the June 20–24 festival resurrects deserving queer-themed works alongside brand-new voices.
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Playbill Pride
By Ryan McPhee | 06/17/2019Why the playwright says he’d “never want to research a play” and his take on the gay rights movement.
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Playbill Pride
By Felicia Fitzpatrick | 06/16/2019The Broadway performer on starring in the Disney blockbuster as an out and proud gay black actor.
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Special Features
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/15/2019Composer-lyricist David Yazbek lets Playbill in on his early process.
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Interview
By Olivia Clement | 06/14/2019Co-founding artistic director Susan Bernfield looks back on the last 27 years—as well as forward, at the explosion of new artists on the horizon.
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Playbill Pride
By Olivia Clement | 06/14/2019The Broadway play by avant garde artist and Tony nominee Mac takes Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to a new level.
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Interview
By Keith Loria | 06/13/2019Why the TV star couldn’t wait to get back to his theatre roots and what he’s up to next.
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Playbill Pride
By Olivia Clement | 06/13/2019The now Pulitzer Prize–winning play makes its return to Off-Broadway through July 28, ready for a different ending every night.
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Film & TV Features
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/12/2019How do you recognize the Broadway alum?
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/12/2019The stars of the hit TVLand show weigh in before the Season 6 premiere June 12.
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Playbill Pride
By Olivia Clement | 06/12/2019The Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and Dramatist Guild fellow debuts the musical he thought “would never be produced” at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons.
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Playbill Pride
By Mark Peikert | 06/11/2019The My Fair Lady star talks taking on classic theatre roles from a different perspective.
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Playbill Pride
By Ryan McPhee | 06/11/2019FX’s Pose is back June 11 with grander balls, higher stakes, and Patti LuPone.
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Playbill Pride
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/10/20192019 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Honoree talks about serving as an ally to the community that inspires her.
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Tony Awards
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/10/2019How the show curtain from Kinky Boots became a political and fashion statement.
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Special Features
By Mark Peikert | 06/09/2019The 83-year-old just became the oldest Tony-winning playwright in history.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/07/2019What it was like to film “9 to 5” for the season premiere, plus what’s in store for more singing and dancing on the TVLand series.
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From the Archives
By Judy Samelson | 06/07/2019The Grammy-winning artist joined the Willy Russell musical June 7, 1994.
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Interview
By Playbill Staff | 06/04/2019Inside the Tony-nominated revival of the drama from the author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
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Video
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/04/2019Playbill hosts its annual Tony Awards roundtable with the bookwriters of Ain’t Too Proud, Hadestown, The Prom, Beetlejuice, and Tootsie.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/03/2019Selina Fillinger's new play, now playing as part of the Roundabout Underground, wrestles with a mother’s reaction to her son's unthinkable act.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/03/2019The Tony Award nominee talks about finding the voice, physicality, and emotional arc to bring a new version of Hades to life.
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Video
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/02/2019Watch how the Broadway set radically transforms thanks to some ghoulishly imaginative lighting and projection effects.
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Interview
By Mervyn Rothstein | 05/31/2019The Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune director gets real about her directing struggles, successes, and how Shakespeare has helped her with the most contemporary of plays.
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Video
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/30/2019Watch the Tony nominee narrate how he choreographed the showstopper, starring Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, and more.
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Classic Arts Features
By Ryan McPhee | 05/30/2019Kimberly Reed, Laura Kaminsky, and Mark Campbell's As One, at New York City Opera, uses two singers to bring a fictional trans woman to life.
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Video
By Roberto Araujo | 05/29/2019The 2019 Tony Award nominee answers as many questions as she can in her (long) elevator ride from green room to stage at Feinstein's/54 Below—plus an exclusive performance.
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