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Article | By Pia Catton | July 6, 2005
School of Dance
Pia Catton takes us back to school for a behind-the-scenes look at ABT's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of ballet.
Article | By Ben Mattison | October 3, 2005
ABT Education Director John Meehan to Lead Hong Kong Ballet
John Meehan, currently the artistic director of education and training at American Ballet Theatre, has been appointed artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet, according to ABT.
Article | By Playbill Staff | May 8, 2021
Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: May 8
In 1962, Stephen Sondheim makes his debut as a composer-lyricist as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opens on Broadway.
Article | June 15, 2001
Spring-Summer Broadway Season Schedule
Here is a list of shows that opened on Broadway during the 2000-2001 season and beyond. (Information as of June 15, 2001.) Schedule subject to change. For more details, please see separate news stories on each show. The 2000-2001 Broadway season began June 1, 2000 and ended May 27, 2001. The 2000-2001 Tony season began May 4, 2000 and ended May 2, 2001.
Article | By Andrew Gans, Kenneth Jones | November 22, 2010
Andrea McArdle, Christopher Sieber, Beth Leavel Salute Thomas Meehan Nov. 22
The York Theatre Company, the Off-Broadway company committed solely to musical theatre, presents the 19th Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre to Tony Award-winning librettist Thomas Meehan. The award ceremony on Nov. 22 is a major annual benefit event for the troupe.
Article | By Kenneth Jones | April 15, 2008
Broadway's Hairspray Gets a New Tracy April 15
Marissa Perry, the young actress who played Tracy Turnblad in one of the first regional theatre productions of Hairspray — at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont — takes over the role in the Broadway production April 15.
Article | By Kenneth Jones | April 11, 2008
Hairspray to Welcome Marissa Perry as New Tracy April 15
Marissa Perry, the young actress who played Tracy Turnblad in one of the first regional theatre productions of Hairspray at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, will take over the role in the Broadway production April 15, the producers announced.
Article | By Robert Simonson | June 19, 2012
Jeremy Nussbaum, Entertainment Lawyer, Dies at 70
Jeremy Nussbaum, an entertainment lawyer who represented theatre artists such as Tom Meehan and John Weidman, died June 12 at his home. He was 70.
Article | By Adam Hetrick | March 10, 2008
Cry-Baby Readies to Rock Broadway
The latest John Waters film to make the leap from the silver screen to the Broadway stage, Cry Baby, prepares to rock Broadway audiences at the Marquis Theatre beginning March 15.
Article | By Adam Hetrick | March 8, 2008
"Tasteless, Not Offensive": Cry-Baby Readies to Rock Broadway
The latest John Waters film to make the leap from the silver screen to the Broadway stage, Cry Baby, prepares to rock Broadway audiences at the Marquis Theatre beginning March 15.
Article | By Kenneth Jones | February 6, 2012
Semi-Monde, Noël Coward's Jazz-Age Play Charting Gay Lives, Gets Rare Exposure Feb. 6 in NYC
Noël Coward's Semi-Monde — the playwright's frank look at gay lives — gets its American premiere in a Feb. 6 one-night-only benefit concert performance presented by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre at the Scholastic Auditorium in Manhattan.
Article | By Kenneth Jones | January 19, 2012
Noël Coward's Semi-Monde, Charting Gay Lives and More, Will Get Rare Reading Feb. 6 in NYC
Noël Coward's Semi-Monde — the playwright's frank look at gay lives — will get its American premiere in a one-night-only benefit concert performance presented by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre at the Scholastic Auditorium in Manhattan.
Article | By Adam Hetrick, Andrew Gans | May 16, 2008
Tony Winner Harvey Fierstein Hosts Drama League Awards May 16
The 74th annual Drama League Awards — hosted by A Catered Affair's Harvey Fierstein — will be presented May 16 at the Marriot Marquis Hotel. Presenters include Tony Award winners Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole and Christine Baranski.
Article | By Adam Hetrick | May 7, 2008
LuPone, Ebersole and Baranski to Present Drama League Awards May 16
Tony Award winners Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole and Christine Baranski will be among the presenters at the 74th annual Drama League Awards, scheduled for May 16 at the Marriot Marquis Hotel.
Article | By Andrew Gans, Adam Hetrick | April 22, 2008
74th Annual Drama League Award Nominees Announced
Nominees for the 2007-2008 Drama League Awards, which will be held May 16 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, were revealed April 22. Nominees were announced in four categories: Distinguished Production of a Musical, Play, Revival of a Musical and Revival of a Play.
Article | By Kenneth Jones | October 13, 2003
Leapin' Lizards! Equity Prexy Patrick Quinn Is a Daddy at Philly's Walnut Street, Nov. 4-Jan. 4
Patrick Quinn, president of Actors' Equity Association, will be wearing a new hat — and a new haircut — in the Walnut Street Theatre staging of Annie.
Article | April 26, 2001
ATW Performance Seminar Features Cumming, Davis, Lee, Prince, Schell and Tomlin, April 26
The third and final spring installment of the American Theatre Wing’s bi annual “Working in the Theatre” seminar series concludes April 26 with the Performance Seminar. Scheduled to appear on the panel are Alan Cumming (Design for Living), Daniel Davis, Michele Lee (The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Faith Prince (Bells Are Ringing), Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg) and Lily Tomlin.
Article | By Adam Hetrick, Ryan McPhee | August 22, 2017
Thomas Meehan, Tony-Winning Writer of Annie, Dies at 88
The three-time Tony Award winner authored the book to the Broadway hits Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
Article | By Kenneth Jones | October 17, 2012
Pulitzer Winner Bruce Norris Retracts Rights to German Troupe's Clybourne Park Over "Blackface" Casting
Bruce Norris, whose play Clybourne Park features white and African-American characters — to Pulitzer Prize-honored, Tony Award-winning effect — stripped a German theatre company of rights to his drama when he learned that a white actress would be using makeup to play a black woman.
Article | June 15, 2001
New Tony Nominators to Include Hair's MacDermot and Barnum's Dale
Now that the hoopla surrounding this year's Tony Awards ceremony is over, already the League of American Theatres and Producers and American Theatre Wing (which comprise "Tony Award Productions") have chosen who will be on the nominating committee for next years awards. Fourteen new names have been added to the 30-member roster (as opposed to last year's 28), among them actors, agents, producers and composers.

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