Before the musical opened at the Gershwin Theatre March 15, 1986, its composer sat down with Playbill to talk about lessons learned from London, and his career since Cats.
While starring in Peter Shaffer’s drama—which opened on Broadway December 17, 1980—Ian McKellen wrote about the hazards of impersonating historical characters for Playbill.
As the Alfred Uhry-Jason Robert Brown show readied to open December 17, 1998, Prince and Uhry spoke to Playbill about why the show demanded to be produced.
Fifteen years after the original production opened on Broadway, the then-two-time Tony Award winner made Rose all her own and sat down with Playbill for a candid conversation about it.
In honor of her birthday, read Bacall's interview with Playbill as she prepared for the March 29 opening night of Kander and Ebb's adaptation of the Hepburn-Tracy classic.
The future Pulitzer Prize winner spoke to Playbill in 2012 about his then song cycle shortly before performing it with a star-studded cast as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series
In 1964, Playbill sat down with the critically acclaimed writer to discuss his Broadway show and the "drab Shubert Alley route" he refused to take as a playwright.
In this 1982 interview, Maury Yeston reveals how Fellini’s autobiographical film 8 1/2 inspired Nine, which opened May 9, 1982 and went on to win five Tony Awards.
The adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's classic tales opened at the Helen Hayes in 2001, and can be streamed though May 10 on composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On.
The musical, Starring Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker, Alison Fraser, Daisy Eagan, John Cameron Mitchell, and more, opened at the St. James Theatre April 25, 1991.
Watch video from the Donmar Warehouse production of John Logan's play about abstract-impressionist painter Mark Rothko, which opened on Broadway April 1, 2010.
James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack, and John Larroquette were among the many boldface names on the ticket when the revival opened on Broadway April 1, 2012.
The actor talked complexity, ambiguity, and unanswerable questions in the most recent revival of the Arthur Miller classic, which opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre March 31, 2016
To mark the 80th birthday of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim in 2010, Playbill.com asked Broadway songwriters to do the impossible—pick their favorite songs by the master. A decade later, on Sondheim's 90th, we look back at their choices.
In 2012, stage and screen star Michael Urie, then making his Broadway debut in the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, shared the performances that most affected him as part of the audience.