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Article | By Harry Haun | October 15, 2004
PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Reckless
Manhattan Theatre Club's elegantly restored home-away-from-City Center, The Biltmore Theatre on West 47th, started off MTC's second Broadway season Oct. 14 with a revival of Craig Lucas' 1988 Reckless—and extra special luster from Mary-Louise Parker.
Article | By Harry Haun | October 15, 2004
PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Reckless
Manhattan Theatre Club's elegantly restored home-away-from-City Center, The Biltmore Theatre on West 47th, started off MTC's second Broadway season Oct. 14 with a revival of Craig Lucas' 1988 play Reckless—and extra special luster from Mary-Louise Parker.
Article | By Steven Suskin | June 23, 2013
ON THE RECORD: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, plus "Laura Osnes Sings Maury Yeston"
This week's column examines the original Broadway cast recording of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella, along with a Laura Osnes collection of songs by Maury Yeston. *
Article | By Harry Haun | September 16, 2011
Friends Remember Broadway Producer Randall Wreghitt as a Businessman With Heart
Randall L. Wreghitt, a dreamer and a believer who made theatre on Broadway under the generic title of Producer, had more friends than George Bailey, judging from the turnout that filed into and filled the Shubert Theatre Sept. 15 to celebrate this life well spent.
Article | By Harry Haun | September 16, 2011
Friends Remember Broadway Producer Randall Wreghitt as a Businessman With Heart
Randall L. Wreghitt, a dreamer and a believer who made theatre on Broadway under the generic title of Producer, had more friends than George Bailey, judging from the turnout that filed into and filled the Shubert Theatre Sept. 15 to celebrate this life well spent.
Article | By Harry Haun | May 10, 2007
PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: 110 in the Shade — Viva Audra!
The Family of Theatre embraced Audra McDonald May 9 when she showed up at Studio 54 to honor a professional commitment by opening, on the very last day of the 2006-07 Broadway season, Roundabout’s revival of 110 in the Shade, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's tune-up, Texified reworking of N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker.
Article | By Andrew Gans | October 6, 2006
DIVA TALK: A Sensational Streisand Plus a Chat with Mame's Sandy Duncan
News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
Article | By Andrew Gans | October 6, 2006
DIVA TALK: A Sensational Streisand Plus a Chat with Mame's Sandy Duncan
News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
Article | By Michael Buckley | November 24, 2002
STAGE TO SCREENS: Chats with Jekyll & Hyde's Hasselhoff and Wildhorn and Betsy Palmer
This month's column features David Hasselhoff and composer Frank Wildhorn and TV and stage actress Betsy Palmer.
Article | November 19, 1999
DIVA TALK: Andrews, Andrea And Other Gals...
JULIE ANDREWS
As we head into the new millennium, Julie Andrews is one busy lady. On Nov. 28, the Sound of Music superstar will team with James Garner for the CBS-TV movie "One Special Night," where she portrays a recently widowed doctor. On Dec. 1, as previously announced, PBS will air "My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies," a celebration of some of the musical theatre's multi-talented women that Andrews hosted about a year ago. And, Andrews stars in an upcoming feature film, "Relative Values," which is an adaptation of a play by the late Noel Coward. In next week's "TV Guide," Andrews is the subject of a revealing interview with theatre writer Patrick Pacheco, and I thought you would enjoy reading some of her candid remarks.
Article | By Andrew Gans | November 19, 1999
DIVA TALK: Andrews, Andrea And Other Gals....
JULIE ANDREWS
As we head into the new millennium, Julie Andrews is one busy lady. On Nov. 28, the Sound of Music superstar will team with James Garner for the CBS-TV movie "One Special Night," where she portrays a recently widowed doctor. On Dec. 1, as previously announced, PBS will air "My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies," a celebration of some of the musical theatre's multi-talented women that Andrews hosted about a year ago. And, Andrews stars in an upcoming feature film, "Relative Values," which is an adaptation of a play by the late Noël Coward. In next week's "TV Guide," Andrews is the subject of a revealing interview with theatre writer Patrick Pacheco, and I thought you would enjoy reading some of her candid remarks.
Article | September 11, 1998
DIVA TALK: Let Them Sing, And We're Happy
LAURIE BEECHMAN
Article | By Andrew Gans | September 11, 1998
DIVA TALK: Let Them Sing, And We're Happy
LAURIE BEECHMAN
Article | December 18, 1995
Happy Talk -- R&H Autumn '95 Newsletter PART 1
Welcome to HAPPY TALK
Article | By Playbill Staff | November 8, 2021
Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: November 8
Allegiance, starring George Takei, Lea Salonga and Telly Leung, opens at the Longacre Theatre in 2015.
Article | By Andrew Gans | February 18, 2015
THEIR FAVORITE THINGS: Entertainment Columnist and Actor Michael Musto Shares His Theatregoing Experiences
Playbill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.

This week we spotlight the choices of entertainment columnist and actor Michael Musto, who is part of the cast of the autobiographical rock opera The Life + Death of Kenyon Phillips, which will play a four-performance limited engagement at The Box beginning Feb. 20.
Article | By Michael Gioia, Kenneth Jones | March 4, 2013
The Last Five Years, With Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe, Extends Prior to Off-Broadway Bow
Second Stage Theatre's new production of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, which will star Adam Kantor (Mark in the final Broadway cast of Rent) and Betsy Wolfe (Everyday Rapture, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) as the couple who falls in and out of love, has extended its Off-Broadway run prior to its March 7 premiere.
Article | By Kenneth Jones | December 17, 2012
NYC's The Last Five Years Will Wed Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe
The happy-unhappy couple at the center of Second Stage Theatre's new production of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years will be Adam Kantor (Mark in the final Broadway cast of Rent) and Betsy Wolfe (Everyday Rapture, The Mystery of Edwin Drood). The two-character musical that plays tricks with time and structure will be directed by Brown himself, for an Off-Broadway run beginning March 7, 2013.
Article | By David Lefkowitz | July 4, 2001
Independence Day: A Thousand Clowns Starts at Bway's Longacre, July 4
Murray Burns has his own, personal declaration of independence. He won't work a 9-5 job or keep any kind of regular schedule. Why should he be like a thousand other clowns with suits and briefcases when there's so much life out there going by?
Article | By David Lefkowitz | June 29, 2001
Selleck to Send in the Clowns A Week Earlier: July 11
Most Broadway shows would kill for an extra week of previews to hone the production before critics get a look at it, but not the upcoming revival of A Thousand Clowns. The show, which has been on the road since mid-May, is confident enough in its readiness for Broadway that the opening date has been pushed ahead: from July 17 to July 11. Previews still begin on Independence Day, July 4, at the Longacre Theatre.

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