Craig Noel, the founding director of San Diego's Old Globe, one of the leading nonprofit theatres in America, died April 3 of natural causes. He was 94.
The first Broadway house to be named for a Broadway publicist — the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre — officially bowed for business Oct. 14 at the 47th Street site of the old Biltmore with an age-old, ponderously pondered question: To Be or Not To Be.
The first Broadway house to be named for a Broadway publicist — the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre — officially bowed for business Oct. 14 at the 47th Street site of the old Biltmore with an age-old, ponderously pondered question: To Be or Not To Be.
The dark screwball comedy, "To Be or Not to Be," the movie about theatre troupers in Poland during Nazi rule, has been adapted for the stage by Nick Whitby and will open Manhattan Theatre Club's 2008-09 Broadway season this fall.
This week's column discusses the first-ever full recording of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's The Firebrand of Florence and an album of music by Leonard Bernstein.
This week's column discusses the first-ever full recording of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's The Firebrand of Florence and an album of music by Leonard Bernstein.
