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Article | By Playbill Staff | March 31, 2021
Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: March 31
In 1943, the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens.
Article | By Robert Viagas | July 20, 2015
PBS Broadcast of Angela Lansbury-James Earl Jones Driving Miss Daisy Available for Free Streaming
The July 17 PBS broadcast of Driving Miss Daisy, starring multiple Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, is now available to watch for free via the PBS website.
Article | By Robert Viagas | July 17, 2015
Watch Touching Previews from Tonight's Broadcast of Angela Lansbury-James Earl Jones Driving Miss Daisy
An Australian production of Driving Miss Daisy, starring multiple Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, is broadcast July 17 by PBS.
Article | By Robert Viagas | July 8, 2015
Watch Riveting Previews from Angela Lansbury-James Earl Jones Driving Miss Daisy
An Australian production of Driving Miss Daisy, starring multiple Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, was taped for TV and will be broadcast in the U.S. July 17 by PBS.
Article | By Robert Viagas | June 11, 2015
PBS Plans Broadcast of Angela Lansbury-James Earl Jones Driving Miss Daisy
An Australian production of Driving Miss Daisy starring multiple Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones was taped for TV and will be broadcast in the U.S. July 17 by PBS.
Article | November 22, 2014
"Rock Star" Angela Lansbury on Touring the Country in Her "Culminating Role"
Angela Lansbury, a five-time Tony Award winner, will return to "the best comedy role" she has ever played when she begins touring North America in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.
Article | May 25, 2001
Vidal's Best Man May Elect to Do Mini-Tour in Fall 2002
As Ethan McSweeny's revival of Gore Vidal's 1960 satire, The Best Man, reaps its end-of-season rewards (including an Outer Critics Circle Best Revival win and a shot at a Best Revival Tony Award), the show's producers are gearing up for a national tour next year. Producer Jeffrey Richards told Playbill On-Line May 25, "Discussions are afoot with Gore, who's given us the green light for a national tour to start in September 2002."
Article | By David Lefkowitz | December 31, 2000
All the Returns Are In: Vidal's Best Man Leaves Bway's Virginia, Dec. 31
When a revival of The Best Man, started Broadway previews Sept. 5, who knew this year's presidential elections would be even uglier, stranger and more outlandish than the fictional political warring in the show? Who knew that Gore Vidal's 1960 drama of a humane but slightly neurotic Senator running against a fiery, muckraking Secretary for the party's nomination - complete with mud-slinging, last-minute leaks to the media, and a deadlocked voting block - would almost pale in comparison to Dubya versus Deadwood, TV news' over-eager predictions and a month of insane legal wrangling? Life not only imitated art, it mutated and mutilated it.
Article | By David Lefkowitz | September 5, 2000
Vidal's Best Man Begins the Bway Race Sept. 5 at Virginia Theatre
As American voters start deciding whether the best man is a progressive Republican or a conservative Democrat (or a liberal Green or a right-wing Reformer), theatregoers know exactly where the Best Man is: at the Virginia Theatre on Broadway. Previews of Gore Vidal's drama The Best Man begin Sept. 5 for an opening Sept. 17 and a limited run through Dec. 31, according to production spokesperson and co-producer Jeffrey Richards. Various reports have noted that ticket sales have been brisk since the box office opened for this star-studded revival. (Variety reported, Sept. 4, that advance sales on the $1.9 million production have nearly reached $1 million.)
Article | By David Lefkowitz | August 2, 2000
Best Man Starts Bway Rehearsals as GOP Swarms in Philly
Showing the kind of synergistic timing any electoral candidate would kill for, the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's 1960 political drama, The Best Man, started rehearsals the day after the Republican Convention officially began in Philadelphia. The star-studded revival of The Best Man began its first day with the kind of press meet-n'-greet usually reserved for candidates.
Article | By David Lefkowitz, Robert Simonson | July 12, 2000
Best Man Gets More Men: Hadary and Blum to Join Cast at Bway's Virginia
Two veteran Broadway character actors, Jonathan Hadary and Mark Blum, have joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. Hadary's credits include As Is, Angels in America and Gypsy, while Blum has graced Lost in Yonkers, Key Exchange and the recent drama, The Waverly Gallery.
Article | By David Lefkowitz, Robert Simonson | July 6, 2000
Waltons' Michael Learned Joins Best Man Bway Cast
Last on Broadway in The Sisters Rosensweig, four-time Emmy winner Michael Learned will play Mrs. Russell, wife to Spalding Gray's character in the upcoming revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, due at the Virginia Theatre Sept. 5, officially opening Sept. 17.
Article | July 3, 2000
Ebersole Joins Cast of The Best Man, Due on Bway Sept. 5
The latest actor to join the starry cast of The Best Man, the Gore Vidal play due on Broadway this September, is Christine Ebersole. Sources close to the production say she will play the wife of the character played by Chris Noth.
Article | By David Lefkowitz, Robert Simonson | June 6, 2000
Vidal's Best Man, Starring Gray and Durning, to Open on Bway in Fall
Gore Vidal's political drama, The Best Man, is set to open on Broadway this fall. Writers & Artists agent Bill Craver confirmed (June 6) that Spalding Gray and Elizabeth Ashley would be in the cast, with Ethan McSweeny directing. Charles Durning has long been set for the production. The play boasts a large cast (17) with six leads.
Article | By David Lefkowitz | September 17, 2000
Will The Best Man Win Over Bway? Vidal Drama Opens Sept. 17 at Virginia
As American voters start deciding whether the best man is a progressive Republican or a conservative Democrat (or a liberal Green or a right-wing Reformer), theatregoers know exactly where the Best Man is: at the Virginia Theatre on Broadway. Gore Vidal's 1960 drama The Best Man opens Sept. 17 for a limited run through Dec. 31, according to production spokesperson and co-producer Jeffrey Richards. Various reports have noted that ticket sales have been brisk since the box office opened for this star-studded revival, which began previews Sept. 5. (Variety reported, Sept. 4, that advance sales on the $1.9 million production nearly reached $1 million.)
Article | By David Lefkowitz, Robert Simonson | July 5, 2000
Costumer Aldredge Has Another Best Man in Her Future
Back in 1960, fresh from her very first Broadway job -- designing the costumes for Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth -- Theoni V. Aldredge went to her next Broadway assignment: Gore Vidal's The Best Man. Four decades -- and several Tonys -- later, Ms. Aldredge finds herself fitting out another Best Man, this one due at Broadway's Virginia Theatre Sept. 5.
Article | By David Lefkowitz | October 10, 2000
Neither Bushed Nor Gored, Bway’s Best Man Brings Voting to Virginia
Ya gotta have a gimmick -- especially if you’re a Broadway play about to face more competition going into the heart of the fall season. The Best Man, a revival of Gore Vidal’s 1960 political drama, got mixed-to strongly positive reviews when it opened Sept. 17, and the box office has been pretty brisk for the $1.9 million production. But the only other new Broadway show it’s faced in the past month has been The Man Who Came To Dinner, whereas the next four weeks will see Vidal’s drama fend off Proof, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Full Monty, The Dinner Party, The Rocky Horror Show and, sets and second-act fixing assumed, Seussical.
Article | September 18, 2000
PHOTO CALL: The Best Man Bows Sept. 17
The company of The Best Man takes their opening night bow Sept. 17 at Broadway's Virginia Theatre.
Article | June 29, 2000
Best Man, with Noth, to Land at Bway's Virginia, Sept. 5
Political parties will follow The Wild Party into the Virginia Theatre. Sources close to the upcoming revival of Gore Vidal's drama, The Best Man, told Playbill On-Line that the play will begin previews at the Broadway house on Sept. 5.
Article | By Robert Simonson | April 8, 2003
Enchanted April Showers Broadway. April 8
Enchanted April, the Matthew Barber play, will start its run at the Belasco Theatre April 8. Official opening is April 29.

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