Playwright and performer Andy Halliday has passed away at 73. Halliday appeared in Charles Busch's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (1984), Theodora, She Bitch of Byzantium (1984), Psycho Beach Party (1987), ...

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Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Bulbul Chakraborty in Rheology (Maria Baranova) You might think that when playwright Shayok Misha Chowdhury asked his mother to be in his play, it would be a hard ask. But ...

Matthew Lombardo’s “When Playwrights Kill” begins at the Huntington Theatre with a young guy telling an anecdote about Neil Simon and Mary Tyler Moore. You might expect that a Neil Simon play is ...

Edward Graczyk, best known for Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the 1982 Broadway play and film adaptation both directed by Robert Altman, died in Sidney, Ohio, on February 11 ...

Jessie Jones, a theater playwright and TV actress known for roles on "Murphy Brown" and "Perfect Strangers," has died. She was 75. Jones' writing partner Jamie Wooten – who with Nicholas Hope formed ...

"Jessie was an unbelievably talented and kind woman, and knowing her life’s work will continue bringing laughter to theaters around the world brings great solace," writing partner Jamie Wooten says ...

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The recipients of the 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards (the “Mimi” Awards), presented by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, are Christopher Chen and Zora Howard. The $100,000 award is ...

He helped create the Off Off Broadway theater scene, wrote and acted in Andy Warhol’s films, and turned his fascination with collectible Americana into books. By Alex Traub Robert Heide, who began his ...