Friday, August 16, 2013
The actor, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a serious leg injury, was not identified
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:37PMNEW YORK — One of the actors playing the comic book hero in the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was badly injured during a performance, a fresh reminder of the dangers fac…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:13AMThursday, August 15, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah has announced its first-ever course examining the Book of Mormon as a work of literature.Instructor David Bokovoy says the class scheduled this fall…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:38PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
The intimate show, called "Pacino One Night Only," will feature an interview with the acclaimed actor that will allow audience members to ask him questions
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:48PMNEW YORK — Denzel Washington is returning to Broadway — but he won't be singing.Standing with his wife, Pauletta Pearson, on the red carpet Monday at the premiere his new movie, "2 Guns…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:13AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
The hit Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is holding open casting calls for anyone who wants to don the red and blue suit
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:57PMMonday, July 29, 2013
NEW YORK — LaChanze plans to return to Broadway for the first time since winning a Tony in 2006 for "The Color Purple."Producers of "If/Then" said Monday that the singer and actress will …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:03PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
LAS VEGAS — The Cirque du Soleil show "Ka" has reopened on the Las Vegas Strip 17 days after an acrobat fell to her death in its closing scene.The Tuesday evening show was marked by a mem…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:46PMCHICAGO — Patrick Poulin alternates between sitting and standing in the lobby of Chicago's Briar Street Theatre, nervously flipping back and forth through the pages of his application to …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:26PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
LONDON — Shakespeare's Globe theater is about to take the Bard's words literally — "All the world's a stage."The London theater announced Tuesday that it plans to tour a production of "…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:28AMMonday, July 15, 2013
NEW YORK — The actress who will fill Condola Rashad's shoes in "The Trip to Bountiful" has been revealed: Adepero Oduye.Producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival said Monday that Oduy…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:29PM"Ka" will no longer contain the final aerial battle scene, in which an acrobat fell to her death.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:47AMWednesday, July 10, 2013
LONDON — Sotheby's says the manuscript of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's first novel has sold at auction for almost 1 million pounds ($1.5 million).Britain's University of Reading bought "M…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:31AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
JERUSALEM — A one-woman play about an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza is being performed for Hebrew-speaking audiences for the first tim…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:20PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
NEW YORK — One brought leading man grace. One brought a little raunch. Together they left New York with the top National High School Musical Theater Awards.Sarah Lynn Marion, from Fullert…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:11PMMonday, July 1, 2013
LAS VEGAS — The founder of Cirque du Soleil says his tight-knit performance company is "completely devastated" after a veteran acrobat died in Las Vegas over the weekend in a fall witness…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:19PMJERUSALEM — Puppeteers from the Israeli version of Sesame Street are protesting Israel's closure of a Palestinian puppet festival.Ariel Doron, who plays Elmo on the Israeli version of the…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:32AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
NEW YORK — Times Square's iconic TKTS booth is celebrating its 40th birthday by introducing a new way for theater lovers to avoid lines.The Theatre Development Fund, the nonprofit that ru…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:30AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
NEW YORK — Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of James Gandolfini, "The Sopranos" star who earned a Tony Award nomination in 2009.The Broadway Leagu…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:47PMNEW YORK — Hundreds of tourists and New Yorkers show up each day at the famed TKTS booth in the heart of Times Square with questions about Broadway shows. Often they're very interesting q…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:38AMMonday, June 24, 2013
NEW YORK — A musical inspired by the music of Tupac Shakur hopes to bring gangsta rap to a Broadway stage.A workshop of "Holler If Ya Hear Me" is currently under way in New York under the…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:27PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
LONDON — Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan."The former "Harry Potter" star play…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:35PMNEW YORK — "Dancing With the Stars" duo Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have shimmied aboard the Broadway-bound "Forever Tango."Producers said Wednesday the pair will perform in t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:40AMNEW YORK — Jim McCarthy doesn't just think it's fun to go out and see a play or a comedy show or a basketball game. He thinks it actually makes you a better person."It drives the dullness …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:50AMMonday, June 17, 2013
NEW YORK — There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," ''Matilda the Musical" and…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:16PMNEW YORK — Neil Patrick Harris is returning to the stage — and not to hand out awards.The four-time Tony Award host and former "Doogie Howser, M.D." will star on Broadway in the spring …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:18PMMonday, June 10, 2013
NEW YORK — Newly crowned Tony Award winner "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has gotten a new lease on life but one of its original actresses will be leaving.Producers of Christopher …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:30PMNEW YORK — It may not have won any Tony Awards, but the charming musical based on the cult holiday film "A Christmas Story" will be hitting the Northeast this winter.Producers said Monday…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:59PMNEW YORK — On a feel-good night for Broadway, it was only natural that the Tony award go to its most feel-good musical, the joyous "Kinky Boots." But most everything about Sunday's Tony t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:52AMNEW YORK — While Phish frontman Trey Anastasio has a highly devout fan base, it takes a little more to impress his teenage daughters. But that changed when he was nominated this season fo…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:51AMSunday, June 9, 2013
NEW YORK — The feel-good musical "Kinky Boots," with songs by pop star Cyndi Lauper, won the 2013 Tony Award for best musical.The musical is based on an obscure 2005 British film about a B…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:04PM 
