Sunday, 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 11:04PMNEW YORK — The Tony Awards will be a real drag this year: The two top musicals battling it out have leading men dressed as women and the night's biggest celebrity will be Tom Hanks, who r…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:39AMFriday, June 7, 2013
Friday June 7, 2013
NEW YORK -- Select nominations for the 2013 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards, announced Tuesday.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:20AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
NEW YORK — While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more critical: It was his last trim before Sunday's Tony Awards."I just need a trim," he tells…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:38AMMonday, June 3, 2013
NEW YORK — An all-star line-up including Matt Damon, Alan Alda and Vanessa Redgrave will feature in a night of readings and a town hall discussion hosted by The Public Theater.The June 17…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:15PMThursday, May 30, 2013
NEW YORK — When "Les Miserables" arrives on Broadway next March, it will find a familiar home.Mega-producer Cameron Mackintosh said Thursday that the current U.S. tour of "Les Miserables"…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:12PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
NEW YORK — Rebecca Hall, who plays a brilliant biologist in "Iron Man 3," will soon get to play a murderer onstage.The Roundabout Theatre Company said Tuesday that Hall will star on Broad…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:59PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
NEW YORK — The singer known as the Gentleman of Salsa is temporarily turning to tango: Gilberto Santa Rosa will make his Broadway debut in the musical "Forever Tango," which returns to Ne…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:55AMMonday, May 20, 2013
NEW YORK — Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.Ambassador Thea…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:28PMNEW YORK — A couple of stars from TV's "Chuck" and "Smash" will soon be dating on Broadway.Producers said Monday that Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez will headline the new romantic musi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:53AMThursday, May 16, 2013
NEW YORK — The thrilling Broadway revival of "Pippin" will be taking its magic on the road.Producers of the Tony Award-nominated show said Wednesday that a national tour will kick off in S…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:57AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
NEW YORK — Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has tapped as its new leader a Broadway producer who has helped mount such hits as the Tony Award-winning revival of "Hair" and "Equus" w…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:30PMNEW YORK — A revival of Terence Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy" starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Roger Rees is heading to Broadway next season.The Roundabout Theatre Company sai…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:45PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
CHESTER, Mass. — Stage actor Vincent G. Dowling, who had a long-time association with Ireland's national theater company and performed several times in the Reagan White House, has died in…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:06PMNEW YORK — There are apparently a few more Sundays left in Billy Crystal.The star of "City Slickers" and "When Harry Met Sally" said Tuesday he will reprise his funny and poignant one-man…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:51AMMonday, May 13, 2013
NEW YORK — Years ago, when her roommate came home one day sobbing, Laura Benanti comforted her the only way she knew how — with a song.Benanti, who would go on to win a Tony Award, still…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:19AMThursday, May 9, 2013
NEW YORK — For three actors, the Tony Award nomination announcement last week was somewhat bittersweet.Sweet, because they'd each gotten a prestigious nod. Bitter, because their shows wer…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:00PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
NEW YORK — The Beatles are coming back to Broadway.Two years after a Fab Four cover band arrived on the Great White Way, the London hit "Let It Be" plans to arrive this summer with new guy…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:52AMNEW YORK — The cast members of the Tony Award-nominated "Matilda" are arguably all stars. This week, they chatted with a man closer to the actual cosmic ones.About three dozen cast member…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:36AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
NEW YORK — A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II" with powerful skill.Tambi …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:16PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
FRAMINGHAM - In addition to his degree in theater studies and bass singing voice, Patrick Curran lists his 18-inch neck on his resume when applying for acting jobs.After all, the casting n…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:09PMFRAMINGHAM, Mass. — In addition to his degree in theater studies and bass singing voice, Patrick Curran lists his 18-inch neck on his resume when applying for acting jobs.After all, the ca…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:17AMFriday, May 3, 2013
NEW YORK — The New York Drama Critics' Circle has voted "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" as best play and "Matilda: The Musical" as best musical.The circle on Friday also handed out …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:32PMThursday, May 2, 2013
LONDON — "Viva Forever"? Not as it turns out.Producers announced Thursday that the Spice Girls musical will close at London's Piccadilly Theater June 29 after a disappointing six-month ru…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:53AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Select nominations for the 2013 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, announced Tuesday....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:13AMNEW YORK — Two leading contenders for Tony Award nominations may make the race a drag this year."Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" — each of which is led by a man dressed as a woman — are vi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:42AMSunday, April 28, 2013
LONDON — Helen Mirren is a favorite to reign at London's Olivier theater awards Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience."Mirren is a best-actress nominee for the…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:35AMThursday, April 18, 2013
NEW YORK — Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to the city…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:24PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
LONDON — Ai Weiwei appears to be standing in front of a London theater, which would be some trick, even for the provocative and unpredictable Chinese artist.The sculptor, photographer and…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 05:54AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Taymor filed a lawsuit in November 2011, saying her copyrighted written works were violated when she was fired last year
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:17PMNEW YORK — A settlement has been reached between the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor, ending a bitter legal fight over what has become Bro…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:51PM 
