Tuesday, July 21, 2015
As Broadway faces off against pocket-size sound-and-light shows, performers and some patrons say a hyper-connected culture are shredding the immersive experience of live theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:01PMMonday, July 20, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway: Marimba ringtones! Rat-a-tat texting! The shaming "shhhhh!"...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:05AMSunday, July 19, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The current American president has taken a trip back in time to visit some of the country's early leaders - now performing on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:08AMFriday, July 17, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The starry list of people who have already seen "Hamilton" includes Michelle Obama, Madonna, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Jimmy Fallon, Julia Roberts, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rup…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:21AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Christopher Jackson was doing fine stepping into the boots of George Washington during rehearsals of "Hamilton" - until he had to actually put on the boots, breeches and…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:21AMThursday, July 16, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bruce Willis' daughter is beating her famous dad to Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:15PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tony Award-winner and "30 Rock" star Jane Krakowski has jumped aboard the upcoming Broadway revival of "She Loves Me."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:15PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Four-time Emmy-award-winning actress, best-selling author and social activist Marlo Thomas will spread some lies off-Broadway this fall....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:40PMNEW YORK (AP) -- It takes some work to find something that Chuck Cooper hasn't done on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:08PMMonday, July 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Wednesday night in memory of Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- At a time when most theater performers are paranoid about getting everyone to turn off their cellphones - hello, Patti LuPone - Penn & Teller want them on. And the r…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:13AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Roger Rees, the lanky Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director who was the original Nicholas Nickleby and a mainstay on Broadway playing Gomez in "The Addams Fam…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:42AMThursday, July 9, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a theatrical mix that's positively combustible - Patti LuPone and cellphones....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:46PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The acclaimed Deaf West Theatre production of "Spring Awakening" is coming to Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:03PMNEW YORK (AP) -- There's loud talking and, of course, phones ringing. But theater etiquette might have taken a turn for the bizarre last week when a patron at Broadway's "Hand to God" cl…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:03PMMonday, July 6, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's not much to do in eastern Idaho in the winter. It's freezing, windy and depressing. Why not create a musical?...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:11PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Ballerina Misty Copeland, who just became the first African-American woman to be a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, has another breakthrough planned - a debu…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:09AMThursday, June 25, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- A play about a lesbian activist's journey to single motherhood will be produced this fall downtown with some help from Rosie O'Donnell and Cynthia Nixon....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:02PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Jimmy Carter has been a governor, the nation's commander in chief and a Nobel Prize winner. One thing he still would like to see is himself on a Broadway stage....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:56PMMonday, June 22, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical featured in the TV show "Smash" might actually find its way to a stage....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:46PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andrew Lloyd Webber has tapped a favorite actress to play the school principal in the musical stage version of "School of Rock."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:09AMNEW YORK (AP) -- If you think your job stinks, take a moment to consider the pretty horrible tasks facing the lowly sentries Humayun and Babur in Rajiv Joseph's new "Guards at the Taj.".…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:09AMThursday, June 11, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The great playwright Arthur Miller rarely changed a word of his plays during rehearsals. The equally great Tennessee Williams rewrote furiously until he had to stop....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:01AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Keira Knightley will have some onstage help making her Broadway debut next year from Tony Award-winner Judith Light, "Constantine" star Matt Ryan and Tony-winner Gabriel…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:52PMMonday, June 8, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Five things to note following the Tony Awards on Sunday night:...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:27PMSunday, June 7, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Fun Home" songwriters Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron have made history by becoming the first female writing team to nab a Tony for musical score....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:50PMSaturday, June 6, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- When producers asked Alan Cumming to host the Tony Awards this year, his heart sank....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:27PMFriday, June 5, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first special Tony Award to honor educators has been given to a veteran North Carolina high school arts teacher who wants to create magic but doesn't believe in maki…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:37PMNEW YORK (AP) -- There is a coffin sitting onstage. A lesbian is the narrator. There are no movie stars in it. And we are promised a suicide by Page 9 of the script....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:37PMThursday, June 4, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Things have been moving so quickly this year for Tony Yazbeck that he hasn't had time to squeeze in something important - his honeymoon....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:40AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Larry David was showing his old "Seinfeld" pal Jason Alexander the quirks of his Broadway dressing room, the discussion naturally went to the toilet....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:38AM 
