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NEW YORK (AP) " The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
NEW YORK (AP) " Some records on Broadway are bound to fall one day and others are surely safe for all time. Sarah Stiles has one that's hard to top.
"Les Miserables" perfected the Broadway blockbuster. Yes, massive productions preceded it, but nothing matched the epic sweep of the French-via-London operetta when it debuted on the Great W…
The show promotes itself as "Jersey Boys" meets "West Side Story." Stir in a classic gangster movie, triangulate the three, and you get pretty close to the feel of a "A Bronx Tale."Â
Much of the modern theater industry aspires to create lucrative spectacles. Artistic merit might be an happy, accidental byproduct, but Disney fare such as "Beauty & the Beast" and the e…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) " Harvard University has received a $100 million donation to help build a new arts and performance space in Boston.
From "Romeo and Juliet" to gender-bending fashion, the arts scene is in top form.
At last, a production has interpreted Shaw's work as the egalitarian manifesto the British playwright intended it to be.
LONDON " British theater critics are praising a new stage musical about the life of Tina Turner " and it also has the approval of the star herself.Turner was in the audience for the opening…
LONDON " Women's rights activists are due to join stage stars on the red carpet Sunday at British theater's Olivier Awards, where "Hamilton" leads the race for trophies with 13 nominations.…
NEW YORK " No one attending "Frozen," the new Broadway musical that had its official opening on Thursday at the St. James Theatre, is meant to ponder the rise of extreme weather events. Leav…
Spring has spru " well, OK, it still feels like the depths of winter. But eventually spring will arrive, and with it an amazing calendar of theater.From classics to new works, musicals both …
PHILADELPHIA " In October 1979, Leonard Bernstein received a fan letter from a high school humanities teacher. Helen Morgan wrote to the celebrity composer-conductor-pianist in hopes he coul…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. " Patrick Stewart was so inspired by the inventors and inventions being honored by the motion picture academy Saturday night that he offered a spontaneous recitation o…
It's going to be a long, cold winter. Art will keep your spirit warm.Oh, you'll still need to spend a fortune on your heating bills of course. But experimental theater and tried-and-true mus…
Thanks to artistic director Diane Paulus, Cambridge's American Repertory Theater has become a pipeline to Broadway. With original shows and revivals, superstars (Bryan Cranston! Audra McDona…
It is impossible to dissociate Sam Shepard's latest and last book, "Spy of the First Person," from how and when it was written. Impaired by ALS " Lou Gehrig's disease " the dramatist and act…
It almost takes a miracle to transform a modern piece of art into a Christmas standard. Between "It's a Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Carol," "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Have Yourself a Merry…
As colors go, purple is a rich one. So it is with "The Color Purple," the touring version of the Tony-winning musical revival that just arrived at Boston's Shubert Theatre for a two-week run.
The Civil War had a moment of formal surrender between its generals at Appomattox in 1865, when the South's Robert E. Lee yielded to the North's Ulysses S. Grant.But the war never re…
NEW YORK " Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Michael Chabon and Colson Whitehead, former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and theater director Robert Wilson all h…
Great job waiting for "Hamilton" to come to Boston. The good news is you only have another year: The storied show arrives in our city in September 2018.But no need to while away the time dre…
BROOKLYN, N.Y. " "Ovo," the Cirque du Soleil show that plays the Agganis Arena on Sept. 6-10, means "egg" in Portuguese.And yes, there is a large white egg in this show whose theme is insect…
Pirates improve any adventure tale, especially when the dastardly Capt. Hook commands the crew of buccaneers. Unfortunately it takes the creative team of "Finding Neverland" a whole act to r…
Why should Edinburgh have all the fun? Putting Cambridge on the international arts and revelry map is one of the driving forces behind the launch of the Glow Festival, hosted by Oberon, the …
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. " Harvard University's graduate theater program, which is housed within the critically acclaimed American Repertory Theater, will suspend admissions for the next three years…
Uma Thurman will make her Broadway debut in "The Parisian Woman," a play by "House of Cards" creator Beau Willimon set in Washington, D.C. in the wake of the 2016 presidential
MOSCOW " Russia's Bolshoi Theater has canceled a much-anticipated ballet about dancer Rudolf Nureyev just three days before the opening night, a development that got many in Moscow's art sc…
NEW YORK " A book about marketing or managing employees may be the last thing small business owners want to read on vacation. But some say they've found insight they can apply to their compa…
LONDON " Wizarding legend Harry Potter's tale has turned 20.Author J.K. Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in Britain on June 26, 1997.Since then…
NEW YORK " Kevin Spacey kicked off his first-ever Tony Award hosting gig with grace and self-depreciating wit on Sunday, dancing, singing and joking his way through an opening number that l…
Kevin Spacey was the somewhat surprising " though certainly not unqualified " host of the 71st running of the Broadway theater-honoring Tony Awards, broadcast Sunday night from New York's Ra…
In a year without a "Hamilton," the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably.
NEW YORK " An intimate, heart-wrenching musical about loneliness, teen angst and suicide in the age of hyperconnectivity capped its unlikely journey to Broadway smash by winning top honors …
NEW YORK " Last year at the Tony Awards, a rabid interest in "Hamilton" stemmed a three-year slide in viewership. This year, there's a new host, an old home and hope that a starry list of c…
This summer's theater season has range. Not "from Stephen Sondheim to Andrew Lloyd Webber" range, but epic jumps from Chekhov to trouble in River City, Peter Pan to robot battle nuns.Our the…
ELLENTON, Fla. " There's a moment at the outset of the new Marvel Universe Live! Age of Heroes show when Spider-Man enters from backstage and zigzags around the theater.It still takes the d…
NEW YORK " The stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has become London's theater event of the year. Now Broadway will shortly be under its spell, too.Producers said Thursday that t…
NEW YORK " Select nominations for the 2017 Tony Awards, announced Tuesday.Best Musical: "Come From Away," ''Dear Evan Hansen," ''Groundhog Day The Musical," ''Natasha, Pierre & The Grea…
NEW YORK " The Latest on the Tony Award nominations (all times local):8:33 a.m."Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," a sung-through musical that dramatizes a 70-page melodrama at…
The renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Boston to premiere new works for the city, bring back old favorites, and to excite audience members new and old for opening night t…
NEW YORK " The upcoming stage adaptation of "Frozen" has found its sisters Anna and Elsa " they'll be played by two Broadway veterans in Patti Murin and Cassie Levy.Disney Theatrical Produc…
LONDON " The winners of the 2017 Olivier Awards, honoring achievement in London theater, opera and dance:New Play: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"New Musical: "Groundhog Day"New Comedy: …
LONDON " Producers of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" hope the play will work its magic on Sunday at British theater's Olivier Awards , where it's nominated in 11 categories including be…
Rejoice! "Hamilton" is coming … in September … of 2018.While we wait for the greatest theater sensation since Hamlet pondered "To be, or not to be," let's enjoy a few other masterpieces …
NEW YORK " A new stage adaptation of George Orwell's chilling dystopic novel "1984" will star Olivia Wilde, making her Broadway debut.Producers Sonia Friedman and Scott Rudin said Monday th…
NEW YORK " Tina Fey's stage adaptation of "Mean Girls" will make its world premiere at The National Theatre in Washington, D.C.The new musical is based on the 2004 film about a naive girl w…
NEW YORK " The off-Broadway phenomenon "The Fantasticks" will end its record-breaking run this spring, bringing down the curtain on a show with confetti and a cardboard moon that started wh…
NEW YORK " Seeking a break from green screens and lightsabers while shooting "The Force Awakens" outside London, J.J. Abrams decided to catch a play."I had a free night and looked to see wha…
BOSTON " A documentary play about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing is about to make its world premiere in Boston."Finish Line" is being presented by the Boch Center at the Shubert Theatre st…
