Tuesday, January 19, 2016
NEW YORK — It's a match made in musical theater heaven — Bette Midler will star in a Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!"Movie and theatrical producer Scott Rudin said Tuesday that the D…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:30PMThursday, January 14, 2016
NEW YORK — Sylvan Barnet, a longtime professor of literature at Tufts University who edited the budget-priced Signet Classic editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems used by countless s…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:40PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
NEW YORK — Nick Cordero has been picked to star opposite Tony Award-winner Jessie Mueller in "Waitress" on Broadway.Cordero, the Tony-nominated star of "Bullets Over Broadway" and "Rock o…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:30PMMonday, January 11, 2016
NEW YORK — David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christe…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 11:27AMFriday, January 1, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like “Our Love” and “This Will Be” before &…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:43PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Three-day BroadwayCon to be held in New York and will feature seminars, panels and masterclasses led by theatre veteransThere will be meet-ups for fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber or Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMNEW YORK — Another milestone has fallen thanks to the Broadway musical "Hamilton" — this time on Twitter.The microblogging website said Tuesday there have been over 1 million tweets abo…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:41PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
NEW YORK — Edith Piaf would have turned 100 this month and never has she been more vital.The cabaret singer who once sang on the streets for spare change was celebrated and channeled by t…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:14PMMonday, December 7, 2015
NEW YORK — Tony Award-winning choreographer and mentor Bill T. Jones will be honored by the Human Rights Campaign with its Visibility Award, which recognizes those who shine a light on th…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:27PMFriday, December 4, 2015
MEDINA, Minn. — Scott Weiland, the former frontman for the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died. He was 48. The singer’s manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed the death to &#…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:04AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
NEW YORK — The musical "Waitress" hasn't yet begun serving its specials on Broadway, but it's already made some history.Lorin Latarro has been hired to choreograph the show, joining a fem…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:16PMNew show will be first Broadway production to feature female director, choreographer, writer and composerThe musical Waitress has not yet begun serving its specials onstage yet, but it will …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMSunday, November 29, 2015
BERLIN — Luc Bondy, a Swiss opera, theater and film director who staged productions on renowned stages across Europe and the United States, has died. He was 67.The Odeon Theatre in Paris, …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:39PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
NEW YORK — Two Broadway shows will close just as your New Year's Eve hangover is subsiding.The play "Sylvia" starring Matthew Broderick, and the musical "Dames at Sea" both have announced …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:37PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
NEW YORK — A musical celebrating the most decorated Tony Award-winner in history is currently not playing on Broadway. Or off-Broadway. Or, for that matter, off-off-Broadway. It's not even…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 04:32PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
NEW YORK — Few performers making their Broadway debuts get a street on Broadway renamed in their honor. Michael Flatley is an exception.The trailblazing former "Riverdance" star was on han…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:33AMMonday, October 26, 2015
NEW YORK — A new online streaming service launches on Monday that hopes to one day become the Netflix of Broadway, offering high-definition broadcasts of top theatrical events to computer…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:49AMSunday, October 25, 2015
BOSTON — Amateur musicians from across Massachusetts are joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra onstage this week.For a second year, the BSO is bringing accomplished adult amateurs aboard. …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 04:07PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
NEW YORK — Misty Copeland has already achieved a crossover pop culture fame that few dancers could ever hope to have. She's a best-selling author, a celebrity spokesperson, and a role mod…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:10AMMonday, October 19, 2015
NEW YORK — For her latest Broadway role, Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford took acting lessons from someone very close to her — her dog.The actress' toy Australian shepherd Gracie was …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:34PMMonday, September 14, 2015
Writer whose best-known Broadway drama, The Subject Was Roses, led to a movie adaptation, has died in Monroe, New YorkFrank D Gilroy, whose play about a veteran’s fraught return home, The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:20AMSunday, August 30, 2015
NEW YORK — Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables” on Broadway has died after falling from…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 11:39PMNew York theatre community mourns loss of Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, the youngest person to play the role of Valjean in Les MisérablesKyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African American and younges…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:38AMWednesday, August 5, 2015
The Santa Fe Opera is set to commission a production about Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:45PMSunday, August 2, 2015
OGUNQUIT, Maine — Performer Brenda Vaccaro will replace Valerie Harper in a play in Maine as Harper recovers from an illness and brief hospitalization.The Ogunquit Playhouse says in a rel…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:38PMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Theatres have been struggling with rude audience members texting and taking calls for years, but things have gotten even worse this year.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:51PMMonday, July 20, 2015
NEW YORK — Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway: Marimba ringtones! Rat-a-tat texting! The shaming "shhhhh!"Years of mounting tension over audience behavior hit a dramatic …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:05AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
LONDON — The critics bashed Douglas Gordon, and he bashed back — with an ax.The Turner Prize-winning artist hacked the wall of a theater where his play has opened to largely negative re…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:18PMMonday, July 13, 2015
NEW YORK — Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Wednesday night in memory of Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director.The Broadway League says the li…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:35PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
LONDON — Britain's Royal Opera says it's sorry for causing distress but the show will go on after a rape scene in "Guillaume Tell" sparked boos and walkouts.Director Damiano Michieletto's…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:09PMNEW YORK — Misty Copeland, the Missouri-born dancer who has become a forceful voice for diversity in ballet, was named a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre on Tuesday —...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:03PM 
