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 04:32PMNEW 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 11:33AMNEW 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 09:49AMBOSTON — 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 04:07PMNEW 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 08:10AMNEW 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 05:34PMWriter 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 05:20AMNEW 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 09:38AMThe Santa Fe Opera is set to commission a production about Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:45PMOGUNQUIT, 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 05:38PMTheatres 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 07:51PMNEW 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 07:05AMLONDON — 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 06:18PMNEW 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 10:35PMLONDON — 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 08:03PMSelect winners for the 2015 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards held Sunday night in New York City:
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:29AMThe poignant and groundbreaking coming-of-age show "Fun Home" was named best musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:29AMNEW YORK — The poignant and groundbreaking coming-of-age show "Fun Home" was named best musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday, one of five big trophies it won on the way to making history …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:27AMNEW YORK — There's finally reason to be happy in a funeral home — "Fun Home" has won the best musical Tony Award.The poignant show, based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel memoir about g…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:27AMNEW YORK — Helen Mirren, who starred this season in a familiar and regal role, has won her first Tony Award.Mirren won for playing a sly and polished Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:24PMNEW YORK — The dazzling show "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" has won the 2015 Tony Award for best play.The London import is based on an adaptation of Mark Haddon's best…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:24PMHosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming, the three-hour show will feature appearances by Jennifer Lopez, Sting, Jim Parsons and a stunt: Josh Groban will try to lead the most performers…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:32PMIn addition to a hefty 11 performances and the handing out of 24 competitive Tonys, the three-hour telecast will feature appearances by a motley group of stars like Jennifer Lopez, Sting, Ji…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:27PMNEW YORK — 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."You know what he said…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:43PMNEW YORK — Like so many other aspiring actresses, Olivia Washington is paying her dues at a small, off-Broadway theater. Unlike so many other aspiring actresses, she's not relying on her …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:34AMNEW YORK — If the Tony Award for best director was handed out on quantity alone, Jeremy Herrin would easily be the winner.He has helmed the double bill stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:00PMPortable theatre presents new three-minute pieces by playwrights including Will Eno and Lynn Nottage, performed by single actor for solitary audience memberMany theatre owners like to say th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AMLOS ANGELES — Rachel Rosenthal, the performance and theater artist who embraced environmentalism during a half-century career devoted to the avant-garde, has died in Southern California. S…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:10PMNEW YORK — Before hitting a Broadway stage, she has to remember not to let her butt stick out. Her co-star, meanwhile, can't forget to swivel his shoulders back.Darren Criss and Rebecca N…
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