Wednesday, July 10, 2013
LONDON — Sotheby's says the manuscript of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's first novel has sold at auction for almost 1 million pounds ($1.5 million).Britain's University of Reading bought "M…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:31AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
JERUSALEM — A one-woman play about an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza is being performed for Hebrew-speaking audiences for the first tim…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:20PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
NEW YORK — One brought leading man grace. One brought a little raunch. Together they left New York with the top National High School Musical Theater Awards.Sarah Lynn Marion, from Fullert…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:11PMMonday, July 1, 2013
LAS VEGAS — The founder of Cirque du Soleil says his tight-knit performance company is "completely devastated" after a veteran acrobat died in Las Vegas over the weekend in a fall witness…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:19PMJERUSALEM — Puppeteers from the Israeli version of Sesame Street are protesting Israel's closure of a Palestinian puppet festival.Ariel Doron, who plays Elmo on the Israeli version of the…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:32AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
NEW YORK — Times Square's iconic TKTS booth is celebrating its 40th birthday by introducing a new way for theater lovers to avoid lines.The Theatre Development Fund, the nonprofit that ru…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:30AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
NEW YORK — Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of James Gandolfini, "The Sopranos" star who earned a Tony Award nomination in 2009.The Broadway Leagu…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:47PMNEW YORK — Hundreds of tourists and New Yorkers show up each day at the famed TKTS booth in the heart of Times Square with questions about Broadway shows. Often they're very interesting q…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:38AMMonday, June 24, 2013
NEW YORK — A musical inspired by the music of Tupac Shakur hopes to bring gangsta rap to a Broadway stage.A workshop of "Holler If Ya Hear Me" is currently under way in New York under the…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:27PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
LONDON — Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan."The former "Harry Potter" star play…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:35PMNEW YORK — "Dancing With the Stars" duo Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have shimmied aboard the Broadway-bound "Forever Tango."Producers said Wednesday the pair will perform in t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:40AMNEW YORK — Jim McCarthy doesn't just think it's fun to go out and see a play or a comedy show or a basketball game. He thinks it actually makes you a better person."It drives the dullness …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:50AMMonday, June 17, 2013
NEW YORK — There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," ''Matilda the Musical" and…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:16PMNEW YORK — Neil Patrick Harris is returning to the stage — and not to hand out awards.The four-time Tony Award host and former "Doogie Howser, M.D." will star on Broadway in the spring …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:18PMMonday, June 10, 2013
NEW YORK — Newly crowned Tony Award winner "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has gotten a new lease on life but one of its original actresses will be leaving.Producers of Christopher …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:30PMNEW YORK — It may not have won any Tony Awards, but the charming musical based on the cult holiday film "A Christmas Story" will be hitting the Northeast this winter.Producers said Monday…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:59PMNEW YORK — On a feel-good night for Broadway, it was only natural that the Tony award go to its most feel-good musical, the joyous "Kinky Boots." But most everything about Sunday's Tony t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:52AMNEW YORK — While Phish frontman Trey Anastasio has a highly devout fan base, it takes a little more to impress his teenage daughters. But that changed when he was nominated this season fo…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:51AMSunday, 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 01:45PM 
