Wednesday, May 15, 2013
NEW 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 01:45PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
CHESTER, Mass. — Stage actor Vincent G. Dowling, who had a long-time association with Ireland's national theater company and performed several times in the Reagan White House, has died in…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:06PMNEW YORK — There are apparently a few more Sundays left in Billy Crystal.The star of "City Slickers" and "When Harry Met Sally" said Tuesday he will reprise his funny and poignant one-man…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:51AMMonday, May 13, 2013
NEW YORK — Years ago, when her roommate came home one day sobbing, Laura Benanti comforted her the only way she knew how — with a song.Benanti, who would go on to win a Tony Award, still…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:19AMThursday, May 9, 2013
NEW YORK — For three actors, the Tony Award nomination announcement last week was somewhat bittersweet.Sweet, because they'd each gotten a prestigious nod. Bitter, because their shows wer…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:00PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
NEW YORK — The Beatles are coming back to Broadway.Two years after a Fab Four cover band arrived on the Great White Way, the London hit "Let It Be" plans to arrive this summer with new guy…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:52AMNEW YORK — The cast members of the Tony Award-nominated "Matilda" are arguably all stars. This week, they chatted with a man closer to the actual cosmic ones.About three dozen cast member…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:36AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
NEW YORK — A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II" with powerful skill.Tambi …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:16PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
FRAMINGHAM - In addition to his degree in theater studies and bass singing voice, Patrick Curran lists his 18-inch neck on his resume when applying for acting jobs.After all, the casting n…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:09PMFRAMINGHAM, Mass. — In addition to his degree in theater studies and bass singing voice, Patrick Curran lists his 18-inch neck on his resume when applying for acting jobs.After all, the ca…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:17AMFriday, May 3, 2013
NEW YORK — The New York Drama Critics' Circle has voted "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" as best play and "Matilda: The Musical" as best musical.The circle on Friday also handed out …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:32PMThursday, May 2, 2013
LONDON — "Viva Forever"? Not as it turns out.Producers announced Thursday that the Spice Girls musical will close at London's Piccadilly Theater June 29 after a disappointing six-month ru…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:53AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Select nominations for the 2013 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, announced Tuesday....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:13AMNEW YORK — Two leading contenders for Tony Award nominations may make the race a drag this year."Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" — each of which is led by a man dressed as a woman — are vi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:42AMSunday, April 28, 2013
LONDON — Helen Mirren is a favorite to reign at London's Olivier theater awards Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience."Mirren is a best-actress nominee for the…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:35AMThursday, April 18, 2013
NEW YORK — Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to the city…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:24PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
LONDON — Ai Weiwei appears to be standing in front of a London theater, which would be some trick, even for the provocative and unpredictable Chinese artist.The sculptor, photographer and…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 05:54AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Taymor filed a lawsuit in November 2011, saying her copyrighted written works were violated when she was fired last year
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:17PMNEW YORK — A settlement has been reached between the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor, ending a bitter legal fight over what has become Bro…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:51PMLONDON — The widely praised chief of Britain's National Theatre says he will leave his post in two years.Nicholas Hytner plans to step down from one of the biggest jobs in the theater wor…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:10AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
WASHINGTON — Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to increase funding for the arts in a year of deep federal budget…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:40PMMonday, April 8, 2013
NEW YORK — The new Broadway musical about a group of people hoping to win a truck is driving into the sunset following disastrous box office sales.Producers said Monday that "Hands on a H…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:40PMMonday, April 1, 2013
NEW YORK — Stephen Sondheim has won one of the top honors in the arts world, the Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement.The MacDowell Colony, the New Hampshire-based artist reside…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:14AMSunday, March 31, 2013
LONDON — Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger — it's not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.But we should, according to a group of academics who say the Bard was a ruthless busines…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:55AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
NEW YORK — Former "American Idol" contestant Crystal Bowersox will officially be taking a walk after midnight on Broadway.Producers of the Patsy Cline musical "Always... Patsy Cline" said…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:49AMNEW YORK — A tenor from New Orleans has won the prestigious Beverly Sills Award that signals a star in the works.Bryan Hymel (EE'-mehl) accepted the $50,000 prize Monday at the Metropolita…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:15AMSaturday, March 23, 2013
NEW YORK — The seemingly unstoppable hit "The Book of Mormon" has broken another record — this time on the other side of the Atlantic.The quirky, profane musical opened Thursday night t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:08PMMonday, March 18, 2013
NEW YORK — The Tony Awards are going back to the place where the Rockettes high-kick it.The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the best…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:04AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
NEW YORK — The upcoming season at the Signature Theatre will be a fertile one — with new works by David Henry Hwang, Will Eno, Martha Clarke and the much-anticipated world premiere of E…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:57AMNEW YORK — The Juilliard School in New York City has received a $10 million gift that will endow its new four-year graduate program in drama.The donation will support instructional costs a…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:22AMMonday, March 11, 2013
LONDON — The time is coming — maybe sooner than you expect — when you look at Daniel Radcliffe and don't think "Harry Potter."The 23-year-old actor has gone from boy wizard to Broadwa…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:04AM 
