Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Comedian Dave Chappelle has been chosen to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The 45-year-old Chappelle shot to international stardom through his Comedy Central program…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:41AMFriday, May 3, 2019
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.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:53PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
“Hadestown,” singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's Broadway debut, leads the Tony Award nominations with 14 nods,
SOURCE: USA Today at 12:55PM"Hadestown" received 14 nominations, while "Ain't Too Proud" got 12.
SOURCE: pagesix.com at 10:11AMStage adaptations of "Tootsie" and "Beetlejuice" also got best musical nominations.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:10AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Medoff wrote 30 plays and wrote, produced or directed 19 movies.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:54PMSixteen performances of “Sting: My Songs” will take place at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, beginning May 22, 2020.
SOURCE: USA Today at 01:13PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
"I know the world will be sad and sorry. She touched so many people."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:13PMFriday, April 12, 2019
It was important to Platt, that his first album as an artist take him on a different path from the music he performed in his acting roles.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:11PMMonday, April 8, 2019
Two Connecticut teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed the historic American Shakespeare Theatre, where Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Plummer, James Earl Jone…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:35PMSunday, April 7, 2019
“The Inheritance” has been named best new play at British theater’s Olivier Awards
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PMActors and other theater professionals are preparing for Britain’s annual Olivier Awards ceremony, where musicals “Come From Away” and “Company” lead the nominations with nine apie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMMonday, April 1, 2019
The original West End production opened in 2002 and featured music supervision from Queen band members Brian May and Roger Taylor.
SOURCE: USA Today at 09:08AMThursday, March 28, 2019
The 87-year-old will become the third person to win a Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:18PMFrance is grappling with its own version of a blackface scandal, after activists blocked a theater performance at the Sorbonne university in Paris involving actors with black masks
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:09AMMonday, March 25, 2019
Hugh Jackman says he’s “very, very excited” to be coming back to Broadway as a classic roguish traveling salesman in The Music Man,” a play he first performed as a teenager
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:33AMFriday, March 22, 2019
It will be the end of an 11-year run.
SOURCE: pagesix.com at 09:30AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Nominations will be announced April 30.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:20PMCorden previously hosted the televised awards ceremony in 2016.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:58PMFriday, March 15, 2019
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of White Sox players conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:29PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Musicals “Come From Away” and “Company” lead the race for Britain’s Olivier theater awards with nine nominations apiece
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:55AMThursday, February 28, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University has received a $100 million donation to help build a new arts and performance space in Boston.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:27PMThe New York City Ballet has chosen two former dancers to lead the company after the scandal that ended with the retirement of artistic director Peter Martins
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:42PMFilmmaker-playwright Kenneth Lonergan is the first recipient of a prize named for the late Mike Nichols
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PMSunday, February 24, 2019
Women have begun performing alongside men for the first time in Harvard University's Hasty Pudding theater group
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:26AMSaturday, February 16, 2019
A series of manhole fires have forced the evacuation of several theaters
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:36PMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Russian news reports say police in Moscow suspect a British dancer with the renowned Bolshoi Ballet of possessing cocaine
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:48PMFriday, February 8, 2019
Performers who help develop successful Broadway shows will share in the profits under a landmark agreement between theater producers and the union representing actors
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54PMAudiences will celebrate the witches of "Wicked" in the movie version of the stage musical when it arrives in theaters for Christmas 2021.
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:59PMSergei Yursky, a renowned Russian film and stage actor, who has been widely recognized as one of the most talented actors of his generation, has died
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:42AM 
