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Monday, June 30, 2014

Musical of 'First Wives Club' heads to Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Revenge will be in the air in a few years when a musical version of "The First Wives Club" comes calling on Broadway....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:39AM
Thursday, June 26, 2014

'Once Upon a Mattress' composer Mary Rodgers dies by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical "Once Upon a Mattress" and as the author of the body-s…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:12PM

'Once Upon a Mattress' composer Mary Rodgers dies by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers, who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical "Once Upon a Mattress" and as the author of the book …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:53PM
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Kyra Sedgwick to star in Powerhouse Theater play by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Kyra Sedgwick is going back to school....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:03PM

Broadway lights to dim in honor of Eli Wallach by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Friday night in memory of Eli Wallach, the movie and theater star who earned a best featured actor Tony Award in 1951....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:23PM

Producing duo win rights to Joe Louis' life story by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Watch out, "Rocky" - the producing team behind some recent sport-related Broadway shows have just gotten the rights to tell the story of boxing great Joe Louis....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:04PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Rose Byrne to make Broadway debut this fall by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- James Earl Jones is getting some help with his revival of "You Can't Take It With You" - Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne and Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashfor…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:46PM

Max Crumm to star in 'The Fantasticks' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Max Crumm, who played Danny Zuko in the latest edition of "Grease" on Broadway, will next tackle the longest-running musical in the world....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:14PM
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Review: Tupac Shakur musical tests limits of rap by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway has had a punk jukebox musical with Green Day songs and one featuring harmonies by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. There's a jukebox show with Abba songs an…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:31PM

Gerry Goffin, Carole King's ex-husband, dies at 75 by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lyricist Gerry Goffin, who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woma…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:14PM
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Third part of 'De La Guarda' trilogy aims for NYC by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- First came "De La Guarda." Then came "Fuerza Bruta." Now the third part in the Argentinian multi-sensory trilogy has its sights set on a familiar New York stage....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:43PM

S. Epatha Merkerson, Lillias White to team up by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Kinky Boots" star Billy Porter's new play has attracted some fearsome talent - Emmy Award-winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Tony Award-winner Lillias White....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:49AM

Jane Lynch pulls off her tracksuit to go cabaret by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Jane Lynch has zipped off the tracksuit and left the Cheerios behind. The "Glee" star is going cabaret....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:24AM
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

'Harry Potter' star Rupert Grint aims for Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Producers of Terrence McNally's Broadway-bound revival of "It's Only a Play" have added a little "Harry Potter" magic - Rupert Grint....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:43PM

Christopher Jackson shines in Tupac musical by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Christopher Jackson remembers exactly where he was on Friday, Sept. 13, 1996....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:52AM
Monday, June 16, 2014

Tony wins help shows at the Broadway box office by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- A best musical Tony Award win has powered "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" to its best week ever at the box office, but even one of the shows it beat had a recor…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:55PM

A lost Cole Porter musical to be staged in NYC by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- For the first time later this month, a few lucky people will get to hear what no one in America has - a collection of lost Cole Porter songs....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:00AM
Friday, June 13, 2014

Times Square meals for theatergoers by Mark Kennedy

a sensory-overload, horribly crowded, eye-popping and deeply exciting. One thing it has never seemed to be is a place to go for food.

SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PM
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Neil Patrick Harris leaving 'Hedwig' on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Neil Patrick Harris will leave hit Broadway show "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and Andrew Rannells will slip into his old wigs....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:23PM

Jake Gyllenhaal on Broadway in 'Constellations' by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Jake Gyllenhaal will make his Broadway debut later this year with a work by a playwright he's come to admire....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:22PM

Busy playwright Ayad Akhtar finds his groove by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a sun-splashed rehearsal room recently at Lincoln Center, the knives were out for Ayad Akhtar's new play....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:13AM
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Tony Awards cut 2 trophies, beginning next year by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Tony Awards will have fewer trophies next year and Broadway's sound designers are the ones being dropped....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:12PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced' to jump to Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced," a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party spins out of control amid a heated discussion of…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:27PM

Terrence McNally's 'Mothers and Sons' to close by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Terrence McNally's "Mothers and Sons" is the first victim of the Tony Awards: It will close on June 22 after missing out on being crowned the season's best play....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:05PM
Monday, June 9, 2014

The play 'Of Mice and Men' recoups on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The play "Of Mice and Men" may not have taken home any Tony Awards but it still has good news to share - it's in the black....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:11PM

Meet 4 breakout winners from the Tony Awards by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bryan Cranston won as expected at the Tony Awards and Mark Rylance added to his haul. Neil Patrick Harris got his first, which seems like an awfully small number for him…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:18PM

Hollywood stars Neil Patrick Harris, Bryan Cranston win first-ever Tonys as Hugh Jackman hosts annual awards show by Mark Kennedy

The lethal romp A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder got a lot of love at Sunday night's Tony Awards, nabbing the best new musical trophy on a night that also saw Audra McDonald make Broad…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:30AM
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Neil Patrick Harris, Bryan Cranston and Audra McDonald take home Tony Awards by Mark Kennedy

The Tonys celebrated the best of Broadway Sunday as Hugh Jackman hosted the theatre awards in New York.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:35PM

'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' wins Tony by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" has gotten a lot of love - it has nabbed the best new musical Tony Award....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:09PM
Saturday, June 7, 2014

The Tony Awards will be a knockout _ literally by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The competition at the Tony Awards is fierce every yea,r but this time promises to be positively brutal: A fight will actually break out onstage....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:57AM
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick to reunite on B'way by Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick will be back together again on Broadway in a revival of Terrence McNally's "It's Only a Play."...

SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:49PM

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