Thursday, October 15, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- A musical celebrating the little-know songwriter Bert Berns has gotten some help from some serious musicians - Steven Van Zandt and Paul Shaffer....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:43PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Clive Owen was looking to do a play after a long time away from the stage. He just wanted the right one. The one he picked would make many other actors run screaming int…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:43PMNEW YORK (AP) -- James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson are happy that theatergoers are excited to see them onstage together again, but please, please, hold your applause when they first a…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:43PMNEW YORK (AP) -- On a small downtown stage, comedian Hasan Minhaj is practicing for his latest gig. He wonders aloud: What do immigrants love? Then he answers himself....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:43PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Taking over a big Broadway role? No problem. Replacing a Tony Award nominee? Sure. Doing both while not yet a teenager? No sweat - if you're Gabriella Pizzol…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- That Thom Yorke is the first from the creative team to greet you at the new revival of "Old Time" is the first indication you're in for an …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Comedian Bob Saget is returning to Broadway - as a pastor....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- John Krasinski, who starred for nine years in NBC's workplace comedy "The Office," is going back to one - onstage....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Andrew Rannells has a new gig - and it's a royal one....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Keira Knightley's Broadway debut was interrupted when a member of the audience shouted at the actress and threw a bouquet of flowers at the stage before bein…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Jeff Daniels is going to get another bite of "Blackbird" - this time on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Jessie Mueller, last seen on Broadway as a King, is coming back as a waitress....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Two-time Tony Award-winner John Cullum has gotten the ultimate stage honor - a theater named after him....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:52AMNEW YORK (AP) -- When you read New York Post theater columnist Michael Riedel, there's no mistaking whom the writer is. He's snarky and skewering and gleeful. That m…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:52AMMonday, September 28, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former "Riverdance" star Michael Flatley, who helped spark a worldwide Celtic dance craze, will make his long-awaited Broadway stage debut this winter - and then finally…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:52PMThursday, September 10, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new play is being developed about the talented and tormented performer Oscar Levant and the lead role is already filled - by Emmy Award-winner Sean Hayes....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:14AMWednesday, September 9, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Tony Award-nominated play "Hand to God" - featuring a satanic hand puppet - will close on Broadway in January but will be resurrected a month later - in London....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:35PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- It will be a long, lingering death for Broadway's "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:12PMFriday, September 4, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The new Broadway season hasn't yet started in earnest and already there's a front-runner for the Tony Awards next summer - "Hamilton." But there are plenty of challenger…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:22AMTuesday, September 1, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Zachary Levi is replacing Josh Radnor in the upcoming Broadway revival of "She Loves Me."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:49PMMonday, August 31, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- About three dozen friends, colleagues and former classmates of Kyle Jean-Baptiste have gathered in Central Park to mourn the accidental death of a rising Broadway actor …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:46PMNEW YORK (AP) -- There's a "SpongeBob" musical in the works but the music is no kiddie stuff....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:46PMSunday, August 30, 2015
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 a fire escape.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:42AMSaturday, August 29, 2015
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 a fire escape, according…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:09PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean (zhahn val-ZHAHN') on Broadway in "Les Misérables" has died. He was 21....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:09PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some Broadway heroines are rolling up their sleeves and posing in a familiar way to support National Women's Equality Day....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:39PMNEW YORK (AP) -- That familiar feeling of being hunted has returned for Alfie Boe: He's about to be Broadway's latest Jean Valjean....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:54AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Sean Hayes will play God Almighty in the City of Angels next year....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:35AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kevin Bacon will star in a stage adaptation of the story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic film "Rear Window."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:37AMMonday, August 24, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Forest Whitaker will make his Broadway debut this spring as a drunken, small time hustler in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:25AMFriday, August 21, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Manhattan Theater Club, one of New York's foremost nonprofit theater companies, has added a play written by a woman to its upcoming season in the face of criticism t…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:37PM 
