Thursday, April 9, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Historian Hilary Mantel has said she was prompted to focus on Thomas Cromwell because history was treating his life's story like a black hole. We have now all seen the l…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:17PMNEW YORK (AP) -- "Mamma Mia!," Broadway's dancing queen, will close in September after a 14-year run that included two theaters and made it the eighth-longest running show on the Great W…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:04PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Whoever decides to revive "Gigi" these days gets a great score by the songwriters behind "My Fair Lady" and an immediate problem. It's a little girl problem....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:11PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Ken Watanabe's face lights up when breakfast arrives, a nice big stack of fluffy pancakes....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:56AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's one character who doesn't get any bio in the Playbill at "Hand to God" but probably should. That would be Tyrone....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:20PMMonday, April 6, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Julie Wilson, a musical theater actress and cabaret star who earned a Tony Award nomination and was cheered for her ability to harness the songs of Stephen Sondheim and …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:13PMThursday, April 2, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's going to be "Groundhog Day" on Broadway. It's going to be "Groundhog Day" on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:21PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Sara Bareilles' musical based on the film "Waitress," a play co-written and starring Mark Rylance and a stage adaptation of Eve Ensler's "In the Body of the World" are a…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:01PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Indiana's new religious-objections law has angered many on Broadway, and some are calling on union members to avoid working in that state....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:05PMNEW YORK (AP) -- David Bowie will be the latest rock star throwing his hat in the musical theater ring....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:30PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Tommy Tune is about to get his 10th Tony Award....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:03PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Sarsgaard arrives for lunch at a restaurant near his home with the one thing that has been nearby him for months - a copy of "Hamlet."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:43AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- A playwright who was accused of copyright infringement by lawyers representing the TV show "Three's Company" over his parody of 1970s sitcoms has won a victory in court.…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:48PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The honeymoon between "Honeymoon in Vegas" and Broadway is over. Even Elvis couldn't save them....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:44PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway theaters plan to dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of Gene Saks, the Tony Award-winning director of such plays as "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:07AMFriday, March 27, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Five performances of the propulsive show "Stomp" have been cancelled following an apparent gas explosion in Manhattan's East Village....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:22PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Green Day front man and "American Idiot" co-creator Billie Joe Armstrong's new musical, the final installment of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit trilogy and the world prem…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:11PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Bill and Hillary Clinton are going back to the White House this spring - onstage, that is....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:06AMThursday, March 26, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The "New York Spring Spectacular" has arrived and it's one show this season that definitely lives up to its name - spec-ta-cu-lar....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Larry David will hand over his starring role on Broadway to an old "Seinfeld" pal - Jason Alexander....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:31PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Most people these days binge on "The Walking Dead" or "House of Cards." Bill Nighy binges on Virginia Woolf....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:17AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new stage adaptation of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" has been commissioned from an up-and-coming playwright not much older than Sawyer was in the landmark book....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:20PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Grammy Award winner Brandy will make her Broadway debut next month as a woman behind bars in "Chicago."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:39AMFriday, March 20, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- New Jersey will have the world premiere of a musical based on the 1998 movie "Ever After."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:34PMThursday, March 19, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Penn & Teller are hoping they'll be able to make tickets disappear on Broadway this summer....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:03PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Music mogul Russell Simmons is producing a brand new stage musical that will celebrate three generations of hip-hop, from Run DMC to Kanye West....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:05PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The hills are alive with the sound of a big, lucrative anniversary....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:52AMNEW YORK (AP) -- While Julie Andrews is the actress most closely associated with the role of Maria in "The Sound of Music," she was not the first or last to play it....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:36AMNEW YORK (AP) -- In 1921, a show limped onto Broadway with less-than-rosy prospects. The city was still recovering from the Depression. The show was debuting in the middle of summer and …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:37AMMonday, March 16, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cynthia Erivo will join Jennifer Hudson on Broadway this fall when the musical "The Color Purple" returns....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:15PMFriday, March 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Lauria is taking his madcap play about the mob from New Jersey across the river to New York....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:03AM 
