Tuesday, May 13, 2014
NEW YORK—Contemporary Broadway is filled with splashy adaptations of popular movies and revivals of long-ago hits. The hard-core, truth-to-power stylings of Tupac Shakur? Not so much…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Several splashy spring Broadway entrants get shut out of major categories. Big nods go instead to the faux-Victorian 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' and a Carole King musical biogra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Denzel Washington was seen as a can’t-miss coming into Tuesday’s Tony Awards nominations. After all, the veteran star had won a Tony for August Wilson's “Fences” in 2…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PMNEW YORK--In a topsy-turvy musical season, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” came out on top at the Tony Awards nominations Tuesday morning, earning 10 nominations, in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMMonday, April 28, 2014
This is a wildly unpredictable year for Tony Award nominations. The musicals category is filled with flawed shows, and the plays category has just a couple of probable contenders.NEW YORK &m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
James Franco, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff and other bright lights of young Hollywood are besotted with Broadway, as are the fans who trail along. In this surge of newbies, everybody's lear…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMSaturday, September 28, 2013
The daughter of TV's Phylicia Rashad and NFL luminary Ahmad Rashad has chops of her own now. She's starring in 'Romeo and Juliet' on Broadway.NEW YORK — When Condola Rashad was a littl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
If you saw Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning black comedy "August: Osage County" on the stage in any of the numerous cities it played a few years back, chances are you were struck by one…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:26PMSunday, June 9, 2013
NEW YORK -- The Royal Shakespeare Company's Greg Doran had a rather strange welcome to New York when he arrived at JFK on Saturday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:28PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
NEW YORK — The 2012 Tony Awards drew some of the best reviews of any award ceremony in years, picking up an Emmy in the process.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
NEW YORK--The Tony Awards committee always loves a good surprise or three.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:18PMNEW YORK -- Can Tom Hanks add a Tony Award to his crowded mantle?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:38AMNEW YORK -- The Tony nominations announcement Tuesday morning brought good news to Christopher Durang’s dysfunctional-family tale "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and the late Nor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:02AMNEW YORK -- “Kinky Boots,” the adaptation of the cross-dressing comedy film with a book by Harvey Fierstein and score by Cyndi Lauper, led the pack when Tony Award nominations we…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:42AMSunday, April 14, 2013
The actor tackles 15 roles from the Shakespearean tragedy along with a mental patient in a story that frames the performance. He finds it 'terrifying' but relishes the chance to try somethin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMMonday, January 7, 2013
With “Parental Guidance” a surprise hit, Bette Midler is doubling down on her show-biz comeback.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:46PMSunday, December 9, 2012
The writer-director, subject of a DVD boxed set and HBO special, is taking notes for a possible 'Blazing Saddles' musical.Mel Brooks has just welcomed a visitor into his office when the come…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMThursday, November 22, 2012
The playwright and actor, who struggled in the shadows for years, is earning raves in a revival of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Hollywood's also come calling.NEW YORK — A few year…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMFriday, November 9, 2012
The news this week that the Broadway production of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” would delay its opening night by nearly a month, to Dec. 8, means that a Broadway a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:57PMSaturday, October 13, 2012
Revivals are more common than ever in New York, but is the trend driven by fear-based economics or merely a desire to put a fresh spin on popular productions?NEW YORK — With a running …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThursday, September 20, 2012
Roman Polanski is headed back to the Broadway well.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:23AMThursday, August 9, 2012
A security threat hovered over Mike Tyson's one-man Broadway show Wednesday night, but the performer -- characteristically -- put his head down and bulled his way through.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:29PMFriday, June 22, 2012
The show at New York's Westside Theater relays old punch lines and a timely message.NEW YORK — You don't have to be in your twilight years to appreciate the off-Broadway show "Old Jews…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:52PMMonday, June 18, 2012
Edward Albee. Terrence McNally. Horton Foote. Mike Tyson?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:37PMMonday, June 11, 2012
NEW YORK — The annual gala that follows the Tonys at the nearby Plaza Hotel is a place where nominees and presenters can kick back. Yes, even the losers, though if there was any disapp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:20AMThe historic theater brings the close-knit Broadway community together and sets the scene for memorable moments on and off stage.NEW YORK — As the Tony Awards crowd filed out of the Be…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30AMSunday, June 10, 2012
It may be an honor to be nominated, but most Tony nominees know that they're going to come away empty-handed. How do they handle that reality?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32PMNEW YORK -- "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" may have received only two nominations at this year's Tony Awards, but the spirit of the polarizing production hovers over the Tonys -- literally.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:54PMWhat time are the Tony Awards? You don't need to break a leg to find out.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:20AMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Neil Patrick Harris, hosting the Tony Awards for the third time, is mindful of the expectations but works to keep the show fresh.NEW YORK — Viewers who watched last year's Tony Awards …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
NEW YORK -- The characters played by Christian Borle and other cast members of NBC's"Smash," which wrapped up its first season Monday night, have been struggling to gain a foothold on Broa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:29PM 
