Broadway review: 'Love Letters' with Mia Farrow, Brian Dennehy by Marilyn Stasio, Marilyn Stasio

Comedy, tragedy mingle for Shakespeare at Fenway by Associated Press

BOSTON — Five centuries after William Shakespeare wrote "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," the Boston Red Sox have been deposed as World Series champions, bouncing from last place…

Date night theater pick: “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner” at The Huntington Theatre, September 5-October 5, 2014 by Mara Littman, Maralittman

BU Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave. (Fenway)Tickets: $25-$99Information: http://www.huntingtontheatre.org/season/2014-2015/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/

Angela Lansbury jokes and forgets her age at American Theatre Wing gala by Steve Macfarlane, Steve Macfarlane

Angela Lansbury, the 88 year-old star of over 80 films, countless Broadway plays, and fixture of primetime TV for a dozen years as Jessica "Murder She Wrote" Fletcher, was honored by her clo…

Hollywood and broadway team up for 'uprising of love' by Gordon Cox

Atlanta theater review: 'Bull Durham,' the musical by Frank Rizzo, Frank Rizzo

Broadway review: 'This Is Our Youth' starring Michael Cera by Marilyn Stasio, Marilyn Stasio

Steppenwolf's revival of "This Is Our Youth," Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 play about disaffected rich kids in the Reagan era, might be re-titled (or marketed as) "These Are Your Parents." These …

Elisabeth Moss to star on Broadway as 'Mad Men' ends by Gordon Cox

Vanessa Hudgens takes the lead in Broadway-bound 'Gigi' by Gordon Cox

Rift emerges over Broadway's honoring Joan Rivers by Associated Press

NEW YORK — Joan Rivers will be memorialized by the dimming of Broadway's lights, after all. But just some of them.The Broadway League, which represents theater owners and producers, said …

Michael C. Hall to be 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' by Associated Press

NEW YORK — Michael C. Hall's next step is going to be gender bending one — the former "Dexter" star will play the rock chanteuse at the center of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on Broadway…

Young ‘Lion King’ star comes from 
rich musical bloodlines by Jed Gottlieb, Jed Gottlieb

Nia Holloway comes from a musical family.Wait, strike that, it doesn’t capture the astonishing legacy of the young star of “The Lion King” (tomorrow through Oct. 12 at the Boston Opera…

Broadway's Carole King musical 'Beautiful' expands to London by Gordon Cox

Curtain rises on fall 
theater scene by Jed Gottlieb, Jed Gottlieb

Time to go back to school. No, not just the kids. After a summer of robots and monsters and turtles kung fu fighting, the time has come for some culture. Here are seven fall theater producti…

Clock strikes midnight for Broadway's 'Cinderella' by Gordon Cox

Time's up for Broadway's "Cinderella," which will close at the end of the year following a guest stint by "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" star NeNe Leakes.The upcoming closing looked to be …

Monty Python show banks $6.58 million in movie theaters by Leo Barraclough, Leo Barraclough

LONDON -- Picturehouse Entertainment's broadcast on 3,000 movie theater screens in 52 countries of the "Monty Python Live (mostly)" show has nabbed a box-office gross of more t…

Broadway Box Office: 'It's Only a Play' gets boffo start with Broderick and Lane by Gordon Cox

Star-heavy Broadway comedy "It's Only a Play" went from zero to 60 last week, launching out of the gate with a strong tally in a week that saw overall Main Stem sales hold steady ahead of th…

ART actors grow in ‘Neverland’ by Nikki Chase, Nikki Chase

Four young boys fidget on a couch in Cambridge, one clutches a lunchbox, another a backpack. Not yet in their teens, they already have seven Broadway shows between them.Aidan Gemme, Hayden S…

Vincent Kartheiserw will play Billy Wilder in Garry Marshall's Off Broadway play by Gordon Cox

"Mad Men" actor Vincent Kartheiser will play legendary Hollywood writer-director Billy Wilder in "Billy and Ray," the Off Broadway play directed by Garry Marshall.

'Motown' says goodbye to Broadway -- for now by Gordon Cox

Broadway's "Motown" is taking a breather.Producers of the musical have made the unusual decision to close the tuner in New York -- but only temporarily, planning to bring the show back to th…

Emma Stone locks Broadway dates for 'Cabaret' by Gordon Cox

Emma Stone has finalized plans to make her Broadway debut in "Cabaret," stepping into the show when Michelle Williams exits in November.The deal -- reached following earlier reports of negot…

Metropolitan Opera reaches deal with stagehands by Associated Press

NEW YORK — New York City's Metropolitan Opera reached a deal early Wednesday with its stagehands and said it expects to avert a lockout by reaching agreements with the remaining unions.Th…

ArtsBoston report finds arts and culture bring $1.4 billion to local economy by ArtsBoston by Artsboston, Artsboston

The Arts Factor 2014 Report, a new research initiative by ArtsBoston and sponsored by Bank of America, assesses the economic and cultural impact of the arts in the Greater Boston region.

Richard Chamberlain joins Off Broadway's starry 'Sticks and Bones' by Gordon Cox

Richard Chamberlain has signed on to the New Group's upcoming revival of David Rabe's "Sticks and Stones," the Vietnam-era tale already set to star Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman.He'll play t…

'Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' Heads Back to Broadway by Gordon Cox

The 1978 musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" will get its first Broadway revival next year in a new staging directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford (pictured above).Few details h…

Larry David to write and star in new Broadway play by Gordon Cox

Larry David will make his Broadway debut this winter in "Fish in the Dark," a new play that he also wrote.Produced by Scott Rudin, the play is a comedy about a clan dealing with a death in t…

Off Broadway review: John Lithgow, Annette Bening in 'King Lear' by Gordon Cox

John Lithgow has a great gift for playing comedy high ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels") and low ("3rd Rock from the Sun"). So who would think he'd give us such a piteous Lear?

Broadway box office: 'Newsies' circulation rises in final weeks by Gordon Cox

Disney's Broadway staging of "Newsies" seems to be reaping the rewards of its rabid fanbase, with its imminent Aug. 24 closing adding sales momentum to weekly box office figures that had beg…

Touring 'Hamlet' finds a stop at United Nations by Associated Press

NEW YORK — A two-year global tour of William Shakespeare's powerful "Hamlet" has landed in a building known for hosting its own drama — the United Nations.A Shakespeare's Globe productio…

Off Broadway review: 'Sex With Strangers' starring Anna Gunn by Marilyn Stasio, Marilyn Stasio

"Sex With Strangers" sounds like fun. Scribe Laura Eason certainly tries hard to make it so, with a cunning plot about a callow young author of bestselling dreck who seduces a gifted older n…

'Sex with Strangers' is a reunion for Anna Gunn and friends by Gordon Cox

Ever notice how many Hollywood actors have a special affection for stage work? Either they're like Neil Patrick Harris or Daniel Radcliffe -- who got their starts on screen but like to chall…