811 stories by "Associated Press"
NEW YORK " Kathleen Battle is returning to the Metropolitan Opera, 22 years after the company fired her and publicly accused her of "unprofessional actions."Battle, who will be 68 in August…
LONDON " Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance is a best-actor favorite at Sunday's Olivier Awards, a celebration of the London stage whose nominees include Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench and…
Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance is a best-actor favorite at London's Olivier Awards, a celebration of the London stage whose nominees include Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench and Nicole Ki…
NEW YORK " Most nights just before he hits a Broadway stage, you can find Jeff Daniels pacing furiously backstage and muttering to himself.He's busy getting his heart rate up and getting hi…
NEW YORK " Former "Will & Grace" star Sean Hayes is coming back to Broadway as a guy with plenty of will and grace.Hayes will play God in a stage adaptation of the humor book "The Last …
NEW YORK " Tony Award-nominee Rory O'Malley, whose bid to return to Broadway this season in "Nerds" failed, has found another way " in the mega-success "Hamilton."O'Malley, who was last see…
NEW YORK " Barbara Cook's return to a New York stage in a show about her life has been postponed.Producers said Monday that "Barbara Cook: Then and Now," conceived by James Lapine and direc…
NEW YORK " Broadway fans were treated to a surprise performance by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell at the end of their new musical, "Bright Star."
NEW YORK " Producers of the musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" will be hoping they've won the golden ticket when they transfer the show from London to Broadway in the spring of 201…
NEW YORK " Actors like to think their show is different every night, but the folks at "Shear Madness" really aren't exaggerating.Heavy audience participation means this beauty-parlor murder …
WASHINGTON " Eying the multiethnic troupe of 20-somethings rocking out in the East Room to tales of the American Revolution, President Barack Obama wagered a safe guess: The Founding Father…
NEW YORK " Celebrities including Whoopi Goldberg and Brian Dennehy have agreed to perform for one time only a thoughtful, 70-minute monologue. But there's a catch: They get no script ahead o…
NEW YORK " Before you can get to Michelle Williams' dressing room at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway, you pass one with a sofa upholstered in bright colors, a flat-screen TV and a disco ball…
NEW YORK " Audiences going to New York Theatre Workshop will see something unusual when they enter " a swimming pool. Not a little wading pool or artful images of water. A real pool.Tony Awa…
MOSCOW " Among the dozen 15-year-old girls in lavender leotards in Tatyana Galtseva's class at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, one is different. And it's not just because of her long, swan-like…
NEW YORK " A young actor from Atlanta is making his Broadway debut this season. He's only 13 and he's never acted professionally before. But don't worry " he's got it in his DNA."Disaster!" …
NEW YORK " Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary stage musical "Hamilton" has won a Grammy, a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation and now another honor " one of the largest prizes giv…
LONDON " Nicole Kidman has won best actress in a play honors at London's WhatsOnStage Awards for her depiction of a real-life scientific heroine in "Photograph 51."Kidman played Rosalind Fra…
NEW YORK " Most speakers at large conferences hope they have something topical to add when it's their turn to talk. Derrick Wang has nothing to worry about.The composer, lyricist and librett…
NEW YORK " Sandy Duncan's return to Broadway " and in a musical about Peter Pan " will be short-lived.The actress, who played the boy who won't grow up on Broadway from 1979-81, has left "F…
NEW YORK " Disney has announced that Denver will be the place where it tests its upcoming "Frozen" musical.Disney Theatrical Productions said it will mount the show at the Buell Theatre in …
Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network working on stage version of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning novel about racial prejudice Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird is he…
NEW YORK " A-list stars like Helen Mirren, Audra McDonald, Neil Patrick Harris and Jake Gyllenhaal will help honor the Roundabout Theatre Company in a short film to air on NBC in New York on…
NEW YORK " The mega-hit Broadway show "Hamilton" will hit the road, with stops in San Francisco and Los Angeles planned for 2017.Producers said Tuesday that performances will begin in March…
NEW YORK " It's a match made in musical theater heaven " Bette Midler will star in a Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!"Movie and theatrical producer Scott Rudin said Tuesday that the Divin…
