811 stories by "Associated Press"
NEW YORK " The competition at the Tony Awards is fierce every year, but this time promises to be positively brutal: A fight will actually break out onstage.Sunday's telecast will feature th…
The pair known for their hugely popular double act in The Producers are to return to the stage with It's Only A PlayNathan Lane and Matthew Broderick will be back together again on Broadway …
NEW YORK " Julia Stiles is returning to the New York stage in a quirky little comedy about a one-night-stand that has long-term implications.The Cherry Lane Theatre said Tuesday the star of…
NEW YORK " A new arena version of "Jesus Christ Superstar" starring punk legend John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child has abruptly cancelled its 54-city tour j…
NEW YORK " Broadway and Hollywood stars will help add some glamour to this year's Tony Awards, with appearances expected by Bradley Cooper, Kevin Bacon, Clint Eastwood, Maggie Gyllenhaal, W…
WASHINGTON " Count on singing and dancing, maybe even a few magic tricks, when the curtain goes up Tuesday on the very first White House talent show.Michelle Obama and the President's Commi…
NEW YORK " Twenty-five years ago while doing "Gypsy," Tyne Daly met a special group of people backstage.One was Valerie Gladstone, her dresser. Another was Geordie Sheffer, who did her makeu…
DAMASCUS, Syria " Just as Leen Arbid entered the front gate of the Damascus Opera House, a potent symbol of the Assad family's decades-long authoritarian rule over Syria, she heard a deafen…
NEW YORK " Michelle Obama, one of the most fashion-conscious first ladies in decades, joined a who's who of designers Monday as she cut the ribbon at the Metropolitan Museum's new costume c…
NEW YORK " First lady Michelle Obama is expected at the Metropolitan Museum Monday for the opening of the museum's newly renovated costume center.The first lady is scheduled to cut the ribbo…
NEW YORK " The lineup of pop stars keeps coming for new Tony Award-nominated "After Midnight."Producers of the show that celebrates Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club say Patti LaBel…
NEW YORK " The musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a comedic romp in which a poor man eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, nabbed a leading 10 Tony Award nomin…
The musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” a comedic romp in which a poor man eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, nabbed a leading...
NEW YORK " Javier Camarena received a rare honor at the Metropolitan Opera, becoming only the third singer in 70 years to perform an aria encore.
NEW YORK " Someone pretty critic-proof is coming to Broadway: The Almighty.Producer Jeffrey Finn on Wednesday said he hopes to mount a stage adaptation of the humor book "The Last Testament…
LONDON " Four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare is probably Britain's best-known export, his words and characters famous around the world.Shakespeare's Globe theater is setting…
NEW YORK " Annie Baker's "The Flick" has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for drama, a play set in a rundown movie theater that was hailed by the judges as a "thoughtful drama with well-crafted …
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, and the judges' comments:___JOURNALISM
NEW YORK " Tickets to watch Denzel Washington on Broadway in "A Raisin in the Sun" are hard to come by, but one man managed it " President Barack Obama.The president and first lady caught t…
NEW YORK " Rosie O'Donnell is getting a Tony Award.The award's administration committee said Tuesday that the former talk-show host will receive the 2014 Isabelle Stevenson Award, an honora…
NEW YORK " The Denzel Washington you meet backstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is not exactly living a glamorous Hollywood life. He's more like a college kid during finals.He wears a bla…
London's Barbican Centre says the Sherlock star will play Shakespeare's melancholy Danish prince in Hamlet at the venue.
The sheer gravitational pull of Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon” has attracted a new huge fan " StubHub. The ticket-selling website said Friday it will provide direct access…
LONDON " Angela Lansbury has British critics spellbound with her performance as a dotty mystic in "Blithe Spirit" on the London stage.The 88-year-old actress is appearing in the West End fo…
LONDON " We Will Rock You" won't be rocking in London much longer.The long-running musical set to the songs of rock band Queen will close May 31, after 12 years and 4,600 performances in Lon…
