811 stories by "Associated Press"
LONDON " Shakespeare's Globe theater is about to take the Bard's words literally " "All the world's a stage."The London theater announced Tuesday that it plans to tour a production of "Haml…
NEW YORK " The actress who will fill Condola Rashad's shoes in "The Trip to Bountiful" has been revealed: Adepero Oduye.Producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival said Monday that Oduye,…
"Ka" will no longer contain the final aerial battle scene, in which an acrobat fell to her death.read more
LONDON " Sotheby's says the manuscript of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's first novel has sold at auction for almost 1 million pounds ($1.5 million).Britain's University of Reading bought "Mur…
JERUSALEM " A one-woman play about an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza is being performed for Hebrew-speaking audiences for the first time.…
NEW YORK " One brought leading man grace. One brought a little raunch. Together they left New York with the top National High School Musical Theater Awards.Sarah Lynn Marion, from Fullerton…
LAS VEGAS " The founder of Cirque du Soleil says his tight-knit performance company is "completely devastated" after a veteran acrobat died in Las Vegas over the weekend in a fall witnessed…
JERUSALEM " Puppeteers from the Israeli version of Sesame Street are protesting Israel's closure of a Palestinian puppet festival.Ariel Doron, who plays Elmo on the Israeli version of the c…
NEW YORK " Times Square's iconic TKTS booth is celebrating its 40th birthday by introducing a new way for theater lovers to avoid lines.The Theatre Development Fund, the nonprofit that runs…
NEW YORK " Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of James Gandolfini, "The Sopranos" star who earned a Tony Award nomination in 2009.The Broadway League …
NEW YORK " Hundreds of tourists and New Yorkers show up each day at the famed TKTS booth in the heart of Times Square with questions about Broadway shows. Often they're very interesting que…
NEW YORK " A musical inspired by the music of Tupac Shakur hopes to bring gangsta rap to a Broadway stage.A workshop of "Holler If Ya Hear Me" is currently under way in New York under the d…
LONDON " Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan."The former "Harry Potter" star plays …
NEW YORK " "Dancing With the Stars" duo Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have shimmied aboard the Broadway-bound "Forever Tango."Producers said Wednesday the pair will perform in the…
NEW YORK " Jim McCarthy doesn't just think it's fun to go out and see a play or a comedy show or a basketball game. He thinks it actually makes you a better person."It drives the dullness ou…
NEW YORK " There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," ''Matilda the Musical" and "…
NEW YORK " Neil Patrick Harris is returning to the stage " and not to hand out awards.The four-time Tony Award host and former "Doogie Howser, M.D." will star on Broadway in the spring as t…
NEW YORK " Newly crowned Tony Award winner "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has gotten a new lease on life but one of its original actresses will be leaving.Producers of Christopher Du…
NEW YORK " It may not have won any Tony Awards, but the charming musical based on the cult holiday film "A Christmas Story" will be hitting the Northeast this winter.Producers said Monday t…
NEW YORK " On a feel-good night for Broadway, it was only natural that the Tony award go to its most feel-good musical, the joyous "Kinky Boots." But most everything about Sunday's Tony tel…
NEW YORK " While Phish frontman Trey Anastasio has a highly devout fan base, it takes a little more to impress his teenage daughters. But that changed when he was nominated this season for …
NEW YORK " The feel-good musical "Kinky Boots," with songs by pop star Cyndi Lauper, won the 2013 Tony Award for best musical.The musical is based on an obscure 2005 British film about a Bri…
NEW YORK " The Tony Awards will be a real drag this year: The two top musicals battling it out have leading men dressed as women and the night's biggest celebrity will be Tom Hanks, who rem…
Friday June 7, 2013
NEW YORK -- Select nominations for the 2013 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards, announced Tuesday.
NEW YORK " While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more critical: It was his last trim before Sunday's Tony Awards."I just need a trim," he tells s…
