Sara Bareilles has spent the last five years of her life working almost exclusively on the musical "Waitress." With the show still sailing on Broadway after more than two years and a nationa…
They didn't set out to do it, but when the creative talents behind the Broadway musical "Waitress" assembled in a room, they looked around and realized something unusual: They were all women…
Shhhhh. John Lithgow is performing his solo show, "Stories by Heart." The five audience members are riveted. Don't speak, don't fidget, and for God's sake, don't look at your phone. The acto…
"The Band's Visit" won 10 Tony Awards on Sunday, including best musical, leading actor and leading actress. But if you can't get to New York to see the show, when might the show come to you?…
Laurie Metcalf was anything but a shoo-in for a Tony Award, so her win Sunday for featured actress in "Three Tall Women" naturally raises the question: Did "Roseanne" controversy play a part…
L.A. Times' theater critic Charles McNulty said the performance in "The Iceman Cometh" was "revelatory." The New York Times wrote that it was a "center-of-gravity" turn, equal parts joyful a…
For five midcareer pros working in film/video, dance, music, theater and visual art, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is a remarkable prize: $75,000 to use at a time when work is often pois…
"Frozen," the Broadway musical, will launch its national tour at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in fall 2019, the Pantages announced Tuesday. Following its splashy New York opening in March …
Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo has been creating some of Braodway's most memorable posters since the early 1970s. Now he's put more than 250 of his favorite designs in a book.
Jayne Houdyshell and Reed Birney will reprise their Tony Award-winning roles in Stephen Karam's play "The Humans" when it's staged at the Ahmanson Theatre this summer, Center Theatre Group a…
The musicals "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Mean Girls" each garnered 12 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, leading a pack dominated by Hollywood franchises such as "Harry Potter" and familiar ti…
"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Ban…
"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Ban…
With one of Broadway's biggest days just around the corner, speculation over this year's Tony Award nominations is peaking. Will there be any surprises in the best musical category, where ma…
The first batch of tickets to see Tom Hanks star as Sir John Falstaff in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of "Henry IV" go on sale Monday. The play, which is scheduled to ru…
Stories with a rabid tot and tween fan base are proving their box office might as "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" and Disney's "Frozen" break records on Broadway. The Harry Potter play, …
Center Theatre Group on Wednesday will announce the 2018-19 seasons for the Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre, whose lineups will include work by Tracy Letts, Lynn Nottage, Luis Vald…
"Frozen" the musical smashed the house record for weekly ticket sales at the St. James Theatre in New York, Disney Theatrical Productions announced Monday, beating the mark formerly held by …
The Hollywood invasion of Broadway, and theater in general, continues with grand entrances by Ryan Murphy, Tina Fey and more television stars than we can count. Here is some of the most nota…
Reprise Theatre Company will try for an encore when founder Marcia Seligson brings it back as Reprise 2.0 in June with "Sweet Charity," directed by Kathleen Marshall. The company, which spec…
"We're standing on the same stage where 'Oklahoma!' premiered," says British director Michael Grandage, gesturing at the flooring beneath his feet inside the historic St. James Theatre on We…
Olaf the snowman is an important character in "Frozen" the musical. He's also a complicated puppet that requires careful care and maintenance. We meet Greg Hildreth, the actor tasked with ma…
Princess dresses are not the sole purview of little girls. At the first preview of Disney Theatrical's new Broadway musical "Frozen" on Thursday night, the royal gowns were an equal-opportun…
"Frozen" co-creator Jennifer Lee and her boyfriend, Alfred Molina, sit toward the front of the historic St. James Theatre for a special dress rehearsal - a sneak peek for industry people bef…
"Frozen" co-creator Jennifer Lee and her boyfriend, Alfred Molina, sit toward the front of the historic St. James Theatre late Tuesday afternoon for a special dress rehearsal of the new Broa…