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Idina Menzel will be joined by several original Broadway cast members of the musical "If/Then" for seven stops on the national tour that arrives at the Pantages Theatre in December.
British actress Helen Mirren won the lead actress in a play Tony on Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's "The Audience."
British actress Helen Mirren won the lead actress in a play Tony on Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth in Peter Morgan's "The Audience."
The musicals "American in Paris" and "Fun Home" led the nominations for the 2015 Tony awards announced Tuesday with 12 each, and the two part, 6-hour dramatization of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf H…
Was Cyndi Lauper deserving of her Tony? Why did Cicely Tyson 's speech move him the most? Wondering why "Kinky Boots" upset the supposed front-runner "Matilda, the Musical" in Sunday's T…
Theater fans can breathe a sigh of relief that there will be no Seth MacFarlane-style misfire on the Tony Awards show this year: Neil Patrick Harris is to return as host.
The larger world may have discovered Richard Griffiths through the Harry Potter movies, but the theater world has long claimed him as one of its best.
He may have written one of the most critically praised revivals on Broadway this season, but the playwright Edward Albee sees the theatrical thoroughfare without a lot of romance or regard.
"One Night with Janis Joplin" will fill the to-be-announced slot in the 2012-2013 season at the Pasadena Playhouse.
The Daily Mail in London is reporting that "Homeland" star and Emmy winner Damian Lewis is talking to producers about starring in a revival of the 1930s musical "Me and My Girl."
A closing notice was posted Thursday for "Dead Accounts," the Theresa Rebeck play that brought actress and Tom Cruise ex Katie Holmes back to Broadway this fall.
Actor Justin Long, best known as the cool, laid-back personification of Apple products in the company's TV commercials, has been cast in the production of Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert…
Newly named Kennedy Center honoree Dustin Hoffman is probably best-known for movie roles that include Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate," Carl Bernstein in "All the President's Men" and Mic…
Patti LuPone, Richard Thomas and Mary Beth Hurt will star in the New York segment of what's billed as a national effort on Sunday to raise money for Japanese theaters on the anniversary of t…
The first thing you notice about Evan Brenner, who plays Buddha in a new one-man show at the Bootleg Theater, is that he looks nothing like the pot-bellied, crossed-legged, jolly-looking fig…
The musical based on the 1993 movie "Sleepless in Seattle" scheduled to open June 12 at the Pasadena Playhouse has been postponed until the theater's next season. The new musical features a …
Broadway producer Jordan Roth was sitting in a downtown Los Angeles hotel lobby late Friday afternoon, laughing and giving a broad wave of his hand at the suggestion that he'd stumbled upon …
A semi-staged version of "Merrily We Roll Along," the 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical that famously flopped after only two weeks on Broadway, was presented at New York's City Center.
In a video for the Guardian newspaper, actor Simon Callow takes viewers on a tour of Dickens' London, from a factory and a warehouse where he was a child laborer, to the offices of his magaz…
The acclaimed production will move to Broadway despite a well-publicized spat.The acclaimed production will move to Broadway despite a well-publicized spat.
The acclaimed production of playwright Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, will move to Broadway this spring after all, despite a well-publicized spat betwee…
The New York Post is reporting the production of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning "Clybourne Park," will not transfer to Broadway this spring.The New York Post is reporting the productio…
The Broadway run of the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Clybourne Park" has been canceled by producer Scott Rudin.
To interview the director David Cromer, whose production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" will open at The Broad Stage Jan. 18, is to feel subtly but masterfully directed. Helen Hunt stars.
The Times' Theater Beat reviewers " Philip Brandes, F. Kathleen Foley, Margaret Gray, David C. Nichols and Charlotte Stoudt " spend the year prowling Los Angeles area theaters, especially th…
