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A national tour of the groundbreaking Broadway musical "Fun Home" will be led by some theater veterans and a former beauty queen.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Actor Fyvush Finkel, the plastic-faced character actor whose career in stage and screen started in Yiddish theater and led to memorable roles in "Fiddler on …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Will Chase's return to Broadway should be familiar - and it is. He's playing a role in "Something Rotten!" that he had to let go -…
NEW YORK (AP) -- TV and Broadway star Laura Benanti is pregnant, and she and her husband are expecting a baby girl this winter....
Give Meryl Streep her due: She's mastered drama and comedy, musicals and various accents. In her latest film, the multiple Oscar-winner has even crushed an unexpected skill - singin…
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you can't get to Westeros, don't fret: It's coming to a town near you next year. Or, at least the music is....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lorenzo Lamas, known for starring in such soap operas as "Falcon Crest" and "Renegade," is going into one of the longest-running s…
NEW YORK (AP) -- You meet in a nondescript reception room in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper. You're handed a form on a clipboard. Then the receptionist slips away and the doo…
The Dead Daisies, "Make Some Noise" (Spitfire Music/SPV)...
Tony Award-nominee Joshua Henry has been named to play Aaron Burr in the Chicago production of "Hamilton" this fall.
NEW YORK (AP) -- During this divisive election season, there's yet another potentially fractious issue we Americans will have to deal with. We mean, of course, "Cats…
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new stage musical based on Garry Marshall's 1984 movie, "The Flamingo Kid," is hoping to cha-cha to Broadway by 2018....
A new stage musical based on Garry Marshall's 1984 movie, "The Flamingo Kid," is hoping to cha-cha to Broadway by 2018.
It was less than two hours before his show was to start and F. Murray Abraham said he was somewhat jittery. That was understandable: He hadn't learned a single line.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The kid band at the heart of the Broadway musical "School of Rock" got a surprise guest during rehearsal - Guns N' Roses star Slash....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jonathan Pryce is no stranger to William Shakespeare, but one play he has refused to do is "The Merchant of Venice" - until now....
Jonathan Pryce is no stranger to William Shakespeare, but one play he has refused to do is "The Merchant of Venice" " until now.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The man who built the Nederlander Organization into one of the largest producers of live entertainment and a dominant national theater chain that includes nine Broadw…
NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the best moments in the carefully crafted Broadway show "Motown: The Musical" is when the unpredictable happens....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in such classic movie musicals as "West Side Story," &…
Opening night of "Motown: The Musical" went very well until right after the curtain call. With the cast still buzzing at 10:15 p.m., producer Kevin McCollum had bad news: The show was ending…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jake Gyllenhaal, who made his Broadway debut last year, will be returning to star in Lanford Wilson's acclaimed play "Burn This."...
Jake Gyllenhaal, who made his Broadway debut last year, will be returning to star in Lanford Wilson's acclaimed play "Burn This."
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brian Stokes Mitchell will lead a concert of the sprawling musical "Ragtime" - about the clash of cultures that created American culture - in a spec…
