2,163 stories by "Mark Kennedy"
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ballerina Misty Copeland, who just became the first African-American woman to be a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, has another breakthrough planned - a debu…
NEW YORK (AP) -- A play about a lesbian activist's journey to single motherhood will be produced this fall downtown with some help from Rosie O'Donnell and Cynthia Nixon....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jimmy Carter has been a governor, the nation's commander in chief and a Nobel Prize winner. One thing he still would like to see is himself on a Broadway stage....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical featured in the TV show "Smash" might actually find its way to a stage....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andrew Lloyd Webber has tapped a favorite actress to play the school principal in the musical stage version of "School of Rock."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you think your job stinks, take a moment to consider the pretty horrible tasks facing the lowly sentries Humayun and Babur in Rajiv Joseph's new "Guards at the Taj.".…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The great playwright Arthur Miller rarely changed a word of his plays during rehearsals. The equally great Tennessee Williams rewrote furiously until he had to stop....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Keira Knightley will have some onstage help making her Broadway debut next year from Tony Award-winner Judith Light, "Constantine" star Matt Ryan and Tony-winner Gabriel…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Five things to note following the Tony Awards on Sunday night:...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Fun Home" songwriters Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron have made history by becoming the first female writing team to nab a Tony for musical score....
NEW YORK (AP) -- When producers asked Alan Cumming to host the Tony Awards this year, his heart sank....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first special Tony Award to honor educators has been given to a veteran North Carolina high school arts teacher who wants to create magic but doesn't believe in maki…
NEW YORK (AP) -- There is a coffin sitting onstage. A lesbian is the narrator. There are no movie stars in it. And we are promised a suicide by Page 9 of the script....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Things have been moving so quickly this year for Tony Yazbeck that he hasn't had time to squeeze in something important - his honeymoon....
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Larry David was showing his old "Seinfeld" pal Jason Alexander the quirks of his Broadway dressing room, the discussion naturally went to the toilet....
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Dames at Sea," a spoof of the Busby Berkeley spectacles, is setting sail for Broadway....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sam Gold was still in college when he did something most people only dream about: He made his Broadway acting debut. But he quickly realized he was probably on the wrong…
NEW YORK (AP) -- If Chita Rivera ever wants a quick reminder of her past, she only needs to walk down a hall and knock on Michelle Veintimilla's Broadway dressing room....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Latecomers, be warned: Miss the start of the new show at the Studio 54 theater this summer and you will be heckled by no less than God Almighty....
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you missed the production of "Show Boat" in San Francisco last summer, you missed something big - 65 singers, actors and dancers onstage and some 47 musicians in the …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Like so many other aspiring actresses, Olivia Washington is paying her dues at a small, off-Broadway theater. Unlike so many other aspiring actresses, she's not relying …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Actress Danielle Brooks is going from orange to purple - jumping from "Orange Is the New Black" on TV to a Broadway stage in the upcoming "The Color Purple" revival....
NEW YORK (AP) -- If the Tony Award for best director was handed out on quantity alone, Jeremy Herrin would easily be the winner....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jessica Lange will return to Broadway next spring in a production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night," playing the same role she did 15 years ago in London....
As confounding as this all sounds, what has emerged is an absolute marvel. The creators — including director and choreographer Susan Stroman and book writer David Thompson — walk…
