2,163 stories by "Mark Kennedy"
NEW YORK (AP) -- At a recent performance on Broadway of "Finding Neverland," one young boy showed up in a very green Peter Pan costume and accessorized it with cowboy boots. It was an ap…
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Arizona-based writer, editor, photographer and designer has won the ninth Yale Drama Series Prize with her debut play based on the real story of a slave in Missouri w…
NEW YORK (AP) -- As a kid, Michael Cerveris was a big fan of black-and-white monster movies. But his loyalties weren't always with the humans....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The clowns are back in town - and that's a great thing for the New York nightlife....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hard at work on his new Broadway musical, David Hyde Pierce will sometimes ask a colleague what time rehearsal is tomorrow and hear a funny reply: "Well, actually, you g…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Celebrities including Kathleen Turner and Ellen Burstyn will honor Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday by reading plays that deal with that dark time in history....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Historian Hilary Mantel has said she was prompted to focus on Thomas Cromwell because history was treating his life's story like a black hole. We have now all seen the l…
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Mamma Mia!," Broadway's dancing queen, will close in September after a 14-year run that included two theaters and made it the eighth-longest running show on the Great W…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Whoever decides to revive "Gigi" these days gets a great score by the songwriters behind "My Fair Lady" and an immediate problem. It's a little girl problem....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ken Watanabe's face lights up when breakfast arrives, a nice big stack of fluffy pancakes....
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's one character who doesn't get any bio in the Playbill at "Hand to God" but probably should. That would be Tyrone....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Julie Wilson, a musical theater actress and cabaret star who earned a Tony Award nomination and was cheered for her ability to harness the songs of Stephen Sondheim and …
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's going to be "Groundhog Day" on Broadway. It's going to be "Groundhog Day" on Broadway....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sara Bareilles' musical based on the film "Waitress," a play co-written and starring Mark Rylance and a stage adaptation of Eve Ensler's "In the Body of the World" are a…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Indiana's new religious-objections law has angered many on Broadway, and some are calling on union members to avoid working in that state....
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Bowie will be the latest rock star throwing his hat in the musical theater ring....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tommy Tune is about to get his 10th Tony Award....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Sarsgaard arrives for lunch at a restaurant near his home with the one thing that has been nearby him for months - a copy of "Hamlet."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A playwright who was accused of copyright infringement by lawyers representing the TV show "Three's Company" over his parody of 1970s sitcoms has won a victory in court.…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The honeymoon between "Honeymoon in Vegas" and Broadway is over. Even Elvis couldn't save them....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway theaters plan to dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of Gene Saks, the Tony Award-winning director of such plays as "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Five performances of the propulsive show "Stomp" have been cancelled following an apparent gas explosion in Manhattan's East Village....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Green Day front man and "American Idiot" co-creator Billie Joe Armstrong's new musical, the final installment of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit trilogy and the world prem…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bill and Hillary Clinton are going back to the White House this spring - onstage, that is....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The "New York Spring Spectacular" has arrived and it's one show this season that definitely lives up to its name - spec-ta-cu-lar....
