2,163 stories by "Mark Kennedy"
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lyle Kessler's play "The Orphans" is apparently the kind of thing movie stars fight to be in. But it's not always clear why we have to fight to get a ticket....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to t…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The air inside the theater gets heavy. It gets hot, too, and the seats are not comfortable at all. By the time the show is over, you walk out thankful for a breeze and s…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The intermission at "The Assembled Parties" takes 20 years. No, really: The first act begins and ends in a Manhattan apartment on Christmas Day in 1980, and the second o…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The darker side of mid-20th-century Hollywood glamour found movie stars struggling to retain their identities and souls despite the iron grip of the all-powerful studio …
NEW YORK (AP) -- In the 40 years since The Rascals disbanded, the band's name has sort of grown a paunch. These days, it's more associated with a brand of motorized wheelchair than a pio…
NEW YORK (AP) -- John Guare isn't merely ready to unveil his new play - he'll also be onstage in it....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Douglas Carter Beane's new play "The Nance" opens with Nathan Lane hungrily looking around an automat. It is 1937 in New York and he's not there for the food....
NEW YORK—There'll be no more breakfast on Broadway. Producers of the latest stage adaptation of Truman Capote's classic 1958 story "Breakfast at Tiffany's" said Monday they will cl…
NEW YORK (AP) -- There are 36 songs in the new Broadway show "Motown: The Musical." Actually, that's just in the first act - 36 songs, not including a reprise of "You're Nobody `til Some…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fiona Shaw's small Broadway dressing room had the look of a makeshift bar. There were more than a dozen bottles of wine stashed on a high shelf....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The last Broadway performance of "Mary Poppins" - that sugary-sweet ode to good children and even better caregivers - was delivered March 3. Twenty-four hours later, the…
NEW YORK—Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese."...
NEW YORK—The Harry Potter play parody "Potted Potter" is magically returning to New York City. Producers said Wednesday that off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre will once again h…
NEW YORK—A settlement has been reached between the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor, ending a bitter legal fight over what has become B…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Every performer has a special routine before hitting the stage. For the last few months, you may have found Deborah Cox singing into a computer....
NEW YORK—Real-life husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are to play an adulterous stage couple in a Broadway production this fall of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," the latest bl…
Friday April 5, 2013
NEW YORK -- Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but
NEW YORK (AP) -- On Broadway these days, there are your typical witches, princesses and crooners. What we've been missing is something colorful, something brash, safe and yet a little na…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The hero in the new play "Buyer & Cellar" is offered a key piece of advice before starting his first day of work at a California mall: "Just remember, the customer i…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but refused to be maudlin about it, instead displaying her typical bran…
NEW YORK—Hard to believe now, but Bobby Cannavale at one point felt invisible in the casting room.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nora Ephron's last play is about the world of New York tabloids, and it's a lot like the messy subject she looks at - overindulgent, overstuffed and raucous. That's its …
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new concert piece about slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk by Tony Award-nominee Andrew Lippa will have its world premiere in June in San Francisco....
