Playwright Anna Deavere Smith wins Gish Prize
NEW YORK—Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts.
NEW YORK—Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The creative team behind the Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" has apparently concluded that Tennessee Williams' script needed more fireworks. So they went ahe…
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a virtual law, maybe even a commandment, of all literature classes: Write what you know. Don't forget to write what you know. Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes agrees…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first sign that things may not be what they seem in "The Other Place" appears on page 4 of Sharr White's script: The whip-smart scientist at the story's heart has co…
NEW YORK—Maggie Grace had a scary moment during a recent matinee of "Picnic" on Broadway. William Inge's script calls for a struggle at the end of the play between Grace's characte…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maggie Grace had a scary moment during a recent matinee of "Picnic" on Broadway....
NEW YORK—"Mary Poppins" is closing up its big umbrella on Broadway. An official close to the show's producers said Monday that the 6-year-old musical will end performances in March…
NEW YORK—The Divine Miss M is returning to Broadway, and not as just a producer. Bette Midler will star in John Logan's new play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers" in the…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Divine Miss M is returning to Broadway, and not as just a producer....
NEW YORK—Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut as Tom Hanks' wife in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut as Tom Hanks' wife in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy."...
NEW YORK—The musical based on the film "Diner" has postponed its Broadway opening. Producers said late Sunday night that the Kathleen Marshall-directed show with songs by Sheryl Cr…
Friday January 4, 2013 NEW YORK -- When the play "Freud’s Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 [one year after its world
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's magic to do on Broadway - "Pippin" is coming back....
NEW YORK—Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!"...
NEW YORK—When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would become.
NEW YORK (AP) -- When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would be…
NEW YORK—Oz has reclaimed the box office crown on Broadway. The Broadway League reported Wednesday that the nine-year-old "Wicked" took in a whopping $2,947,172 over nine performan…
NEW YORK—Broadway's boy who wouldn't grow up is not going away quite yet. Producers of the play "Peter and the Starcatcher" said Wednesday that the production will have a new life …
NEW YORK—Katie Holmes' return to Broadway will be much shorter than she would have liked. The former Mrs.
NEW YORK—The theater community will honor Jack Klugman and Charles Durning by dimming Broadway's lights in back-to-back memorials.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The theater community will honor Jack Klugman and Charles Durning by dimming Broadway's lights in back-to-back memorials....
NEW YORK—Larry L. King, a writer and playwright whose magazine article about a campaign to close down a popular bordello became a hit Tony Award-nominated musical "The Best Little Whor…