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NEW YORK (AP) -- Plans are under way to create a musical based on the book "Because of Winn-Dixie" with songs by Duncan Sheik and a real dog on stage....
Audiences at Wednesday's matinee performance of "War Horse" likely never noticed a very special actor who was making his Lincoln Center stage debut.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Audiences at Wednesday's matinee of "War Horse" likely never noticed a very special actor quietly making his Lincoln Center stage debut....
The diagnosis is in for Harry Connick Jr.'s Broadway musical about a psychiatrist undergoing a psychic meltdown: It needs more time on the couch.
Patti Murin, Liz Mikel, Josh Segarra and Lindsay Nicole Chambers are starring in "Lysistrata Jones," a musical update of Aristophanes' play "Lysistrata" by Douglas Carter Beane.
Adam Pascal wanted to be in "Memphis" long before he ever saw "Memphis," which sounds a little crazy.
Producers announced Tuesday that the show, which has been playing downtown at New York Theatre Workshop, will play Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre this spring. The musical ends its off-Broadway …
The musical based on the Academy Award-winning film "Once" is falling slowly onto Broadway. Producers announced Tuesday that the show, which has been playing downtown at New York Theatre Wor…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The musical based on the Academy Award-winning film "Once" is falling slowly onto Broadway....
Bonnie and Clyde became famous when they teamed up, so it's somewhat appropriate that the new Broadway musical based on their story has brought together two great couples, albeit with less a…
A new national survey shows that the way people pay for theater tickets has changed over the past few years, with subscription sales down but single-ticket purchases up.
Douglas Carter Beane may have two musicals simultaneously playing on Broadway but that isn't enough. "Neil Simon had four. Where are my other two?"
The Big Apple can't seem to get enough of Mike Daisey's Apple-bashing. The Public Theater said Thursday that the monologist's new show about Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company Apple Inc. a…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Move over Adele, Kanye West and Bon Iver. One of the livelier contests at next year's Grammy Awards will pit Harry Potter, Cole Porter and a pair of Mormon missionaries.…
Christine Antosca is something of a hero to the folks behind "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." She has now seen it 46 times — and counting. "It draws me back every single week I see it,…
Cook, whose buttery soprano helped define show after show on Broadway, from "Candide" and "The Music Man" to various revivals of "Carousel," will be recognized for her contribution to Amer…
At least two Broadway shows are giving thanks this week for a record-breaking holiday at the box office.
At least two Broadway shows are giving thanks this week for a record-breaking holiday at the box office.
The 26-year-old actress is now starring in her fourth Broadway show, and originating a role for the first time, only four years after landing in New York by way of an unlikely vehicle: a r…
Stockard Channing has made a speedy -- some might say miraculous -- return to Broadway.
Stockard Channing plans to return to a Broadway stage Friday night for the first time since undergoing arthroscopic surgery on her right knee just five days ago.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stockard Channing plans to return to a Broadway stage for the first time since undergoing arthroscopic surgery on her right knee less than a week ago....
A musical stage version of the classic film "A Christmas Story" has begun a five-city tour with hopes that it might stick around a little longer, like a tongue on a frozen flagpole.
Hold onto your pillows: "Gatz" is coming back to The Public Theater. The Public said Monday that the critically acclaimed, word-for-word theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The G…
Rickman, 65, may admit to being uncompromising as an actor, but during an interview at the Golden Theatre he says he has nothing but respect for playwrights such as Rebeck, who create new …
