2,163 stories by "Mark Kennedy"
Families of autistic children have a new place to engage their sons and daughters -- Broadway.
This month, Chanler-Berat is fulfilling a childhood dream by joining a new off-Broadway revival of the show just three years after "Rent" tearfully closed up shop on Broadway.
Doing skateboard tricks on a theater stage is usually deeply frowned upon. But at the Union Square Theatre these days, they're not only encouraged — they're a big part of the show.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who first teamed up together in the musical "Evita," are coming back to Broadway....
Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who first teamed up together in the musical "Evita," are coming back to Broadway.
It seems like whatever gets thrown at Shields, she gamely returns. Few actresses seem as approachable, as sweet or as genuine.
Transforming popular children's' books into musicals — as opposed to making them up from scratch — has some advantages, namely in immediate brand recognition.
Early in her career, Shirley Alston Reeves got a piece of advice no singer wants to hear.
Early in her career, Shirley Alston Reeves got a piece of advice no singer wants to hear. The advice: Don't go out there thinking you've got some fabulous voice.
Barrett and Doyle help run the British theater company Punchdrunk, which specializes in putting on immersive, genre-bending shows with high-impact modern dance moves that let audiences roa…
Some of the first gay marriages in New York will literally be a theatrical event.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of the first gay marriages in New York will literally be a theatrical event....
His dark, 90-minute off-Broadway comedy, about four strangers in a beach house in the dead of winter, represents Braff's first piece of writing that's 100 percent original since he wrote a…
Zach Braff is standing in the green room of Second Stage Theatre and staring at the walls.
They're covered in posters from the company's previous productions, each one framed and signed by …
NEW YORK - What kind of deranged people watch “The Silence of the Lambs’’ and think: That would make a killer musical?
What kind of deranged people watch "The Silence of the Lambs" and think: That would make a killer musical? These people: Jon and Al Kaplan, a pair of brothers from New York with a droll sens…
What kind of deranged people watch "The Silence of the Lambs" and think: That would make a killer musical?These people: Jon and Al Kaplan, a pair of brothers from New York with a droll sens…
Daly and Boggess play a chilly teacher and her overawed student in a revival of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning "Master Class."
The Royal Shakespeare Company has to be considered a very gracious houseguest. Not only has this English troupe arrived in New York to show off five of its productions with its own actors an…
A teenager from Minnesota and one from New York won top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards on Monday night, sweeping to glory at the "Glee"-type competition by masteri…
Teenagers from Minnesota and upstate New York have won the top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Teenagers from Minnesota and upstate New York have won the top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards....
Alicia Keys is following Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers. Keys, whose hits include "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," will help produce Lydia R. Diamond's play "Stick…
Alicia Keys is following Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers. Keys, whose hits include "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," will help produce the play "Stick Fly."
The musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will go on as scheduled Thursday night, a day after the cast and crew were shaken by a death backstage that scrubbed a performa…
