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A performer who never retired is remembered for her electric Broadway performances and daring cabaret work.
Many of the plays and musicals that resonated this year deftly married elements of drama and comedy.
Beginning in the 1980s, when she played the controlling working-class mother of the oddball postal carrier Cliff Clavin on "Cheers," she sailed through a period of playing maternal figures i…
It continued to run at Sullivan Street for more than 17,000 performances, finally closing in 2002 as the longest-running musical in history.
Perhaps his best-known character was Philip Barbay, the uptight dean of a business school and the nemesis of Thornton Melon, Rodney Dangerfield's character, in "Back to School" (1986).
With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway's shows, performers and creative teams.
The 76th Tony Awards will celebrate the best of Broadway tonight in Upper Manhattan. We'll be following the red carpet and the first awards before the telecast begins at 8 p.m. Eastern on CB…
Wagner designed sets on Broadway, off-Broadway and for regional theater, for operas and ballets, and, in 1975, for the Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas.
In a time of renewed awakening, a surprising number of shows smartly reflected those changes in song.
"Phantom" had come to seem like a permanent part of the Broadway landscape, a period piece and a tourist magnet that stood apart from the vicissitudes of the commercial theater marketplace.
This year, the Beach Sessions at Rockaway Beach features the Trisha Brown Dance Company in a program of early works.
Although Warner played a wide variety of roles, he may have been most frequently identified with villainous ones.
Brook spent years in commercial theater, winning Tony Awards in 1966 and 1971 for the Broadway transfers of highly original productions of Peter Weiss' "Marat/Sade" and Shakespeare's "A Mids…
The ceremony returns to Radio City Music Hall tonight with Ariana DeBose as host. Here's how to watch.
Billy Crystal, Shoshana Bean and performers from "Company," "MJ," "A Strange Loop," "Six" and other Tony-nominated shows will share songs and stories.
The nominations, honoring Broadway as the industry returned after the long coronavirus shutdown, will be announced at 9 a.m. Eastern. The virus posed a special challenge for nominators.
Want to see a comedy show, or drop in on a film series? Do you need kid-friendly event? Our critics offer their favorite picks.
In a two-part episode of "Seinfeld," she played Lenore Sokol, a deadpan counselor skeptical about George Costanza's attempts to get an extension on his unemployment benefits.
'Funny Girl' and 'A Strangle Loop' on Broadway, Ashwini Ramaswamy's dances, Olivia Rodrigo's pop takeover: what our critics and writers are looking forward to this season.
