Not the end of the line? Though the Scottsboro Boys found only a short welcome on Broadway, there's already talk that their musicalized adventures might become a feature film.
The musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark doesn't open until Jan. 11, but after only one preview performance, it's being declared a problem -- if not a failure. Shows have traditionally used…
This interview was originally broadcast on November 29, 2004.
If you could talk to the dead, would you want to? That's the question explored in the new off-Broadway production Play Dead.
The new play High stars Kathleen Turner, who's been with it since its first tryout in Hartford, Conn. How has the play has changed in three stagings across the country?
Broadway composer Jerry Bock died Wednesday at the age of 81. Among his shows were Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello! and She Loves Me. Jeff Lunden has this appreciation.
In 1988, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown helped make Spanish director Pedro Almodovar an internationally known name. Now, the quirky comedy is one of the most highly anticipated Br…
Actress Kimberly Elise describes her role in the new film For Colored Girls.
Have we made progress since For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf?
The new film "For Colored Girls" is an adaptation of the stage play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," by Ntozake Shange. Michel Martin speaks with Sha…
Nine teenagers, falsely accused of rape in a racially charged 1930s case, inspired two landmark Supreme Court cases and a book of poems by Langston Hughes. Now their story is a musical from …
Nine teenagers, falsely accused of rape in a racially charged 1930s case, inspired two landmark Supreme Court cases and a book of poems by Langston Hughes. Now their story is a musical from …
At age 8, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter learned that her grandmother narrowly escaped the Holocaust, leaving behind her home and parents. The memories her grandmother shared partly in…
Since its publication in 1925, F. Scott's Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been adapted for film, stage, television and even opera.Now, one ambitious New York theater company has decided to…
Since its publication in 1925, F. Scott's Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been adapted for film, stage, television and even opera. Now, one ambitious New York theater company has decided …
Since its publication in 1925, F. Scott's Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been adapted for film, stage, television and even opera. Now, one ambitious New York theater company has decided t…
Owens is a up-and-coming name in the world of opera. His latest performance in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Das Rheingold has generated excitement and expectations for the versatil…
A tiny London theater company has taken on an enormous project -- to tell the story of Western involvement in Afghanistan over the last century and half in an all-day production. The Great G…
Famous names and compact stories add up to at least two must-see plays this fall: In A Life in the Theatre, Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight explore the relationship between an old actor and …
The new Broadway season is about to start, and it's likely some of this year's biggest hits -- or biggest flops -- will be from London. Trying out shows before they hit Broadway goes back a …
Late Show host David Letterman said goodbye Wednesday night with his trademark self-deprecating sarcasm. He left as he had arrived: with a hilarious show made on his own terms.
The musical has some of the best-known songs in Broadway history, but it originally had other tunes that almost no one knows. Some of those songs were recently performed for the first time i…