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Meggie Candler belts out a song from "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" at the Broadway In Boston 2015- 1016 Season Announcement last night.Eight productions, including 'Beautiful,' 'Matil…
Kevin Spacey will be presented with a special award at the 2015 Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of New York's Tonys.Spacey, while juggling film work and his starring role in "House of …
NEW YORK " Suzan-Lori Parks' historical trilogy set during the Civil War has won a theater award honoring the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, one of the largest prizes given for dramatic wri…
NEW YORK " Trust Helen Mirren to look regal while surrounded by rats, seat hogs and grime.The 69-year-old Oscar winner has been spotted riding the city's squalid subway system and offering a…
The Motown sound changed music as profoundly as Bob Dylan or the Beatles did. Jesse Nager knew this almost innately as a 5-year-old bopping around his house in Somerville listening to the Ja…
Five years ago, at a dinner party in Cambridge, playwright Ken Urban found out two of his closest friends were expecting children.He reacted as many creative minds might " he wrote about it.…
Broadway musical "The Last Ship" will close later this month despite a last-ditch effort to drum up sales with an acting stint for Sting, the show's composer.
"Diner," Barry Levinson's 1982 film about six Baltimore chums savoring their last gasps of 1950s adolescence, has been turned by scripter Levinson and songwriter/lyricist Sheryl Crow into a …
LONDON " British actress Billie Whitelaw, who collaborated closely with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and appeared on stage and screen for decades, has died in a London nursing home at ag…
As all of New York knows by now, Sting has stepped into "The Last Ship," the dark and gorgeously melodic musical he conceived and scored from the fabric of his own life. The surge of sales a…
There's a lot of history in the current Broadway production of "The Elephant Man," which opened on Dec. 7 with Bradley Cooper in the title role.First, there's the history of the play, which …
For a play about social perceptions of physical ugliness, this Williamstown Theater Festival production of Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning 1979 drama, "The Elephant Man," is breathtak…
Rita Wilson has signed on to the cast of "Fish in the Dark," the new Broadway play written by and starring Larry David.
NEW YORK " Rita Wilson is on the hook for comedian Larry David's Broadway writing and acting stage debut "Fish in the Dark."Producers said Sunday that Wilson will follow her husband Tom Han…
'The Nutcracker" 
or "A Christmas Carol"? I generally side with anything that casts Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past.Whatever your preference this holiday season " be it "…
PARIS " The accidental discovery in a small library in northern France of an original first folio of Shakespeare's plays has sent a jolt of excitement around the world of Shakespeare schola…
NEW YORK " Sting is hoping his star power can plug up a leaky ship.The singer-songwriter will play the role of an inspirational foreman onstage in "The Last Ship" starting Dec. 9 at the Nei…
Broadway will dim its lights in honor of Tony-winning director Mike Nichols, who died this week at the age of 83.Although best known for his work on films such as "The Graduate" and "Working…
This is the game with Kevin Spacey in it. You've probably seen the ads with a dead-eyed Spacey barking proclamations about "advanced warfare," sounding like a Silicon Valley technocrat pledg…
The Robertsons are heading to the theater.
Nathan Lane, Holland Taylor and Lena Hall will be joining a cast of Broadway greats next week in honoring stage legend Elaine Stritch, Variety has learned.The event, "Everybody, Rise! A Cele…
NEW YORK " It is hard to describe the hysteria that was whipped up by the new NBC drama "Dr. Kildare" and its 27-year-old leading man, Richard Chamberlain.Adding to the excitement was the ha…
"It Takes Two" is one of the most prominent tunes in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Into the Woods," but it was clear at the reunion of the show's original cast that it takes two… pl…
"I CAN'T believe Mother did this eight times!"So said Cheryl Crane, daughter of the late movie queen Lana Turner, on the day of Cheryl's own (first) wedding.After 40 years together, Cheryl a…
Little girls, little girls, the theater was packed with little girls " with a fair share of boys and adults " for Wednesday night's performance of "Annie" at Citi Wang Theatre.The saga of th…
