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The Theater Hall Of Fame has selected these theater legends to be inducted Jan. 27 at the Gershwin Theatre...
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NEW YORK (Variety) - What would Richard Rodgers think of the new "Flower Drum Song?"
Before there was Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan or Gish Jen, there was C.Y. Lee and "The Flower Drum Song."
"Flower Drum Song" has always occupied a lower rung in the Rodgers and Hammerstein pantheon of musicals that includes such classics as "Carousel," "The King and I" and "Oklahoma!"
And there's no reason to expect it to move up a notch, judging from the radically reworked version that opened Thursday at Broadway's Virginia Theatre after a successful run last year in Los Angeles.
This review misspells the main character's name as Mei-Lei instead of Mei-Li. And since it's from the AP, that mistake will be reprinted in hundreds of newspapers...
Alan Menken, who composed the music for the scores of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast," has created a new song, "To Be Free," for "Disney's 'Aladdin' -- Live On Stage," a new Broadway-caliber musical based on the animated film.
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NEW YORK (Variety) - The Broadway revival of "Our Town," starring Paul Newman, racked up $1.5 million in its first five days of ticket sales.
"A Man of No Importance," the wonderful, heartfelt and emotionally nourishing new musical that Lincoln Center Theater unveiled Thursday at the Mitzi Newhouse.
A must-see for fans of Burns, it's likely to hold only marginal appeal for other theatergoers.
From Glenn Close and Elaine Stritch to Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, it is suddenly ladies' night on the London stage.
U.S. singer Paul Robeson, best known for his rendition of "Ol' Man River," received belated British recognition Thursday in the shape of a blue plaque marking the north London house that was…
Al Pacino is on a theater roll in Gotham.
ROME (AP) - Bruce Paltrow, producer and director of "St. Elsewhere" and patriarch of a show business family that includes Oscar-winning daughter Gwyneth Paltrow, has died in Italy. He was 58.
Last year I was standing at the Belasco Theatre's bar during intermission at "Follies" when I saw Mr. Paltrow standing next to me. I decided to thank him for his brilliant work on "St. Elsewhere," my favorite TV drama ever -- but I didn't have the guts. Another of my great regrets...
"Nobody's Perfect," the story of Billy Wilder, by Charlotte Chandler, due from Simon & Schuster later this fall, will be produced on Broadway by David Brown. John Tillinger will direct.
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In "Burn This," Lanford Wilson's exhausting modern-day Manhattan romance, it is grief over the accidental drowning of a brilliant young dancer that unites what would seem to be, at first gla…
"Take Me Out" is expected to follow "Proof" into the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway. And Vanessa Redgrave may make her return to the Great White Way for the first time in 13 years this seas…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - What would Greta Garbo, Hollywood's mystery woman who "wanted to be alone," think of an entire musical telling the story of her life in flashy Broadway style.
