NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fractured political fairy tale inspired by the pay toilets of Paris, "Urinetown The Musical," has conquered great odds and an unsavory title to make its mark as a Broa…
LONDON (Reuters) - British theater critics decided on Friday that pop superstar Madonna was more Mechanical Girl than Material Girl in her much hyped London stage debut.
LONDON - Madonna got a standing ovation Thursday following her London theater debut in the satiric comedy "Up For Grabs," even if the critics' verdict on Australian dramatist David Williamso…
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - There's a lot more sorrow than rejoicing to be found in Athol Fugard's "Sorrows and Rejoicings," a play that is saturated with sadness.
First announcement of this year's "Stars In The Alley."
Richard Benjamin and Steve Martin as Oscar and Felix in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple?" Well, they played the roles in readings to cast the two femmes in Simon's "Oscar and Felix: A New Look …
NEW YORK (AP) - Rosie O'Donnell made a brassy, sentimental farewell to daytime television on Wednesday, capped by a winking message from her not-so-secret crush, Tom Cruise.
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi declared Monday that a charge his government had tried to censor a Greek play was simply a comedy of errors.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bobby baby, for more than 30 years you have been looking for the right relationship, someone to convince you that two together beats one alone.
Bobby, of course, is the perpetual bachelor and central character in ``Company,'' the second offering in the Kennedy Center's ambitious salute to Stephen Sondheim, and it provides further proof that this celebration is essential viewing for anyone who cares about the American musical theater.
NEW YORK (AP) - Kit Conway is dying of AIDS and before he expires, he wants to make peace with his parents, Bridget and Jimmy, Irish-Catholic to the core and not comfortable with their son's…
NEW YORK (AP) - "A Few Stout Individuals," John Guare's fanciful new entertainment about memory, history, greed, celebrity, family and a grab-bag of other assorted topics, could use a little slenderizing.
New Yorkers Susan Johnston and Carson Kreitzer are two of the five recipients of the 2002-2003 Jerome Fellowships, awarded by the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
News on the Tony Awards, plus the death of actor Ray Stricklyn.
NEW YORK (Variety) - Even given the knowledge of their horrific provenance, it might be hard to resist the meat pies of Christine Baranski's thoroughly tasty Mrs. Lovett in the Kennedy Cente…
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - The tortured artist gets tender treatment in "A Class Act," a musical that strings together the songs of "A Chorus Line" lyricist Ed Kleban to tell the story of his lif…
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Internal Screen Actors Guild (SAG) documents show that 23% of union members did not work during 1996-2000 and that 36% have worked less than five days in those five yea…
With "42nd Street" back on Broadway and "Thoroughly Modern Millie," a spoof tuner along similar lines, also setting up shop on the street, it seems an apt moment to take another look at the …
Taking to the stage following what he called "a very, very emotional evening," Lord Lloyd-Webber told a rapturous crowd that the 1981 musical curiosity-turned-global phenomenon "will be now …
The National Labor Relations Board's general counsel has denied an appeal by actor Barry Williams, who sought to overturn Equity's disciplinary actions against him for starring in the non-Eq…