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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Hamilton," the rap musical about America's founding fathers that has been sold out since it began last month, will transfer to Broadway this summer, its producers said …
LONDON (Reuters) - American singer-songwriter Carole King showed up unannounced to lead a London theater audience in her hit "You've Got a Friend" on Tuesday at the West End opening of "Beau…
LONDON (Reuters) - The tunes were familiar but the words were not as a troupe of deaf and blind North Koreans performed "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and songs from "The Phantom of the O…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From the first scene showing actor Michael Keaton levitating in his underwear, it becomes quite clear that "Birdman" will not unfold in a conventional way.
LONDON (Reuters) - Male protagonists with polar opposite personality traits - one who develops into a drunken bully, the other awkward but ingratiating - show there is more to theater in Lon…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons, best known as the nerdy scientist Sheldon Cooper in the TV comedy "The Big Bang Theory" will be ascending to new heights when he plays…
LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Stoppard, the grand old man of British theater, is back with his first new stage play in nine years, tackling typically big ideas: consciousness, science and God.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Larry David's new play, "Fish in the Dark," is shaping up for a major opening on Broadway next month and has already set a record for advance ticket sales by ra…
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Killing an exaggerated version of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Sony's controversial comedy "The Interview" wasn't a problem for actor James Franco but he fo…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Show business satire "Birdman" took the lead in what promises to be a competitive race for the best picture Oscar by winning the top award from Hollywood producers on…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best actor Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper and the cast of "The Elephant Man" will be taking the hit Broadway play about a severely deformed man in Victorian England to the…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After winning an Oscar in 2013 for best supporting actress in the musical "Les Miserables," Anne Hathaway is taking on a new challenge as a producer.
LONDON (Reuters) - German tenor Jonas Kaufmann gave his legions of fans what they pay for in a revival of Umberto Giordano's French Revolution opera "Andrea Chenier" at Covent Garden on Tues…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - British singer Sarah Brightman is expected to blast off in October for a 10-day stay on the International Space Station, NASA said on Thursday. The famed sop…
LONDON (Reuters) - Hit movie versions of Broadway musicals are rare but the creators of the Disney film of Stephen Sondheim's revered "Into the Woods" are hoping its smash opening in the Uni…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Broadway musical "The Last Ship," written by Grammy-winning rock star Sting based on his childhood growing up in a shipbuilding town in northeast England, will close…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Broadway had its best-attended and highest grossing calendar year in 2014 with 13.1 million people seeing shows that brought in $1.36 billion, according to figures relea…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Emma Stone will extend her run as singer Sally Bowles opposite Tony winner Alan Cumming in the Broadway musical "Cabaret" for an additional two weeks, producers …
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wishes are granted, dreams come true and Cinderella is rescued by her prince, but it is not all happily ever after in "Into the Woods," the film adaptation of the Tony-w…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy-winning rock star Sting has boosted ticket sales of his Broadway musical "The Last Ship" and won praise for his performance as a foreman in the show based on his …
LONDON (Reuters) - Not everyone would fly 5,600 miles for an opera whose set consisted at times of two chairs and a cheap-looking table, but Johannesburg lawyer Emile Myburgh did it for Wagn…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stage adaptation of the hit 2003 film "School of Rock," about a wannabe rock star who works as a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students, will ope…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six-time Tony-award winning singer and actress Audra McDonald will reprise her role as legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the hit Broadway show "Lady Day at Emerson…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the curly red hair and Depression-era orphans.
LONDON (Reuters) - A hush comes over the audience when one of the actors slowly revolves full circle while aiming a pistol at spectators in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1990 musical "Assa…
