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NEW YORK (AP) -- Tony and Grammy winner Heather Headley has been lured back onstage to play a vengeful witch in a fairy tale musical in St. Louis....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Tony Award-nominated songwriting team behind the musical "James and the Giant Peach" have good news for their fans - and even better news....
NEW YORK (AP) -- What if you produced a play about soccer players and managed to get Pele to be in it? Or convinced Ruth Bader Ginsburg to star in a show set in a courthouse?...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright Tom Stoppard said he will accept PEN's highest award next month in New York to help put a spotlight on a "frightening time" for free expression....
When King Philip II of Spain faces off against the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's "Don Carlo" at the Academy of Music, they won't just be portraying history, they'll be making a bit of it, too.…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kelli Barrett wanted to be an actress at a young age. How young? "From birth," she says. "It was always what I wanted."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The best commercial for a Broadway show this season isn't on TV. It's on Broadway itself, in the stunning, deeply moving "Fun Home."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The biggest challenge for Kate Mulgrew in writing about giving up her daughter for adoption was getting beyond herself....
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a new King in town, and Kelli O'Hara's got him. Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical "The King and I" is getting an elegant, thoughtful revival courtesy o…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anna Kendrick, already known as an actress and singer, will soon show off her literary side....
NEW YORK (AP) -- How sweet it is: A new musical about the composer of the hymn "Amazing Grace" is coming to Broadway....
NEW YORK (AP) -- At a recent performance on Broadway of "Finding Neverland," one young boy showed up in a very green Peter Pan costume and accessorized it with cowboy boots. It was an ap…
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Arizona-based writer, editor, photographer and designer has won the ninth Yale Drama Series Prize with her debut play based on the real story of a slave in Missouri w…
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- "Mamma Mia!" may be in its final year on Broadway, but the ABBA musical is getting a rebirth of sorts - this time in a restaurant setting....
NEW YORK (AP) -- As a kid, Michael Cerveris was a big fan of black-and-white monster movies. But his loyalties weren't always with the humans....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A good wedding might offer touching moments, tension, humor and perhaps some surprising revelations. All that and more is provided by the new musical "It Shoulda Been Yo…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The clowns are back in town - and that's a great thing for the New York nightlife....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Queen Elizabeth II is on Broadway - and her son will soon join her....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hard at work on his new Broadway musical, David Hyde Pierce will sometimes ask a colleague what time rehearsal is tomorrow and hear a funny reply: "Well, actually, you g…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Celebrities including Kathleen Turner and Ellen Burstyn will honor Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday by reading plays that deal with that dark time in history....
NEW YORK (AP) -- This season on Broadway features multiple musicals that are based on iconic films. One of the most sublime among them is surely "An American in Paris," inspired by the m…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rita Moreno's guest-starring turn Monday on "Jane the Virgin" represents a tribute from the comedy's young Latina star, Gina Rodriguez, to the trailblazer who helped …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Historian Hilary Mantel has said she was prompted to focus on Thomas Cromwell because history was treating his life's story like a black hole. We have now all seen the l…
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Mamma Mia!," Broadway's dancing queen, will close in September after a 14-year run that included two theaters and made it the eighth-longest running show on the Great W…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Whoever decides to revive "Gigi" these days gets a great score by the songwriters behind "My Fair Lady" and an immediate problem. It's a little girl problem....
