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WASHINGTON—Phylicia Rashad is best known for starring roles on stage and television, but as a director she decided to commemorate a historic moment that helped spur the civil rights mo…
Even more than most classic musicals, "Camelot" leans heavily on its leads to give robust, tender, soaring voice to its story. In fact, the ensemble for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's…
NEW YORK—Grammy Award-winning singer k.d. lang has sung everything from country songs to folk and torch songs.
Rod Lansberry has embraced this dilemma before — and how. Last season, the Arvada Center artistic director headed into theater's cavernous vault, dug out and dusted off "Man of La M…
NEW YORK—The opening night of the musical "The Fantasticks" wasn't so fantastic. The reviews were decidedly mixed, with the New York Herald Tribune critic only liking Act 2.
Consider Curious Theatre Company's season- opener "After the Revolution" a reckoning.
NEW YORK—It's only 3 p.m. but master director Mike Nichols warns that he's been through a lot already.
NEW YORK—Judy Garland's talented daughters Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli will perform together for the first time in 20 years during two concerts next month to raise money to fight brea…
No doubt about it: "Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical" arrives at the Buell Theatre dressed to thrill. In 2011, the feathered, sequined, bewigged spectacle won the Tony Award for b…
Theater's equivalent to the "No Pain, No Gain" adage might be something along the lines of "without risk, there's no reward." Which is why this prelude to the fall theater season includes a …
Is it dance? Maybe. Is it music? Sometimes. Is it comedy or literature, classical or modern, high art or something a little bit lower? That all depends on your personal taste. These events d…
At 40, Joey McIntyre looks boyish. Just not boy-bandish. The youngest member of the Y-chromosome behemoth known as New Kids on the Block sits next to director Eli Gonda at a diner not far…
CHICAGO—There are famous names that define Broadway, like Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz and Terrence McNally.
"Watershed (Part II: Soiled)" begins with vivid grace in the desiccated farmland of the Dust Bowl years and concludes in the present, with beachgoers slathering and blathering and hardly hee…
Golden's Heritage Square Music Hall has been hosting theatrical productions in its charming Victorian space for 25 years, and its popular Children's Theatre is close behind at 22 years. But …
CHICAGO—Acclaimed Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz says he's hard at work on a full draft of his next endeavor, the musical "Houdini" that has actor Hugh Jackman playing the legendar…
NEW YORK—Actress and producer Trudie Styler, the better half of pop singer Sting, will star this fall in a new off-Broadway adaptation of Anton Checkov's "The Seagull.
NEW YORK—There's Denzel Washington and Billy Crystal, plenty of Shakespeare and a nice dash of Harold Pinter.
With the launch of the national tour of "Peter and the Starcatcher," something nautical and naughty, wonderfully literary and ridiculously imaginative is underway at the Ellie Caulkins Op…
At Saturday's performance of "Metamorphoses," the thoughtful folk at the Aurora Fox provided theatergoers in the first rows with the thin plastic ponchos you might expect passengers on Niaga…
In a sense, Vintage Theatre's production of the Tony-winning "In the Heights" has returned composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda's street-savvy work to its roots. This is not entirely a good …
NEW YORK—The Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will be performed as scheduled Friday night, a day after an actor playing the comic book hero was badly injured during the…
