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The stage musical adaptation of Disney animated megahit "Frozen" is targeting a Broadway opening in spring 2018, following an out-of-town tryout in the summer of 2017, with exact dates still…
NEW YORK " A-list stars like Helen Mirren, Audra McDonald, Neil Patrick Harris and Jake Gyllenhaal will help honor the Roundabout Theatre Company in a short film to air on NBC in New York on…
NEW YORK " The mega-hit Broadway show "Hamilton" will hit the road, with stops in San Francisco and Los Angeles planned for 2017.Producers said Tuesday that performances will begin in March…
When the Sal's delivery guy walked on stage with five large pizzas, I understood why Filter Theatre artistic director Ferdy Roberts described "Twelfth Night" as "anarchic."In an interview wi…
NEW YORK " It's a match made in musical theater heaven " Bette Midler will star in a Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!"Movie and theatrical producer Scott Rudin said Tuesday that the Divin…
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" has often been described as whimsical " madcap even. But anarchic?It's a word Filter Theatre artistic director Ferdy Roberts uses over and over again to describ…
 NEW YORK " Sylvan Barnet, a longtime professor of literature at Tufts University who edited the budget-priced Signet Classic editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems used by countless s…
NEW YORK " Nick Cordero has been picked to star opposite Tony Award-winner Jessie Mueller in "Waitress" on Broadway.Cordero, the Tony-nominated star of "Bullets Over Broadway" and "Rock of …
NEW YORK " Another milestone has fallen thanks to the Broadway musical "Hamilton" " this time on Twitter.The microblogging website said Tuesday there have been over 1 million tweets about t…
Tevye is a mensch. In director Bartlett Sher's thoughtful but uneven revival of the enduring, endearing musical "Fiddler on the Roof," Danny Burstein - a longtime Broadway veteran stepping a…
NEW YORK " Edith Piaf would have turned 100 this month and never has she been more vital.The cabaret singer who once sang on the streets for spare change was celebrated and channeled by the…
NEW YORK " Tony Award-winning choreographer and mentor Bill T. Jones will be honored by the Human Rights Campaign with its Visibility Award, which recognizes those who shine a light on the …
NEW YORK " The musical "Waitress" hasn't yet begun serving its specials on Broadway, but it's already made some history.Lorin Latarro has been hired to choreograph the show, joining a femal…
BERLIN " Luc Bondy, a Swiss opera, theater and film director who staged productions on renowned stages across Europe and the United States, has died. He was 67.The Odeon Theatre in Paris, wh…
NEW YORK " Two Broadway shows will close just as your New Year's Eve hangover is subsiding.The play "Sylvia" starring Matthew Broderick, and the musical "Dames at Sea" both have announced th…
Ron Swanson's personality resembled a hundred-year-old oak growing out of the grave of Ernest Hemingway. But don't conflate the muted emotional range of Nick Offerman's "Parks and Recreation…
NEW YORK " A musical celebrating the most decorated Tony Award-winner in history is currently not playing on Broadway. Or off-Broadway. Or, for that matter, off-off-Broadway. It's not even i…
"Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will return to Broadway this spring in a new production of "Fully Committed," the restaurant-world comedy by Becky Mode.
NEW YORK " Few performers making their Broadway debuts get a street on Broadway renamed in their honor. Michael Flatley is an exception.The trailblazing former "Riverdance" star was on hand …
John Benjamin Hickey, Christopher Denham and Mamie Gummer have gone from "Manhattan" to Manhattan. The trio of actors from the WGN America period drama are on stage in New York this fall in …
"I don't have a bucket list anymore!" George Takei declared after the Broadway opening of "Allegiance."
If they can make it there, they really will have made it everywhere, and so "Shear Madness" " the long-running comedy whodunit that's been cracking up audiences in Boston for decades " offic…
The Shirelles turned "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" into a two-and-a-half minute opera of longing, hope and pop glory (those strings!). Smokey Robinson transformed the tune into a slow-burn so…
