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NEW YORK (AP) -- While the provocative musical "The Threepenny Opera" celebrates lowlifes, the upcoming production by the Atlantic Theater Company will star some acting royalty - Tony Aw…
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Byrne's splashy disco musical "Here Lies Love" is coming back to the Public Theater - but with a twist....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new off-Broadway comedy about a pair of travel agents and their wacky clientele's demands has an unusual source of funding....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Super Bowl will have a touch of the classical this year: Opera star Renee Fleming will sing the national anthem....
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- Glenn Close is returning to theater after more than 15 years - and it won't be in a musical....
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Kenneth Branagh's role as a director began with the story of a valiant king....
NEW YORK (AP) -- When he was in middle school, Brandon J. Dirden was picked to read part of the "I Have a Dream" speech over the public address system in celebration of the Rev. Martin L…
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NBC says its next live musical will be "Peter Pan," to be broadcast in December....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Idaho has potatoes and Maine has lobsters. If Gov. Lincoln Chafee has his way, Rhode Island will be the state Americans associate with the creative arts....
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- John Lithgow and Alfred Molina fell in love while making the film "Love is Strange."...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rita Moreno did a little of everything in accepting the lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild. She sang, she danced, she dropped the F-bomb....
NEW YORK (AP) -- With the eyes of the nation on the New York area during next month's Super Bowl, Broadway naturally wants some of that attention....
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren said that given her love of pudding of all kinds, she's thrilled to be named woman of the year by Harvard University's…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright Tom Stoppard's first big hit starred two unlikely heroes - a pair of insignificant characters lifted from "Hamlet."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway as a disabled Irish dreamer....
NEW YORK (AP) -- You just can't keep the "Titanic" down for long....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Adam Jacobs is an actor with a wide smile and a lot on his plate....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub will be getting some talented help on Broadway as they share the role of legendary writer and director Moss Hart....
LONDON (AP) -- Shakespeare's Globe in London is adding two innovations in its quest to give audiences a sense of theater as it was 400 years ago: a roof, and candles. Hundreds and hundre…
NEW YORK (AP) -- This Valentine's Day, why not offer your loved one a timeless Broadway romance - without ever leaving your neighborhood?...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Carole King has apparently never seen the musical of her life that has now reached Broadway. She walked out of an early reading at intermission, finding it too tough to …
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Producer Ryan Murphy says it was "sort of thrilling" to feature openly gay leading men Matt Bomer and Jim Parsons in his new HBO TV movie, an AIDS drama....
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking forc…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The chance to work on Broadway with Woody Allen, Zach Braff and Susan Stroman were strong lures, but being able to cradle a dog onstage for the first time may have been …
