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NEW YORK (AP) -- Before there was "Mean Girls," there was "Heathers." Now that dark comedy is ready to bully its way into New York as a musical....
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC's halls are alive with the sound of sequels....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Linda Lavin will find herself in a familiar place this spring - in a Nicky Silver play, being directed by Mark Brokaw at the Vineyard Theatre....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was named president of the Kennedy Center, becoming the first woman to lead the performing arts center since it opened in 19…
NEW YORK (AP) -- A few years ago, Kyle Riabko found himself in the most intimidating of places on Earth for a young singer-songwriter....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cinderella's evil stepmom is about to be replaced by "The Nanny."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy will be making her New York stage debut next month in the Greek tragedy "Antigone."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former "Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester will make her Broadway debut next year as a beautiful temptress in the revival of "Of Mice and Men."...
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Las Vegas appears to have a winner when it comes to hyper-specific themes. The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas has opened a concert venue intended to evoke a 1930s-era theater d…
PARIS (AP) -- Edouard Molinaro, nominated for an Oscar for directing "La Cage aux Folles," a French farce about a gay couple that struck a chord with a broad range of audiences, has died…
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Sound of Music" has the sound of a hit for NBC....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Whew, that was nerve-wracking, right? All those kids and staircases, pillow fights, candles and dancing. But somehow the cast and crew of NBC's three-hour live telecast …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Marin Mazzie will get to play an aging diva in the Broadway musical based on Woody Allen's crime caper "Bullets Over Broadway."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Creative industries led by Hollywood account for about $504 billion, or at least 3.2 percent of U.S. goods and services, the government said in its first official meas…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stephen Sondheim and Paul Simon, two longtime New Yorkers and giants of American song, embody two very different musical traditions....
DALLAS (AP) -- A memorabilia collector is selling the gray wool suit Gene Kelly wore as he joyously danced in a downpour in the Hollywood musical "Singin' in the Rain."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The current revival of "Pippin" has proved magical at the box office and now comes proof: The show has recouped its $8.5 million costs....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Washington theater with a long history of incubating Broadway-bound shows is getting a rebirth of its own while hosting a new world premiere from the creative team b…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Holly Maniatty creates music - for the deaf....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Mark Campbell started memorizing the songs from "The Phantom of the Opera" when he was 14 - he'd sing along with his portable CD player while mowing the lawn. No…
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Even after three decades, the triple-dog dare doesn't get old....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Broadway-bound play about President Lyndon B. Johnson starring Bryan Cranston has named its Martin Luther King Jr. and its J. Edgar Hoover....
NEW YORK (AP) -- How do you solve a problem like preparing a classic Broadway musical for live TV?...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The 1965 film version of "The Sound of Music," with Julie Andrews in the starring role, won five Oscars, including best picture....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new restaurant opening this week in New York has more than just good food on the menu....
