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NEW YORK (AP) -- The day after the Tony Award nominations were announced, Annaleigh Ashford stood smiling in a Times Square hotel's event space, cheered by the sight of all her fellow ho…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some might find it strange that Joss Whedon's first movie since "The Avengers" - his 2012 megahit about a team of Marvel Comics superheroes - is an independent adaptatio…
NEW YORK (AP) -- While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more critical: It was his last trim before Sunday's Tony Awards....
NEW YORK (AP) -- If Broadway musicals were gardens, their directors would be the gardeners. And right now, Diane Paulus is the gardener with one of the greenest thumbs in the business....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of Jean Stapleton, the actress who played the sweetly naive Edith in TV's groundbreaking 1970s …
NEW YORK (AP) -- An all-star line-up including Matt Damon, Alan Alda and Vanessa Redgrave will feature in a night of readings and a town hall discussion hosted by The Public Theater....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Richard Greenberg's new musical, "Far From Heaven" is actually pretty close to heavenly. Tightly staged by Michael Greif at Playwrights Horizons, it's smart, sophisticat…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Director Tom Morris uses the phrase "happy accident" to describe the success of his Tony-award-winning play "War Horse," whose central character was a puppet....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The oldest continuously operating theater in the nation's capital that has drawn top performers dating back decades before the Civil War is getting a fresh start and a…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amanda Green recently relived a moment of personal heartbreak. She did so with a huge smile....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Rebecca Hall, who plays a brilliant biologist in "Iron Man 3," will soon get to play a murderer onstage....
NEW YORK (AP) -- One clue to understanding how David Rockwell's mind works is by finding out what he collects. It turns out to be kaleidoscopes....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new musical featuring the songs of Bob Marley, the world premiere of William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" by the innovative Fiasco Theater company and an Austra…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The world premiere of Ethan Coen's first full-length stage play, a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis will highlight the Atlantic T…
NEW YORK (AP) -- There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like h…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional - not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages. He knew that being honest would for…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The singer known as the Gentleman of Salsa is temporarily turning to tango: Gilberto Santa Rosa will make his Broadway debut in the musical "Forever Tango," which return…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Britain's biggest theater groups has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million....
NEW YORK (AP) -- If either her husband or daughter is calling, Audra McDonald knows without looking at her phone....
NEW YORK (AP) -- To find their Mr. Darcy, the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota has turned to a Mad Man....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" - some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing hom…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is putting on a show at the White House next week for singer-songwriter Carole King....
NEW YORK (AP) -- What do you get when you take a 70-page melodrama at the center of "War and Peace" and turn it into a musical? Now layer dance music onto the traditional Russian folk mu…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has tapped as its new leader a Broadway producer who has helped mount such hits as the Tony Award-winning revival of "Hair" and "E…
NEW YORK (AP) -- A revival of Terence Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy" starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Roger Rees is heading to Broadway next season....
