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NEW YORK (AP) -- Appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, Bette Midler doesn't stand up to greet her audience. She chooses to remain reclined....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Since directing "Garden State," Zach Braff has continually prepared music in an iTunes playlist titled, "For Next Movie." Nine years and hundreds of saved songs later, B…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Move over, you adorable scamps in "Annie." Settle down, weird girls in "Matilda." Broadway has a new unlikely heroine, a frail widow who hums hymns and has a bad heart..…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The other night at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Cuba Gooding Jr. came bounding onto the stage....
NEW YORK (AP) -- If every mother secretly believes her son is a saint, you'd have to imagine the Virgin Mary would be positively insufferable....
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's hard enough for a couple to simulate sex onstage in front of 1,000 people. Now put them in a Shakespeare tragedy. OK, now to make it really hard: Remove one of the …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elaine Stritch would rather get on with it....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho" will first try to slay an audience in London....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Broadway musical "Mamma Mia!" will be dancing to a slightly smaller theater in Times Square later this year....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yes, it is bombastic and overwrought. It's true that there's enough smoke to make three Whitesnake videos. OK, it sometimes makes "The Phantom of the Opera" seem small a…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lyle Kessler's play "The Orphans" is apparently the kind of thing movie stars fight to be in. But it's not always clear why we have to fight to get a ticket....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to t…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The air inside the theater gets heavy. It gets hot, too, and the seats are not comfortable at all. By the time the show is over, you walk out thankful for a breeze and s…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The intermission at "The Assembled Parties" takes 20 years. No, really: The first act begins and ends in a Manhattan apartment on Christmas Day in 1980, and the second o…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The darker side of mid-20th-century Hollywood glamour found movie stars struggling to retain their identities and souls despite the iron grip of the all-powerful studio …
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the Oscars again....
NEW YORK (AP) -- In the 40 years since The Rascals disbanded, the band's name has sort of grown a paunch. These days, it's more associated with a brand of motorized wheelchair than a pio…
NEW YORK (AP) -- John Guare isn't merely ready to unveil his new play - he'll also be onstage in it....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Douglas Carter Beane's new play "The Nance" opens with Nathan Lane hungrily looking around an automat. It is 1937 in New York and he's not there for the food....
NEW YORK (AP) -- There are 36 songs in the new Broadway show "Motown: The Musical." Actually, that's just in the first act - 36 songs, not including a reprise of "You're Nobody `til Some…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Adopting a baby is a daunting endeavor, made even more difficult when other countries and cultures are involved, according to Tanya Barfield in her topical new play, "Th…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fiona Shaw's small Broadway dressing room had the look of a makeshift bar. There were more than a dozen bottles of wine stashed on a high shelf....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The last Broadway performance of "Mary Poppins" - that sugary-sweet ode to good children and even better caregivers - was delivered March 3. Twenty-four hours later, the…
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Frank Wildhorn sits in the lobby of a South Florida hotel, wearing a baseball cap and flip-flops, happy to be back home by the ocean. He's remarkably unfrazzle…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese."...
