Saturday, August 29, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean (zhahn val-ZHAHN') on Broadway in "Les Misérables" has died. He was 21....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some Broadway heroines are rolling up their sleeves and posing in a familiar way to support National Women's Equality Day....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:39PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- That familiar feeling of being hunted has returned for Alfie Boe: He's about to be Broadway's latest Jean Valjean....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:54AM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- Sean Hayes will play God Almighty in the City of Angels next year....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kevin Bacon will star in a stage adaptation of the story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic film "Rear Window."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:37AM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Forest Whitaker will make his Broadway debut this spring as a drunken, small time hustler in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:25AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Manhattan Theater Club, one of New York's foremost nonprofit theater companies, has added a play written by a woman to its upcoming season in the face of criticism t…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- It happened - as good ideas often do - over a round of cocktails....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hedwig is packing up her miniskirt and high heels and leaving Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:31PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- Kenneth Lonergan has gone a little bit country in his latest play, "Hold on to Me Darling," a comedy that will make its world premiere at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theat…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:36PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of Broadway's brightest lights - including Darren Criss, Aaron Tveit, Leslie Odom Jr., Laura Osnes, Lea Salonga and Seth Rudetsky - will perform during a one-day ou…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 16, 2015
Radiohead's Thom Yorke has written original music for the coming Broadway revival of the playOld Timesby Harold Pinter, in what its director calls the combination of "a beautiful piece of th…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:20PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Sara Bareilles' musical "Waitress" has found a Broadway home....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The end is near. Every day it's a little closer: The day the disco beat goes silent on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Radiohead's Thom Yorke is going Broadway - he's written original music for the upcoming revival of the play "Old Times" by Harold Pinter....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:43PM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Camryn Manheim is joining the Deaf West Theatre production of "Spring Awakening" on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 9, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of Broadway's best will join Audra McDonald in a revival of the 1920s musical "Shuffle Along," including Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Brandon Victor Dixon a…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:05PM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Grabbing a hot chocolate at the theater-district restaurant Sardi's usually costs only a few bucks, but when you add one special ingredient, it soars to $2,250. What's t…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jose Llana got his first professional acting gig by trying on his dream role: professional actor....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Visitors to Times Square looking for some theater history may be discouraged at the idea of dodging flocks of Elmo impersonators, Statue of Liberties and Naked Cowboys. …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:46PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- A familiar, freckle-faced teen is on his way to the stage - Archie....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Frank Langella will return to Broadway next spring in the American premiere of "The Father," a new play by Florian Zeller....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lupita Nyong'o, the Oscar-winner for her role in Steve McQueen's "12 Years A Slave" will make her New York stage debut in September....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:33PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- During an early version of the Founding Fathers musical "Hamilton," Leslie Odom Jr. was in the seats with the audience, blown away. The guy playing Aaron Burr was making…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lifetime TV's "The Balancing Act" will feature several touring Broadway shows this summer, including behind-the-curtain peeks on "Kinky Boots," "Rodgers + Hammerstein's …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick has joined the upcoming cast of A.R. Gurney's "Sylvia" on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:08PM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- During a recent interview in an empty midtown theater, James Lecesne is heckled - by his phone....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:41AM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andrea Martin is getting some Broadway veterans as co-stars when she appears in "Noises Off" next year....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:05AM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Friday night in memory of Theodore Bikel, who starred on Broadway as Capt. Georg von Trapp in the original 1959 produc…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Theatres have been struggling with rude audience members texting and taking calls for years, but things have gotten even worse this year.
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