Thursday, March 26, 2020
The American playwright, known for plays like “Master Class” and musicals such as “Ragtime,” was a lung cancer survivor who lived with chronic inflammatory lung disease.
Linked From Toronto Star at 09:30AMFriday, December 27, 2019
Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as “Mame,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “La Cage aux Folles,” died T…
Linked From www.seattletimes.com at 04:28AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
As a producer, he helped created Damn Yankees, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof. He became a director and helped shape Cabaret, Company…
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:43PMNEW YORK (AP) — Harold Prince, a Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theater with such groundbreaking shows as “The Phantom of the Opera,” ”Cabaret,…
Linked From www.seattletimes.com at 11:38AMSunday, June 9, 2019
The arty and original "Hadestown" was leading the Tony Awards with six wins, including a rare win for a woman director of a musical, while Ali Stroker made history as the first actor in a wh…
Linked From Denver Post at 11:48PMFriday, June 7, 2019
TV talk show host James Corden steps back into the role of Tony Award host Sunday, not planning anything too political and not worried about any online snark. "I hope people will find joy in…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:10PMNEW YORK (AP) — TV talk show host James Corden steps back into the role of Tony Award host Sunday, not planning anything too political and not worried about any online snark. “I hope peo…
Linked From www.seattletimes.com at 11:59AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
"Hadestown," singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's Broadway debut, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, followed by the jukebox musical "Ain't Too Proud," built around songs by …
Linked From Denver Post at 11:54AMNEW YORK (AP) — “Hadestown,” singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Broadway debut, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, followed by the jukebox musical “Ain’t Too Pr…
Linked From www.seattletimes.com at 01:04AMMonday, April 1, 2019
John Leguizamo is taking his irreverent one-man comedy show about Latin history on the road for a 12-state tour
Linked From Washington Post at 08:04AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Hugh Jackman is coming back to Broadway as a classic roguish traveling salesman in a revival of ‘The Music Man’
Linked From Washington Post at 10:07AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. have been forced to abandon productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird” under legal threat
Linked From Washington Post at 12:24PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of U.S. $10 bills, is a counterfeit. Now they’re escalating their fight against the musical.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMMonday, February 4, 2019
Ever since the historical musical "Hamilton" began its march to near-universal infatuation, one group has noticeably withheld its applause — historians. Many academics argue the portrait o…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:24PMHistorians argue that Lin-Manuel Miranda got Alexander Hamilton all wrong — the Founding Father was a slave owner and an anti-immigration elitist who made war on Native Americans. Now, a n…
Linked From www.seattletimes.com at 01:18PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald is heading back to Broadway to be a waitress — but not in “Waitress.”
Linked From Washington Post at 05:42PMMonday, January 7, 2019
The labor union representing theatrical performers is demanding that its members no longer participate in any developmental stage work with commercial producers
Linked From Washington Post at 02:24PMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Broadway producers had plenty of reasons to pop the bubbly as 2018 wound down, with many shows recorded their most profitable weeks despite some eye-popping ticket prices
Linked From Washington Post at 06:42PMThursday, September 13, 2018
Actress and soprano Marin Mazzie, a three-time Tony Award nominee known for powerhouse Broadway performances in "Ragtime," ''Passion" and "Kiss Me, Kate," has died following a three-year bat…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:42PMSunday, August 26, 2018
When master playwright Neil Simon accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006, he was visibly nervous. But his gentle humor was evident.
Linked From Denver Post at 10:06PMPlaywright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as “The Odd Couple,” ‘’Barefoot in the Park” and his “Brighton Beach” trilogy dominated Broadway for deca…
Linked From Washington Post at 12:42PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Gary Beach, a Broadway and TV veteran whose portrayal of a truly terrible theater director in Mel Brooks’ monster hit “The Producers” won him a Tony Award in 2001, has died, according …
Linked From Washington Post at 06:36PMPut away your wallet — you won't have to pay hundreds of dollars to see Bruce Springsteen's Broadway show. Netflix announced Wednesday that it will broadcast The Boss' one-man show on Dec.…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:35PMSunday, June 10, 2018
The American, grown-up musical "The Band's Visit" outmuscled the acclaimed and sprawling British import "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" for the most Tony Awards on Sunday, capturing 10 s…
Linked From Denver Post at 11:51PMSunday, May 20, 2018
Patricia Morison, who starred on Broadway in 'Kiss Me Kate' and opposite Yul Brynner in "The King and I,' and appeared in films alongside Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepb…
Linked From USA Today at 07:23PMMonday, May 7, 2018
The cast of the Carole King musical on Broadway is getting a super addition.
Linked From Washington Post at 11:18AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Mean Girls is an adaptation of Tina Fey’s much-beloved 2004 high school comedy movie and SpongeBob SquarePants is the goofy undersea adaptation from the cartoon.
Linked From Toronto Star at 09:55AMFriday, April 20, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) -- For Earth Day, Julian Lennon hopes to lay the foundation for a whole new crop of environmentalists. He just has to wait a decade or two before they bloom....
Linked From Associated Press at 10:38AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Bette Midler is not quite ready to say goodbye to her Dolly....
Linked From Associated Press at 12:06AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) -- The decision to award rapper Kendrick Lamar the Pulitzer Prize for music represents a historic moment for hip-hop and American music, according to two of the music ju…
Linked From Associated Press at 06:26PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Newscaster Carl Kasell, a signature voice of NPR who brought his gravitas to "Morning Edition" and later his wit to "Wait, Wait ... Don&…
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