811 stories by "Associated Press"
 NEW YORK " Sylvan Barnet, a longtime professor of literature at Tufts University who edited the budget-priced Signet Classic editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems used by countless s…
NEW YORK " Nick Cordero has been picked to star opposite Tony Award-winner Jessie Mueller in "Waitress" on Broadway.Cordero, the Tony-nominated star of "Bullets Over Broadway" and "Rock of …
NEW YORK " David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christene…
LOS ANGELES " Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like “Our Love” and “This Will Be” before …
Three-day BroadwayCon to be held in New York and will feature seminars, panels and masterclasses led by theatre veteransThere will be meet-ups for fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber or Stephen Sond…
NEW YORK " Another milestone has fallen thanks to the Broadway musical "Hamilton" " this time on Twitter.The microblogging website said Tuesday there have been over 1 million tweets about t…
NEW YORK " Edith Piaf would have turned 100 this month and never has she been more vital.The cabaret singer who once sang on the streets for spare change was celebrated and channeled by the…
NEW YORK " Tony Award-winning choreographer and mentor Bill T. Jones will be honored by the Human Rights Campaign with its Visibility Award, which recognizes those who shine a light on the …
MEDINA, Minn. " Scott Weiland, the former frontman for the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died. He was 48. The singer’s manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed the death to …
NEW YORK " The musical "Waitress" hasn't yet begun serving its specials on Broadway, but it's already made some history.Lorin Latarro has been hired to choreograph the show, joining a femal…
New show will be first Broadway production to feature female director, choreographer, writer and composerThe musical Waitress has not yet begun serving its specials onstage yet, but it will …
BERLIN " Luc Bondy, a Swiss opera, theater and film director who staged productions on renowned stages across Europe and the United States, has died. He was 67.The Odeon Theatre in Paris, wh…
NEW YORK " Two Broadway shows will close just as your New Year's Eve hangover is subsiding.The play "Sylvia" starring Matthew Broderick, and the musical "Dames at Sea" both have announced th…
NEW YORK " A musical celebrating the most decorated Tony Award-winner in history is currently not playing on Broadway. Or off-Broadway. Or, for that matter, off-off-Broadway. It's not even i…
NEW YORK " Few performers making their Broadway debuts get a street on Broadway renamed in their honor. Michael Flatley is an exception.The trailblazing former "Riverdance" star was on hand …
NEW YORK " A new online streaming service launches on Monday that hopes to one day become the Netflix of Broadway, offering high-definition broadcasts of top theatrical events to computers …
BOSTON " Amateur musicians from across Massachusetts are joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra onstage this week.For a second year, the BSO is bringing accomplished adult amateurs aboard. It…
NEW YORK " Misty Copeland has already achieved a crossover pop culture fame that few dancers could ever hope to have. She's a best-selling author, a celebrity spokesperson, and a role model…
NEW YORK " For her latest Broadway role, Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford took acting lessons from someone very close to her " her dog.The actress' toy Australian shepherd Gracie was inva…
Writer whose best-known Broadway drama, The Subject Was Roses, led to a movie adaptation, has died in Monroe, New YorkFrank D Gilroy, whose play about a veteran's fraught return home, The Su…
NEW YORK " Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables” on Broadway has died after falling from a…
New York theatre community mourns loss of Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, the youngest person to play the role of Valjean in Les MisérablesKyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African American and younges…
The Santa Fe Opera is set to commission a production about Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs.
OGUNQUIT, Maine " Performer Brenda Vaccaro will replace Valerie Harper in a play in Maine as Harper recovers from an illness and brief hospitalization.The Ogunquit Playhouse says in a relea…
NEW YORK " Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway: Marimba ringtones! Rat-a-tat texting! The shaming "shhhhh!"Years of mounting tension over audience behavior hit a dramatic cl…
