18 stories by "Associated Press Entertainment Staff"
"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical" lead the Tony Award nominations with dozen nods each.
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Taran Killam will be getting plenty of live performances next year -- he's joining the Broadway company of "Hamilton."
Internet sensation Grumpy Cat is joining the cast of the Broadway music, 'Cats."
Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in such classic movie musicals as "West Side Story," ''The King and I" and "…
"Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop-flavored biography about the first U.S. treasury secretary on Tuesday broke the 15-nominations record held by "The Producers" and…
Alexander Hamilton never made it to the White House as president. But the cast of the Broadway musical based on his life was there Monday, joining President Barack Obama and first lady Miche…
Joel Grey, who got his start at the Cleveland Play House, recently published a memoir documenting his life as an actor.
The mega-hit Broadway show "Hamilton" is on the move -- a production will open in Chicago next September. Producers said Tuesday that performances will begin Sept. 27 at the newly …
Some big-name politicians are joining Jewish protesters in a growing firestorm against an opera they say glorifies Palestinian terrorists. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Gov. Ge…
Elaine Stritch, who became a sort of shorthand for acting longevity since she made her Broadway debut in "Loco" in 1946, died Thursday at 89 in her home state of Michigan " far fro…
Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick will be back together again on Broadway in a revival of Terrence McNally's "It's Only a Play."
Mary Bridget Davies and her "A Night With Janis Joplin," which opens Thursday, are part of a new wave of musicals featuring female singer-songwriters, a list that includes a Carole…
On a feel-good night for Broadway, it was only natural that the Tony award go to its most feel-good musical, the joyous "Kinky Boots." But most everything about Sunday's Tony telec…
"Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Lauper's songs and a story by Harvey Fier…
Nora Ephron's last play is about the world of New York tabloids, and it's a lot like the messy subject she looks at " overindulgent, overstuffed and raucous. That's its charm as well as its …
Jeff Bowen's off-Broadway musical, "Now.Here.This.," closed last year despite great reviews. To keep a piece of it alive, Bowen turned to Kickstarter to see if he could "crowd…
Cheyenne Jackson, the hunky star of musical comedies such as "Xanadu" and "All Shook Up" and TV's "30 Rock," portrays an adult film actor who fancies himself an…
Scarlett Johansson will tap into her feline side later this year when she plays Maggie the Cat on Broadway. Producers on Thursday unveiled the Tony Award-winning Johansson in a revival of Te…
