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"The Lion King" is set to roar past "A Chorus Line" on Wednesday to become the fifth-longest running show in Broadway history.
The Broadway run of the high-flying cheerleading musical "Bring It On" is heading into overtime. Producers of the show said that they are extending its limited engagement through Jan. 20 at …
An airport in Edinburgh, Scotland, has reversed its decision to cover up portions of an art poster that depicts Pablo Picasso's painting "Nude Woman in a Red Armchair."
Felicity Huffman will reunite with playwright David Mamet in the Los Angeles premiere of his election-year comedy "November," which will run at the Mark Taper Forum this fall. Huffman will b…
"The Nutty Professor" was the last stage musical that Marvin Hamlisch completed before the composer died unexpectedly on Monday at 68. The show, directed by and based on the movie that starr…
Marvin Hamlisch, who died Monday in Los Angeles at 68, was one of the most honored composers in the theater world, and one of the hardest working.
As recently as July 11, Marvin Hamlisch had conducted a Pasadena Pops concert with Michael Feinstein. As an emcee, he shared jokes, traded patter, was in his element. Marvin Hamlisch, the st…
Terrence McNally's 'And Away We Go' gets a workout at Ojai Playwrights Conference as "Golden Age" with Bebe Neuwirth prepares for its New York premiere.There are some writers who slow down w…
Mark O'Donnell, a stage and comedy writer who won a Tony Award for his musical adaptation of the John Waters movie "Hairspray," has died at 58. He collapsed Monday in the lobby of his apartm…
When she isn't busy hearing arguments at the highest court in the land, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can sometimes be found across town at the Kennedy Center as a spectator at t…
The private lives of dance choreographers usually don't make for exciting headlines. But then most choreographers can't claim to be in a relationship with an Oscar-winning Hollywood star.
Joan Stein, a Tony-winning theater and screen producer whose diverse career included many Los Angeles stage productions, died on Friday at 59. She had been battling cancer and died atCeda…
New York and London are among the top major international cities in terms of cultural offerings, according to a new study. The results are part of a recently published survey titled the Worl…
Jerry Lewis officially unveiled his new stage-musical version of "The Nutty Professor" this week in Nashville. The brief engagement, which runs through Aug. 19, is an out-of-town tryout in a…
Gore Vidal, who died Tuesday at 86, was a cultural icon who occupied a uniquely wide-ranging position in American letters. An essayist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and occasional acto…
The Pasadena Playhouse has found itself in a disagreement with a writer over a new stage comedy titled "Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo."Â
Lupe Ontiveros, who died Thursday at age 69, was an actress whom many knew from her comedic supporting roles in movies and television. But Ontiveros was also a long-standing member of the Lo…
The producers behind the new stage musical version of "Sleepless in Seattle" said on Thursday that they have hired a new songwriting team for the delayed project. They also said the musical …
An actress who appeared in the recent Broadway revival of "Godspell" learned the hard way that tweeting negative comments about another show is frowned upon by the New York theater community.
Behind many notable television careers is a theater background, and Sherman Hemsley, who died this week at 74, was no exception. The star of the long-running CBS sitcom "The Jeffersons," Hem…
When the cheerleading musical "Bring It On" was getting ready to begin its national tour at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 2011, some of the marketing material referred to it as an "…
Cate Blanchett is the marquee name of the Sydney Theater Co.'s production of "Uncle Vanya," now playing in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
LA JOLLA — The controversy over the casting of a new musical set in China with mostly non-Asians provoked a series of heated exchanges at a public forum arranged by the La Jolla Playho…
The Old Globe in San Diego will hold special autism-friendly performance of its annual holiday production of "Dr. Seuss’Â How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"Â
The musical still has plenty of seats left for its coming run at the spacious Pantages.The hottest ticket on Broadway is far from the boiling point in Los Angeles -- at least so far.
