4,350 stories by "Robert Viagas"
Two longtime associates of late TV talk-show legend Joe Franklin are asking the public's help in their campaign to "co-name" a stretch of New York's West 43rd Stree…
Casting is now complete for Broadway's Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, which will star record-breaking six-time Tony Award wi…
As a comedy skit for "The Late Late Show," host (and Tony winner) James Corden goes to the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, believing he is going to play the title role of The Phan…
The world-premiere musical Amélie, based on the imaginative Academy Award-nominated quirky French film of the same title, officially opens Sept. 11 at the Berkeley Repertory Th…
The Triad cabaret in New York is hosting a Broadway-themed Burlesque-style variety show titled Broadway VarieTEASE Sept. 21 and 28, featuring actors from recent, current and upcoming…
Serino/Coyne, billed as "the nation’s leading live-entertainment marketing agency," has announced that Angelo Desimini, currently chief operating officer, is assuming…
An idea for a lighthearted news item about a funny coincidence turned into a touching story about the legacy of a young man who loved theatre and died too soon.
Chicago's Second City comedy club has announced that it will cancel all performances through Sept. 20 due to damage from last month's fire that broke out on the performance venue'…
President Barack Obama presents the National Medals of Arts Sept. 10 at 3 PM ET in an East Room ceremony at the White House.
Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, had Fun Home's Joel Perez as special guest on Sept.…
Move over Fun Home, there's another funeral home musical in the works. Deadline Hollywood reports that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's Storyline Entertainment, producer of TV's "…
At Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, murder will be followed by witchcraft. Less than 24 hours after A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder announced its January closing at the Kerr, A…
Christina Sajous, an actress who has appeared in four Broadway shows including Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and American Idiot, is a partner in a lawsuit involving police and a New York…
Christina Sajous, an actress who has appeared in four Broadway shows including Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and American Idiot, is a partner in a lawsuit against a New York cab driver s…
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will perform in the world premiere of the oratorio I Am Anne Hutchinson alongside the composer, Broadway songwriter Andrew Lippa, April 23-24, 2016, a…
The recent Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You, featuring a score by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi, has been acquired for worldwide licensing by Music Theatre International (MTI).
An Elvis impersonator turns drag queen in the New York premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride, by Whipping Man playwright Matthew Lopez. The production officially opens Sept. 9 at MCC The…
Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the Oscar-winning film of the same name that opened last summer at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, will make its North American debut in 2…
Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will mark its first anniversary on Broadway Sept. 10 with a special $9.10 ticket lottery.
Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will mark its first anniversary on Broadway Sept. 10 with a special $9.10 ticket lottery.
Christopher Gattelli, who won the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography in Newsies, has joined the creative team of the Broadway-bound The SpongeBob …
Jean Darling, the first actress to sing "When I Marry Mr. Snow" as the original Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel, died Sept. 4 at age 93.
Judy Carne, the comic actress who was a member of the ensemble of the late 1960s TV phenomenon "Laugh-In" and starred on Broadway in a revival of The Boy Friend, died Sept. 3, …
The New York premiere of Stupid Fu**ing Bird, Aaron Posner's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, which moves the action to the here and now, will be one of the highlights of t…
Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, had a special guest Sept. 5: Matthew Morrison, currently…
