4,350 stories by "Robert Viagas"
Nine-time Grammy winner John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. is co-producing a movie "musical romantic drama" set behind the scenes in the pop music business, accord…
Julie Wilson, cabaret singer and comic actress on Broadway, film and TV, died Easter night, according to her longtime friend, Ann Hampton Callaway.
Tony-winning actress Lena Hall played her final performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. There to say farewell to their Yitzhak were all four actors who have played …
Tony-winning actress Lena Hall played her final performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. There to say farewell to their Yitzhak were all four actors who have played …
The song "Easter Parade" was popularized in the 1948 movie of the same title, but it had a long and unusual history.
The theatre community erupted on social media starting March 26 after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act, effectively allowing state …
Tony-winner Laura Benanti, star of Radio City's New York Spring Spectacular tweeted that she is ill. She will miss tonight's performance, but hopes to return Saturday.
Charismatic leading man Marlon Brando spent most of his career in Hollywood, making films like "The Godfather, The Wild One and "On the Waterfront." But Brando, who was born A…
Tony-winner Laura Benanti, currently starring in Radio City Music Hall's New York Spring Spectacular, continues her "Workin' It" video series with an episode titled &qu…
The 150th anniversary of one of the darkest days in the history of theatre—President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865—will be m…
"The Eye That Saw Death," a short horror story written by Pulitzer-winning playwright Tennessee Williams apparently during his high school years, has gotten its first publicati…
To celebrate its 25th anniversary--and as part of the salute to composer Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday--Signature Theatre has assembled a new revue of his work, Simpl…
Nick & Nora, the 1991 musical that managed a run of only nine performances despite a cast and creative team consisting of some of the top talents of its period on Broadway, will get …
Lyricist/librettist Michael Colby (Charlotte Sweet) had an advantage that few other theatre folk can boast. His grandparents owned New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel from 1946 to 1987 …
The cast of the current Public Theater hit Hamilton will honor original cast members of A Chorus Line April 16, the 40th anniversary of the latter show's opening at the Public.
Nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune will get to take home another on June 7. The dancer/director/choreographer was named recipient of a Lifetime Achievement honor.
Debbie Reynolds, a staple of 1940s-60s film musicals who made a late-career Broadway debut, turns 83 today.
Original cast members from the 2005 New Group production of David Rabe's drama Hurlyburly will reunite for one performance, 6 PM April 26, as a benefit for the Off-Broadway company …
Tony Award winner and Theatre Hall of Famer Linda Lavin will return to Broadway this December in Our Mother's Brief Affair, a new play by Tony-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (T…
Shirley Jones, who interpreted several iconic Broadway leading lady roles on film, turns 81 today.
As Disney's live-action adaptation of "Cinderella" continues to rack up huge grosses at the cinema boxoffice, recently surpassing the $325 million mark, the company, which…
Forty years ago this past January, The Wiz opened on Broadway as the sleeper hit of the season, and went on to win the Tony Award as Best Musical and run for four years. The show ha…
Tuesday March 31 is the deadline to nominate an outstanding K-12 teacher for a special award that will be inaugurated at this year's Tony Awards ceremony.
Forty-five years ago today Applause, the musical adaptation of the backstage film classic All About Eve, opened on Broadway.
Last Thursday's explosion and fire that destroyed two apartment buildings in the East Village section of Manhattan caused a weekend-long cancellation of performances at the Orpheum …
