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BOSTON " "Finish Line," a documentary play about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, will make its world premiere this week in Boston.The Boston Theater Company production draws from intervie…
NEW YORK " The Obamas just can't quit Broadway.Former President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia Obama have caught a new revival of Arthur Miller's "The Price." They attended the play st…
Andrea Miller's W H A L E, her 10th work for Brooklyn-based Gallim Dance, made a provocative splash in it's Boston debut last weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Art.W H A L E originall…
NEW YORK " Original cast members of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit "Hamilton: An American Musical," will sing "America the Beautiful" during pregame festivities at Super Bowl 51, the NF…
Brandon Victor Dixon has been nominated for two Tony Awards, but it took the election of Donald Trump to put him in the national spotlight. The New York actor, currently playing the role of …
A big thumbs-up to theaÂter. From "Hamilton" to "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" (straight from Cambridge to Broadway), theater has returned as a major art form. It can als…
NEW YORK " The Tony Awards are going back to their old " and much larger " stomping grounds.The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League said Thursday that the telecast on June 11 will …
NEW YORK " A new musical version of the popular young adult fiction book "The Lightning Thief" will be hoping to steal hearts off-Broadway this spring featuring rising stage star Chris McCar…
COLUMBIA, S.C. " Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky's sumptuous opera "Eugene Onegin," a concert by jazz master Dee Dee Bridgewater and performance by flamenco dance star Maria Pages are jus…
NEW YORK " Actor George S. Irving, who won a Tony Award starring with Debbie Reynolds in the musical "Irene" and appeared in the original Broadway production of "Oklahoma," died Monday at ag…
Al Pacino will star as Tennessee Williams in the play "God Looked Away," the Pasadena Playhouse's first production under its new development program PlayWorks.Judith Light ("Transparent"), a…
Supporters of Donald Trump and Mike Pence started the hashtag #BoycottHamilton to defend the vice president-elect who was booed while attending the Broadway show "Hamilton" Friday night, and…
When you say you are going to "The Nutcracker" this season, you will need to be a smidge more specific. The Boston Ballet or Jose Mateo production? Or maybe you mean the touring Russian show…
NEW YORK " At the Broadway musical "The Color Purple," you can see a powerful tale of redemption and empowerment. That's not just the show " it's also the story of one of the actresses.Jenni…
NEW YORK " Glenn Close just can't get enough of Norma Desmond. The "Fatal Attraction" star will take her new crack at the aging silent film star from the musical "Sunset Boulevard" to Broadw…
NEW YORK " The night Mandy Gonzalez made her triumphant debut in "Hamilton" on Broadway, there was a special guest in the audience cheering her on: a Jedi Master, in fact.Mark Hamill came ba…
NEW YORK " With "Something Rotten!" now counting down the days until its run on Broadway ends, it's time to call in musical theater's top closer " Adam Pascal.Pascal, last seen on Broadway …
Anyone who has ever experienced the uniquely soul-stirring amalgam of musical celebration, spiritual rejuvenation, intellectual provocation and physical release-to-the-point-of-exhaustion th…
NEW YORK " Some changes are coming in the kingdom of Arendelle: Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage has been officially unveiled to helm the upcoming stage musical "Frozen."Alex Ti…
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has clarified that slain Ohio gorilla, Harambe, is not a part of her fictional universe.A new feature on Rowling's Pottermore website allows users to find ou…
NEW YORK " If you weren't able to catch George Takei's musical "Allegiance" on Broadway, here's another chance " at your local movie theater.Fathom Events will broadcast a digital recording…
NEW YORK " Ramin Karimloo, who played the title role in "The Phantom of the Opera" in London and Jean Valjean in the latest Broadway reboot of "Les Miserables," is going into another epic t…
Edward Albee, who shocked Broadway audiences with his play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1962, died Friday at his home in Montauk, Long Island in New York. He was 88.His work was know…
