892 stories from Boston Herald
NEW YORK " Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "A Delicate Balance,"…
Grand opera and grand humor, an Irish classic and a new Chinese-American comedy, one musical with dozens of hits and one with dozens of murders. It all figures into a wildly diverse season f…
NEW YORK " "Glee" and "Wicked" star Kristin Chenoweth is returning to Broadway this fall for a series of concerts celebrating the history of the Great White Way in what she vows will be a d…
The Manhattan District Attorney has indicted a former theater agent, Roland Scahill, for stealing $165,000 from investors in a phony Broadway play that would have starred Lupita Nyong'o.Acco…
NEW YORK " Andrea Martin has jumped aboard the cast of NBC's "Hairspray Live!" to play the mother of pop star Ariana Grande.The Tony- and Emmy-winning comedian will join a lineup that also …
NEW YORK " J.K. Rowling has so much more to say about Hogwarts.The "Harry Potter" author has completed a series of short digital works, Pottermore Presents, centered on the school where Pot…
LONDON " "Groundhog Day" is back, this time on stage. Is it deja vu, or something new?A musical based on the much-loved 1993 movie about a jaded weatherman forced to live the same day over …
NEW YORK " This fall, the famous Coney Island boardwalk will host some special hot dogs with a Broadway flavor.The second annual Elsie Fest, a one-day outdoor music festival celebrating thea…
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NEW YORK " One of the best moments in the carefully crafted Broadway show "Motown: The Musical" is when the unpredictable happens.That's when actress Allison Semmes, who plays Diana Ross, go…
LONDON " The David Bowie musical "Lazarus" is headed to London, with star Michael C. Hall on board.Producers said Monday that the show will run at the King's Cross Theatre from Oct. 25 unti…
NEW YORK " Tony Award-nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will replace Tony Award-winner Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr on Broadway in the smash hit "Hamilton," and Lexi Lawson will take over from …
NEW YORK " She was spending a sweltering afternoon on the streets of New York but Caitlin Goddard was nearing her prize, inch by inch.She'd been in line for three nights and two days and th…
NEW YORK " Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash "Hamilton," made a subdued final bow Saturday alongside two other departing stars in the show that has become a cul…
NEW YORK " Many Broadway stars have joined together to sing and raise money to help the survivors of the gay nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. Now, one Broadway show is going further …
NEW YORK " Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and 11 Tony Awards, "Hamilton" is a cultural phenomenon that stands as the most celebrated work of art ever inspired by the American Revolution.The co…
NEW YORK " "In Transit," a long-gestating, a cappella romantic comedy set in the New York City subway, has found the express train to Broadway.Producer Janet B. Rosen said Monday that the n…
BOSTON " The bar where everybody knows your name is coming to the stage."Cheers Live on Stage" is a comedy based on some of the most memorable moments of the celebrated TV show's first seas…
NEW YORK " The news that no die-hard "Hamilton" fan " or anyone who hasn't seen the Broadway smash yet " wants to hear has arrived: Lin-Manuel Miranda, its creator and star, is leaving the …
NEW YORK " Josh Radnor of "How I Met Your Mother" and F. Murray Abraham of "Homeland" are the latest actors to volunteer putting themselves in an unfamiliar place onstage with "White Rabbit …
"Hamilton" triumphed at the Tony Awards on Sunday, racking up 11 statues including the Best Musical prize. But the victory was colored by the mass shooting at an Orlando gay club this weeken…
NEW YORK " The one thing that fuels most awards shows won't really be present at the Tony Awards on Sunday " suspense.The night's top award for best musical is a virtual lock for "Hamilton."…
NEW YORK " Going from a harrowing stage play about sex slaves in a hut in a war-torn African country to the icy, lyrical Disney world of "Frozen" would be far too much of a stretch for most …
LONDON " The curtain has risen on Harry Potter's latest adventure " and J.K. Rowling is urging fans not to ruin the magic by letting its secrets out."Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has …
NEW YORK " Emmy- and Oscar-winner Sally Field will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of "The Glass Menagerie," playing a part she has tackled before but never managed to shake.Fie…
