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Tony-nominee David Rockwell reveals his first love
Friday, May 24, 2013 8:23 am
One clue to understanding how David Rockwell's mind works is by finding out what he collects. It turns out to be kaleidoscopes.
New Victory Theater offers Bob Marley, Shakespeare
Thursday, May 23, 2013 3:24 pm
A new musical featuring the songs of Bob Marley, the world premiere of William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" by the innovative Fiasco Theater company and an Australian take on "Peter Pan" are among next season's offerings at The New Victory Theater.
Coen, Guirgis on tap at Atlantic Theater Company
Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:33 pm
The world premiere of Ethan Coen's first full-length stage play, a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis will highlight the Atlantic Theater Company's upcoming season.
Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:39 am
There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like home.
Colin Quinn has fun with the US Constitution
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - There aren't many jokes in the U.S. Constitution and it's never really been a big generator of belly laughs. Unless, that is, you are Colin Quinn.
Broadway's biggest theater sold to British group
Monday, May 20, 2013 4:28 pm
Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.
'Chuck' and 'Smash' stars head to Broadway
Monday, May 20, 2013 11:31 am
A couple of stars from TV's "Chuck" and "Smash" will soon be dating on Broadway.
Audra McDonald returns with new, personal CD
Monday, May 20, 2013 8:21 am
If either her husband or daughter is calling, Audra McDonald knows without looking at her phone.
N.J. nursing home gets front-row seats to London show
Monday, May 20, 2013 12:01 am
A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" - some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home.
'Mad Men' Vincent Kartheiser finds a new role
Friday, May 17, 2013 1:28 pm
To find their Mr. Darcy, the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota has turned to a Mad Man.
'The Audience' to be shown in NJ nursing home
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:04 pm
A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" _ some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home.
Review: Musical using Leo Tolstoy a messy thrill
Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:13 pm
What do you get when you take a 70-page melodrama at the center of "War and Peace" and turn it into a musical? Now layer dance music onto the traditional Russian folk music. Now put it in a tent. While you're at it, throw in a meal and strobe lights.
'American Psycho' creators turn to crowd-funding
Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:32 am
Duncan Sheik is part of an unusual campaign on Kickstarter: Not to get his musical "American Psycho" up and running. It's to make it killer.
Broadway's 'The Winslow Boy' to star Mastrantonio
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:32 pm
A revival of Terence Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy" starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Roger Rees is heading to Broadway next season.
Broadway's 'Pippin' to go on national tour
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:49 am
The thrilling Broadway revival of "Pippin" will be taking its magic on the road.
See how some theater veterans have fared on TV
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:25 am
The slow, lingering demise of "Smash" has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway.
Billy Crystal returns to Broadway with 1-man show
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:46 am
There are a few more Sundays left in Billy Crystal.
Colin Quinn has fun with the US Constitution
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:26 am
There aren't that many jokes in the U.S. Constitution and it's never really been a big generator of belly laughs. Unless, that is, you are Colin Quinn.
Laura Benanti gets in a cabaret mood
Monday, May 13, 2013 9:08 am
Years ago, when her roommate came home one day sobbing, Laura Benanti comforted her the only way she knew how _ with a song.
Revival of 'Jekyll & Hyde' to close
Monday, May 6, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - The revival of "Jekyll & Hyde" won't last nearly as long as the original on Broadway.
'Kinky Boots' gets a leading 13 Tony Award nominations
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - The Cyndi Lauper-scored "Kinky Boots" has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import "Matilda: The Musical" close behind with 12. Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, earned a nod as leading man in a play.
Drama Desk Award nominations announced
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - The off-Broadway show "Giant" and the quickly shuttered Broadway musical "Hands on a Hardbody" lead the Drama Desk nomination race this season, with the British import "Matilda," the audience-friendly "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" close behind.
Theater: Cuba Gooding Jr.'s onstage and in a 'creative place'
Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:00 am
NEW YORK - The other night at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Cuba Gooding Jr. came bounding onto the stage.
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'Motown' musical big on songs, but light on story
Monday, April 22, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - There are 36 songs in the new Broadway show "Motown: The Musical." Actually, that's just in the first act - 36 songs, not including a reprise of "You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You." It's like a jukebox went completely haywire.
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Bobby Cannavale looks back at being 'invisible'
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Hard to believe now, but Bobby Cannavale at one point felt invisible in the casting room.
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Trey Anastasio makes it to Broadway
Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:01 am
To get his latest gig, Phish founder Trey Anastasio successfully wooed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright over a plate of enchiladas.
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Little Steven reunites The Rascals and brings the band to Broadway
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:01 am
Do you remember your first live concert? Steven Van Zandt certainly does, almost 50 years ago.
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NYC's 'Sleep No More' shows off its musical side
Saturday, February 23, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - They were hooked: The moment singer-songwriter Jim James and his bandmates from My Morning Jacket first wandered into the immersive, genre-bending show "Sleep No More," there was no turning back.
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Giving old plays a rewrite - and a new life on stage
Monday, February 11, 2013 12:01 am
There was a moment this past December in Paris when playwright David Ives achieved what he calls "a moment of maximum fabulosity."
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'Cabaret' marks four decades of influencing how movie musicals are made
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:01 am
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome - to middle age.
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McKellen, Stewart heading to Broadway
Friday, January 25, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Serious theater fans have a reason to suddenly freak out: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will team up on Broadway this fall in two of the most iconic plays of the 20th century.
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A more naturalistic Maggie
Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - In a decision that will make many a man sigh unhappily, Scarlett Johansson won't be bringing sexy back to Broadway.
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Judd Hirsch and Tom Cavanagh team up for 'Freud's Last Session'
Sunday, January 6, 2013 12:01 am
NEW YORK - When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would become.
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'A Christmas Story' musical a joyous romp
Monday, November 26, 2012 12:01 am
We've all seen the scene in "A Christmas Story" when the kid gets his tongue stuck on a frozen flagpole. Now on Broadway is that very same scene - plus the kid actually singing through it, or at least trying to sing.
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2 'The Lion King' veterans still roaring
Monday, November 19, 2012 12:01 am
Camille N. Brown is a supple dancer who hails from California. Lindiwe Dlamini is a singer from South Africa. They would seem to have little in common. Except they do.
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Broadway takes a big hit from Hurricane Sandy
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Superstorm Sandy, which darkened Broad-way for four days, predictably ravaged the box offices around Times Square, with shows losing more than $8.5 million.
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'Good People' becomes nation's most produced work
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony Award-nominated play "Good People" tops the list of most produced plays nationwide during the 2012-13 season, according to the theater industry's largest trade group.
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'Seinfeld' actor to play Santa on Broadway
Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:55 pm
NEW YORK (AP) - Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld," is heading back to Broadway - as Santa.
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Mourning a musical genius
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Marvin Hamlisch was blessed with perfect pitch and an infallible ear. "I heard sounds that other children didn't hear," he wrote in his autobiography.
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Harrelson's new play is about an old friend
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - In the summer of 1983, The Police were on top of the charts with "Every Breath You Take," James Bond was sipping martinis in "Octopussy" and Woody Harrelson was meeting a man who would change his life.
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In a bold move, a circus tent is pitched near Times Square
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Arms folded across his chest, Wayne Harrison carefully studied two Chinese acrobats as they practiced a stunt during a recent muggy afternoon in a tent. He knew something was wrong.
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Theater: Who will win at the Tony Awards?
Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - There's "Follies" and then there's folly. The first is a winning revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical that wowed Broadway this season. The other is how you can characterize any attempt to handicap tonight's Tony Awards, airing at 8 p.m. on KYW-TV 3. But here goes.
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'Once' leads Tony Award nominations with 11 nods
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 2:00 pm
NEW YORK - The low-tech musical "Once," based on the love story of a Czech flower seller and an Irish street musician in Dublin, received a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, proving sentiment can sway nominators just as much as special effects.
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Parents cheer autism-friendly 'Mary Poppins' on Broadway
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:00 am
NEW YORK - The afternoon performance of "Mary Poppins" was marked by loud yips, shouts and moans - and that was just fine.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson to appear in theater sitcom
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Jesse Tyler Ferguson of "Modern Family" might be a star now, but he remembers those awful days sweating it out in front of casting directors.
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At the 'Evita' revival on Broadway, one performer - Martin - shines
Monday, April 9, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Much of the buzz coming from the new revival "Evita" has been about the spitfire Argentine playing the title role. But all of the heat actually comes from the guy shaking his bon-bon.
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Raven-Symone to step into 'Sister Act' role
Sunday, March 18, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - Raven-Symone is all grown up - and going to a convent.
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Stephen King's 'Carrie' on stage is scary, but in a bad way
Monday, March 5, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - After what happened to Carrie White the last time she went to the prom, it's a wonder she ever returned. As for those of you in the theater seats, you may wonder why you came at all.
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William Shatner boldly tackles death on Broadway
Monday, February 20, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - He doesn't beam in, but William Shatner does the next best thing at the start of his one-man Broadway show: He appears to the familiar orchestral strains of the "Star Trek" theme.
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David Alan Grier shrugs off 'Porgy' row
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:01 am
NEW YORK - David Alan Grier has a gentle message for anyone who is getting all hot and bothered thinking that he's helping ruin an American masterpiece.
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