59 stories by "Mark Kennedy Ap Drama Writer"
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Flatley's ailing legs will apparently be healthy enough for one last American tour.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George will make his Broadway debut in the musical "Chicago," tackling the role of fast-talking lawyer Billy Flynn.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o will make the leap to Broadway this winter, bringing the harrowing play "Eclipsed" to the Great White Way.
NEW YORK (AP) — There's a "SpongeBob" musical in the works but the music is no kiddie stuff. Nickelodeon said Monday it will produce the world premiere of "The SpongeBob Musical" …
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Rees, the lanky Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director who made his mark onstage as Nicholas Nickleby and later played English multi-millionaire Robin C…
NEW YORK (AP) — For theater fans, all eyes on Sunday night will not be on Broadway but on nearby Radio City Music Hall.
NEW YORK (AP) — The musicals "An American in Paris" and "Fun Home" each received a leading 12 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, showing two very different sides of this Broadway seaso…
NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Entertainment, which muscled into pop culture with comic books, TV cartoons and movies, is gambling on attracting new fans as it tackles 3-D — but forget t…
NEW YORK (AP) — Audra McDonald has become the Tony Awards' most decorated actress. The singer and actress on Sunday won her sixth Tony for portraying Billie Holiday in "Lady Day a…
NEW YORK (AP) — Phillip Hayes Dean, a playwright, director and theater actor who wrote the one-man play "Paul Robeson" starring James Earl Jones on Broadway in 1978, died Monday in Los…
NEW YORK—There are plenty of ways to get tickets to Broadway shows: You can wait in line at Times Square's TKTS booth or hunt online at Ticketmaster.
NEW YORK—The current revival of "Pippin" has proved magical at the box office and now comes proof: The show has recouped its $8.
NEW YORK—Producers are turning the lights off forever on the Spider-Man musical on Broadway early next year, the final chapter in the story of most expensive theatrical show ever that …
NEW YORK—It's not completely inconceivable—"The Princess Bride" is coming to the stage. Disney Theatrical Productions said Monday it is planning to adapt the novel and screen…
NEW YORK—Mark Rylance will have you pealing with laughter as he plays a repressed noblewoman in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night.
NEW YORK—Two Broadway shows with very different audiences broke box office records last week—the kid-friendly "Matilda the Musical" and the very adult revival of Harold Pinter's …
NEW YORK—There's nothing kinky about the bottom line at "Kinky Boots." Producers of the Tony Award-winning musical said Thursday it has recouped its $13.
NEW YORK—Trudie Styler would love it if you came to her new play. Just don't tell her when. "I never like to know who's in the house when I'm performing," she says, laughing.
NEW YORK—Singer-songwriter Sting's new musical "The Last Ship" will sail onto a Broadway stage after a stop in Chicago.
NEW YORK—Grammy Award-winning singer k.d. lang has sung everything from country songs to folk and torch songs.
NEW YORK—The opening night of the musical "The Fantasticks" wasn't so fantastic. The reviews were decidedly mixed, with the New York Herald Tribune critic only liking Act 2.
NEW YORK—It's only 3 p.m. but master director Mike Nichols warns that he's been through a lot already.
NEW YORK—Actress and producer Trudie Styler, the better half of pop singer Sting, will star this fall in a new off-Broadway adaptation of Anton Checkov's "The Seagull.
NEW YORK—There's Denzel Washington and Billy Crystal, plenty of Shakespeare and a nice dash of Harold Pinter.
NEW YORK—The Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will be performed as scheduled Friday night, a day after an actor playing the comic book hero was badly injured during the…
