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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. " Harvard University's graduate theater program, which is housed within the critically acclaimed American Repertory Theater, will suspend admissions for the next three years…
Uma Thurman will make her Broadway debut in "The Parisian Woman," a play by "House of Cards" creator Beau Willimon set in Washington, D.C. in the wake of the 2016 presidential
MOSCOW " Russia's Bolshoi Theater has canceled a much-anticipated ballet about dancer Rudolf Nureyev just three days before the opening night, a development that got many in Moscow's art sc…
NEW YORK " A book about marketing or managing employees may be the last thing small business owners want to read on vacation. But some say they've found insight they can apply to their compa…
LONDON " Wizarding legend Harry Potter's tale has turned 20.Author J.K. Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in Britain on June 26, 1997.Since then…
NEW YORK " Kevin Spacey kicked off his first-ever Tony Award hosting gig with grace and self-depreciating wit on Sunday, dancing, singing and joking his way through an opening number that l…
Kevin Spacey was the somewhat surprising " though certainly not unqualified " host of the 71st running of the Broadway theater-honoring Tony Awards, broadcast Sunday night from New York's Ra…
In a year without a "Hamilton," the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably.
NEW YORK " An intimate, heart-wrenching musical about loneliness, teen angst and suicide in the age of hyperconnectivity capped its unlikely journey to Broadway smash by winning top honors …
NEW YORK " Last year at the Tony Awards, a rabid interest in "Hamilton" stemmed a three-year slide in viewership. This year, there's a new host, an old home and hope that a starry list of c…
This summer's theater season has range. Not "from Stephen Sondheim to Andrew Lloyd Webber" range, but epic jumps from Chekhov to trouble in River City, Peter Pan to robot battle nuns.Our the…
ELLENTON, Fla. " There's a moment at the outset of the new Marvel Universe Live! Age of Heroes show when Spider-Man enters from backstage and zigzags around the theater.It still takes the d…
NEW YORK " The stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has become London's theater event of the year. Now Broadway will shortly be under its spell, too.Producers said Thursday that t…
NEW YORK " Select nominations for the 2017 Tony Awards, announced Tuesday.Best Musical: "Come From Away," ''Dear Evan Hansen," ''Groundhog Day The Musical," ''Natasha, Pierre & The Grea…
NEW YORK " The Latest on the Tony Award nominations (all times local):8:33 a.m."Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," a sung-through musical that dramatizes a 70-page melodrama at…
The renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Boston to premiere new works for the city, bring back old favorites, and to excite audience members new and old for opening night t…
NEW YORK " The upcoming stage adaptation of "Frozen" has found its sisters Anna and Elsa " they'll be played by two Broadway veterans in Patti Murin and Cassie Levy.Disney Theatrical Produc…
LONDON " The winners of the 2017 Olivier Awards, honoring achievement in London theater, opera and dance:New Play: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"New Musical: "Groundhog Day"New Comedy: …
LONDON " Producers of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" hope the play will work its magic on Sunday at British theater's Olivier Awards , where it's nominated in 11 categories including be…
Rejoice! "Hamilton" is coming … in September … of 2018.While we wait for the greatest theater sensation since Hamlet pondered "To be, or not to be," let's enjoy a few other masterpieces …
NEW YORK " A new stage adaptation of George Orwell's chilling dystopic novel "1984" will star Olivia Wilde, making her Broadway debut.Producers Sonia Friedman and Scott Rudin said Monday th…
NEW YORK " Tina Fey's stage adaptation of "Mean Girls" will make its world premiere at The National Theatre in Washington, D.C.The new musical is based on the 2004 film about a naive girl w…
NEW YORK " The off-Broadway phenomenon "The Fantasticks" will end its record-breaking run this spring, bringing down the curtain on a show with confetti and a cardboard moon that started wh…
NEW YORK " Seeking a break from green screens and lightsabers while shooting "The Force Awakens" outside London, J.J. Abrams decided to catch a play."I had a free night and looked to see wha…
BOSTON " A documentary play about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing is about to make its world premiere in Boston."Finish Line" is being presented by the Boch Center at the Shubert Theatre st…
