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NEW YORK (AP) " The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
NEW YORK (AP) " Some records on Broadway are bound to fall one day and others are surely safe for all time. Sarah Stiles has one that's hard to top.
"Les Miserables" perfected the Broadway blockbuster. Yes, massive productions preceded it, but nothing matched the epic sweep of the French-via-London operetta when it debuted on the Great W…
The show promotes itself as "Jersey Boys" meets "West Side Story." Stir in a classic gangster movie, triangulate the three, and you get pretty close to the feel of a "A Bronx Tale."Â
Much of the modern theater industry aspires to create lucrative spectacles. Artistic merit might be an happy, accidental byproduct, but Disney fare such as "Beauty & the Beast" and the e…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) " Harvard University has received a $100 million donation to help build a new arts and performance space in Boston.
From "Romeo and Juliet" to gender-bending fashion, the arts scene is in top form.
At last, a production has interpreted Shaw's work as the egalitarian manifesto the British playwright intended it to be.
LONDON " British theater critics are praising a new stage musical about the life of Tina Turner " and it also has the approval of the star herself.Turner was in the audience for the opening…
LONDON " Women's rights activists are due to join stage stars on the red carpet Sunday at British theater's Olivier Awards, where "Hamilton" leads the race for trophies with 13 nominations.…
NEW YORK " No one attending "Frozen," the new Broadway musical that had its official opening on Thursday at the St. James Theatre, is meant to ponder the rise of extreme weather events. Leav…
Spring has spru " well, OK, it still feels like the depths of winter. But eventually spring will arrive, and with it an amazing calendar of theater.From classics to new works, musicals both …
PHILADELPHIA " In October 1979, Leonard Bernstein received a fan letter from a high school humanities teacher. Helen Morgan wrote to the celebrity composer-conductor-pianist in hopes he coul…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. " Patrick Stewart was so inspired by the inventors and inventions being honored by the motion picture academy Saturday night that he offered a spontaneous recitation o…
It's going to be a long, cold winter. Art will keep your spirit warm.Oh, you'll still need to spend a fortune on your heating bills of course. But experimental theater and tried-and-true mus…
Thanks to artistic director Diane Paulus, Cambridge's American Repertory Theater has become a pipeline to Broadway. With original shows and revivals, superstars (Bryan Cranston! Audra McDona…
It is impossible to dissociate Sam Shepard's latest and last book, "Spy of the First Person," from how and when it was written. Impaired by ALS " Lou Gehrig's disease " the dramatist and act…
It almost takes a miracle to transform a modern piece of art into a Christmas standard. Between "It's a Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Carol," "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Have Yourself a Merry…
As colors go, purple is a rich one. So it is with "The Color Purple," the touring version of the Tony-winning musical revival that just arrived at Boston's Shubert Theatre for a two-week run.
The Civil War had a moment of formal surrender between its generals at Appomattox in 1865, when the South's Robert E. Lee yielded to the North's Ulysses S. Grant.But the war never re…
NEW YORK " Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Michael Chabon and Colson Whitehead, former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and theater director Robert Wilson all h…
Great job waiting for "Hamilton" to come to Boston. The good news is you only have another year: The storied show arrives in our city in September 2018.But no need to while away the time dre…
BROOKLYN, N.Y. " "Ovo," the Cirque du Soleil show that plays the Agganis Arena on Sept. 6-10, means "egg" in Portuguese.And yes, there is a large white egg in this show whose theme is insect…
Pirates improve any adventure tale, especially when the dastardly Capt. Hook commands the crew of buccaneers. Unfortunately it takes the creative team of "Finding Neverland" a whole act to r…
Why should Edinburgh have all the fun? Putting Cambridge on the international arts and revelry map is one of the driving forces behind the launch of the Glow Festival, hosted by Oberon, the …
