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A viral sensation is making history in a Broadway play and she’s bringing her moves and culture to South Florida this weekend.

It was feast or famine at the Broadway box office as 2022 wound down, with eye-popping revenue for popular shows — including a staggering new Broadway record for “The Lion King” — not lifting all strugglers.

Celebrities including Tyler Perry, Shonda Rhimes and Sara Ramirez bought out performances of "Ain't No Mo'," which has been extended through Friday.

Playwright and star Jordan E. Cooper started campaigning to save his show after receiving an eviction notice telling him the play had to close on December 18.

After 35 years on Broadway, "The Phantom of the Opera" will close its doors at the Majestic Theatre on April 16.

A Maryland church's annual Christmas play "Someway, Somehow" unites Broadway and Sunday service, complete with an award-winning cast.

The February arrival of the Sondheim-Lapine musical launches a tour that will also take the show to Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

There are some interesting cocktails on offer at "The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise” on Broadway and it might not be such a bad idea to order a Sweet Clementine or a Cracklin' Rosé before you get to your seat. The show that opened Sunday at the Broadhurst Theatre is quite a depressing trip through Diamond's life, offering a respectful and, yes, fully authorized portrait that's unnecessarily boastful — “40 top 40 hits;120 million albums sold,” we're told — as well as positively cringey. The conceit is that an older Diamond is reluctantly undergoing therapy to figure out why he's such a sad sack.

A stage musical about woke princesses that uses hit songs by Britney Spears will land on Broadway this summer.

HIs writing about the theater was a fixture of The Village Voice for decades.

A new production of “The Wiz” is heading out on a national tour next year before following the yellow brick road to Broadway.

The masked man of Broadway is going out strong.

Theater may be full of romantic notions about gambling, but a choked cultural and tourist crossroads is nowhere to welcome bettors.

'& Juliet' is a new Broadway musical, with Max Martin's songs and a cheeky rewrite of "Romeo and Juliet."

A new museum celebrating the history of Broadway is now in New York's theater district.

The 1987 musical from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is revived by the perfect company.

Keith Wann alleges he was fired as a sign language interpreter for the Broadway musical "The Lion King" because he is White. He has filed a lawsuit over his firing.

Bob Fosse’s all-singing, all-dancing 1978 revue “Dancin’” is headin’ back to Broadway and the late choreographer’s daughter calls “a magic carpet ride.”.

One of America's great art forms has not had a permanent museum devoted to its history, until now, with an entertaining and educational exhibition of highlights from the Great White Way opening in the heart of New York City's theater district.

Sienna Miller said that she was told by a "very powerful" Broadway producer years ago to "f--- off" after she asked for the same salary as her male co-star.

The president defends American institutions, but it might be too late.

Horne's granddaughter said that renaming the theater in her honor is a "celebration of the contributions of Black women to theater history."

Caesars Entertainment and developer SL Green have announced a joint bid for a casino located in New York’s Times Square.

Award-winning stage actor and singer Patti LuPone announced that she has given up her union membership, adding she would not be onstage for a "very long time."

This production uses a cast of multi-racial actors who are female, non-binary and trans – people who weren't even considered in the Declaration of Independence.

He joined the performing arts center in 1971 as an usher and worked his way into theater programming.

About 30 employees at an Amazon warehouse in Joliet joined the protest Tuesday afternoon, according to an organizer's estimate.

The legendary playwright is out with a new play, reflecting on his family’s history in the Holocaust. Plus, the contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen on what’s next for the Supreme Court.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is saying goodbye to his last remaining show on Broadway and welcoming another.

"The Phantom of the Opera," Broadway’s longest running show, is taking its final bow after 35 years. The final performance will be on February 18th, 2023.

After 35 years on Broadway in New York, longest-running musical 'Phantom of the Opera' has announced it will perform its last show at The Majestic Theater in February 2023.

The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance in New York on Feb. 18, 2023.

“The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, a victim of post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York.

Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Between Riverside and Crazy.”.

Source: AxiousAngelica Ross — star of FX’s “Pose” — debuted last evening as Roxie Hart in the hit musical “Chicago,” becoming the first openly transgender woman to star on Broadway, Axios’ Ina Fried reports from New York. Why it matters: Ross’ groundbreaking role comes amid a legislative attack on transgender civil rights in states around the country. A host of celebrities and members of the LGBTQ community turned up to see Ross’ debut, including writer and activist Raquel Willis and the cast of “Strange Loop,” another Broadway musical. “It meant so much,” Ross told Axios after the show. “Especially when I looked out into the audience when the lights came up and I saw so much family — so many trans folks, so many non-binary folks.”

Fans of Lea Michele will have to wait a little more to see her singing in "Funny Girl" on Broadway.

Fans of Lea Michele will have to wait a little more to see her singing in “Funny Girl” on Broadway.

Jared Kushner said that Donald Trump called Ivanka after he asked the former president for his daughter's hand in marriage.

LuPone earned a Tony nomination in the original run of "A Chorus Line" and went on to help lead the off-Broadway theater company MCC Theater.

Bob LuPone, who as an actor earned a Tony nomination in the original run of “A Chorus Line” and went on to help lead the influential off-Broadway theater company MCC Theater for almost 40 years, has died.

“Pose” star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in the musical “Chicago” this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart.

Broadway's "To Kill a Mockingbird," on hiatus since January, will not return to the stage this fall.

An Oklahoma man claiming to be a film financier has been sentenced in Fort Lauderdale to nearly 22 years in federal prison for participating in a scheme to steal more than $60 million from investors and producers seeking financing for movies and Broadway shows.

A concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods stars Sara Bareilles, Brian d'Arcy James, Joshua Henry and others.

Michele will begin shows starting September 6.

Lea Michele has been tapped to step in and lead the Broadway revival of the beleaguered “Funny Girl" this fall.

Bird murals add color and contrast to John James Audubon's old New York City stomping grounds.

Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” comes to D.C. with Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch.

“MJ,” the hit-filled Broadway musical about the King of Pop, got a huge bump at the box office after nabbing four Tony Awards and getting valuable exposure in front of millions during its electric telecast performance.

In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July.

The policy will be reevaluated monthly, and a protocol for August will be announced in mid-July.

Three people have been critically injured after a taxi cab turning onto a narrow section of Broadway hit a bicyclist, swerved onto a Manhattan sidewalk and into a group of pedestrians.

Hudson is the 17th ever EGOT winner – meaning she has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award.

"A Strange Loop" comes into the night with 11 nominations, the most for any show. "MJ: The Musical" and "Paradise Square" each scored 10 nominations of their own.

A Tony award is the final piece of the puzzle for Hudson, who is on the verge of reaching EGOT status — or winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

“A Strange Loop,” an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice.

Allyse Kish has opened Company K Dance in Brighton and talks about the feeling of performing.

Have you ever had dreams of starring in a Broadway show and singing your heart out to hundreds of people in a packed New York theater?

For the first full season since the death of George Floyd reignited a conversation about race and representation in America, Broadway responded with one of its most diverse Tony slates yet.

It's the latest escalation between a rapidly growing national labor movement and the coffee giant.

The folks who hand out Tony Awards believe five is not enough for Angela Lansbury.

"On Your Feet!," the Gloria and Emilio Estefan jukebox musical, is making its Spanish language debut at GALA Hispanic Theatre.

For "Saturday Night Live" star and writer Michael Che, the first Black anchor of "Weekend Update," and star of the HBO series, "That Damn Michael Che," standup is his first, and possibly deepest, love. Che talks with CBS News' Tony Dokoupil about growing up a "very curious" child, and why he's "just trying to grow up and not get killed."

Video and images taken from the audience began circulating Monday night.

Pazienza had several glasses of wine beforehand while celebrating with her fiance that night, the prosecutor said.

Video of a naked Jesse Williams captured onstage in a shower scene from a Broadway play has been posted online, prompting an outcry from the producers and the union that represents actors and stage managers.

On the same day Jesse Williams received a Tony Award nomination, footage of the naked actor surfaced online. On Monday, May 9, the 40-year-old received […]

The season - with a whopping 34 new productions - represents a full return to theaters after nearly two years of a pandemic-mandated shutdown.

“A Strange Loop,” Michael R.

New Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards.

Since Russia launched its military action on February 24, only a handful of priests from the Russian Orthodox Church led by Moscow Patriarch Kirill -- which counts some 150 million believers across the world -- have spoken out openly against the Kremlin's military campaign. Among them, Father Georgy Edelshtein, 89, says there is no doubt that "Russia is the agressor, and Ukraine the victim." His friend, Father Ioann Burdin has been fined for his sermons on the matter and has left active service, thinking about whether to stay in the Church as he faces a three-year prison sentence for a repeat offence.

Selina Fillinger’s White House comedy is a hoot, but “Macbeth” and “The Skin of Our Teeth” disappoint

Legislation targeting transgender Americans and trans children has increased sharply in the last year. Guest host Ari Shapiro speaks with the Florida mother of a trans daughter about how their family is coping with that state's new, more restrictive policies. Then, Ari discusses how this wave of law-making differs from so-called "moral panics" of past decades — and why that matters — with historian Jules Gill-Peterson, of Johns Hopkins University.Then, Broadway is back and bigger than ever, with 16 new shows opening this month. But this Broadway burst hasn't been immune to the pandemic. "Macbeth" director Sam Gold talks to Ari about having to go onstage himself this month, when too many of his cast tested positive for Covid; and about what feels different as actors and audiences try to get back to normal. You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at ibam@npr.org.

The most commonly held taboo in the arts is uttering the word “Macbeth” inside a theater.

Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright Neil Simon have been donated to the Library of Congress.

Broadway theatergoers will have to keep their masks up through at least May 31, the Broadway League said Friday.

The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it’s like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster of the newly infected is studded with stars.

The second shoe has dropped at “Plaza Suite” on Broadway.

Nashville, Tennessee has become a hotspot for tourism in recent years, and if you ever decide to visit, you’ll understand why immediately.

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play.

Broadway is back and it's even better in South Florida. See what shows are on the roster for the new season.

“Girl from the North Country,” the Depression-era drama set to the songs of Bob Dylan, will reopen on Broadway this spring, a little more than three months after going on hiatus because of coronavirus concerns.

The stage musical about the making of the classic film “Jaws” has speared its leading man — Jarrod Spector.

Disney's “Frozen" will take you back to your favorite songs and characters from the movie, while incorporating some new ones!

The Shubert Organization's Cort Theatre on Broadway will be renamed after James Earl Jones, fulfilling a promise by the theater giant to honor a Black artist in such a way.

A classic play by the late Ntozake Shange is being reissued in book form in April to coincide with its Broadway revival by the director-choreographer Camille A.

A double-decker public bus in London has crashed into a building and emergency workers say that five people required hospital treatment.

The actor playing Harry Potter has been fired from the Broadway production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” following a complaint by a co-star about his conduct.

If you can’t make it to New York to see Sutton Foster on Broadway in the classic musical “The Music Man,” don’t worry.

Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables will postpone the production of ON YOUR FEET!, based on the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan's musical career, until February.

One performance of Hairspray and the remaining performances for the year of Peter London Global Dance Company: Touch & Rain On Me were canceled in Miami due to COVID-19 cases within the two separate companies, a spokesperson for the Adrienne Arsht Center confirmed Friday.

Keenan Scott II made his Broadway acting debut this week in “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” which is a remarkable milestone.

The city of Miami Beach reveals four weekends of programming in March and Miami Beach residents get first crack at tickets.

Many stages on both Broadway and the West End have been forced to go dark once more as the live theater community grapples with new backstage outbreaks of the coronavirus and its variants.

It’s still hard to believe for fans of musical theater, but Broadway icon and legend Stephen Sondheim passed away over the weekend at the age of 91.

Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the souvenir shops, restaurants, hotels and entrepreneurs within the iconic U.S. landmark are still reeling from a staggering pandemic.

Audra McDonald is going from host of the Tony Awards to another stage role.

As he brings “American Utopia” back to Broadway following the pandemic pause, David Byrne says it's evident how thrilled people are simply to be enjoying live entertainment again.

A revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss was in rehearsal when the pandemic closed Broadway theaters.

At the Tony Awards, John Legend played live with cast members from the Broadway musical “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations.”.