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Third Street Theatre – Los Angeles 17 Oct 2011 | 08:30 am

This is the inaugural production of the Third Street Theatre, brand new (as a theatre, anyway–it formerly was a dance rehearsal hall for the likes of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers, and Gene Kelly in th...

NBC’s Musical Midseason Smash Cues Up Nick Jonas, Bernadette Peters 7 Oct 2011 | 04:58 am

NBC’s Broadway-set midseason musical drama Smash is getting a double-dose of star power: One from the Disney Channel universe, and one from the Great White Way. The network has announced that Nick Jo...

Jerry Leiber, Songwriter Featured in Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Other Musicals, Dies at 78 23 Aug 2011 | 11:25 pm

Jerry Leiber, the rock-and-roll songwriter whose hits were featured in seven Broadway musicals, died on August 22 of cardiopulmonary failure. Leiber had a 60-year-long partnership with Mike Stoller th...

AN OFFICE AND A GENTLEMAN Musical to Premiere in Sydney 16 Aug 2011 | 12:48 am

It was announced today by Barry O’Farrell, Premier of NSW, that Sydney has won the right to host the World Premiere season of the new musical AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN in 2012. Based on the hugely s...

Jane White, Actress and Singer Who Found Racial Attitudes to Be an Obstacle, Dies at 88 9 Aug 2011 | 05:50 pm

Jane White, Actress and Singer Who Found Racial Attitudes to Be an Obstacle, Dies at 88 Jane White, an actress who made her reputation in the 1960s and ’70s in Shakespearean and classical Greek drama...

A Rose is a Rose 6 Aug 2011 | 08:34 am

World War Two was a war effort that’s hard to imagine in our time – the country was actually unified by its commitment. In musicals, 1943’s Oklahoma! celebrated the American values we were fighting to...

Lauren Ambrose Will Star in Broadway-Bound Funny Girl Revival 4 Aug 2011 | 11:12 am

Tony Award-winning South Pacific and Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher has found his Fanny Brice. “Six Feet Under” star Lauren Ambrose will inhabit the legendary vaudeville comedienne in the ...

Alice Playten Passes Away at 63 26 Jun 2011 | 04:52 pm

Actress Alice Playten, whose career spanned nearly five decades in some of Broadway and television’s most recognizable productions, passed away this morning from heart failure at Sloan Kettering Ho...

‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’: U2′s Bono, the Edge Open Up About Troubled Musical 14 Jun 2011 | 04:18 pm

“If we thought it would take this long, there is not a chance on earth we’d have done it,” says Bono, who composed the music with his bandmate. With Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark set to finally open ...