NEW YORK – Sheryl Crow will compose the music and lyrics for new Broadway show 'Diner'.
The 'All I Wanna Do' hitmaker has announced plans to work on the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie with Academy Award winning screenwriter Barry Levinson, who wrote the original script and Tony Award-winning director-and-choreographer Kathleen Marshall.
NEW YORK – Matthew Broderick is returning to Broadway in a musical next spring built around George and Ira Gershwin's songs.
Producers said Thursday that Broderick will star in the new screwball romantic comedy "Nice Work If You Can Get It."
NEW YORK – The scene would have been hard to imagine three months ago, when Julie Taymor was pushed aside as director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," an unprecedentedly expensive production whose well-publicized troubles had already made it the butt of late-night jokes.
NEW YORK – The profane and hysterical "The Book of Mormon" took home nine Tony Awards on Sunday including the prize for best musical, a considerable achievement for a pair of first-time Broadway playwrights known more for their raunchy cartoons featuring potty-mouthed kids.
NEW YORK – It was a star-studded affair at the 2011 Tony Awards held Sunday at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
NEW YORK – The official tongue-in-cheek slogan for "The Book of Mormon" claims that it is "God's Favorite Musical." Producers of the show are hopeful the Broadway community agrees.
NEW YORK – With the Broadway premiere of the beleaguered "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" finally in sight, Bono and The Edge, who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical, were in a jovial mood as they previewed songs from the accompanying soundtrack.
NEW YORK – Warning to Tony Award watchers: Mark Rylance is planning an acceptance speech.
That means you should expect the unexpected.
"At the moment, I have three or four different options," the English actor says with a twinkle in his eye. "It's an interesting little theatrical thing to think about."
NEW YORK – Nina Arianda's summer plans will hopefully involve plenty of work.
Currently in the middle of a four-month run of "Born Yesterday" on Broadway, the 26-year-old actress says that when the run ends on July 31 she might spend a week at the beach but then go straight back to the grind.
NEW YORK – Tony Awards host Neil Patrick Harris will have some big-name help on theater's big night.
Producers of the awards show revealed on Tuesday some of the presenters who will help hand out the honors June 12 at the Beacon Theatre in New York.
NEW YORK – Three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May are being bundled together and heading to Broadway this fall.
Allen is no stranger to the format, having collaborated with May and David Mamet for "Death Defying Acts," three effervescent one-act comedies that debuted in 1995.
