Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The St. Paul-based History Theatre is taking its show on the road to greater Minnesota in June and July. The theater will bring its production of "Beyond the Rainbow: Garland at Carnegie Hall" to three theaters. The show recreates singer Judy Garland's famous 1961...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — To find their Mr. Darcy, the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota has turned to a Mad Man. Vincent Kartheiser, who plays the malcontent Pete Campbell on AMC's "Mad Men," will star this summer in a new Guthrie production of "Pride and Prejudice" as the brooding hero of Jane Austen's...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in Britain, Kwame Kwei-Armah saw the American classic "A Raisin in the Sun" perhaps more often than any other play, with its powerful portrayal of race relations. More than 50 years after the debut of "Raisin," the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Clybourne Park"...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

MUMBAI, India (AP) — In the early morning heat and dust, daily practice at the Rambo Circus is in full swing. A trapeze creaks as two performers perfect their throws. A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death....

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has tapped as its new leader a Broadway producer who has helped mount such hits as the Tony Award-winning revival of "Hair" and "Equus" with Daniel Radcliffe. Jed Bernstein, a former advertising executive who led the trade group Broadway...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — A revival of Terence Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy" starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Roger Rees is heading to Broadway next season. The Roundabout Theatre Company said Wednesday the play joins its previously announced shows Donald Margulies' "Dinner With Friends"...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The thrilling Broadway revival of "Pippin" will be taking its magic on the road. Producers of the Tony Award-nominated show said Wednesday that a national tour will kick off in September 2014 at the Buell Theatre in Denver. No other cities were immediately announced....

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

CHESTER, Mass. (AP) — Stage actor Vincent G. Dowling, who had a long-time association with Ireland's national theater company and performed several times in the Reagan White House, has died in Massachusetts at age 83. His wife, Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling, said Dowling died Friday at...

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — There are a few more Sundays left in Billy Crystal. The star of "City Slickers" and "When Harry Met Sally" said Tuesday he'll reprise his funny and poignant one-man show "700 Sundays" on Broadway for a 9-week stand this fall. "700 Sundays" was a Broadway success during the...

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — There aren't that many jokes in the U.S. Constitution and it's never really been a big generator of belly laughs. Unless, that is, you are Colin Quinn. The Brooklyn-born Irish-American comedian kicks off his new one-man off-Broadway show by wondering why that document is so...