Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The world premiere of Ethan Coen's first full-length stage play, a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis are the highlights of the Atlantic Theater Company's upcoming season. The company unveiled its slate of 2013-14 offerings Thursday, which...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — If you didn't think Henrik Ibsen's work was sexy and racy, you'll be pleasantly surprised by BAM's production of "The Master Builder," which embraces a whole new interpretation of that classic 1892 tragedy. At least the Freudian symbolism of tall towers, even taller church...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — A couple of stars from TV's "Chuck" and "Smash" will soon be dating on Broadway. Producers said Monday that Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez will headline the new romantic musical comedy "First Date" by "Gossip Girl" writer Austin Winsberg. The music and lyrics are by Alan...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials in New York City say a man suffered minor injuries after falling out of a window onto the marquee of a Broadway theater. The incident occurred at the Lyceum Theater just before the Sunday matinee performance of "The Nance" starring Nathan Lane. Officials say the man...

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"...