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...

Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Even the most ordinary-seeming family can get hit by the butterfly effect, a concept in chaos theory where one small change can have huge consequences. For the not-so-happy blue-collar family depicted in Bob Glaudini's new play, "A Family for All Occasions," their butterfly...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Olivier Award-winning playwright Ayub Khan Din's new sunny musical comedy "Bunty Berman Presents..." is a cheerfully irreverent tribute to what's often called the golden age of Indian cinema. That era encompassed colorful, melodramatic Bollywood movies circa the 1950s-early...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — For three actors, the Tony Award nomination announcement last week was somewhat bittersweet. Sweet, because they'd each gotten a prestigious nod. Bitter, because their shows were long gone. "It's frustrating to all of us," said Keith Carradine, nominated for best performance...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Anyone who's had to endure the forced collegiality of brainstorms, trust exercises and role-playing with co-workers in stuffy, enclosed spaces will recognize the sense of being trapped in a comically bad dream that Steven Levenson has created in his tense new play, "Core...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the best of Broadway, said Thursday the 67th annual awards will be broadcast live by CBS from Radio City...

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The cast members of the Tony Award-nominated "Matilda" are arguably all stars. This week, they chatted with a man closer to the actual cosmic ones. About three dozen cast members — including many children — packed a small room near Times Square on Tuesday to speak to an...

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The Beatles are coming back to Broadway. Two years after a Fab Four cover band arrived on the Great White Way, the London hit "Let It Be" plans to arrive this summer with new guys playing John, Paul, George and Ringo. Producers said Wednesday "Let It Be" will feature 40 songs...