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...

Barbara Mackay

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

The world has celebrated Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" since 1927, but the Washington National Opera's new version, directed by Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, is fresh, vigorous and distinctive, emphasizing the world that existed around the showboat performers of...

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...

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: Tue, May 7, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Scottish author and playwright J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan and Neverland, also wrote intelligent comedies for adults confounded by the fast-changing Edwardian era. The Pearl Theatre is closing out its 29th season with a lighthearted pair of Barrie's plays, combined in...

Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II" with powerful skill. Tambi Gxuluwe, who attends West Mifflin Area High School, took the first place trophy Monday night by...

Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg has joined the artist lineup for the Guthrie Theater's 50th anniversary celebration. Goldberg will appear in "BEHOLD: A Gala Performance" on June 22. It's Goldberg's first time back on the Guthrie stage since her five-night engagement...

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — What a thrill it must have been to be present during artistic collaborations between performing arts legends like George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky. Richard Nelson's intimate, bittersweet new drama, "Nikolai and the Others," about the immortality of art, showcases a purely...

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award nominations often mean a big bump at the box office, but not this year so far. "Kinky Boots," ''Matilda: The Musical," ''Pippin" and "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" — the four shows that got the most nominations Tuesday — either lost money or saw only small...