Updated: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

HOUSTON (AP) — Thunderbolts and torrential rains greeted the audience arriving for Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at the Wortham Theater Center on Saturday night. Inside the opera house they experienced a different kind of storm — a flood of glorious sound as Nina Stemme unfurled her...

Updated: Fri, Apr 26, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The members of the Tony Award nominations committee better look out: They've snubbed four girls who play a tough little telekinetic heroine on Broadway. Administrators for the awards met Friday for the fourth and final time to determine the eligibility of certain shows and...

Updated: Fri, Apr 26, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The good news for Sigourney Weaver was that her friend, the playwright Christopher Durang, had a juicy part for her in a new play. It wouldn't even be too much of a stretch — she'd be playing a movie star. The sticky part: This movie star was overindulgent, self-centered and...

Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The last show to open this season on Broadway comes with plenty of bang, lots of flips and real value for money: A ticket buys you not just a musical but also a trip to the circus. The American Repertory Theatre's thrilling revival of that cultishly cute "Pippin" opened...

Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Another Tennessee Williams masterpiece is coming to Broadway and it's bringing Zachary Quinto and Cherry Jones along for the ride. Producers Jeffrey Richards said Thursday he'll transfer the American Repertory Theater's production of "The Glass Menagerie" to New York for a...

Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Julianna Margulies and Paul Rudd will team up as lovers for a one-night only benefit reading of Neil LaBute's play "The Mercy Seat." The off-Broadway company MCC Theater said Thursday the reading will be held June 17 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Tickets are available from...

Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The Roundabout Theatre Company is considering a new Broadway revival of "Cabaret," although the non-profit said Thursday no final decision has been made. The last revival of "Cabaret," also by Roundabout, ran for nearly six years before closing in January 2004. "'Cabaret' is...

Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The stage adaptation of the 1983 hit movie "Flashdance" has taken a slight stutter step on the way to Broadway. Citing an inability to find a theater, producers said Thursday that the show, originally intended to reach New York by August, will make it next season instead....

Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, Bette Midler doesn't stand up to greet her audience. She chooses to remain reclined. "I'm not getting up," she says by way of warning. "It's my house, you get up. Only don't. I just had the carpet cleaned." You mustn't...

Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The work is indeed nice, but it won't last forever — Broadway's musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" will be making a lot of people unemployed this June. Producers said Wednesday the Tony-nominated production will play its final performance on June 15 after 27 previews and...