Adam Epstein dead: Tony-winning ‘Hairspray’ producer was 49
Adam Epstein, a Tony Award-winning producer who helped bring “Hairspray” to Broadway, has died. Epstein died Tuesday morning at Adventist Health hospital in Glendale after…
Adam Epstein, a Tony Award-winning producer who helped bring “Hairspray” to Broadway, has died. Epstein died Tuesday morning at Adventist Health hospital in Glendale after…
The versatile and enduring performer Janis Paige, known for her starring role in the Tony-winning 1954 musical “The Pajama Game” and her scene-stealing performance in…
On the Shelf Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me By Whoopi GoldbergBlackstone: 258 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our…
NEW YORK — “Illinoise,” a hallucinatory dance musical based on Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 concept album “Illinois,” offers a fitting end to a Broadway season that seemed…
“Crazy Rich Asians” will soon come to Broadway, years after author Kevin Kwan’s bestseller jumped from page to screen in a watershed moment for Asian…
In the first act of “Merrily We Roll Along,” the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical currently enjoying a successful Broadway revival, the three main characters sing…
A trio of climate change protesters disrupted a Broadway preview of “An Enemy of the People” on Thursday night in what some audience members —…
William Shatner is busy. A documentary on his life, “You Can Call Me Bill,” directed by Alexandre O. Philippe (“Lynch/Oz”), is scheduled to roll out…
NEW YORK — At the end of the musical “Chicago,” Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who has been charged with murdering her lover, is declared not…
When “The Wiz” burst onto the scene in a puff of smoke in 1975, the show became a Broadway sensation, launching the R&B career of…
One of Broadway’s most accomplished stars, Chita Rivera, has passed away at the age of 91. Her death was confirmed in a statement made by…
NEW YORK — Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a…
Randy Rainbow, leader of the musical theater resistance to Donald Trump and his train of fascist Mini-mes, had a campaign stop at Los Angeles’ Orpheum…
Out of town, on Broadway and on the road, the recent revival of “1776” was strategically cast in a nontraditional manner, with actors of diverse…
Reporters can always tell when “Mean Girls” is going to win the box office. Well, they can tell when it’s winning. Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of…
Broadway star LaChanze doesn’t need Warner Bros. to love her, but she does want financial compensation for helping write a pivotal song from “The Color…
Warning: The following contains spoilers for “The Color Purple.” Over the years, retellings of “The Color Purple” onscreen and onstage have explored many facets of…
Reneé Rapp treated “The Summer I Turned Pretty” star Lola Tung like one less lonely girl during a concert on Halloween night. Dressed as a…
Three of the year’s top songs written for the small screen actually have a Broadway flair, each composed for a musical theater set piece. Two…
NEW YORK – What do Lady Gaga, Imelda Marcos and F. Scott Fitzgerald have in common?They’re all the basis for innovative new shows that drop…