Theater News Headlines

By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Tony Awards are sticking with CBS. The network has reached a new agreement with The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing to broadcast the Tonys through 2018. "The Tony Awards give viewers across the country the opportunity to experience the excitement of Broadway …

Today in show business news: Emma Roberts has joined the Ryan Murphy family, CBS hires a Bad Teacher, and a glimpse of the next Vince Vaughn movie.

There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like home. "Look, they don't break ...

(Reuters) - Actress and comedienne Carol Burnett will be honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the top award for American comics, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said on Tuesday. Burnett, 80, whose Emmy-winning sketch comedy program "The Carol Burnett Show" was a mainstay on U.S. television …

(Reuters) - British theater company Ambassador Theatre Group's subsidiary Lyric Theatre LLC has purchased Foxwoods Theatre, currently home to the "Spider-Man" musical, from Live Nation Entertainment Inc, the companies said on Monday. Lyric Theatre paid about $65 million for Foxwoods, according to a person with knowledge …

NEW YORK (AP) — Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought the lease to Broadway's largest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Zachary Levi, star of the late, lamented NBC action comedy "Chuck," will make his Broadway debut in the musical comedy "First Date," the show's producers said Monday. Levi anchored the cult TV series for five seasons, starring as a computer-whiz who becomes an improbable spy. He …

NEW YORK (AP) — Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.

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 ...

By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) - A new app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks. The Sonnet Project is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that showcases the bard's poetry through …

NEW YORK (AP) — If either her husband or daughter is calling, Audra McDonald knows without looking at her phone.

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.

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.

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.

NEW YORK (AP) — The thrilling Broadway revival of "Pippin" will be taking its magic on the road.

NEW YORK (AP) — The slow, lingering demise of "Smash" has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway.

(Reuters) - Actor Billy Crystal will give his autobiographical one-man play "700 Sundays" a Broadway send-off later this year with a nine-week run, promoters said on Tuesday. Previews of the two-act play, which deals with Crystal's coming of age and the death of his father, are set to begin on November 5 at New York's Imperial …

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Emmy-winning "Homeland" star Mandy Patinkin has joined the cast of Zach Braff's sophomore feature "Wish I Was Here," which has been made possible by Kickstarter. Braff stars as Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband who is still trying to find his identity and purpose …

There are apparently a few more Sundays left in Billy Crystal. The star of "City Slickers" and "When Harry Met Sally" said Tuesday he will reprise his funny and poignant one-man autobiographical ...

The "Mother" of all TV secrets has finally been revealed! After eight seasons of hints, clues and teases galore, "How I Met Your Mother" fans finally got their first glimpse of the woman who will ultimately win Ted Mosby's heart. So, who is she?

By Ronald Grover (Reuters) - Mel Brooks, whose long career in comedy includes writing and directing hilarious films like "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein," will receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award on June 6. And if you ask him, it's about time. "They're finally recognizing that I'm a pretty …

U.S. TV journalist Barbara Walters announces retirement (Reuters) - Trailblazing broadcast journalist Barbara Walters, known for her interviews with world leaders and celebrities and the first woman to co-anchor a U.S. evening news program, said on Monday she will retire in the summer of 2014. With tears in her eyes, Walters, …

NEW YORK (AP) — Years ago, when her roommate came home one day sobbing, Laura Benanti comforted her the only way she knew how — with a song.