Thursday night's performance of "Cabaret" at London's Strand Theatre went on with music again, marking the second straight night the musical has been staged without an orchestra.
A predominantly white Cape Town, South Africa, audience voted Tuesday night to scrap the performance of the musical they were about to see, in sympathy with black protests against Wednesday's whites-only general election.
Longtime Broadway producer and writer George Abbott--who turns 100 Thursday--was honored Monday night at a black-tie gala on the Great White Way.
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will join the University of Houston drama department in January as distinguished professor of drama and head of the department's playwriting division.
In the revisionist theater department, a Chinese director in Shanghai has decided Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" doesn't have enough punch, the China Daily newspaper reported Friday.
After protests by Jewish groups, Dublin's Olympia Theater Thursday dropped plans to stage the
Israeli actor Topol--who became famous for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film version of "Fiddler on the Roof"--will return in a new production of the musical March 11 in Manchester, England.
"Primrose" and "Pardon My English"--two Gershwin musicals unearthed in a New Jersey warehouse in 1982--will receive performances today for the first time in more than 50 years.
The largest advance sale of tickets in Broadway history guarantees the musical "Les Miserables" a long run, even if the reviews are as mixed as when it premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.
Playwright Edward Albee is directing the world premiere of his new work "Marriage Play" this weekend at Vienna's English Theatre.
A musical drama not seen since 1160 opened Thursday night in Chicago.
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A mock trial held for charity that reenacted the 1961 Lenny Bruce obscenity trial drew a new verdict last week--innocent.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sandra Bernhard, Bob Goldthwait and other comedians are scheduled to appear Sunday night at "No Laughing Matter," a $100-a-ticket benefit at the Improv for producer Norman Lear's People for the American Way civil rights watchdog group.
The madam and call girls are long gone, but the notorious bordello that inspired the musical (and film) "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," now has customers clamoring to spend their money on souvenir belt buckles, fancy negligees and tiny parcels of real estate.
In a rare moment of unity, ethnic Turks and Greeks living in strife-torn Cyprus on Sunday wildly applauded a performance by Turkish-Cypriot actors of Aristophanes' "Peace" in the Greek-Cypriot sector of divided Nicosia.
The New York-based council for the Actor's Equity Assn. has refused a second time to grant permission to British actress Sarah Brightman to perform in the Broadway production of "Phantom of the Opera," husband Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, according to the New York Times.
"South Pacific" opens a nine-week run Feb. 27 in New York City Opera's second Musical Comedy Season.
"Starlight Express," the $8-million roller skating musical about a railroad race across the United States, has again postponed its Broadway opening and will premiere on March 15, instead of Thursday night.