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With 13 nominations, it is possible for Some Like It Hot to best The Producers' record 12 Tony wins; but is it probable?

The striking Writers Guild of America has denied a waiver for the Tony Awards to air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ on June 11.

Gordon Bolar reviews the Great Escape Theatre Company's production of "Bach at Leipzig" in Marshall, Michigan.

Director Sammi Cannold has a long association with the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical — she calls it an obsession. But it's led her to look more deeply into the life of the legend its portrays.

Broadway's top honors will be awarded on June 11 at the United Palace Theatre.

In an opera filled with gorgeous music, it’s hard to beat the end of LA BOHEME’s Act One, with the trifecta of arias about young love. If only tragedy and sadness weren’t going to catch up with the central pair, Mimi and Rodolfo, and their friends, in the succeeding three “tales from the Bohemian life” (as the work’s source material was called). But wait. Director Yuval Sharon to the rescue, with a version that just finished a successful run at Opera Philadelphia, playing out the sto...

What’s on Jessica Chastain’s mind as she spins onstage? Plus: Ben Platt’s silence, the “Fat Ham” ghost, the “Shucked” corn dance and all that “Sweeney” blood.

The National Theatre's 1998 production features direction by Trevor Nunn and choreography by Susan Stroman.

Bullets were flying on the Guildhall stage during St Peter’s Hill Players’ latest production, ‘Murdered to Death’.

Colorful and campy, fast-paced and royally entertaining – and about as much fun as current Tennessee laws may allow (our state legislature’s supermajority, however, might be clutching their pearls and wailing about “who’ll protect the children?” even as the youngsters surrounding me on opening night were having the times of their lives) – Disney’s Aladdin has arrived in Music City via magic carpet, bus and truck. And grabbing a ticket to the show’s Nashville run should be among a...