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"The artistic director of the California Musical theater, a major nonprofit producing company here in the state's capital, resigned on Wednesday in the face of growing outrage over his support for a ballot measure this month that outlawed same-sex marriage in California." Scott Eckern donated $1,000 to the campaign for Proposition 8....

Emmy-winner Valerie Harper and Tony-winner Jarrod Emick are starring in a new production of the Broadway-bound play Looped, based on Tallullah Bankhead?s looping session for the movie Die, Die, My...

The artistic director of the California Musical theater resigned on Wednesday in the face of growing outrage over his support for Proposition 8.

The creators of "Farragut North" are wagering that there are people still in the throes of election fever, hungry for another fix of strategy parsing.

"Sexual Neuroses," an Electric Pear production directed by Kristjan Thor, is a serious, thematically layered work that should be more interesting than it is.

Mike Birbiglia's pacing is simply perfect in "Sleepwalk With Me," his funny, appealing one-man show at the Bleecker Street theater.

Lots of crossover news with a Brit hit coming to new york, an American musical heading across the Atlantic, and a TV star headed for Broadway. Critics raved across the board...

Tony-winners In the Heights and August: Osage County are headed from Broadway to Hollywood, according to Variety. The Weinstein Company has optioned August: Osage County and plans a 2011 release date...

"Patti LuPone is irreplaceable. So say the producers of Broadway's Gypsy, who yesterday announced they would shutter the hit musical revival on March 1, 2009, rather than try to replace its bold, bossy and critically beloved leading lady."...

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, once a big Broadway-style extravaganza, is coming to London in an admired small-scale production from the Watermill Theatre in West Berkshire, where it completely sold out....