NEW YORK — Tony Award nominations have been announced, and the five shows competing for best musical are “The Lost Boys”; “Schmigadoon!”; “Titanique”; and “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).” The best new play category is made up of “The Balusters”; “Giant”; “Liberation”; and “Little Bear Ridge Road.” The Tony Awards will be…
NEW YORK — Will a rom-com set in New York charm enough voters? Perhaps it will be a vampire musical set on the opposite coast of America. Can a send-up of the movie “Titanic” float to the top? Or even a send-up of golden-era Broadway musicals themselves? It’s Tony Award nomination time, and entry into…
NEW YORK — Actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni agreed Monday to end their legal feud over the acrimonious production of their 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” averting a trial that threatened to further tarnish their reputations and expose the dark side of Hollywood moviemaking. The costars turned courtroom adversaries settled the civil case…
NEW YORK — Met Gala guests from Beyoncé and Naomi Osaka to Emma Chamberlain did not play it safe this year for the Met Gala, delivering custom works of art in honor of the dress code “Fashion is art.” Beyoncé left the cowboy hat at home and dazzled in a custom Olivier Rousteing sculptural skeleton…
NEW YORK — Stars gathered Monday for the 2026 Met Gala, interpreting the dress code “Fashion is art,” inspired by the spring exhibit at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Costume Art” pairs some 200 art objects with 200 garments to highlight the connection between fashion and art through the centuries. This…
NEW YORK — A star-studded cruise ship with some of Broadway’s biggest names — including Tony Award-winners Patti LuPone, Darren Criss, Norbert Leo Butz and Adrienne Warren — is setting sail from Florida to Mexico and the Bahamas next spring. The Broadway Cruise — heading roundtrip from Miami to Cozumel and Great Stirrup Cay from…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize officials awarded the fiction prize to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for “Angel Down,” a World War I narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups…
CINCINNATI — WKRP isn’t dead — as of Monday, it’s living on the air in Cincinnati. The call letters from the fictional radio station featured in a CBS sitcom were adopted in time for Monday’s morning drive, and co-owner Jeff Ziesmann described listeners as “stoked.” “Our phones have been mobbed this morning, as I’m sure…
NEW YORK — A fire broke out Monday in the Broadway theater that hosts the “The Book of Mormon,” forcing the long-running musical to close, at least temporarily, as the historic venue undergoes repairs. The blaze, which began in an electrical room, caused “substantial damage” to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, according to New York Fire…
Jon Sterling, the theatrical New York Yankees broadcaster known for extravagant, individualized home run calls, has died, the team and radio station WFAN announced Monday NEW YORK — Jon Sterling, the theatrical New York Yankees broadcaster known for extravagant, individualized home run calls, has died, the team and radio station WFAN announced Monday. He was…
