Four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally's new drama, Mothers and Sons, opened on Broadway last night at the John Golden Theatre. The play continues the story McNally began in 1990 with his short play Andre's Mother, set in the weeks following the death of Katharine Gerard's son, Andre, a victim...

Theater legend John Kander, who co-wrote with Fred Ebb such classic musicals as "Cabaret" and "Chicago," has a new musical opening on Broadway. "New York, New York," adapted from the 1977 film, features never-before-heard songs by Kander & Ebb, and new songs by Kander and "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manu...

Tony Award for Best Musical, in The Band’s Visit, Dina, a café owner in an Israeli desert town, had long resigned her desires for romance to daydreaming about exotic films and music from her youth. When a band of Egyptian musicians show up lost at her café, she and her fellow locals take them in for

Cher’s story and songs are taking center stage in a new Broadway musical, “The Cher Show.” TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones goes behind the scenes of the production to see how this musical journey came together.

In a performance created specifically for Life Ball, a company of 13 dancers offered a unique, circus-inspired modern-day burlesque number. The piece was choreographed by Broadway Bares co-executive producer Nick Kenkel and introduced by Tony Award winner Billy Porter, who's currently starring in TV...

Carol Channing performs "Before the Parade Passes By" on the 1971 Tonys. Actress and singer Carol Channing died early Tuesday morning at the age of 97 at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Her publicist B. Harlan Boll confirmed she died of natural causes.

At Broadway Backwards 2023, Les Misérables‘ inspiring anthem “One Day More” was set among a modern-day, ragtag group of activists preparing for an equality march in Washington. Philippe Arroyo, Bradley Dean, Jeigh Madjus, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Chris McCarrell, Turner Riley, Alexandra Silber and Paul C.

Fun Home is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. As in the book, the story concerns the father-daughter relationship between Alison Bechdel and her father Bruce Bechdel. It has been called "the first mainstream musical about a ...

When Lin-Manuel Miranda sings about the drive of the "young, scrappy and hungry" immigrant, he's not singing about just any immigrant. He's singing about the man on the ten dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton. As Mo Rocca reports, Hamilton's musical journey to the stage is as revolutionary as the young ...

At Broadway Backwards 2019, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Darren Criss (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, TV’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) battled a case of pre-wedding jitters with the rapid-fire patter of Stephen Sondheim’s “Getting Married Today” from Company. Criss,