Musical Theater News

Hollywood can still mount a soapbox and recall the dark days when people lost their jobs in show business for daring to take an unpopular political position that was outside the mainstream.

Thomas Fiscella stars as Tevye in the Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities production of the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Liza's new Broadway show is a hit. At 62, Liza Minelli is a perennial entertainer.

Since Proposition 8 passed in California, much of Hollywood has been up in arms.

Whether you like something traditional for your holiday theatergoing or prefer some variety or challenge this holiday season, area producers are willing to oblige.

It's always sad to see a venerable institution die. Countless longtime Valley residents remember "The Music Man," "A Chorus Line" or "Evita" brought to life in downtown San Jose by American Musical Theatre or, ...

The curtain fell Monday on one of the South Bay's longest-running cultural institutions, as American Musical Theatre of San Jose announced it was ceasing operations and filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

When he was a freshman at Regina High, Josh Ollendick had a small role in the school's production of "Up the Down Staircase." "That was my first role and I fell in love with theater after that," said Ollendick, ...

The musical theater students at MusicWorks! Studio of Performing Arts are ready to celebrate "Grinchmas". More than 80 young people are working together to create a musical version of the holiday classic, "How ...

Jonathan Groff insists that taking the role of Billy Noone in Craig Lucas' new play Prayer for My Enemy , now in previews at Playwrights Horizons, isn't part of some conscious game plan to make people think ...

Tigard's Broadway Rose Theatre Company will start its first year-round season in 2009.

Tonight-Sunday. $14-$43. Broadway Across America-Atlanta, Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St.

It was in 1992 that the American Broadway musical made a comeback with the premiere of "Crazy for You" - an adaptation of the George and Ira Gershwin 1930 hit "Girl Crazy." A song and dance musical gem, under ...

Those wacky nuns from Mount Saint Helen's School are returning to Southern Utah in St.

Growing up, Janelle Monae felt constrained by the limited resources offered to her in her greater Kansas City, KS, home.

Should a theater person's private political beliefs affect his employment? That's a major question being wrestled with nationally in the arts community, and I've seen it rear its ugly head in Vegas.

The year doesn't matter, only the time. It's early in the morning and everyone has to use the loo.

Consider the music Leonard Bernstein composed for "On the Town." It's among the musical theater's most youthful and exuberant.

High-intensity and outstanding vocal talent prevail in two musical theater productions now enjoying brief local engagements - "West Side Story" at UCI's Irvine Barclay Theater and "The Color Purple" at the ...

It may be cold outside but it will feel like summer inside North Shore Music Theatre as it is transformed into the Lava Springs Country Club for DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2. Following the first Disney High ...