Bob LuPone, who helped lead MCC Theater, has died at 76
August 28, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Bob LuPone, who as an actor earned a Tony Award nomination in the original run of “A Chorus Line” and played Tony Soprano’s family physician, and also helped found and lead the influential off-Broadway theater company MCC Theater for almost 40 years, has died.
List of winners at 75th Tony Awards
June 13, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The list of winners at the 75th Tony Awards, being held Sunday in New York:
Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim
November 27, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a Broadway theater was being renamed in his honor.
At a ceremony outside the 1,055-seat auditorium on West 43rd Street, the composer looked sheepish by the time he got to the podium following gushing words from admirers that included Patti LuPone and Nathan Lane.
Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts
October 7, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier...
Stephen Sondheim gets starry but tardy 90th birthday concert
April 27, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Josh Groban, Nathan Lane and Jake Gyllenhaal honored composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim on Sunday with an online 90th birthday concert that was stuffed with his songs, but delayed by technical difficulties...
Rosie O’Donnell’s streaming Broadway show raises $600K
March 24, 2020 GMTFrom finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here’s a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most people recover from but can cause severe illness in the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions...
The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com
December 30, 2019 GMTAudible.com best-sellers for week ending December 27th:
Fiction:
1. Buried Deep by Margot Hunt, narrated by Therese Plummer (Audible Original)