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The February arrival of the Sondheim-Lapine musical launches a tour that will also take the show to Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

There are some interesting cocktails on offer at "The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise” on Broadway and it might not be such a bad idea to order a Sweet Clementine or a Cracklin' Rosé before you get to your seat. The show that opened Sunday at the Broadhurst Theatre is quite a depressing trip through Diamond's life, offering a respectful and, yes, fully authorized portrait that's unnecessarily boastful — “40 top 40 hits;120 million albums sold,” we're told — as well as positively cringey. The conceit is that an older Diamond is reluctantly undergoing therapy to figure out why he's such a sad sack.

For her final show on her Humble Quest Tour, Maren Morris had Kristin Chenoweth join her onstage for a rendition of "For Good" from "Wicked."

A stage musical about woke princesses that uses hit songs by Britney Spears will land on Broadway this summer.

A new production of “The Wiz” is heading out on a national tour next year before following the yellow brick road to Broadway.

The masked man of Broadway is going out strong.

Theater may be full of romantic notions about gambling, but a choked cultural and tourist crossroads is nowhere to welcome bettors.

'& Juliet' is a new Broadway musical, with Max Martin's songs and a cheeky rewrite of "Romeo and Juliet."

A new museum celebrating the history of Broadway is now in New York's theater district.

The musical “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations” will have its Austin premiere as part of the the Texas Performing Arts 2022-2023 Broadway in Austin season.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] Features San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The 1987 musical from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is revived by the perfect company.

Keith Wann alleges he was fired as a sign language interpreter for the Broadway musical "The Lion King" because he is White. He has filed a lawsuit over his firing.

Bob Fosse’s all-singing, all-dancing 1978 revue “Dancin’” is headin’ back to Broadway and the late choreographer’s daughter calls “a magic carpet ride.”.

"It changed my whole life," the singer said about "The Lion King."

Shake Shack is the latest chain to announce it will replace human cashiers with touch-screen kiosks.

One of America's great art forms has not had a permanent museum devoted to its history, until now, with an entertaining and educational exhibition of highlights from the Great White Way opening in the heart of New York City's theater district.

The Ranch Motel is expected to reopen by the end of the year after boutique hotel developer Jayson Seidman purchased the property last month.

The property is undergoing a preservation makeover and expects to begin booking later this year.

Sienna Miller said that she was told by a "very powerful" Broadway producer years ago to "f--- off" after she asked for the same salary as her male co-star.

Friday marks the final day of early voting for the Nov. 8 election.San Marcos voters can cast their ballots at one of 14 early voting locations around Hays County.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The president defends American institutions, but it might be too late.

Horne's granddaughter said that renaming the theater in her honor is a "celebration of the contributions of Black women to theater history."

While the retro Ranch Motel is getting a makeover, the developer is keeping quiet about his plans for the site of the old amusement park.

Parents may be delighted to know that the massive playscape for kiddos has also returned.

Dulce transforms the DoSeum into a one-night winter wonderland, replete with sweets, a cocktail competition and live performances.

Caesars Entertainment and developer SL Green have announced a joint bid for a casino located in New York’s Times Square.

Getting whisked away by Disney’s magic can happen in your living room, at the movie theater, at a theme park or on Broadway.

Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Beto O'Rourke for a rally in Houston on Tuesday, October 19.

Award-winning stage actor and singer Patti LuPone announced that she has given up her union membership, adding she would not be onstage for a "very long time."

“Pretty Woman: The Musical” will debut in Austin as part of the Texas Performing Arts 2022-23 Broadway in Austin season Jan. 1722, 2023. Tickets for the general public are on sale now.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] Features San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

This production uses a cast of multi-racial actors who are female, non-binary and trans – people who weren't even considered in the Declaration of Independence.

He joined the performing arts center in 1971 as an usher and worked his way into theater programming.

The legendary playwright is out with a new play, reflecting on his family’s history in the Holocaust. Plus, the contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen on what’s next for the Supreme Court.

The Broadway megahit “The Book of Mormon” is coming to McAllen as part of Broadway in McAllen’s 2022-23 season.

"Funny Girl" star Lea Michele told "Good Morning America" her 2-year-old son Ever "loves that momma sings."

Andrew Lloyd Webber is saying goodbye to his last remaining show on Broadway and welcoming another.

“Ghost” may have been released in 1990, but this romantic heavyweight has been enjoying a long afterlife. A musical adaptation of the iconic film is now playing at Riverside Center

The upgrades reflect a new partnership between owner PJ Gottsacker and local cocktailer Jeret Peña.

State officials at first declined to name the restaurant involved in the criminal probe.

A report obtained by KSAT Investigates has finally revealed the name of the San Antonio establishment at the center of a Texas Game Wardens shark fin investigation last spring as Broadway staple Van’s Restaurant.

"The Phantom of the Opera," Broadway’s longest running show, is taking its final bow after 35 years. The final performance will be on February 18th, 2023.

After 35 years on Broadway in New York, longest-running musical 'Phantom of the Opera' has announced it will perform its last show at The Majestic Theater in February 2023.

The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance in New York on Feb. 18, 2023.

“The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, a victim of post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York.

Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Between Riverside and Crazy.”.

Fans of Lea Michele will have to wait a little more to see her singing in "Funny Girl" on Broadway.

Fans of Lea Michele will have to wait a little more to see her singing in “Funny Girl” on Broadway.

Jared Kushner said that Donald Trump called Ivanka after he asked the former president for his daughter's hand in marriage.

LuPone earned a Tony nomination in the original run of "A Chorus Line" and went on to help lead the off-Broadway theater company MCC Theater.

A woman has been hospitalized after a wrong-way driver suspected of driving while intoxicated crashed head-on into her on a San Antonio highway.

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San Antonio's Nowhere Bookshop will host Beto O'Rourke for a meet-and-greet for his new book 'We've Got To Try!' this week.

A local church that has drawn the ire of Broadway fans throughout the country for its portrayal of the popular show “Hamilton” has issued an apology. The performance was followed by a 15-minute sermon that compared being gay to having an addiction. News of the show reached the Hamilton creator who tweeted, “Grateful to all of you who reached out about this illegal, unauthorized production. Now lawyers do their work.”In Tuesday’s statement, the church admitted to not asking for or receiving permission to produce the show. “We respect the copyrights of Hamilton’s author and contributors,” the statement read.

Each store will give away 250 free mini confetti bundt cakes.

San Antonio’s Woodlawn Theatre is now holding performances for "A Chorus Line" through Sept. 4.

The show's three-week run includes a handful of Community Appreciation Nights.

San Antonio officials says that plans for Broadway have come to full stop after a meeting with Texas road officials.

After a meeting Thursday with the heads of the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Transportation Commission, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in an emailed statement “We learned today that TxDOT’s priority is not improving traffic flow and mitigating congestion, it’s all about six lanes of asphalt, regardless of capacity.”

“Pose” star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in the musical “Chicago” this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart.

Top City of San Antonio executives think they may have a way to get the city’s plan to redevelop Broadway Avenue back up and running while still following through with a “complete street” vision. But the Texas Department of Transportation doesn’t appear eager to bend on its insistence to keep all six lanes of traffic.

The city pitched a proposal to bring the state highway department back on board with lane reductions on Broadway.

Broadway's "To Kill a Mockingbird," on hiatus since January, will not return to the stage this fall.

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Lea Michele has been tapped to step in and lead the Broadway revival of the beleaguered “Funny Girl" this fall.

San Antonio firefighters are working to put out a massive structure fire on the city’s Northeast Side.

“MJ,” the hit-filled Broadway musical about the King of Pop, got a huge bump at the box office after nabbing four Tony Awards and getting valuable exposure in front of millions during its electric telecast performance.

In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July.

Three people have been critically injured after a taxi cab turning onto a narrow section of Broadway hit a bicyclist, swerved onto a Manhattan sidewalk and into a group of pedestrians.

“A Strange Loop,” an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice.

Have you ever had dreams of starring in a Broadway show and singing your heart out to hundreds of people in a packed New York theater?

For the first full season since the death of George Floyd reignited a conversation about race and representation in America, Broadway responded with one of its most diverse Tony slates yet.

Video of a naked Jesse Williams captured onstage in a shower scene from a Broadway play has been posted online, prompting an outcry from the producers and the union that represents actors and stage managers.

It’s not a typical Broadway show. It’s also not a play. It’s a freestyle hip-hop comedy show, and it’s coming to San Antonio May 18.

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New Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards.

The most commonly held taboo in the arts is uttering the word “Macbeth” inside a theater.

Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright Neil Simon have been donated to the Library of Congress.

Broadway theatergoers will have to keep their masks up through at least May 31, the Broadway League said Friday.

A man was fatally struck by a vehicle as he walked across Broadway near Brackenridge Park on Monday night, according to San Antonio police.

The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it’s like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster of the newly infected is studded with stars.

The second shoe has dropped at “Plaza Suite” on Broadway.

Nashville, Tennessee has become a hotspot for tourism in recent years, and if you ever decide to visit, you’ll understand why immediately.

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play.

After more than a year on the market, a 30-year-old San Antonio lunch spot on Broadway is under new ownership.

“Girl from the North Country,” the Depression-era drama set to the songs of Bob Dylan, will reopen on Broadway this spring, a little more than three months after going on hiatus because of coronavirus concerns.

The stage musical about the making of the classic film “Jaws” has speared its leading man — Jarrod Spector.

After two years of delays due to the pandemic, the Broadway show "RENT" is heading back to San Antonio. A cast member tells KSAT current events in 2022 show how the musical has stood the test of time.

The Majestic Theatre has announced its lineup of Broadway shows for the 2022-2023 season.

The Shubert Organization's Cort Theatre on Broadway will be renamed after James Earl Jones, fulfilling a promise by the theater giant to honor a Black artist in such a way.

A classic play by the late Ntozake Shange is being reissued in book form in April to coincide with its Broadway revival by the director-choreographer Camille A.

The cycling community in San Antonio is outraged by the Texas Transportation Commission’s decision to nix San Antonio plans that would have added protected bike lanes to Broadway Avenue.

The members of the Texas Transportation Commission, which oversees TxDOT, voted Thursday to stop a long-planned hand-off of a 2.2 mile section of State Loop 368 between Burr Road and I-35, which overlaps with Broadway Avenue.

A double-decker public bus in London has crashed into a building and emergency workers say that five people required hospital treatment.

The actor playing Harry Potter has been fired from the Broadway production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” following a complaint by a co-star about his conduct.

If you can’t make it to New York to see Sutton Foster on Broadway in the classic musical “The Music Man,” don’t worry.

Keenan Scott II made his Broadway acting debut this week in “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” which is a remarkable milestone.

The smash Broadway hit “Hamilton” is returning to the San Antonio stage in January.

Many stages on both Broadway and the West End have been forced to go dark once more as the live theater community grapples with new backstage outbreaks of the coronavirus and its variants.

As the national tour of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” plays the Majestic Theatre, it’s a homecoming for the lead in the show.