Stephen Sondheim

Broadway musical theater billboards in Times Square in New York City. Ozgur Donmaz/Getty Images by Timothy J. Moore, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St....

Great playwrights have always used the theater to narrate and interrogate the history of their society. Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images by Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University and Peter...

NEW YORK (AP) — Elaine Stritch was more than a Broadway actress. She was a New York institution, strolling around in a fur coat,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Even after all these years, TV in 2013 continued to surprise us. What a fine surprise was "The Returned," a French-language...

Nathaniel Stampley, will lead the national tour of the musical "Porgy and Bess," that kicks off a 14-state tour this weekend in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Richards Associates) by Mark KennedyAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nathaniel Stampley ached to make the role of Porgy his own in the celebrated 2012 Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess." Instead, he kept dying. Stampley was an understudy for Norm Lewis in the title role and bided his time by playing the small role of Robbins in the revamped version of the Gershwin classic. Robbins is killed with a cotton hook in a fight after a dice game on page 15 of the script.