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Performing in a Broadway production is a lifelong dream for many. For writer-comedian Alex Edelman, his path to the Great White Way, where he is presenting his one-man show, "Just For Us," started in a pub behind a London shoe store.
For the first time in 43 years, there is no production on Broadway by the composer whose blockbusters helped define musical theater over the past half-century. He talks about the state of theater today.
Nominated for five Tony Awards including best musical revival, Lerner & Loewe's "Camelot" is a romantic telling of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. But did Arthur really exist?
This year's Tony Awards will air Sunday on CBS from New York's Washington Heights neighborhood, but the ceremony was almost canceled due to the ongoing writers strike. WCBS reporter Dave Carlin joins to discuss how the producers reached an agreement with the Writers Guild and which shows are expected to win big.
The Emmy-winning star of "Killing Eve" is now an Olivier Award-winner and Tony-nominee for her performance in the one-woman play "Prima Facie," as a British barrister confronting injustice in the legal system with regards to victims of sexual assault.
"Ain't No Mo'" is nominated for six Tony awards. Playwright Jordan E. Cooper discusses the play and its short run despite its critical success. Michelle Miller has his story.
For Broadway veteran Lillias White, it all began as a child in Brooklyn, N.Y., when relatives encouraged her to dance and sing on her grandmother's dining room table. The 71-year-old actress, who won a Tony Award for "The Life," is now starring in the Broadway musical "Hadestown." She talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about her role models growing up; her relationship with the audience; and setting the standard for singing standards.
For the 71-year-old Tony-winner, now appearing in "Hadestown," it all began as a child in Brooklyn, N.Y., when relatives encouraged her to dance and sing on her grandmother's dining room table.
Broadway was shuttered by the pandemic for about a year-and-a-half.
The Writers Guild of America says it will not picket at this year's Tony Awards, scheduled for June 11. However, the union says striking members will not write for the live broadcast. CBS News anchors Lana Zak and Lilia Luciano spoke with New York Times theater reporter Michael Paulson about the impact this will have on the show and the Broadway theater industry.
Tony Award-winning actor Ben Platt joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his return to Broadway in "Parade."
The Broadway production has received five Tony nominations, including for best director and best sound design.
The 2023 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday with the musical "Some Like It Hot" leading with 13 nods. Three other shows — "& Juliet," "New York, New York" and "Shucked" — followed with nine nominations each. CBS News contributing correspondent Jamie Wax discusses the Broadway standouts and some shows that were overlooked.
The 76th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, will air on Sunday, June 11 at 8 p.m. ET exclusively on CBS and Paramount+.
In the new Broadway play "Good Night, Oscar," Sean Hayes, the Emmy Award-winning star of "Will & Grace," appears as the witty and eccentric musical star Oscar Levant, whose mental health struggles and addiction to drugs would come front-and-center during a 1958 appearance on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show." Correspondent David Pogue talks with Hayes about conjuring Levant on stage; and with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright about the darkness at the center of the play's central figure.
The "Will & Grace" star is now on Broadway as Oscar Levant, the witty and eccentric musical celebrity whose mental health struggles and addictions come front-and-center during a 1958 appearance on Jack Paar's "The Tonight Show."
It's a story like no other, where a shipwreck forces a boy named Pi and a tiger named Richard Parker onto a small lifeboat where they co-exist to survive. Now, with state-of-the-art puppetry and stagecraft, that story is on Broadway.
"Fat Ham" reimagines Shakespeare's Hamlet from a Black, southern and LGBTQ lens. Calvin Leon Smith stars as "Larry" in the production. He explains his personal connection to the role and why he's had to separate his character in the show from himself.
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-Manuel Miranda. Correspondent David Pogue talks with the 96-year-old Kander, Miranda, and director-choreographer Susan Stroman about the show, in which aspiring performers try to make it in "a city that never sleeps."
The theater legend who co-wrote (with Fred Ebb) such classics as "Cabaret" and "Chicago" has a new musical opening on Broadway, adapted from the 1977 film, with new songs by Kander and the creator of "Hamilton."
The original star of such musicals as "West Side Story," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Chicago" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman," and author of "Chita: A Memoir," talks about what it takes to succeed on Broadway.
Lloyd Webber said that it is not the end of Broadway – but Broadway must improve.
The "Phantom of the Opera" chandelier fell for the final time Sunday after 35 years. Raquel Suarez Groen, who played Carlotta for several years, joins CBS News' John Dickerson on "Prime Time" with a look back at the show's history.
After 35 years of performances, The Phantom of the Opera is closing on Broadway as the longest-running show in the industry's history. Elaine Quijano has more about the end of the iconic musical.
The longest-running Broadway show ever "Phantom of the Opera," is set to close this Sunday. Since opening in 1988, the show has put on nearly 14,000 performances and has won seven Tony Awards. Elaine Quijano has more.
The family of one of the victims shot early Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic Church in southwest Minneapolis spoke out for the first time Thursday afternoon.
The Trump administration has picked HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill to lead the CDC, after the former director was fired and senior leaders resigned.
The Trump administration is preparing to launch major immigration enforcement operations in Chicago next week employing tactics that sparked protests in Los Angeles, sources tell CBS News.
One of the young victims of Wednesday's deadly mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school remains in critical condition Thursday, at the same hospital where her mother works as a pediatric critical care nurse.
Robert Primus, a Democrat who was nominated by President Trump in his first term, posted on social media that the firing was "legally invalid."
The Trump administration is trying to fire CDC Director Susan Monarez, and several top CDC officials also resigned Wednesday.
A woman was hospitalized with serious injuries after a bear attacked her outside of her home in southern Alaska on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
Ruth Miller told investigators she believed she was acting at the direction of God when she allegedly killed her son Vincen at Atwood Lake, authorities said.
South Carolina officials asked the Supreme Court to allow the state to enforce a measure that makes school funding contingent on compliance with a rule on transgender bathroom use.