Usher fills seats for "Chicago" revival
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You've gotta hand it to  Broadway producers Barry and Fran Weissler. Their knack for  canny stunt casting has helped keep their acclaimed revival of  "Chicago" alive for nearly 10 years now, with no signs of its  slowing down.
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Award-winning R&B singer Usher, making  his Broadway debut on Tuesday in the long-running musical  "Chicago," described the role as the most challenging thing he  has ever done.
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NEW YORK  Â The scent of symbolism hangs heavily over "Come Back, Little Sheba," William Inge's early 1950s drama of domestic discord now getting its first-ever Broadway revival.
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Fire flickers, dangerous and beckoning, beneath the frost of John Doyle's elegant, unexpectedly stirring revival of "Company."
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Playbill - The cast of a new concert of Cole Porter's 1929 musical Fifty Million Frenchmen has been announced by Lost Musicals, which is presenting it in Manhattan starting Sept. 17.
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ÂHide The Truth, Entice The AudienceÂ seems to be a new method of getting sizeable audiences to flock to theatres.
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Playbill - The Knights Who Say "Ni!," the persistent Black Knight and those of the Round Table perform their Chicago farewell Jan. 23 as the cast of Monty Python's Spamalot begin their quest for stage's Holy Grail: Broadway.
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By Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 6--Somewhat overlooked in the rush to anoint Clap Your Hands Say Yeah as the future of the music business was the music itself.
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By Margaret Ramirez, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 11--On Sunday night the front pews of the Lutheran church will be moved to make room for dancing. On the right will stand a band whose lead singer strikingly resembles Bono of U2.
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The Metropolitan Opera is getting back into the DVD business.
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Kevin Spacey is returning to the stage at London's Old Vic, the theatre where he is also artistic director.
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It's shaping up to be a banner week  for the original four members of R.E.M., who have reconvened to  rehearse for a three-song performance at their Saturday  induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
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Tommy Tune will return to musical theater, directing "Turn of the Century," a world premiere that will be part of an ambitious 2008-2009 season at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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Milan's La Scala opera house is set to reopen its doors to the public on December 7 with a gala event after undergoing two and a half years of renovations often mired in controversy.
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It tries to turn its live music show into a TV star.
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Laura Bell Bundy is among the latest in a string of Broadway performers who are attempting to transform their theater success into a more mainstream musical career.