John Kander

Two-time Tony award-winner Chita Rivera will jazz up Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa this week during a cabaret-style evening of timeless music and storytelling. "Chita Rivera: My Broadway," which has four shows Thursday through Sunday, will...

"The Book of Mormon" is a favorite to win at the 2011 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 12. Heading to the Tony Awards, proof Chicago is an ensemble town (posted June 9) "Mormon" is more than just easy laughs: Talking......

Charles McNulty reviews the Reprise Theatre Company revival of "Cabaret" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse...

With rehearsals being jazzed up with additional make-up, hair and costumes for next week's opening, we asked the director and principal cast members of Aberdeen Community Theatre's production of “Chicago: The Musical” what most inspired them to get...

Like the well-oiled machine it is, Chicago rolls along, its air of sexy decadence never changing. Of course, people don't change much either. So almost 15 years after this version of the musical about "murder, greed, corruption and all the things we hold...

There was a time in 1965 when Joel Grey thought he would throw in the towel on show business. He wanted to be Laurence Olivier but instead he was doing a dreadful musical in Jones Beach, Long Island, called " Mardi Gras" with the June Taylor Dancers. "It...

Local theater groups have recently announced their schedules of productions for the 2010-11 season, but one forward-thinking organization already has its to-do list nailed down for 2011-12. That would be Golden West College, whose longtime director,...

FALL THEATER GUIDE 2010: • TOP 10: 'Romeo' to Albee, Chris Jones makes his picks • PROFILE: A Voltaire musical? Must be Mary Zimmerman • BROADWAY: 'Spider-Man' is one strand in Broadway's web On Dec. 21, “Spider-Man: Turn off the......

After sitting on third base since 1973, Liza Minnelli could finally become the 11th artist to complete the awards grand slam if she wins a Grammy Award for "Confessions," her first studio album in almost 15 years. The disc dropped Tuesday to good...

It all started at lyricist Fred Ebb’s kitchen table about eight years ago. Ebb and composer John Kander, the legendary songwriting team that crafted celebrated scores for “Chicago,� “Cabaret� and nearly a dozen other Broadway shows, were ready...

Location is everything in real estate, and that goes for theatrical properties as well. Let me tell you a story that demonstrates the truth of this maxim, the tale of a boldly risk-taking off-Broadway musical that got its Broadway wish......

BROADWAY REVIEW NEW YORK — A few minutes into the last musical bearing the names of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, just as the shrewdly appropriated but pervasively ignoble Anglo-American tradition of the minstrel show is becoming almost......