Jesus Christ Superstar (musical)

A memorial celebration for Hartt' School's s theater division faculty member, Kevin Gray, will be held Monday , May 13 at 2 p.m. in New York at Broadway's  Majestic Theatre, 247 W. 44th St., home of "Phantom of the Opera," a show in which Gray played both...

Michael Mayer knows a thing or two about coming of age. The Maryland-born director won a Tony Award for his work guiding the 2006 Broadway hit "Spring Awakening," which chronicles teens getting a grip on their budding sexuality. In 2010, he directed...

A Nazareth Area Middle School drama teacher has been arrested on charges that he sexually molested a male student at the school over a two-year period, according to court records filed Friday. Shawn William Salevsky, 39, of the 1500 block of...

Westminster School students will sing some of the greatest musical hits of Broadway and film at the school's annual Spring Cabaret May 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. in the school's Werner Centennial Center. The public is invited to attend the free performances....

Each year in the run-up to Easter, I pull an old CD off the shelf and listen to "Jesus Christ Superstar." This year, the Breakthrough Theatre allowed me to expand on my tradition by opening its production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock musical on Good...

German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as "the Lubitsch touch." The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is to celebrate "A Touch of Laughter:...

During the Easter weekend, Greater Orlando Actors Theater will present a cabaret — but don't look for Sally Bowles to show up. GOAT's cabaret, titled "Risen," will include musical-theater songs with a more heavenly bent than the numbers at the...

Constantine Maroulis may be most famous as a former "American Idol" contestant, but he feels more like a Broadway showman. The singer and actor who earned a Tony nomination for "Rock of Ages" in 2009 is heading back to the Great White Way this season...

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice must have faced some daunting moments trying to condense the whole last week of Jesus' life into two and a half hours for their 1971 rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar." Wade Hair faces a challenge of a different...

Talented Naperville teenager Alex Oechsel loves to sing. She also acts, dances and plays guitar, but she mainly loves to sing. Perhaps that's why, after surviving multiple elimination rounds but missing the final cut to appear on the "American Idol"...

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle may be best known for "Trainspotting" and “Slumdog Millionaire,” but his globally upbeat opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics was named Theater Event of the Year on Sunday at London's audience-driven...

At the start — the rough start — of the Marriott Theatre's new revue of the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, entitled, with justification, "Now & Forever," the throbbing electronic tones of "The Phantom of the Opera" fill the theater as colored...