Two non-verbal actors have been case in a new opera, opening this week in Omaha. The production has worked for five years to develop technology to give them voice.


A new opera in Omaha uses technology to give voice to two non-verbal actors

The Broadway composer of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie died Thursday at 96.


Charles Strouse, Broadway composer of 'Annie' and 'Bye Bye Birdie,' dies at 96

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.


Composer John Adams' opera 'Antony and Cleopatra' opens in New York

The award-winning composer and lyricist William Finn died this week. He's best known for "Falsettos" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."


Award-winning composer William Finn dies at 73

Once the toast of 1920s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka's story is now on Broadway. She was a modernist art deco artist who's better known in Europe than in the U.S.


'Lempicka' musical showcases a little-known queer artist's dazzling life

The classic 1962 movie tells the story of a relationship buckling under the weight of addiction. The new Broadway adaptation stars Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James.


'Days of Wine and Roses,' a film about love and addiction, is now a spirited musical

Long before The Backstreet Boys, a vocal sextet in Weimar Germany was silenced because three memebrs were Jewish. A new Broadway musical with a score by Barry Manilow tells their story.


An early boy band was world famous — until the Nazis took over

When the composer/lyricist died in 2021 at age 91, he left behind a partly finished show called Here We Are. But his collaborators say Sondheim loved a puzzle — and he left them all the pieces.


The task? Finish Stephen Sondheim's last musical. No pressure.

Producers have been saying for years that large Broadway orchestras are not financially feasible. In fact, the issue led to a strike 20 years ago. So why are some shows bringing them back?


After years of ever-shrinking orchestras, some Broadway musicals are going big

On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.


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