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Transformers actress Megan Fox is to make her Broadway debut later this month for this year's 24 Hour Plays.

One of the eventualities of a storied life is that by virtue of perseverance and sacrifice, the great person winds up — on Broadway. The latest such case of sanctified Tony eligibility belongs to none other than the leader and conscience of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., portrayed on his last night on Earth by Samuel L. Jackson in “The Mountaintop.”

The title says it all -- "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway." The Tony Award-winner plans to bring his one-man show to the Broadhurst Theatre on 44th Street from Oct. 25 to Jan. 1.

While “The Book of Mormon” sets records, lesser-known musicals are seeking ways to draw an audience.

New York may have been spared the worst of Hurricane Irene's wrath, but Broadway took a bath.

The scene would have been hard to imagine three months ago, when Julie Taymor was pushed aside as director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," an unprecedentedly expensive production whose well-publicized troubles had already made it the butt of late-night jokes...

“The Book of Mormon” took home nine Tonys on Sunday — including the prize for best musical — propelled by a so-offensive-its-funny look at two naive missionaries who arrive in Uganda and find misery, gun-toting warlords, villages infected with HIV and people considering having sex with babies as a cure.

Although Julie Taymor was ousted from "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Bono says she's a genius and he and The Edge were privileged to work with her....

Taking a page from the comics, producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man" musical are hoping their battered hero can somehow return from the dead....

Arthur Laurents, the director, playwright and screenwriter who wrote such enduring stage musicals as "West Side Story" and "Gypsy," as well as the movie classics "Rope" and "The Way We Were," died Thursday. He was 93.