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Appreciation: Angela Lansbury, an instantly recognizable and readily transformable talent

Angela Lansbury, who achieved widespread fame as the star of the long-running CBS series “Murder, She Wrote” and was the recipient of six Tony Awards (including an honorary one bestowed this year) was never to be confused with any other performer. A royal in exile, astringently self-possessed, her syllables arrayed…

Los Angeles Times

Angela Lansbury: the scene-stealing grande dame of stage and screen for 75 years

Best-known as the novelist-sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury’s winning charm and towering talent stretches all the way back to the days of Noël Coward and Judy Garland

The Guardian - UK

Angela Lansbury, star of 'Murder, She Wrote', dead at age 96

Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote”, has died. She was 96.

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Legendary Broadway Icon Angela Lansbury Has Died Aged 96

RIP to a real one.

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Angela Lansbury, Broadway star and spunky detective in ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ dies at 96

LOS ANGELES — Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actress who conquered Broadway in the glamorous roles movie studios never gave her and captured television viewers as the star of the hit series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died at her home in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times

From World’s Youngest Rodeo Clown to TV Star

Kevin Cahoon talks about his role in the new FOX musical drama Monarch and explains why he’s so grateful for his unique career.

Texas Observer

Angela Lansbury dead: Murder, She Wrote star dies after glittering TV and stage career

Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday aged 96, her family announced have announced

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John Lithgow, Douglas McGrath eager to surprise with twist-filled off-Broadway play ‘Everything’s Fine’

NEW YORK — Everything’s bigger in Texas — including the twists in John Lithgow and Douglas McGrath’s new off-Broadway play.

Tribune News Service

TV and film actor Eileen Ryan, Sean Penn's mother, dies

Film, TV and Broadway actor Eileen Ryan has died at 94

The Independent UK

Review: How the Black experience renews 'Death of a Salesman' on Broadway

NEW YORK — It's been a long time coming, but change has finally arrived on Broadway, where for the first time Willy Loman and his family are played by Black actors.

Los Angeles Times

Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway, starring Wendell Pierce, thrills in the present but struggles with the echoes of the past

NEW YORK — Arthur Miller would, it’s reasonable to assume, have been delighted at the idea of a Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” with an all-Black Loman family, especially with Wendell Pierce (”The Wire”) swinging for the fences in the starring role and Sharon D. Clarke playing the…

Chicago Tribune

EXPLAINER: A look at the Kevin Spacey-Anthony Rapp trial

The second week of Kevin Spacey's federal trial starts Tuesday in a #MeToo-era case against the actor in New York — but no criminal charges are involved

The Independent UK

Review: Broadway's '1776' is at war with its own material

NEW YORK — As directed by by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus, the revival of the 1969 musical “1776,” which opened last week at the Roundabout Theatre, is the latest entry in the current trend of blowing up the baked-in optimism of the American musical theater.

Tribune News Service

Wicked the musical will return to Australia in 2023 to mark its 20th anniversary on Broadway

Before Frozen and Let It Go, there was Wicked and Defying Gravity. The blockbuster musical turns 20 next year and to celebrate, a new Australian production will open in Sydney.

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Superb score, writing, cast transform ‘The Notebook’ into a stage musical for the ages

What we see at Chicago Shakespeare is a pre-Broadway production that is not just safe for the skeptical. It’s a significant leap in artistic quality over its sources, which it respects, while also providing a clear, resonant, and unique voice of its own.

Tribune News Service

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan to headline Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’

NEW YORK — Two stars will align for the first major New York revival of a Lorraine Hansberry play next year.

Chicago Tribune

Review: Lea Michele rides waves of love in Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’

NEW YORK — Come Tony Awards time next spring, the committee is going to have an issue. Lea Michele’s show-stopping lead performance in director Michael Mayer’s revival of “Funny Girl” will be a formidable competitor for best lead performance by an actress in a musical. But since she’s technically (and…

Daily Record

Rangers fan left 'fighting for life' after being 'stabbed in neck multiple times' in Benidorm

Samuel McNicholl was rushed to hospital late on Saturday, 1, October, following the horrifying incident at Broadway bar in Benidorm, Alicante.

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The Guardian - US

Cost of Living review – Pulitzer prize winner lands on Broadway with a splash

Martyna Majok’s sensitive drama about four characters on the margins is empathetically acted and unusually compassionate

Asharq Al-Awsat

Andrew Lloyd Webber to transfer his ‘Cinderella’ to Broadway

Andrew Lloyd Webber is saying goodbye to his last remaining show on Broadway and welcoming another. The musical theater icon announced Monday that his retooled version of “Cinderella” will land in New York at the Imperial Theatre in February with new songs, a new leading lady and a new title.…

The Independent UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella musical transferring to Broadway less than a year after West End closure

Musical will move to Broadway as ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ ends

The Independent UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber to transfer his 'Cinderella' to Broadway

Andrew Lloyd Webber is saying goodbye to his last remaining show on Broadway and welcoming another

Chronicle Live

New Asda store will be built at site of Sunderland petrol station despite local backlash

The Shell filling station on The Broadway will be replaced with a new 'top up' Asda

The National (Scotland)

Mark Brown reviews The Book of Mormon as hit musical arrives in Scotland

THE Covid-delayed Scottish dates of the hit Broadway musical The Book Of Mormon have been eagerly anticipated.

The Independent UK

New this week: 'Reasonable Doubt,' 'Blonde' and Björk

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Björk and Broadway's "Into the Woods,” the reunion of Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy in “Hocus Pocus 2” and a Showtime documentary about Sinéad O’Connor

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