Tom Stoppard's play 'Arcadia' returns to Broadway with Billy Crudup and Raul Esparza. Billy Crudup (KROO'-dup), Margaret Colin and Raul Esparza will star in a new Broadway staging of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" next year.

Broadway theaters remain open despite massive winter storm that socked New York City. The East Coast blizzard hasn't left Broadway stuck.

MINSK (Reuters) - Deep snow smothered the noise. Only fresh footprints leading to the tumbledown house in a suburb of the Belarussian capital Minsk betrayed life behind its boarded-up windows.

Tyne Daly to return to Broadway next spring in Terrence McNally's play 'Master Class'. Tyne Daly is heading back to Broadway in the spring as Maria Callas in a new Broadway production of Terrence McNally's play "Master Class."

Actress Thora Birch loses her off-Broadway part after disagreement during 'Dracula' rehearsal. A stake has been driven into Thora Birch's New York stage debut.

Tony Award-winning actress Carol Channing says she's had a love affair with the gay community. Tony Award-winning actress Carol Channing says she's had a love affair with the gay community. The 89-year-old actress-singer-comedienne became a gay icon starring in Broadway hits Hello, Dolly! and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In 2002, the City of San Francisco proclaimed February 25 to be Carol Channing Day in honor of her outspoken support for LGBT rights. In an interview with gay networking website dot429.com, Channing says she's had a love affair with the gay community. ?I honestly don't know,? Channing says in response to a question on the state of gay marriage. ?I never cared if someone was gay or not. If a friend was gay? Well, that's all there was to it.? ?The gay community is responsible for so much of my success, and I love them. It's a mutual love affair, really. They make the better audiences too, because they laugh often and loudly. Applause is obligatory, but laughter is a reward,

Jeffrey Tambor stepping into `La Cage aux Folles' opposite Harvey Fierstein in February. Jeffrey Tambor will replace Kelsey Grammer in Broadway's latest revival of "La Cage aux Folles" (lah-KAJ'-oh-fahl).

Panel of 4 AP journalists see some of themselves in the Broadway play 'Time Stands Still'. For more than 160 years, reporters and photographers for The Associated Press have rushed into battlefields, disaster zones and any number of dangerous places. On Tuesday night, a few went where it is believed none had been before ? a Broadway stage.

Mandy Patinkin to star in Public Theater's off-Broadway production of 'Compulsion'. Mandy Patinkin will star in Rinne Groff's "Compulsion" at The Public Theater next year in New York.

Frances Sternhagen and Dan Lauria to be among group of actors giving a reading of Chekhov. Frances Sternhagen, Dan Lauria, Tammy Grimes and Fritz Weaver will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's birth this week with a public reading of some of his short stories.

New York's discount theater booth TKTS goes high-tech with a free new iPhone app. New York City's TKTS booth just got really, really small.

New York's discount theater booth TKTS goes high-tech with a free new iPhone app. New York City's TKTS booth just got really, really small.

Broadway's 'Rock of Ages' and 'Rain' to continue their runs by moving to smaller theaters. Two shows are downsizing to try to stay on Broadway.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Robert Downey Jr. will be singing for his supper.

Laura Linney and cast of 'Time Stands Still' to extend their Broadway run for another week. The play "Time Stands Still" will extend its Broadway run for an extra week.

Correction: Review of Pinter plays story. In a review of two Harold Pinter plays, "The Collection" and "A Kind of Alaska," sent Nov. 23, The Associated Press misspelled the last names of the director and an actor. The director is Karen Kohlhaas and the actor is Larry Bryggman.

The Kander and Ebb musical 'The Scottsboro Boys' to close Dec. 12 on Broadway. "The Scottsboro Boys," a musical based on the real story of nine black teenagers framed for rape and wrongfully put on death row, will close Dec. 12 on Broadway.

Debut of `Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' on Broadway is rocky due to technical snafus. Spider-Man's web has gotten tangled on Broadway.

Bad news for T.R. Knight, Brendan Fraser and David Hyde Pierce: Their Broadway runs end early. T.R. Knight, Brendan Fraser, Patrick Stewart, David Hyde Pierce and Mark Rylance are among the high-profile actors whose Broadway season has ended rather abruptly.

LONDON (Reuters) - The renovated home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which cost 113 million pounds ($180 million) to complete, opens its doors to the public on Wednesday amid Britain's severest art funding cuts in a generation.