Last year, Broadway actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein handed director Jack O’Brien the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

After winning her school’s talent show, no one is going to bring...her...down!

The Tony Awards this year will be held Sunday from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Denzel Washington sandwiched a whirlwind trip to the Cannes Film Festival in between Broadway performances for the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” and was rewarded with a surprise honorary Palme d'Or.

Actor Daniel Dae Kim more than made the nominee list for the Tony Awards.

Actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein needs to find room for another award.

Da-na-na-na (snap snap)! That’s right, America’s favorite creepy and kooky family is coming to the Fox Theatre, and we are giving away tickets to the show!

Lea Salonga stepped onto a Manhattan stage last spring and sang something unusual for her — “Edelweiss” from the musical “The Sound of Music,” a song usually performed by the paternal Captain von Trapp.

Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of “Wicked.”.

The megahit Broadway musical “Hamilton” is pulling out of plans to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.

At age 45, Lin-Manuel Miranda already has accomplished enough to receive a lifetime achievement honor.

During Black History Month this weekend, an exciting musical called Ruby will make its debut in Detroit.

A musical that is an educational experience comes to life

Detroiters hated this show at the Fisher Theatre so much that the final 66 stops of the nationwide tour were abruptly canceled.

The Insidious Live Show at Detroit’s Fisher Theatre, advertised as an immersive horror experience, left audiences disappointed and confused, leading to significant backlash.

Stock indexes closed mixed on Wall Street at the end of a rare bumpy week.

The iconic Broadway musical Les Misérables is making its way to the Fisher Theatre from Dec. 4-15, and we are giving away a pack of four tickets so you can see the show.

It’s not every day that you get to perform in a touring production of a Broadway musical in your hometown, and on the same stage that you used to see touring Broadway shows at. But for Metro Detroiter Maya Petropoulos, she’s living that dream right now.

The giant balloons may be flying at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but the stars will be on street.

U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish after the latest inflation update boosted hopes that more help for the economy will arrive next month from another cut to interest rates.

Drops for Big Tech companies including Microsoft and Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms led Wall Street lower.

Jaywalking is now legal in New York City.

Jonquel Jones, Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and their New York teammates were showered with confetti as the Liberty celebrated winning the WNBA title in the Canyon of Heroes in downtown Manhattan.

All of Broadway’s marquees will dim to honor the life of Gavin Creel following an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the 48-year-old Tony Award-winner’s death last month.

Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film ”The Nightmare Before Christmas,″ has died.

Fans of Broadway, circle this date: This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 8 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall.

James Earl Jones, the voice of the famous University of Michigan football game video intro, has passed away.

One of Broadway’s most electric musicals is returning to the Fisher Theater in January for a quick run of shows.

Strong growth for stocks on Wall Street this year have helped juice gains for savers with retirement accounts.

The four stars who helped shape the new musical “Swept Away” — John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall — will steer the nautical tale to the commercial waves of Broadway.

A revival of the cutthroat business play “Glengarry Glen Ross” is slated for Broadway this spring, cast with a star from “Succession.”.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who played a pair of extraordinary slackers in three “Bill & Ted” films, are reuniting on Broadway for a revival of the brainy, existential classic “Waiting for Godot.”.

Get ready to say willkommen to the next stars to enter the Kit Kat Club on Broadway — Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho.

A performance of the Broadway musical “Suffs” was briefly disrupted Tuesday when protesters unfurled a banner with the slogan “Suffs Is a White Wash” and chants of “Cancel ‘Suffs.

The Tonys are often the most entertaining of awards shows, with Broadway performers showing their best work.

Ariana DeBose promises the Tony Awards on Sunday will move “like a Broadway show.”.

Broadway has had great success with “Hello, Dolly.”.

On opening night of the Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along,” one person in the audience strangely wasn’t nervous — the director.

George Clooney will make his Broadway acting debut next year in a familiar project for the Hollywood star: “Good Night, and Good Luck.”.

Two Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical “Hell’s Kitchen” fueled by Alicia Keys songs, and the play “Stereophonic” about a ’70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday.

Broadway in Detroit has brand new subscriptions

'The Cher Show' is now playing at Fisher Theatre through Sunday.

At 8 p.m., A2SO will end its 2023-2024 Pop concert season with a Broadway and Hollywood-themed concert at the Michigan Theater.

7 new shows are heading to Detroit.

A little bit more magic is heading to Michigan soon.

WICKED Is now playing at Detroit Opera House through February 18.

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Journalists at The New York Daily News and Forbes are striking amid contentious contract talks with management and a difficult few weeks in the news industry.

Events for weekend of January 26-28.

WICKED begins performances at the Detroit Opera House on January 24 and will run through February 18, 2024.

Does the new movie live up to the phrase "that's so fetch"?

She doesn’t even go here, but Lindsay Lohan still joined the cast of the new “Mean Girls” at the musical film’s premiere in New Year.

Insiders can enter to win four tickets to see Wicked at the Detroit Opera House from Jan. 24 through Feb. 18!

'Ain't Too Proud' begins performances at the Fisher Theatre December 19.

She was an admired pop star with a voice like butter.

Broadway audiences will soon be hearing the hit songs of Alicia Keys not far from where the multiple-Grammy-winner grew up.

Disney’s FROZEN is now playing at the Detroit Opera House through December 17, 2023.

Insiders can enter to win four tickets to Ain’t Too Proud The Life and Times of the Temptations at the Fisher Theatre December 19 - 23!

Disney's FROZEN will be playing at the Detroit Opera House November 29 to December 17.

Jordan Fisher is going to hell this winter and he’s very happy about it.

Elton John’s musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway from London.

‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ is now playing at the Fisher Theatre through November 26.

'Mrs. Doubtfire' is coming to the Fisher Theatre from November 14-26, 2023.

Boy George is returning to Broadway in “Moulin Rouge.

The brand-new musical will have its world premiere in Chicago.

Huey Lewis, who with his band The News stormed radio in the 1980s with such rock-pop hits as “The Power of Love” and “I Want a New Drug,” is about to take his music to a Broadway stage.

‘COMPANY’ is now playing at the Fisher Theatre through October 29.

'COMPANY' is coming to the Fisher Theatre in Detroit from October 17 to 29, 2023.

She has some BIG stars on the docket

'Funny Girl' is now playing at the Fisher Theatre through October 8th.

And you’re invited to the party!

'Funny Girl' is coming to the Fisher Theatre in Detroit September 26-October 8

Insiders can enter to win four tickets to Company, the smash hit musical comedy, at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit this fall!

John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.

Michael McGrath, a Broadway character actor who shined in zany, feel-good musicals and won a Tony Award for “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” has died.

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WDIV Insiders can enter to win four tickets to Funny Girl at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit in September!

As Tony Award winner Lea Salonga prepares to depart the first ever all-Filipino cast Broadway cast this week, her role will become a revolving door to showcase other well-known talent from the Philippines.

A 24-year-old triple threat who toured in “Hairspray,” competed on “American Idol” and came to the attention of casting agents with her TikTok videos has landed the plumb role of Dorothy in the Broadway-bound production of “The Wiz.”.

Add Angelina Jolie to the growing list of celebrities dipping their toes into producing on Broadway.

Broadway star Phillipa Soo has not forgotten her childhood stage fright.

Broadway and the touring theater community seem to have avoided a labor disruption like the one that has silenced the film and television industry.

There was plenty of uncertainty in the run-up to this year’s Tony Awards, which at one point seemed unlikely to happen at all due to the Hollywood writer’s strike.

The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside more splashier rivals on Sunday to win the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its muscle in the face of Hollywood writers’ strike and fully embraced trans-rights with history-making winners.

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda hopes to increase diversity on Broadway and in theaters across the country with a new initiative announced Thursday.

'SIX' is now playing at the Fisher Theatre through Sunday, June 11.

'SIX' begins performances at the Fisher Theatre May 23rd.

Striking members of the Writers Guild of America have said they will not picket next month’s Tony Awards telecast, clearing a thorny issue facing show organizers and opening the door for some sort of Broadway razzle-dazzle.

Events for weekend of May 12-14.

Disney's 'Aladdin' is now playing at the Fisher Theatre through Sunday, May 14.

'Aladdin' begins performances at Fisher Theater May 9th for one week only.

'ANNIE' is now playing at the Fisher Theatre through Sunday, April 30.

'Annie' begins performances at the Fisher Theater on Tuesday, April 25 and runs through Sunday, April 30.

We’re not getting part one of the highly anticipated “Wicked” movie until November of 2024, so I will take any kind of sneak peak or update on the filming, even if that includes behind-the-scenes videos and photos.

The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold and silver confetti.

Colman Domingo believes in paying it forward, literally, so he joined the producer team of the Broadway play, “Fat Ham.”.

Events for weekend of March 31 to April 2.

Now playing at the Fisher Theatre through April 2nd.

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How James Vessell's time at Wayne State University inspired his career.