AP - Julianne Moore will return to the New York stage in the world premiere of "The Vertical Hour" by British playwright David Hare.

Reuters - During the half-dozen years it has taken Doug Atchison's "Akeelah and the Bee" to go from script to screen, that old schoolhouse standby known as the spelling bee suddenly became hot property, informing everything from the documentary "Spellbound" to the novel/film "Bee Season" to the hit Broadway musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."

Felicia Willis - AHN Staff Writer New York, NY (AHN) - Julia Roberts has decided to move back to New York City temporarily while she stars on Broadway in the play, “Three Days of Rain,” which is due to open April 19th. Meanwhile, Julia and her cameraman husband Danny Moder had an...

Playbill - Priscilla Gillette, the Broadway soprano who appeared in the musicals Brigadoon, The Golden Apple, Regina and Out of This World, died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York Feb. 2 following a period of declining health, according to a published notice from her family.

Playbill - Broadway's new Sweeney Todd has recouped its initial $3.5 million investment in 19 weeks (as of the week ending March 12), the producers announced March 21.

Reuters - A Miami-based dancer is suing the owners and producers of the Broadway musical "Movin' Out" for more than $100 million (57 million pounds) in damages on grounds that she was emotionally abused and fired after her breasts grew too large for her costumes.

Playbill - The 2003 Estelle Parsons-directed Broadway staging of Oscar Wilde's Salome starring Al Pacino will reach Los Angeles for a month-long run at the Wadsworth Theatre.

Playbill - The Colony Theatre Company in Burbank, California, will host Jay Johnson: The Two and Only! starting April 19, prior to its planned Broadway run.

Playbill - Broadway's reigning Best Musical Tony Award winner Monty Python's Spamalot celebrates its first anniversary March 17 at the Shubert Theatre.

Reuters - With the June 6 release of Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell's solo debut album, "Just in Time," a potential new star arrives on the Great White Way: Playbill Records.

AP - Jacob Young, who stars on daytime's "All My Children," will make his Broadway debut this spring in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast."

Playbill - Debra Monk, Lawrence Pressman, Judy Greer and Ty Burrell star in world premiere of Paul Weitz's comedy Show People, starting March 16 at Second Stage Theatre.

Playbill - Alliance Theatre in Atlanta gives the Broadway musical Jelly's Last Jam its first major Equity revival in a decade, March 15-April 9. Alliance associate artistic director Kent Gash directs and co-choreographs the show, which celebrates the life of musician-songwriter Jelly Roll Morton. Bryon Easley is co-choreographer.

Reuters - Now in its second year on Broadway, John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt" has defied the conventional wisdom that a serious drama without stars can't be commercially successful.

Playbill - Ring of Fire, the new American musical that draws from the catalog of songs written and made famous by Johnny Cash, opens on Broadway March 12, boasting not a strict biography of Cash, but the essence of an American experience.

Playbill - Maureen Stapleton, a tough, earthy actress who, through a series of roles on Broadway and in film-including the original The Rose Tattoo and the film 'Reds'-established herself as a commanding, sympathetic, and improbably sexy presence, died March 13 in Lenox, Massachusetts, her son, Daniel Allentuck told MSNBC. She was 80. The cause was natural causes.

Reuters - The Johnny Cash movie "Walk the Line" may have returned "the man in black" to the limelight, but a new Broadway musical based on his songs received a sharp knockdown by critics on Monday.

Reuters - If it bleeds, it leads. So the television news saw has it. Audiences love happy endings, but, as Aristotle knew, they love tragedies even more -- the operative principle being, as another old saw has it, that comedy is what happens when you fall down the stairs, and tragedy is what happens when I do.

Playbill - Producer Cameron Mackintosh announced St. Louis will host the final stop of the national tour of Les Miserables prior to the smash show's return to Broadway.

Playbill - Actress-playwright Lisa Kron has something she wants to say. About wellness. About community. About parents. In her new play, Well, beginning Broadway previews March 10, she has only one obstacle - mom.