Tony Award nominations can be read as Broadway’s lab results, and it’s clear from the slate announced Tuesday that the patient’s health has taken a turn for the worse. The two big categories, best play and best musical, are not exactly throbbing with competition. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,..

The Power Rangers are sprinting out of Los Angeles to a new corporate home. Hasbro Inc., the world’s largest toymaker, has agreed to buy the entertainment brand and several others owned by Los Angeles billionaire Haim Saban, the two announced Tuesday. The cash-and-stock deal, valued at $522 millio..

“SpongeBob SquarePants,” “Mean Girls” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” “Angels in America,” “Carousel” and “My Fair Lady.” When the Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday, leading the pack were titles that reflected Broadway’s penchant for the familiar this season, the kind of franc..

When Dawn Upshaw sang, “I feel the air from another planet,” at Caltech Sunday afternoon, it sounded like something you would expect to hear all the time around the campus and the control rooms at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But this line, in German, happens to open Stefan George’s poem “Rapture..

For its new video, the Los Angeles band Starcrawler strung together shots from their adventures during a recent sold out tour of Japan, and the result might help explain why rock ‘n’ roll fans have been giddy about their rise. Directed by lead singer Arrow de Wilde’s mom, the noted photographer...

Bruce Springsteen moved just one letter away from EGOT status Tuesday as the Tony Awards announced that the singer-songwriter will receive a special award for “Springsteen on Broadway.” Springsteen’s intimate evening of story and song at the Walter Kerr Theatre has been nothing short of a Broadway...

She’s won an Emmy and has been up for a Grammy and a Golden Globe. Now Amy Schumer will vie for a bit of Broadway gold: a Tony Award. The actress earned a Tony nomination Tuesday for her Broadway debut in “Meteor Shower,” the comedy written by Steve Martin and co-starring Keegan-Michael Key, Laura...

"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Band's Visit," the two-part play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" and the revival of "Angels in Amer..