What do you plan on doing with your tax rebate check?
Saving It.
  58%
Doing Home Improvements.
  27%
Going on a shopping spree.
  13%
Donating It To Charity.
  2%
 
 
 
 
 
 
The WAVE's Entertainment Showbuzz Theatre News


"In The Heights" Tops In Tony Nods
"In the Heights," an off-Broadway musical that made a successful transition to the Great White Way, now is tops in Tony nominations.
2008 Tony Nominees
Whoopi Goldberg To Host Tonys
Whoopi Goldberg will serve as host of the 2008 Tony Awards to be held June 15 at Radio City Music Hall.
Broadway's Billys
"Catered Affair" Served 12 Drama Desk Noms
"A Catered Affair," a musical about one family's complicated wedding plans, received a leading 12 Drama Desk nominations Monday, honoring the best of the 2007-2008 New York theater season.
Night At The Opera
Mo Rocca On The State Of The States
Writer, comedian, and satirist Mo Rocca, a regular contributor to CBS' "Sunday Morning," pays tribute in comedy and song to states that he says Americans forget to be proud of in a new show he'll stage at New York's Birdland theater.
Actors, Broadway Producers To Negotiate
As the Broadway season gears up for Tony Award time (nominations are announced May 13), one offstage drama could command attention, too: negotiations on a new contract between the actors' union and theater producers.
Making The Stars Of Broadway Shine
The work of Bessie Nelson has sprinkled a bit of sparkle on the Great White Way . and even on the White House. Richard Schlesinger introduces this a gem of a woman.
Theater In The Loo
For most visitors to Central Park, the public bathrooms are a facility of last resort, visited only in desperation after consuming one too many cups of coffee, but an Irish director/playwright has turned it into a theatergoing experience.
Dianne Wiest Adds Nuance To "Seagull"
Dianne Wiest delivers a nuanced performance in Chekov's "The Seagull." Alan Cumming plays her lover in an unhealthy relationship.
"Cat" Gets Life On Broadway
Black Cast Gives "Cat" Another Life
The potent box-office cast includes Terrence Howard as Brick; Anika Noni Jones as his affection-starved wife, Maggie; Phylicia Rashad as the emotionally frail Big Mama and James Earl Jones as Big Daddy.
Explosion Won't Halt Broadway Opening
Stars are still expected Thurdsay night for the opening of a new production of "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," starring Terrence Howard, despite an early-morning explosion in Times Square.
Mario Lopez Takes On Broadway
From "Dancing with the Stars" to dancing on Broadway. Mario Lopez, a finalist on the ABC reality series, will join the Broadway cast of "A Chorus Line" next month.
Bette Midler Opens In Vegas
Ethan Coen Heads For Off-Broadway
Ethan Coen, fresh off a three-Oscar winning night (along with brother Joel) for "No Country for Old Men," will next see his "Almost an Evening" performed at New York's Bleecker Street Theatre.
"Boeing-Boeing" Comes To Broadway
One of the biggest hits in London last year was a revival of "Boeing-Boeing," and now one of its London stars, Mark Rylance, and director Matthew Warchus are bringing the show to Broadway.
Clay Aiken Goofy In Spamalot
The American Idol alum fits into the goofy atmosphere of "Monty Python's Spamalot."
"Shrek" Bound For Broadway
He's big; he's green; and, starting Dec. 12, he'll be on Broadway. However, there is still no actor under contract to play the title character.