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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.

Two sections of Broadway near downtown will be closed off for the rest of 2023.

Two sections of Broadway near downtown will be closed for the remainder of the year due to ongoing construction.

An old car dealership near downtown San Antonio is transforming into an entertainment district, joining areas like the Pearl and Southtown.

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.

Health inspectors recently ordered a Chinese restaurant to close due to unsanitary conditions after failing a May health inspection. Meanwhile, a local coffee shop was also shut down because of a roach infestation, and a taco business had to close due to no hot water.

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

After 9 years of planning, the City of San Antonio has officially pulled out of the project to transform part of the Broadway Corridor.

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

Jared Howelton, who plays Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the national tour of "Hamilton," spoke with KSAT about performing in his hometown of San Antonio.

There were 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.

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

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

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.

Health inspectors recently suspended the license of a longtime Chinese restaurant on Broadway, just north of downtown.

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

The Broadway musical “The Pajama Gama” is now playing at The Public Theater of San Antonio.

One of the big projects coming to fruition is the new Jefferson Bank headquarters, which is located on Broadway.

Three burglars who San Antonio police say broke into a smoke shop and carted off armloads of smoking accessories Friday morning seem to have disappeared like a puff of smoke.

Three men stole boxes of vape pens from a smoke shop before leading a San Antonio police officer on a chase and crashing on Broadway on Friday morning, police said.

The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe that formed the heart of the TV show “Smash” will make the leap to an actual Broadway stage next season.

After 100 years, the Pig Stand on Broadway served its last meal on Sunday.

The Majestic Theatre has announced its lineup of Broadway shows for the 2023-2024 season.

Looking for spring break ideas? From theme parks and museums to hiking and live music, here are some of the best places to visit for spring break in the Alamo City.

Jonas Brothers have released a new single and revealed an upcoming album and plans to hit Broadway for five shows next month.

Mary Ann Hill, the longtime owner-operator of The Pig Stand, said she’s in negotiations on a new lease and hopes to keep the location open

Laika Cheesecakes on San Antonio’s north side will donate its profits from this weekend to Ukrainian forces a year after the Russian invasion.

San Antonio Broadway Theatre is producing the Tony award-winning musical

It was feast or famine at the Broadway box office as 2022 wound down, with eye-popping revenue for popular shows — including a staggering new Broadway record for “The Lion King” — not lifting all strugglers.

David Elder shares where to find some of the best gorditas in the Alamo City

On Your Feet! the musical based on the Estefans’ lives, will come to the historic Majestic Theatre this weekend.

A stage musical about woke princesses that uses hit songs by Britney Spears will land on Broadway this summer.

A new production of “The Wiz” is heading out on a national tour next year before following the yellow brick road to Broadway.

The masked man of Broadway is going out strong.

Bob Fosse’s all-singing, all-dancing 1978 revue “Dancin’” is headin’ back to Broadway and the late choreographer’s daughter calls “a magic carpet ride.”.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is saying goodbye to his last remaining show on Broadway and welcoming another.

A report obtained by KSAT Investigates has finally revealed the name of the San Antonio establishment at the center of a Texas Game Wardens shark fin investigation last spring as Broadway staple Van’s Restaurant.

“The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, a victim of post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York.

Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Between Riverside and Crazy.”.

Fans of Lea Michele will have to wait a little more to see her singing in “Funny Girl” on Broadway.

San Antonio’s Woodlawn Theatre is now holding performances for "A Chorus Line" through Sept. 4.

After a meeting Thursday with the heads of the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Transportation Commission, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in an emailed statement “We learned today that TxDOT’s priority is not improving traffic flow and mitigating congestion, it’s all about six lanes of asphalt, regardless of capacity.”

“Pose” star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in the musical “Chicago” this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart.

Top City of San Antonio executives think they may have a way to get the city’s plan to redevelop Broadway Avenue back up and running while still following through with a “complete street” vision. But the Texas Department of Transportation doesn’t appear eager to bend on its insistence to keep all six lanes of traffic.

Lea Michele has been tapped to step in and lead the Broadway revival of the beleaguered “Funny Girl" this fall.

San Antonio firefighters are working to put out a massive structure fire on the city’s Northeast Side.

“MJ,” the hit-filled Broadway musical about the King of Pop, got a huge bump at the box office after nabbing four Tony Awards and getting valuable exposure in front of millions during its electric telecast performance.

In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July.

Three people have been critically injured after a taxi cab turning onto a narrow section of Broadway hit a bicyclist, swerved onto a Manhattan sidewalk and into a group of pedestrians.

“A Strange Loop,” an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice.

Have you ever had dreams of starring in a Broadway show and singing your heart out to hundreds of people in a packed New York theater?

For the first full season since the death of George Floyd reignited a conversation about race and representation in America, Broadway responded with one of its most diverse Tony slates yet.

Video of a naked Jesse Williams captured onstage in a shower scene from a Broadway play has been posted online, prompting an outcry from the producers and the union that represents actors and stage managers.

It’s not a typical Broadway show. It’s also not a play. It’s a freestyle hip-hop comedy show, and it’s coming to San Antonio May 18.

“A Strange Loop,” Michael R.

New Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards.

The most commonly held taboo in the arts is uttering the word “Macbeth” inside a theater.

Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright Neil Simon have been donated to the Library of Congress.

Broadway theatergoers will have to keep their masks up through at least May 31, the Broadway League said Friday.

A man was fatally struck by a vehicle as he walked across Broadway near Brackenridge Park on Monday night, according to San Antonio police.

The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it’s like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster of the newly infected is studded with stars.

The second shoe has dropped at “Plaza Suite” on Broadway.

Nashville, Tennessee has become a hotspot for tourism in recent years, and if you ever decide to visit, you’ll understand why immediately.

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play.

After more than a year on the market, a 30-year-old San Antonio lunch spot on Broadway is under new ownership.

“Girl from the North Country,” the Depression-era drama set to the songs of Bob Dylan, will reopen on Broadway this spring, a little more than three months after going on hiatus because of coronavirus concerns.

The stage musical about the making of the classic film “Jaws” has speared its leading man — Jarrod Spector.

After two years of delays due to the pandemic, the Broadway show "RENT" is heading back to San Antonio. A cast member tells KSAT current events in 2022 show how the musical has stood the test of time.

The Majestic Theatre has announced its lineup of Broadway shows for the 2022-2023 season.

The Shubert Organization's Cort Theatre on Broadway will be renamed after James Earl Jones, fulfilling a promise by the theater giant to honor a Black artist in such a way.

A classic play by the late Ntozake Shange is being reissued in book form in April to coincide with its Broadway revival by the director-choreographer Camille A.

The cycling community in San Antonio is outraged by the Texas Transportation Commission’s decision to nix San Antonio plans that would have added protected bike lanes to Broadway Avenue.

The members of the Texas Transportation Commission, which oversees TxDOT, voted Thursday to stop a long-planned hand-off of a 2.2 mile section of State Loop 368 between Burr Road and I-35, which overlaps with Broadway Avenue.

A double-decker public bus in London has crashed into a building and emergency workers say that five people required hospital treatment.

The actor playing Harry Potter has been fired from the Broadway production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” following a complaint by a co-star about his conduct.

If you can’t make it to New York to see Sutton Foster on Broadway in the classic musical “The Music Man,” don’t worry.

Keenan Scott II made his Broadway acting debut this week in “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” which is a remarkable milestone.

The smash Broadway hit “Hamilton” is returning to the San Antonio stage in January.

Many stages on both Broadway and the West End have been forced to go dark once more as the live theater community grapples with new backstage outbreaks of the coronavirus and its variants.

As the national tour of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” plays the Majestic Theatre, it’s a homecoming for the lead in the show.

Couple who lives in luxury apartments near The Pearl would like to see a stronger response from complex management in response to crime.

It’s still hard to believe for fans of musical theater, but Broadway icon and legend Stephen Sondheim passed away over the weekend at the age of 91.

A 28-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting at an apartment complex across the Pearl.

A man is in critical condition following a shooting at an apartment complex near downtown, and San Antonio police said they are still looking for the suspect.

Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the souvenir shops, restaurants, hotels and entrepreneurs within the iconic U.S. landmark are still reeling from a staggering pandemic.

Audra McDonald is going from host of the Tony Awards to another stage role.

As he brings “American Utopia” back to Broadway following the pandemic pause, David Byrne says it's evident how thrilled people are simply to be enjoying live entertainment again.

At the Tony Awards, John Legend played live with cast members from the Broadway musical “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations.”.

The Broadway hit “Aladdin” is trying to keep COVID-19 genie contained.

The hit Broadway show “Aladdin” was canceled Wednesday night when breakthrough COVID-19 cases were reported within the musical’s company, a day after the show reopened, a worrying sign for Broadway.

Fresh off his turn as James Bond, Daniel Craig has his next project lined up and its also got plenty of blood being spilled.

The red carpet for Sunday's Tony Awards has started and stars are praising the return of live theater after the pandemic shuttered theaters for more than a year.

“Dear Evan Hansen” may have been a hit on Broadway, but the filmed adaptation of the Tony-winning show is off to a slow start at the box office in its first weekend in theaters.

“Moulin Rouge.

The National Tour of My Fair Lady will be welcoming back Broadway audiences this week at the Majestic Theatre.