Call it whatever you wish—human nature, sheer curiosity, simple boredom or anything in between—but there is something wild in our brains that calls us to use things for anything but their original ...

Frank Zappa once famously asked: “Does Humor Belong in Music?” Whatever our particular take on the matter, the truth is music and laughter have long shared the same stage, from vaudeville to viral ...

The Tony Award nominations are out (sorry, Kieran Culkin), but that isn’t the week’s most exciting theater headline. The big news: The entire run of Luigi: The Musical, a new comedy about Luigi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival) Jesse Eisenberg will direct a new, currently untitled musical comedy ...

Prohibition: A Musical Comedy, the new show from Texas Comedies, follows their formula of mixing history with musical comedy.

It’s the perfect show weeks before a divisive election – a story about tolerance and embracing one another’s differences, all wrapped up in a corn husk. That’s right, the play’s promotional posters ...

For David Lindsay-Abaire, the best part of writing the book and lyrics to the musical stage version of the animated film Shrek was collaborating with composer Jeanine Tesori. So much so that he wanted ...

This musical takes a sharp look at society’s double standards, where politics, crime and satire collide. By Michael Ghannoum This story was created as part of a paid partnership. The times they are a ...

THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 on Hale Centre Theatre’s Jewel Box Stage is a masterful visual and thematic recreation of black-and-white detective films and screwball comedies. It legitimately ...

From left, Ann Morrison, Marcus Phillips and Jim Hogan star in the national tour of "Kimberly Akimbo." Joan Marcus For David Lindsay-Abaire, the best part of writing the book and lyrics to the musical ...