This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. In the last few weeks, the new Broadway musical Taboo closed, costing its backers millions of dollars. It was also announced that the Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring Bernadette Peters, will also be closing, again ...

They were, the showman in 42nd Street proclaimed, “the most glorious words in the English language: musical comedy!” But for a couple of decades, the people who made Broadway-style musicals forgot about the comedy and went super-serious, telling song ...

The famous country music venue and radio show “The Grand Ole Opry” turns 100 years old today. Grand Ole Opry host Charlie Mattos and country music star Mandy Barnett share some big moments from the institution’s long history.

Archaeologists were perplexed by a strange pair of discs found in Oman – only to discover these items were actually a single 4,000-year-old instrument. The cymbals date to the third millennium B.C. They were unearthed at a site in modern-day Dahwa, Oman ...