Tamasaburo Bando has dedicated his life to the intimate study of women; the way they walk, the way they move, the way they hold their hands.

A conference on how to make the Broadway experience better for theatergoers has come up with some prescriptions: Be brave in the stories that are told onstage and embrace youth and technology.

There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the 1950s. But Gioachino Rossini's take on “Cinderella” remains utterly magical in the new version being put on by the Vienna State Opera.

Serious theater fans have a reason to suddenly freak out: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will team up on Broadway this year in two of the most iconic plays of the 20th century.

“Mary Poppins” is closing up its big umbrella on Broadway.

There's magic to do on Broadway — “Pippin” is coming back.

Actress Katie Holmes' return to Broadway has been cut short, with producers announcing that the play “Dead Accounts” in which she co-stars will close on Jan. 6, nearly two months early.

At the end of the evening, the witch was toast Sunday — or more precisely a gingerbread cookie — and the audience at Vienna's Volksoper loved it.

Tom Hooper's extravaganza, big-screen telling of the beloved musical “Les Miserables” is as relentlessly driven as the ruthless Inspector Javert himself. It simply will not let up until you've felt something — powerfully and repeatedly — until you've touched the grime and smelled the squalor and cried a few tears of your own.

All five members of legendary British pop group the Spice Girls braved subzero conditions to greet fans on the red carpet at the opening night of stage musical “Viva Forever” in London on Tuesday.