When the curtain opens on the Te Paske Theatre stage in Sioux Center early next month, the lights will illuminate an iconic ...

Annie is a charming classic musical at the Dolby Theatre through May 18th.  This touring production of Annie has a fantastic ...

Broadway composer Charles Strouse, creator of the hit musicals "Bye Bye Birdie," "Applause" and "Annie," died at his home in New York City on Thursday.

In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Strouse wrote more than a dozen Broadway musicals, as well as film scores and ...

When money dried up and days dragged on, people found their own ways to stay occupied. During the Great Depression, entertainment was built around whatever materials and spare hours they had.

Three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, Broadway’s industrious, master melody-maker who composed the music for such ...

Harold Gray, the artist who came up with the cartoon idea for the newspaper comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" in 1924 ... strip's writer Mike Curtis told The New York Times in June.

That’s because the musical, based on the “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip that debuted in 1924 ... Annie even inspires the creation of the New Deal, singing “Tomorrow” with cabinet ...

About a century ago, a comic strip called “Little Orphan Annie” began ... there is a gripping plot to “Annie.” The musical opens on a dingy New York City orphanage in 1933, 11-year-old ...

“After 500 and change, I’m still discovering new stuff, still living in ... 50 in two years and is based on the 1924 comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” comes from a different culture ...

ANNIE is based on Harold Gray's popular comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” which premiered in the 1920s in the New York Daily News and became one of the most widely read strips in the 30s and 40s.