A self-described "musical Arabian night," Kismet was an extravagant spectacle that opened at Broadway's Ziegfeld Theatre in late 1953 and remained there for 583 performances. Based on a 1911 play by ...

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In 1965, Alfred Drake reprised the role he created in Kismet for Richard Rodgers' Music Theatre of Lincoln Center, which performed at the New York State Theatre. RCA made a cast album of the Kismet ...

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Luther Davis, a writer for stage, film and television who won a Tony Award for the Broadway musical “Kismet” and whose screen credits include “Lady in A Cage,” a thriller that starred Olivia de ...

Luther Davis, 91, a writer for stage, film and television who won a Tony Award for the Broadway musical "Kismet" and whose screen credits included the thriller "Lady in a Cage," died July 29 at ...

Presented by Sara Miller McCune. At The Granada Theatre, Sat., Oct. 23. This joyous production brought something truly unprecedented to the Granada stage. While we have had touring Broadway ...

Michael Urie is experiencing a full-circle moment with his latest stage role. Urie, 43, currently stars in Broadway's revival of Spamalot, the musical comedy adapted from the 1975 comedy Monty Python ...

When S.E. Hinton published “The Outsiders” in 1967, many were surprised to learn that an author who so deftly probed young men’s experiences with toxic masculinity and class conflict was a woman. As a ...

What is “kismet”? This exotic-sounding word for “fate” or “destiny” descends from Arabic and entered the English language in the early 19th century by way of Turkish. It’s most often used in a ...