NEW YORK (AP) — Stage, TV and film writer-director Douglas McGrath, who earned a Tony nomination for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” and an Oscar nod for the “Bullets Over Broadway” screenplay he ...

When sevn-year-old Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky arrived in America in 1939, fleeing Nazi Germany, he knew only one English phrase: "I don't speak English, please don't kiss me." Eventually that child not ...

The creators of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical expected the woman of their inspiration to show up at the Curran Theatre for its 2013 world premiere prior to Broadway. But she was a no-show.

A private committal will take place in the Santa Cruz mountains for Doug Mc Grath, an artist and musician who passed away at his Boulder Creek home on November 3, 2009, surrounded by his wife and ...

Doug McGrath is thrilled Beautiful, the hit musical still playing to sold-out audiences on Broadway, is heading to Idaho. After all, Carole King, the subject of his show, has called Idaho home for ...

Today we continue our Tonys coverage with Doug McGrath, a nominee for Best Book of a Musical for Beautiful, who chats about the joy of collaborating with the real life muscal legends, what it has been ...