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The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024

Dec. 27, 2024 11:42 AM EST

It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson 's “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to...

Guster, Avett Brothers and Florence Welch are helping bring alt-rock to the musical theater stage

Oct. 07, 2024 11:21 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Miller, lead singer of alternative rock band Guster, has a new gig that even he's a little surprised about: Musical theater songwriter. He laughs that he's gone all Broadway. “I just went full-into the ballpit — just, like, face-first,...

Gavin Creel, Tony Award winner and musical Broadway veteran, dies at 48

Sep. 30, 2024 17:07 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Gavin Creel, a Broadway musical theater veteran who won a Tony Award for “Hello, Dolly!” opposite Bette Midler and earned nominations for “Hair” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” died Monday of a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 48. Publicist...