Colette Sheridan pays tribute to the late musical director and legend of Irish theatre, Bryan Flynn.

Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for hit Broadway musicals including Chicago and Cabaret, as well as the big-city anthem, New York, New York, has died of a heart attack.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera will become the second-longest-running Broadway musical of all time early tomorrow – a record surpassed only by another of his hits, Cats.