According to Reuters, many theatergoers were not allowed entrance into Times Square-area Broadway shows Saturday, thanks to a bomb scare in the area. Times Square was evacuated in the evening, after a sports utility vehicle was found smoking. (Police put out the fire; The New York Times reports the vehicle contained explosives, gasoline, propane, and burned wires.) Some shows that might have been affected are Next To Normal, which is located on 45th St., and The Lion King, which is located in a theater close to the vehicle in question. Reuters reports some shows were able to go on — as some theatergoers were allowed into the vicinity, but others were blocked from entrance later in the evening. At this time, it’s not known which shows were affected, or canceled. ABC News reports some theaters were evacuated, and in one theater, audience members were not permitted to leave due to the scare.

UPDATE: The NYPD has confirmed with the Wall Street Journal that the SUV contained a car bomb with three propane tanks and two gas tanks.

David Hyde Pierce — along with playwright Alan Ayckbourn and actress Marian Seldes — will be awarded with special Tonys this year, Variety reports. Ayckbourn and Seldes will receive lifetime achievement awards, while Pierce will pick up the Isabelle Stevenson Award for his work with the Alzheimer’s Association.

Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to Phantom of the Opera, will come to Broadway later than anticipated, as Webber struggles with complications from prostrate cancer surgery. The show, which was supposed to premiere in November, has been delayed until spring of 2011. “Although the cancer has been eradicated, there have been post-operative problems,” Love‘s organizers said in a statement about Webber. “These have been aggravated by recent air travel and Lloyd Webber’s doctors have requested that he does not take any further long-haul flights for the time being and until the problem has been investigated.”

Attention Trekkies: A Life in the Theatre announced today that Patrick Stewart will star in the Broadway premiere of the David Mamet show. Stewart will play Robert, an older actor who befriends a newcomer. The last time Stewart appeared on Broadway — in 2008′s Macbeth retelling — the actor nabbed a Tony Award nomination. Rehearsals for the show begin August 23. The opening date and theatre are TBA.

Just 11 days after Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein’s All About Me opened at Harry Miller’s Theatre, the show announced it would be closing April 4 after 27 previews and 20 regular performances. The show, directed by Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw, is still selling tickets for the remainder of its short run.

The Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker starring Abigail Breslin as Helen Keller and Alison Pill as Annie Sullivan will end its run April 4, producers have announced. According to The New York Times, the production, which cost more than $2.5 million to mount, will have played only 21 preview performances and 38 regular performances.