Thursday, September 27, 2018
Comedian and former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart surprises construction workers at a New Jersey performing arts theater with a free lunch
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Dancer broke barriers for African Americans in the 1950s in leading roles with the New York City Ballet Arthur Mitchell, who broke barriers for African Americans in the 1950s as a dancer wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Two dancers have been fired from the New York City Ballet amid accusations that they were part of a ring of male dancers who inappropriately shared nude photos and videos of women
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:48PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Director and theatre manager held after trailer showed male and female actors dancingIranian authorities have detained two artists over a theatre production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.Sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMA German theater company is ending a tour of China early after a theater canceled two showings of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:06AMWarner Bros., which produced and will release "A Star Is Born" next month, said it was contractually bound to credit Jon Peters.
SOURCE: USA Today at 08:35AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Report: Iran detains artists over Shakespeare’s summer midnight’s dream
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Former New York City Ballet leader Peter Martins has been convicted of driving while impaired in the New York City suburbs.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:24PMThursday, August 9, 2018
The actress at the center of Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush’s defamation suit against a Sydney newspaper alleged he touched her breast and lower back during a Shakespeare production thr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:06AMTuesday, August 7, 2018
John Legend, Janet Jackson, The Weeknd and Shawn Mendes are among the artists slated to appear at the 2018 Global Citizen Festival.
SOURCE: USA Today at 08:59AMMonday, August 6, 2018
LOS ANGELES — Actual 8th graders will be able to see the R-rated coming-of-age movie “Eighth Grade” in select movie theaters across the nation Wednesday. The film’s distr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:43PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
An Egyptian rights group says a military court has sentenced six people to a two-month suspended sentence for their involvement in a play seen as insulting to security forces.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has pulled out of Shakespeare stage production in Australia as he sues a Sydney newspaper for defamation.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24PMSunday, June 24, 2018
The Indian film industry’s biggest annual event is being held in Bangkok with awards given to top Bollywood actors and movies, and dazzling performances by Indian artists.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:32AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
AMC Theatres, the world’s largest movie theater chain, has unveiled a $20-a-month subscription service to rival the flagging MoviePass. The theater chain on Wednesday announced a new servi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:59PMMonday, June 11, 2018
NEW YORK — With a bleep on live television and double fists raised in the air, Robert De Niro got the theater crowd on its feet at the Tony Awards with a rousing political introduction of …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:29PMSaturday, June 9, 2018
This fall, Broadway-goers will get a chance to see both Harry Potter and “Harry Potter.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:36PMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Renowned Australian playwright David Williamson says he is disappointed Chinese censors have canceled a production of his play “The Removalists” for the official reason that it contains …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:06AMThursday, May 31, 2018
Melody Herzfeld, the one-woman drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, ‘overwhelmed’ by honorThe special Tony Award that honors educators this year will go to the drama teacher at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PMSunday, May 20, 2018
Patricia Morison, who starred on Broadway in 'Kiss Me Kate' and opposite Yul Brynner in "The King and I,' and appeared in films alongside Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepb…
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:23PMThursday, May 17, 2018
Romanian theater director and filmmaker Lucian Pintilie, who emigrated after falling out with the communists and then made a career in France and the U.S., has died. He was 84.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54AMMonday, May 7, 2018
The actress will make her Broadway debut this summer when she steps into the title character of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical."
SOURCE: pagesix.com at 11:24AMFriday, May 4, 2018
Chicago's famed improv comedy theater Second City is teaming up with DePaul University to offer degrees in comedy filmmaking. The comedy troupe already has its own film school but is collabo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:36AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical’ lead Tony Awards nominations with 12 nods each.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:33AMChicagoans Jessie Mueller, Laurie Metcalf and David Cromer are among this year's list of nominees.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:24AMNEW YORK — Whichever show garners the most Tony Award nominations on Tuesday will very likely sound familiar. That’s because most of the leading candidates on Broadway stages these d…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:30AMMonday, April 30, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — The lead actor in a production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton has called out Salt Lake City theater-goers who pulled out their cell phones during performances …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:44PMFriday, April 27, 2018
On a recent weekend morning, a cavernous basement studio in Harlem was chock full, throbbing with music, and hopping with energy — literally. It was alumni day at the National Dance Instit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:06PMMonday, April 23, 2018
A new documentary by Susan Stroman called "Bathtubs Over Broadway" allows audiences into this secret world.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:15PMFriday, April 20, 2018
A theater in southern Germany is proceeding with plans to open a satirical play about Adolf Hitler’s youth in which some patrons will be wearing swastika armbands.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
LONDON — British theater critics are praising a new stage musical about the life of Tina Turner — and it also has the approval of the star herself.Turner was in the audience for the ope…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:42PM 
