Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The musicals "An American in Paris" and "Fun Home" each received a leading 12 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, showing two very different sides of this Broadway season. One side...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:37AMMonday, April 27, 2015
NEW YORK — John Cameron Mitchell, who co-created the Broadway hit "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and then played the lead character this spring, will receive the 2015 Special Tony Award.The …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:25PMThursday, April 23, 2015
NEW YORK — As Shakespeare would say, "We have seen better days."The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has found that less than 8 percent of the nation's top universities require Eng…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:43PMMonday, April 20, 2015
NEW YORK — Playwright Tom Stoppard said he will accept PEN's highest award next month in New York to help put a spotlight on a "frightening time" for free expression.Stoppard is to accept…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:12PMNEW YORK — Kelli Barrett wanted to be an actress at a young age. How young? "From birth," she says. "It was always what I wanted."The Virginia-raised Barrett, who has been on Broadway in …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:28AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus said he hopes to transfer the show’s party atmosphere to a Greek taverna set to open in January.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:58PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
NEW YORK — It's taken six years for Matthew Morrison to get back on Broadway so it's no surprise he knows a thing or two about where he ended up.The former "Glee" star happily offered a p…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:00AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
NEW YORK — Ken Watanabe's face lights up when breakfast arrives, a nice big stack of fluffy pancakes."They're my favorite," he says, lifting the lid off an aluminum foil container and inh…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:56AMMonday, March 23, 2015
NEW YORK — It began with an intriguing premise for a musical: What would it have been like to be a fledgling playwright making a living at the same time as William Shakespeare?The result …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:35AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Erivo will reprise the role of Celie and make her Broadway debut in the musical based on Alice Walker’s novel Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMSunday, March 15, 2015
'Let It Go' may be Walt Disney's anthem these days, but 'Everything's Coming Up Roses' might be the more accurate theme song for the Disney juggernaut.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:27PMFriday, March 6, 2015
NEW YORK — Albert Maysles, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer feature-length nonfiction movies that used lightweight, hand-held cameras to spontaneously record the lives…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:07PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Die Hard actor will play the part of captive author Paul Sheldon in adaptation by William Goldman Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:26AMMonday, March 2, 2015
Breaking Bad star joins team for Harvey Weinstein’s Broadway show about the Peter Pan authorThe upcoming Broadway musical Finding Neverland has found a new producer to join its ranks: Brya…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AMMonday, February 23, 2015
NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks' historical trilogy set during the Civil War has won a theater award honoring the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, one of the largest prizes given for dramatic w…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:07AMMonday, February 16, 2015
NEW YORK — Trust Helen Mirren to look regal while surrounded by rats, seat hogs and grime.The 69-year-old Oscar winner has been spotted riding the city's squalid subway system and offering…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:28AMMonday, December 22, 2014
LONDON — British actress Billie Whitelaw, who collaborated closely with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and appeared on stage and screen for decades, has died in a London nursing home at …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:41AMSunday, December 7, 2014
NEW YORK — Rita Wilson is on the hook for comedian Larry David's Broadway writing and acting stage debut "Fish in the Dark."Producers said Sunday that Wilson will follow her husband Tom H…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:10PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
PARIS — The accidental discovery in a small library in northern France of an original first folio of Shakespeare's plays has sent a jolt of excitement around the world of Shakespeare scho…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:52AMMonday, November 24, 2014
NEW YORK — Sting is hoping his star power can plug up a leaky ship.The singer-songwriter will play the role of an inspirational foreman onstage in "The Last Ship" starting Dec. 9 at the N…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:17AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Co-writer and original star of Tony-winning musical to return to the role on Broadway, 15 years after he last performed it Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
NEW YORK — It is hard to describe the hysteria that was whipped up by the new NBC drama "Dr. Kildare" and its 27-year-old leading man, Richard Chamberlain.Adding to the excitement was the …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:08AMFriday, November 7, 2014
Lionsgate film studio to team up with other entertainment firms to put story from bestselling books on stage in London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
LONDON — Theater fans can now stream some Shakespeare, if they have the bandwidth for the Bard.Shakespeare's Globe, London's reconstructed Elizabethan playhouse, is making its productions…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:17PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
NEW YORK — Bradley Cooper will contort his limbs into uncomfortable positions for eight shows a week when he begins his run in the Broadway revival of "The Elephant Man." That means he'll…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:26PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Actors including Melanie Griffiths will write and perform in The 24 Hours Plays, a Broadway benefit taking place in November Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMNEW YORK — Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani joined demonstrators outside the Metropolitan Opera on Monday for an emotional protest against a musical work about the death of a Jewish man they…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:47AMNEW YORK — Actors often complain about short rehearsal times, but some of entertainment's biggest names — including Melanie Griffith, Amanda Seyfried, Uzo Aduba, Peter Dinklage, Nina Do…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:14AMMonday, October 20, 2014
NEW YORK — A prominent New York rabbi led a prayer vigil Monday before the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of "The Death of Klinghoffer," which opponents say glorifies Palestinian terrorist…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:10PMThursday, October 16, 2014
NEW YORK — Al Pacino will return to Broadway next year in a new play by David Mamet written with the Oscar-winner expressly in mind.Producers said Thursday that Pacino will star in "China…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:25PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
NEW YORK — When the Metropolitan Opera announced in February that it would present John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" this fall, there was, as Peter Gelb recalls it, "absolutely no re…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:59AM 
