Monday, August 12, 2013
A professor says he has found something closer to definitive proof that some 325 lines in the 1602 quarto edition of Thomas Kyd's play "The Spanish Tragedy" were indeed written by Shakespear…
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Jeanette Winterson and Anne Tyler are the first two authors who will be rewriting Shakespeare's plays as part of a project announced by Random House's Hogarth imprint.
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All eight actors who have played George and Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway have earned Tony Award nominations.
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Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete Campbell in the television series "Mad Men," will star as Mr. Darcy in a stage version of "Pride and Prejudice."
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Monday, March 18, 2013
The winners are John Fabian Witt for "Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History" and W. Jeffrey Bolster for "The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail."
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A leading Sherlock Holmes scholar argues that many licensing fees paid to the estate have been unnecessary, since the main characters are no longer under U.S. copyright.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Monday, December 3, 2012
Report on audience demographics for 2011-12 season found that foreign visitors accounted for more than 18 percent of Broadway tickets sold.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
On Thursday, after the three-hour onstage slugfest that is "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," some 40 therapists and their companions will stay in their seats at the Booth Theater for a short…
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Gerard Alessandrini is once again feasting on theatrical spoils, shaping his latest spoof, "Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!," which anticipates fodder from shows opening in the fall.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The more than 30-event season at Pace University will also include an appearance by the Romanian gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia, a "banjo summit" featuring Bela Fleck, and a tribute to W…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:15PM[SHARE]David Birrell was injured when a replica revolver he was wielding misfired onstage during a performance of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion."
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Hailed as a bright spot in the much-maligned musical, the actor will take on an other villainous Broadway role in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Roundabout Theater Company.
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Farrar Straus and Giroux has commissioned a biography of the legendary theatrical portraitist Al Hirschfeld, who died at 99 in 2003, to be written by Ellen Stern, author of a 1987 profile of…
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