Tuesday, October 15, 2013
LONDON " Britain's National Theatre on Tuesday named stage director and former actor Rufus Norris as its next chief. He is the first actor since Laurence Olivier to lead Britain's biggest an…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
PARIS " Patrice Chereau, a celebrated French actor and director in film, theater and opera who was renowned for cutting-edge productions, has died, officials said Tuesday. He was 68.Chereau…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
New York City Opera could be sounding its final note this weekend " at least for a while.
The company says it likely will fail in its goal to raise $7 million by Monday, the deadline it set …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
NEW YORK " Don't be fooled by how mild-mannered Ben West seems. He's the musical theater world's Sherlock Holmes and Victor Frankenstein rolled into one.As artistic director of the nonprofit…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
NEW YORK " Few people get to meet a U.S. president. Dule Hill has met four " one fake and three real ones. And now he's gotten to strut his stuff in front of a sitting one.The actor and dan…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:05AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
NEW YORK " Reeve Carney, the actor who played the hero in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" for three years on Broadway, returned to his dressing room to clean it out Monday, a day after bidd…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2013
WASHINGTON " Phylicia Rashad is best known for starring roles on stage and television, but as a director she decided to commemorate a historic moment that helped spur the civil rights movem…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2013
PITTSBURGH " Franco Harris is going from Super Bowl champ to "Champion of Champions."The Pittsburgh Opera says the Steelers' Hall of Famer will be featured in its season-opening production …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:51PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
NEW YORK " Fresh off his success with "Kinky Boots," Harvey Fierstein will be offering his first play in almost 30 years " and there's plenty of kink.The Manhattan Theatre Club said Monday …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
WASHINGTON " Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will honor Carol Burnett as she receives the nation's top humor prize in Washington.The Kennedy Center for the Performing …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
NEW YORK " There's Denzel Washington and Billy Crystal, plenty of Shakespeare and a nice dash of Harold Pinter. There's even a musical of the boxing classic "Rocky" and the much anticipated…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:20AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2013
NEW YORK " One of the actors playing the comic book hero in the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was badly injured during a performance, a fresh reminder of the dangers facin…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY " The University of Utah has announced its first-ever course examining the Book of Mormon as a work of literature.Instructor David Bokovoy says the class scheduled this fall w…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
The intimate show, called "Pacino One Night Only," will feature an interview with the acclaimed actor that will allow audience members to ask him questions
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:48PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Denzel Washington is returning to Broadway " but he won't be singing.Standing with his wife, Pauletta Pearson, on the red carpet Monday at the premiere his new movie, "2 Guns," t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The hit Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is holding open casting calls for anyone who wants to don the red and blue suit
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:57PM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2013
NEW YORK " LaChanze plans to return to Broadway for the first time since winning a Tony in 2006 for "The Color Purple."Producers of "If/Then" said Monday that the singer and actress will st…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2013
LAS VEGAS " The Cirque du Soleil show "Ka" has reopened on the Las Vegas Strip 17 days after an acrobat fell to her death in its closing scene.The Tuesday evening show was marked by a memor…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]CHICAGO " Patrick Poulin alternates between sitting and standing in the lobby of Chicago's Briar Street Theatre, nervously flipping back and forth through the pages of his application to jo…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
LONDON " Shakespeare's Globe theater is about to take the Bard's words literally " "All the world's a stage."The London theater announced Tuesday that it plans to tour a production of "Haml…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:28AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
NEW YORK " The actress who will fill Condola Rashad's shoes in "The Trip to Bountiful" has been revealed: Adepero Oduye.Producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival said Monday that Oduye,…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]"Ka" will no longer contain the final aerial battle scene, in which an acrobat fell to her death.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
LONDON " Sotheby's says the manuscript of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's first novel has sold at auction for almost 1 million pounds ($1.5 million).Britain's University of Reading bought "Mur…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
JERUSALEM " A one-woman play about an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza is being performed for Hebrew-speaking audiences for the first time.…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2013
NEW YORK " One brought leading man grace. One brought a little raunch. Together they left New York with the top National High School Musical Theater Awards.Sarah Lynn Marion, from Fullerton…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
LAS VEGAS " The founder of Cirque du Soleil says his tight-knit performance company is "completely devastated" after a veteran acrobat died in Las Vegas over the weekend in a fall witnessed…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:19PM[SHARE]JERUSALEM " Puppeteers from the Israeli version of Sesame Street are protesting Israel's closure of a Palestinian puppet festival.Ariel Doron, who plays Elmo on the Israeli version of the c…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
NEW YORK " Times Square's iconic TKTS booth is celebrating its 40th birthday by introducing a new way for theater lovers to avoid lines.The Theatre Development Fund, the nonprofit that runs…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
NEW YORK " Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of James Gandolfini, "The Sopranos" star who earned a Tony Award nomination in 2009.The Broadway League …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Hundreds of tourists and New Yorkers show up each day at the famed TKTS booth in the heart of Times Square with questions about Broadway shows. Often they're very interesting que…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:38AM[SHARE] 
