A performer in the Cirque du Soleil show “Ka” died on Saturday night after an accident in which audience members said they saw her fall some 50 feet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:51AMMatt Smith, who has played the Doctor since 2010, will appear together with David Tennant in a 50th anniversary "Doctor Who" special in November prior to his final appearance in a Christmas …
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:30AMCarol Burnett, who starred for 11 years on her CBS variety series "The Carol Burnett Show," will receive the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award that has previousl…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMMr. Crystal’s autobiographical one-man show about growing up on Long Island was a box-office hit and a Tony Award-winner when it was first presented on Broadway in 2004 and 2005. &nbs…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50AM“Let It Be,” which was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four, will begin preview performances at the St. James Theater on July 16, with its opening night scheduled fo…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PMBette Midler, Fiona Shaw, Alan Cumming and Alec Baldwin were among the high-profile performers who were overlooked when Tony Award nominations were announced on Tuesday morning. &…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PMThe musical’s run in Boston has been postponed because, press representatives said, no theater is available for a transfer to New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:34PMTheatergoers attending the West End production of "Billy Elliott the Musical" voted at Monday's performance to retain the song "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher," whose lyrics refer to celebr…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30AMJen Silverman will receive $10,000 and the play will have a staged reading at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:09AMTom Stoppard has written a new radio play for the BBC, called “Dark Side,” that will mark the 40 years since “The Dark Side of the Moon” was released in March 1973.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:51AMMr. Luhrmann's adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:15AMUnder the direction of Mr. Mendes, "Skyfall" -- which featured an Academy Award-winning title song performed by Adele and a regrettable title -- sold more than $1.1 billion in tickets worldw…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMShirley MacLaine will reprise her role as the outspoken Martha Levinson in Season 4 of "Downton Abbey," and several new characters will join the series. But one more co-star of the PBS/"Mast…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:40AM"No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire," Steve Hannah, the chief executive of The Onion, wrote in an apology to Quvenzhané Wallis, the …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:47AMThis summer, Williamstown Theater Festival will present a revival of "Animal Crackers," the Marx Brothers farce, and a new musical based on "The Bridges of Madison County," the best-selling …
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:25PMFor Laura Osnes, who has portrayed some of Broadway’s best-known ingénue characters and now plays the title role in “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” niceness is no act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMMr. LaBeouf, a star of films like "Transformers," "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," was to have made his Broadway debut in the play …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PMBanana Joe, the affenpinscher who was named Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, will appear in Wednesday evening's performance of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AMMr. Clinton, a longtime fan of Ms. Streisand's, will present the Chaplin Award to her at a gala held by the Film Society of Lincoln Center on April 22.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMJesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater will star in “The Comedy of Errors,” while a new musical of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” will reunite Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers, the t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PMEdward Watts, who played the dual roles of Robert Semple and David Hutton in the recent Broadway musical "Scandalous," will portray Superman and Clark Kent in the Encores! revival of "It's a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMThe musical satire about reality television and its shameless contestants is set at a dating competition show also called "Nobody Loves You."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:53AMMs. Midler will star in the one-character play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers," about the powerful Hollywood agent whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Faye D…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMThe theaters of Broadway will dim their lights at 8 p.m. on Thursday in honor of Charles Durning, and again at 8 p.m. on Friday in honor of Jack Klugman.
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