Monday, July 1, 2013
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.
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Matt 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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A British company is selling a letter in which Rudyard Kipling writes that "it is extremely possible that I have helped myself promiscuously" in writing a poem in "The Second Jungle Book."
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Ms. Michele, who plays the overachieving Rachel Berry on “Glee,” will write a book called “Brunette Ambition,” which is described as being “part memoir, part how-to and part style-…
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Carol 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…
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Mr. 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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Mr. Harris, a star of the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother,” first hosted the Tonys in 2009 and has won two Emmy Awards for his Tonys work.
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“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…
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Bette 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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Mr. LaBute, the author and filmmaker of provocative works like "In the Company of Men," "The Shape of Things" and "reasons to be pretty," will write a new series called "Full Circle," about …
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The festival will annually award its Nora Ephron Prize to "a woman writer or director with a distinctive voice who embodies the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer."
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The musical’s run in Boston has been postponed because, press representatives said, no theater is available for a transfer to New York.
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Theatergoers 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…
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Jen Silverman will receive $10,000 and the play will have a staged reading at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center.
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Tom 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.
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Mr. Luhrmann's adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan.
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Under 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…
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Shirley 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…
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"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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For 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.
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Mr. 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 …
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Banana 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.
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Jesse 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…
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Edward 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…
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The musical satire about reality television and its shameless contestants is set at a dating competition show also called "Nobody Loves You."
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Ms. 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…
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The 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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As with past programs presented by the Ars Nova Play Group -- see "The Wikipedia Plays," "The Urban Dictionary Plays" and "The Wii Plays" -- "The Netflix Plays" takes inspiration from anothe…
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