Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Ms. Silverman, the coarse, candid comedian, surprises with her performances from "Man of La Mancha," "Annie," "Company" and "Les Miserables" on Seth Rudetsky's SiriusXM radio show.
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The Broadway-bound revival which was to be directed by Bartlett Sher and would have starred Lauren Ambrose and Bobby Cannavale has been put off; its producers said they "determined that this…
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Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman, who separated after five weeks of marriage in 1964, make the 72-day union of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries seem as old as the cosmos itself.
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Mr. Bridges, whose credits include the films "Norma Rae" and "The Fabulous Baker Boys," will take over the role of J. B. Biggley, for which Mr. Larroquette won a Tony Award earlier this year.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A British charity organization that promotes the study and life of Shakespeare, is protesting the release of "Anonymous," a movie by Roland Emmerich that questions the authorship of his work…
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Joss Whedon, the "Avengers" director and producer of fantasy television shows like "Buffy," "Firefly" and "Dollhouse," has once again thrown audiences for a loop by announcing that he has fi…
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Robert Lopez will help his "Book of Mormon" collaborators Trey Parker and Matt Stone write an episode of their animated series "South Park" that is planned for next week.
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Mr. Baldwin's podcast, called "Here's the Thing," will make its debut on Oct. 24 with an interview with Michael Douglas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:44AMThe Bridge Project's production of "Richard III," starring Mr. Spacey and directed by Sam Mendes, will be followed by "Being Shakespeare," a one-man drama about the playwright starring Simon…
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Harry Shearer, who provides the voices of dozens of "Simpsons" characters including Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders and Kent Brockman, said he would accept a pay cut of 70 percent or more if …
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Ms. Keys, the pop-R&B singer, is a producer of Lydia R. Diamond's play about a well-to-do black family on Martha's Vineyard.
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Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk talk about a creative partnership that has taken them from "Nip/Tuck" to "Glee" to their new FX series, "American Horror Story," and why they're equally drawn to…
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The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater, one of three theaters that is planned for the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center, is named for the playwright who was the company's first playwright-…
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Kathleen Marshall ("Anything Goes") will direct and choreograph the musical adaptation of Barry Levinson's 1982 coming-of-age film, for which Mr. Levinson will write the book and Ms. Crow wi…
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Merlin Holland, Wilde's only grandson, said it was "dishonest" for a London theater to present a new work as the final play of his illustrious grandfather.
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The series, about a television staff "on a patriotic and quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements," will st…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMThe "South Park" co-creators and "Book of Mormon" collaborators shared their storytelling strategies with freshmen at the Tisch School of the Arts for the mtvU series "Stand In."
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The festival, which will run from April through November of next year, will include 70 productions and exhibitions taking place primarily in London and involving more than 50 arts groups fro…
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Mr. Yorkey, the "Next to Normal" book writer and lyricist, said that Sting had written about two dozen new songs for the project, which centers on man who grew up around the shipyards of New…
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Gary Wilmes, who played Tom Buchanan in the Elevator Repair Service production of "Gatz," will star as an American businessman who deals with linguistic and cultural difficulties on a trip t…
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Chris Colfer, Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler, Nancy Pelosi and Richard Dawkins will be among the actors, performers, comedians, politicians, bigwigs, authors and atheist contrarians appearing at t…
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The musical, adapted from the creepy, kooky clan depicted in Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons (with a nod to the 1960s television comedy), is closing on Dec. 31.
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Daphne Rubin-Vega ("Rent") will play Stella and Wood Harris ("The Wire") will play Mitch in a coming Broadway production that will star Blair Underwood as Stanley and Nicole Ari Parker as Bl…
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The musical, which features a book by Bruce Joel Rubin adapted from his screenplay, and a score by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, will open in April at a Nederlander Theater to be determined.
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Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Rob Reiner, Yeardley Smith and Marisa Tomei will also appear in a one-time staged reading of "8," Dustin Lance Black's play about a trial to overturn Calif…
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The news comes just weeks after it was announced that the "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley would play Buckley in a separate movie about that singer-songwriter.
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Is preparing for war more or less demanding than preparing to take on the formidable Nina Arianda? "I'll have to go for option C," Mr. Dancy said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMMs. Rabe and Mr. Linklater will play aspiring novelists with shared history, and who each pay $5,000 for the privilege of working with the revered literary figure played by Mr. Rickman.
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A vintage "Star Search" clip suggests that life could have turned out very differently, or perhaps not so differently at all, for the "Six Feet Under" cast member turned "Funny Girl" star.
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The jukebox musical about the Scepter Records founder Florence Greenberg and her discovery of the girl group the Shirelles will play its final performance on Sept. 4.
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