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 Shak…
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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
The Drilling Company will produce "Richard III" this summer as part of its annual Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot season.
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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 03:27PMVanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones will team up as the lovers Beatrice and Benedick in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing,"
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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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The provocative playwright will develop a series about the first black president of a prestigious liberal arts college.
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The playwright Thomas Bradshaw talks about “Job” and his other plays, which have impressed some audiences and outraged others.
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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 03:15PMThe closing represents a commercial failure for the show, which has never came close to cracking $1 million a week in ticket sales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:26PMDavid Birrell was injured when a replica revolver he was wielding misfired onstage during a performance of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion."
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Originally commissioned by the Steppenwolf Theater, the one-act will play three days as part of the London Literature Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMHailed 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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Some 50 theater companies plan to contribute five cents from every ticket sale to help bolster Off-Off-Broadway.
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