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Former New York City Ballet leader Peter Martins has been convicted of driving while impaired in the New York City suburbs.
The actress at the center of Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush's defamation suit against a Sydney newspaper alleged he touched her breast and lower back during a Shakespeare production three…
John Legend, Janet Jackson, The Weeknd and Shawn Mendes are among the artists slated to appear at the 2018 Global Citizen Festival.
LOS ANGELES " Actual 8th graders will be able to see the R-rated coming-of-age movie “Eighth Grade” in select movie theaters across the nation Wednesday. The film’s distrib…
An Egyptian rights group says a military court has sentenced six people to a two-month suspended sentence for their involvement in a play seen as insulting to security forces.
Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has pulled out of Shakespeare stage production in Australia as he sues a Sydney newspaper for defamation.
The Indian film industry's biggest annual event is being held in Bangkok with awards given to top Bollywood actors and movies, and dazzling performances by Indian artists.
AMC Theatres, the world's largest movie theater chain, has unveiled a $20-a-month subscription service to rival the flagging MoviePass. The theater chain on Wednesday announced a new service…
NEW YORK " With a bleep on live television and double fists raised in the air, Robert De Niro got the theater crowd on its feet at the Tony Awards with a rousing political introduction of hi…
This fall, Broadway-goers will get a chance to see both Harry Potter and "Harry Potter."
Renowned Australian playwright David Williamson says he is disappointed Chinese censors have canceled a production of his play "The Removalists" for the official reason that it contains bad …
Melody Herzfeld, the one-woman drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 'overwhelmed' by honorThe special Tony Award that honors educators this year will go to the drama teacher at Marj…
Romanian theater director and filmmaker Lucian Pintilie, who emigrated after falling out with the communists and then made a career in France and the U.S., has died. He was 84.
The actress will make her Broadway debut this summer when she steps into the title character of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical."
Chicago's famed improv comedy theater Second City is teaming up with DePaul University to offer degrees in comedy filmmaking. The comedy troupe already has its own film school but is collabo…
'Mean Girls' and 'SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical' lead Tony Awards nominations with 12 nods each.
Chicagoans Jessie Mueller, Laurie Metcalf and David Cromer are among this year's list of nominees.
NEW YORK " Whichever show garners the most Tony Award nominations on Tuesday will very likely sound familiar. That’s because most of the leading candidates on Broadway stages these day…
SALT LAKE CITY " The lead actor in a production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton has called out Salt Lake City theater-goers who pulled out their cell phones during performances in…
On a recent weekend morning, a cavernous basement studio in Harlem was chock full, throbbing with music, and hopping with energy " literally. It was alumni day at the National Dance Institut…
A new documentary by Susan Stroman called "Bathtubs Over Broadway" allows audiences into this secret world.
A theater in southern Germany is proceeding with plans to open a satirical play about Adolf Hitler's youth in which some patrons will be wearing swastika armbands.
LONDON " British theater critics are praising a new stage musical about the life of Tina Turner " and it also has the approval of the star herself.Turner was in the audience for the opening…
The show charts Turner's small-town roots, her musical apprenticeship alongside abusive husband Ike Turner and her solo breakthrough in the 1980s.
The Tony Awards ceremony will be held June 10 at Radio City Music Hall.
