817 stories by "DAVE ITZKOFF"
Mr. Spacey, a star and an executive producer of "House of Cards," talks about the series and the pleasures of playing the underhanded politician Frank Underwood.
Cirque du Soleil will resume performances of "Ka" on Tuesday night, about two weeks after Sarah Guillot-Guyard, an aerialist and acrobat, was killed in an accident at the show. &n…
Though he had previously said that stage projects required him to turn down the offer, Mr. Mendes said that the Bond producers had given him "the time I need to honor all my theater commitme…
The New York Philharmonic will present a new staged production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," Stephen Sondheim's musical about a murderous hair-cutter, starring the bas…
George Lucas, Herb Alpert, Allen Toussaint, Renée Fleming and Tony Kushner are among this year's recipients of the National Medal of Arts. National Humanities Medals will go to Marilynne Ro…
Mark Forstater, a British film producer who was among those who made the 1975 comedy hit "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," said there had been an agreement he would be "treated as the seven…
The Clark County Office of Coroner/Medical Examiner said in a statement that the performer, Sarah Guillot-Guyard, died on Saturday "from multiple blunt force trauma suffered when she fell ap…
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.
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 …
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."
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-guide."&nb…
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…
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. …
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.
"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 for Ju…
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. &…
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 …
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."
The musical's run in Boston has been postponed because, press representatives said, no theater is available for a transfer to New York.
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…
Jen Silverman will receive $10,000 and the play will have a staged reading at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center.
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.
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.
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…
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…
