ArtsBeat: How I Made My Memoir: Book Coming From Neil Patrick Harris by Dave Itzkoff

A nonfiction project from Neil Patrick Harris, the Emmy-winning star of "How I Met Your Mother" and host of many an award show, will be published by Crown Archetype in spring 2014.

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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Seeks Treatment After Rant by Dave Itzkoff

A statement on the band's Web site said Mr. Armstrong was being treated for substance abuse after he halted the band's Friday performance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival to deliver an angr…

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ArtsBeat: A Night of Music to Remember Marvin Hamlisch by Dave Itzkoff

Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli were among the performers at a musical tribute to Marvin Hamlisch at Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater on Tuesday night.

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ArtsBeat: Before Blanchett Leaves Sydney Theater Post, Some Housekeeping by Dave Itzkoff

Cate Blanchett will star with Isabelle Huppert in a new production of "The Maids" for Sydney Theater Company before she leaves as co-artistic director. Her husband and co-artistic director, …

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ArtsBeat: Taymor, 'Spider-Man' Producers Reach Undisclosed Settlement on Dueling Lawsuits by Dave Itzkoff

The dispute arose after Ms. Taymor was fired as the director of the $75 million production.

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Biography of Gore Vidal Coming in 2015 by Dave Itzkoff

Doubleday will publish a biography of Gore Vidal, the prolific and pugnacious man of letters, written by Jay Parini, who was a friend of Mr. Vidal's for some 30 years.

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Feinstein Named Successor to Hamlisch at Pasadena Pops by Dave Itzkoff

Michael Feinstein will begin in his role as principal pops conductor in the orchestra's 2013 season. He will also be named the Marvin Hamlisch Chair at the Pasadena Pops, a newly created tit…

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Andrew Upton to Become Sole Artistic Director of Sydney Theater Company by Dave Itzkoff

Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett, the husband and wife team, have been co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theater Company since 2008. Mr. Upton's new term as artistic director will begin on …

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Lollipops in the Midst of Grief by Dave Itzkoff

Bill Clinton remembers Marvin Hamlisch as a "good-hearted, humble and hilarious genius."

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ArtsBeat: Lars von Trier Seeks Film Submissions for User-Generated Project by Dave Itzkoff

Entrants for the project, called Gesamt, are asked to create short films or recordings inspired by one of six existing works, including James Joyce's "Ulysses," August Strindberg's "The Fami…

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ArtsBeat: Funeral Services Planned for Marvin Hamlisch by Dave Itzkoff

Marvin Hamlisch, who won Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, will be remembered at public visitations in New York on Sunday and Monday, and at a funeral serv…

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ArtsBeat: 'Golden Boy' Cast Features Tony Shalhoub, Yvonne Strahovski and Danny Burstein by Dave Itzkoff

Seth Numrich will portray the "Golden Boy" protagonist Joe Bonaparte, a young man torn between careers as a violinist and a boxer, alongside an ensemble cast that includes Tony Shalhoub (of …

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Marvin Hamlisch, Composer of 'A Chorus Line,' Dies at 68 by Dave Itzkoff

Marvin Hamlisch, the singularly productive and sensationally decorated composer of musicals like "A Chorus Line" and songs like "The Way We Were," died in Los Angeles on Monday after a brief…

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ArtsBeat: John C. McGinley Joins 'Glengarry Glen Ross' Revival on Broadway by Dave Itzkoff

John C. McGinley, whose previous credits include the NBC comedy "Scrubs" and Oliver Stone's Vietnam War drama "Platoon," will play the embittered real-estate salesman Dave Moss.

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Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton of Sydney Theater and 'Vanya' by Dave Itzkoff

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, who have been married since 1997, divide their responsibilities as artistic directors of the Sydney Theater Company.

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Jerry Lewis Directing a Musical 'Nutty Professor' by Dave Itzkoff

At 86, Jerry Lewis is revisiting his past by directing a musical version of "The Nutty Professor" in Nashville.

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ArtsBeat: Kristin Chenoweth Recovering After Accident During Filming by Dave Itzkoff

The Tony Award-winning actress was injured Wednesday at the Brooklyn location where "The Good Wife" was filming.

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ArtsBeat: Take That, Tyson: 'Raging Bull' LaMotta Brings 'Lady and the Champ' Back to the Stage by Dave Itzkoff

Jake LaMotta, the one-time middleweight champion whose life inspired the film "Raging Bull," is bringing back his show "Lady and the Champ," which chronicles his boxing career and the years …

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ArtsBeat: Off Broadway Revival of 'Rent' to Close by Dave Itzkoff

"Rent," the popular musical about the lives and loves of downtown New York artists in the era of AIDS will close at New World Stages on Sept. 9, a little more than a year after the productio…

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Alec Baldwin Gives $1 Million to New York Philharmonic by Dave Itzkoff

Two days after Alec Baldwin's wedding, the New York Philharmonic said it had received a gift of $1 million from the actor to honor Zarin Mehta, its outgoing president and executive director.

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ArtsBeat: Bobby Cannavale to Play Ricky Roma in 'Glengarry Glen Ross' Revival by Dave Itzkoff

Mr. Cannavale inherits the role, as it were, from his Broadway co-star Al Pacino, who played the proudly successful Ricky Roma in James Foley's 1992 film adaptation of the play.

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'The Exorcist' on a Los Angeles Stage by Dave Itzkoff

A stage adaptation of "The Exorcist" in Los Angeles faces challenges: the city's reputation for theatrical premieres and the source material's acclaim as a 1973 film.

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ArtsBeat: Life After 'Dead': Jon Bernthal Joins MCC Theater Play and Scorsese Movie by Dave Itzkoff

Jon Bernthal, of AMC's horror series "The Walking Dead," talks about his new roles in MCC Theater's coming production of "Small Engine Repair" and Martin Scorsese's new film "The Wolf of Wal…

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In Protest, Walker Won't Allow Hebrew Translation of 'The Color Purple' by Dave Itzkoff

Alice Walker has told the Israeli publisher Yediot Books that she will not permit it to release a Hebrew-language translation of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple" as a prot…

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ArtsBeat: Jeremy Jordan Added to Cast of NBC's 'Smash' by Dave Itzkoff

Jeremy Jordan, a Tony Award nominee for his lead role in "Newsies the Musical," will join "Smash" in Season 2 as a character described as "Sexy, charismatic, musically gifted, but also self-…

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