Daniel Radcliffe couldn't conjure up enough magic to secure a Tony nomination for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," making him one of the most glaring oversights of the mor…
Kenneth Branagh, often considered to be contemporary cinema's leading interpreter of Shakespeare, has surprised many fans by directing a $150 million 3-D version of "Thor."
Musicians including Dionne Warwick, Chuck Jackson and Beverly Lee, a founding member of the Shirelles, say their likenesses and life stories are being presented in the musical without their …
Productions include "King Lear," starring Sam Waterston, as well as new works by Mike Daisey, Nathan Englander, David Henry Hwang, Richard Nelson, and Stew and Heidi Rodewald.
At least five times in recent weeks, theatergoers have presented fake tickets to the hit musical "The Book of Mormon."
An exhibition coming to Museum of the Moving Image called "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" will open on July 16 and run through Jan. 16, 2012, and it will feature more than 120 works, includin…
Matthew Lombardo's play about a nun whose faith is tested while working with a young drug addict received mixed reviews after its Tuesday opening.
The annual celebration of arts in lower Manhattan will feature Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Sean Lennon and Rosanne Cash, as well as a two-castle production …
Mr. Whedon, a creator of the online musical, discusses the making of the project, a possible sequel and his future Internet ambitions. (O.K., we asked about "The Avengers," too.)
Amy Poehler helped bid farewell to the "Hot Chicks Room" sign that hung outside a new Upright Citizens Brigade theater in the East Village, and was given to a compost learning center on Gove…
Samuel L. Jackson will play the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play, but Halle Berry will not appear in the production, producers said, "due to child-…
"Carnage," with a script by Roman Polanski and the "God of Carnage" playwright Yasmina Reza, will star Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly as the Brooklyn parents …
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The Broadway revival of the Cole Porter musical, starring Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney and Joel Grey as Moonface Martin, will play at the Stephen Sondheim Theater through January 8.
The April 28 episode of "The Office," on which Mr. Carell bids farewell to the series, will run about 50 minutes.
The festival, which has previously given honorary awards to Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood, said it planned to make the distinction an annual tradition starting this year with Mr. Bertolucci.
Bob Dylan played to about 4,000 people in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday, his first concert in Vietnam, following concerts in China where his set lists were approved by those Communist countries…
Mr. Shannon, who is known for the unearthly menace he brings to his characters on television's "Boardwalk Empire" and off Broadway's "Mistakes Were Made," will play an evil tyrant from Super…
A new book containing the correspondence that John Lennon sent "to his friends, family, strangers, newspapers, organizations, lawyers and the laundry," will be released by Little, Brown in O…
The rapper Lil Wayne, who was released from Rikers Island jail in November, had been scheduled to perform a concert in Ireland and was expected to appear at other major European festivals th…
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Mr. Cheadle will star in "House of Lies," a comedy about a ruthless management consultant, and Ms. Danes will star in "Homeland," a psychological thriller about a C.I.A. officer.
The F.B.I. spent nearly two years investigating whether Los Angeles police were involved with the shooting death of Notorious B.I.G. and conducted surveillance of a suspected gunman, but pro…
Alec Baldwin, the "30 Rock" co-star, said he hoped the show "goes on forever" or "at least as long as everyone involved desires," after he was quoted as saying it would end next year.
The production, a Tony winner for best musical revival, will play its final performance on May 1.