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Lincoln Center Theater will present Mr. Lane in Douglas Carter Beane's new play, "The Nance," about a gay performer portraying a camp gay character in 1930s New York burlesque.
Maggie Grace (of the hit "Taken" thrillers) and Sebastian Stan (of "Captain America: The First Avenger) will play the young lovers Madge Owens and Hal Carter in Roundabout Theater Company's …
The Monty Python co-founder and star of "Fawlty Towers" and "A Fish Called Wanda" will write "the inside story of how a shy child from Weston-super-Mare, who dabbled briefly with teaching an…
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.
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…
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.
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, …
The dispute arose after Ms. Taymor was fired as the director of the $75 million production.
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.
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…
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 …
Bill Clinton remembers Marvin Hamlisch as a "good-hearted, humble and hilarious genius."
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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.
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, who have been married since 1997, divide their responsibilities as artistic directors of the Sydney Theater Company.
At 86, Jerry Lewis is revisiting his past by directing a musical version of "The Nutty Professor" in Nashville.
The Tony Award-winning actress was injured Wednesday at the Brooklyn location where "The Good Wife" was filming.
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 …
"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…
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.
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.
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.
