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BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese conglomerate has announced it will buy U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion to create the world's biggest movie theater operator....
Twirling her leopard-print dress on stage in the `70s, proudly holding many of her music awards and performing in recent years on "American Idol", Donna Summer was the ultimate disco queen...
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- A massive statue of Marilyn Monroe has arrived in the desert resort city of Palm Springs....
FAIR LAWN, N.J. (AP) -- That isn't just any baby boomer garage band that's rehearsing in a northern New Jersey basement....
MOSCOW (AP) -- The skinny dissident is thrown headfirst into a police van by camouflage-clad officers. Nearby, a dozen bearded men bearing Russian Orthodox crosses and wearing skull-and-…
NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York memorabilia dealer has settled a lawsuit that had sought to block him from selling 135 letters written by lyricist Ira Gershwin....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mort Lindsey, a composer and jazz pianist who was a music director for Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, has died. He was 89....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Country Music Hall of Fame member Loretta Lynn is taking her life story to Broadway, and she has tapped film and TV actress Zooey Deschanel to play her on stage.…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway's "Jersey Boys" is planning to welcome someone who got away - John Lloyd Young....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nick Jonas tried hard but couldn't keep Broadway's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" in business....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Plans for "Funny Girl" may have fallen through, but Bobby Cannavale is still plotting his return to Broadway....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- In a recent play in Turkey, two actors wore trench coats in their role as assassins posing as perverts planning to flash girls near a school....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The actress who became a leading lady of Hollywood films in the 1950s opposite Glenn Ford, Alan Ladd, Karl Malden and Fernando Lamas has died in Los Angeles. Patricia…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The low-tech musical "Once," based on the love story of a Czech flower seller and an Irish street musician in Dublin, got a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, pr…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway's newest Annie is an 11-year-old from Los Angeles with long, black curly hair who is already a Broadway veteran....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Natalie Dessay needed a relief soprano at the Metropolitan Opera....
LONDON (AP) -- To some he's a traitor to his country, to others he's a free-speech hero....
NEW YORK (AP) -- To properly play a pirate, Christian Borle has appropriately been stealing....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson might be a star now, but he remembers sweating it out in front of casting directors....
NEW YORK (AP) -- When theatergoers at "Clybourne Park" spot a woman with a yellow legal pad sitting in the last row of the orchestra section, they invariably ask what she's doing....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Joel Grey partied into the night while celebrating his 80th birthday....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It took a stray bit of dirt to scratch the perfection of "Cabaret," and painstaking effort to return the 1972 film to cinematic glory....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ricky Martin commands the stage with an air of confidence, yet the Latin superstar admits to being self-conscious at times....
BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's film censors have banned an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," saying it could inflame political passions in the country where it is taboo to criticize the…
