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The beleaguered, big-bucks musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has decided to go back to the drawing board. Julie Taymor � the show's director, writer, and creative wunderkind � …
Thirty years ago, an actor in Los Angeles was doing sketch comedy and came up with a bizarre character sporting a tight gray suit, a little red tie and slicked back hair ... and America met …
The ill-fated Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark has hit another tangle. Its opening is being delayed until early summer as the production re-tools with a new creative team.
The violinist made a big splash in 2005, when her recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons became one of the best-selling albums on iTunes. Since that time, her career has only grown.
Actress Jane Fonda is back on stage as a musicologist out to solve a musical mystery in the play 33 Variations. Fonda talks about the role and explains why she's "smitten" with Beethoven.
The institute is a one-person operation that has been housed in a Los Angeles duplex for the past 30 years. The tiny nonprofit is having a hard time finding a way to preserve the Knight film…
Sir Simon Rattle has been working with Ensemble ACJW, the Academy's training program for young musicians, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School. The ensemble just premiered Da…
The musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is the most expensive musical ever, logged the most preview performances, the most injuries to cast members and the most negative reviews before the…
The creative team for Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is climbing the walls this week. After four opening-night delays and 80 full-price preview performances, a lot of critics decid…
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has been plagued with plot and staging issues, and producers have postponed its official opening several times, thus holding reviewers at bay. The latest delay …
As one of the finest classical actors of his generation, Brian Bedford has donned all manner of period costumes. These days he's wearing ladies' stockings - and playing Oscar Wilde's imper…
New York is one of the world's great theater cities, but it's not every year that several of the world's greatest theater companies visit to perform several of the greatest plays of classic…
The beloved children's author made just one movie -- a surreal musical about a diabolical music master with a piano so gigantic he has to kidnap kids to play it. It was not a hit -- but as y…
To say that Gypsy Rose Lee was a stripper is a bit like calling Frank Sinatra a saloon singer. Which is to say: Yes, but.
"I can't wait to get back to the show. I love being Spider-Man," Christopher Tierney said in a phone interview Monday afternoon from The Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in Manhatta…
Young musicians need more than talent to get along in today's world. Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School hope their new program will teach students how to share their gift with the world…
Young Concert Artists has been turning talented young musicians into professionals for half a century.
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to actor/singer Lauren Molina about her performance in the musical Candide by Leonard Bernstein, now revived in Washington, D.C.
There are more troubles for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the record-breaking $65 million musical in previews on Broadway. An actor playing Spider Man fell into a pit while performing a stu…
