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NEW YORK (AP) -- Paul McCartney is releasing an album of standards - plus two new songs of his own....
PRAGUE (AP) -- Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ende…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mezzo-soprano Wendy White has been hospitalized after falling about eight feet from a platform to the stage during a performance of Charles Gounod's "Faust" at New York'…
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Is the witch really dead now?" my 6-year-old seatmate, Claudia, leaned over anxiously to ask....
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- An actor who appeared on stage at London's Globe Theatre and on television in "Sanford & Son" has died in New Jersey....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Plans are under way to create a musical based on the book "Because of Winn-Dixie" with songs by Duncan Sheik and a real dog on stage....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Audiences at Wednesday's matinee of "War Horse" likely never noticed a very special actor quietly making his Lincoln Center stage debut....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" is ending its run several weeks early....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The acclaimed Broadway production of "Venus in Fur" isn't slinking away quite yet....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The music director of New York's Metropolitan Opera will take a break from conducting for the rest of the company's current season and the 2012-2013 season....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A renovated theater at Johns Hopkins University has been renamed for "The Addams Family" actor John Astin....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The musical based on the Academy Award-winning film "Once" is falling slowly onto Broadway....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Customers who purchased tickets through Ticketmaster are getting notices that tell them they'll soon receive credits for fees they were charged over the past decade..…
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Opera has declared an impasse in contract negotiations with unions for its musicians and singers and is threatening to present its abbreviated season witho…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Move over Adele, Kanye West and Bon Iver. One of the livelier contests at next year's Grammy Awards will pit Harry Potter, Cole Porter and a pair of Mormon missionaries.…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaire Russian investor Vladimir Potanin announced a $5 million gift Thursday to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to mark its 40th anniversary and suppo…
PARIS (AP) -- Actor Rupert Everett and Oscar Wilde's grandson have unveiled a makeover of the writer's gravesite on the 111th anniversary of his death....
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Alexandru Tocilescu, a respected Romanian theater director equally at home with Shakespeare and his country's national playwright, died on Wednesday. He was 65…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nine Tony Awards, critical praise and some filthy humor has made "The Book of Mormon" a solid Broadway investment....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stockard Channing plans to return to a Broadway stage for the first time since undergoing arthroscopic surgery on her right knee less than a week ago....
LONDON (AP) -- It sounds like a tough sell for an evening out: Come relive the London riots....
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) -- Move over Mozart. Toes in Salzburg are tapping to a new beat as residents finally embrace the Hollywood musical that put them on the map nearly half a century a…
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) -- The public library in Central Falls that was temporarily closed because of the city's dire finances is expanding its hours again after receiving a donation fr…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tony Award-winning actress Christine Ebersole is joining the cast of a TBS sitcom pilot....
LONDON (AP) -- Liam Neeson is to have an out-of-body experience in an out-of-this world tale....
