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On paper, there ain't much to Ain't Misbehavin' but the music. Unlike many songbook-driven shows or jukebox musicals, Richard Maltby Jr. and Murray Horwitz's revue of the songs of Fats Walle…
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Mad Men" concludes its seventh and final season next spring, and its stars are now contemplating life beyond the hit AMC series.
NEW YORK (AP) - Brian Williams didn't have to look hard for a photo of actress Allison Williams as a toddler in a Peter Pan costume. A framed one has been on display in the den of his family…
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Warner Bros has acquired Adam Higginbotham's non-fiction article "A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite" for Todd Phillips and Bradley Cooper to produce under their new b…
Finding Fela, from prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney, is ostensibly about pioneering Nigerian musician Fela Kuti.
But a more precise title would have been Finding FELA!, since so much o…
Alex Gibney explores the controversial, influential Nigerian musician.
George Takei has helped a Los Angeles-based production company crowdfund $100,000 to produce a web series, which will take place at a Boy Scout camp and spotlight the organization's discrimi…
On Saturday afternoon, in the stained-glass gloom of the First Unitarian Church on Chestnut Street, a "theatrical exorcism" was underway.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Though well past the shelf life of the greatest Broadway dancers, Chita Rivera, 81, is now playing a one-legged woman - but not because she has to. The minute she takes…
Tennessee Williams' heartbreaking early play, The Glass Menagerie, is about the remembrance of things past, reminding us that "Time is the longest distance between two places." A m…
From "one-night stands" to longer-running shows, the fourth annual Gayfest!, presented by Quince Productions, offers a wealth of entertainment during its multi-week run throughout multiple v…
Also in Tattle: "A Wrinkle in Time" is un-frozen, Sherri Shepherd gets role & baby but only wants one, and more.
Are you craving some adventure and romance this weekend? The East Lynne Theater Company's production of 'Zorro!', which opened on July 23 and runs until Aug. 30, is playing at the First Pres…
Aug 05 (TheWrap.com) - Jimmy Fallon played a rousing round of "Mirren, Mirren on the Wall" Monday, which resulted in Helen Mirren endorsing some light BDSM.
Also in Tattle: "Big Bang" stars get big bucks, Sandra Bullock is our highest paid actress, "School of Rock" returns.
What can you do in 60 seconds?
According to InterAct artistic director Seth Rozin and dozens of Philadelphia writers, directors, and actors, you could perform or watch a play - 90 of them -…
Never put a gun on the stage, advised the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, unless you intend to have it go off during the play.
Aug 01 (TheWrap.com) - Kathie Lee Gifford has written "Today: The Musical," an 18-minute extravaganza expected to air this year.
'An atheist's love letter to religion." That's how Matt Stone, one of the show's creators, described The Book of Mormon, now at the Forrest Theatre for the next six weeks. This prize-wi…
Lou Mascolo's domestic drama is set against the Phillies' still-hard-to-fathom failure to win the 1964 National League pennant.
The best things come in groups of five.
