LONDON (Reuters) - Some of Shakespeare's best known characters - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and King Lear - will be featuring along a stretch of the River Thames this weekend, as part of celeb…
MOSCOW - Russia's Bolshoi Theatre is bringing Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera "Don Pasquale," which premiered in Paris in 1843, into modern times with a new production.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917 with a bequest from trail-blazing publisher Joseph Pulitzer, are marking their 100th year on Monday with the announcement of the…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Cirque du Soleil said on Friday it was canceling shows in North Carolina over a new state law that it called discriminatory, the performance group said on Fri…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - James Levine, the music director at New York's Metropolitan Opera for 40 years, will retire this year for health reasons, the Met announced on Thursday.
(Reuters) - The movie "Barbershop: The Next Cut" may open on Friday, a Manhattan judge ruled on Thursday as he denied an injunction sought by a New York playwright to block the fourth of a s…
LONDON (Reuters) - From a dress worn by Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth to a "Hamlet" script owned by famous stage actors, a new exhibition explores how William Shakespeare became "the Bard" 40…
LONDON - A new drama starring British actress Helen Mirren looks at the use of drone warfare in international conflicts.
LONDON (Reuters) - American music producer David Gest, the former husband of entertainer Liza Minnelli, died in London on Tuesday.
Veteran singer Cyndi Lauper and actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein were awarded stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a joint ceremony on Monday, celebrating their collaboration on Tony-winn…
(Reuters) - A New York playwright filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming $20 million in damages and seeking to block Friday's opening in movie theaters of "Barbershop: The Next Cut," the fourth …
LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran film, television and stage actress Judi Dench picked up her eight Olivier Award on Sunday, a record tally at Britain's biggest night for theater.
(Reuters) - Anne Hathaway, Julianne Moore and some 30 other Hollywood actors and directors added their voice on Thursday to entertainment industry threats to boycott Georgia if the U.S. stat…
Dinosaurs, monsters and Muppets transformed Times Square into a big puppet show on Monday to celebrate World Puppetry Day.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Global ballet star Carlos Acosta returns to his Cuban roots when his new dance company takes to the stage next month.
LONDON (Reuters) - From "My Girl" to "What's Going On", Motown hits come alive on the London stage in a West End musical looking at the life of the record label's founder Berry Gordy.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran British film and theater producer Michael White, best known for producing "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" movie and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," has die…
BERLIN (Reuters) - British stage director Michael Grandage said on Tuesday he was nervous directing his first feature film "Genius", about fabled American book editor Max Perkins, but he had…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is coming to Broadway for the first time in a new stage version written by "West Wing" writer Aaron Sorkin, producers …
LONDON (Reuters) - Having tackled Shakespeare's works on stage and screen, Ian McKellen will host bus tours of locations used in his movie adaptation of "Richard III" as part of a film progr…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The four former members of Swedish band ABBA, whose catchy tunes still have fans dancing around the world decades after their release, reunited - albeit very briefly - …
DUBAI (Reuters) - A fantasy musical set to poetry by Dubai's ruler seeks to explain the secret of one of the Arab world's most compelling success stories, promoting a style of government tha…
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian-born music mogul Robert Stigwood, who managed the BeeGees at the height of their fame and guided musician Eric Clapton's successful solo career while producing …
LONDON (Reuters) - A new Peter Pan movie shows Tinker Bell speaking in chime tones and Captain Hook as a "psychopath", but its biggest innovation is being filmed in the London hospital that …
LONDON (Reuters) - Danish stage director Kasper Holten will step down as director of opera at the Royal Opera House at the end of March 2017 to spend more time with his family in Copenhagen,…