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NEW YORK (AP) - While three of four people arrested amid the investigation of the Philip Seymour Hoffman's death were arraigned on drug charges, the New York theater community mourned the ac…
If someone has to adapt Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to the big screen, the man for the job is most probably Elton John. Luckily, we live in a universe where this outcome is …
It made sense that the music should show some Philly roots.
Rocky Balboa sings, dances on Broadway.
Take a MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient as your composer, add a Tony Award-winning playwright who has collaborated with the likes of Philip Glass and Elton John, and what do you …
'Not Philip Seymour Hoffman!" read the post from a friend that popped up on Facebook.
Found dead on Sunday from an apparent drug overdose in a Greenwich Village apartment, Hoffman was 4…
You may remember that the last time Bill Murray was on Letterman, he did the whole show as Liberace, much to the enjoyment of everyone with a pulse. Well, late last week, Murray again appear…
Critics and journalists will rightly rave about Philip Seymour Hoffman, in part because he was a fine actor, in part because he flattered critics and journalists in one his great roles.
Philip Seymour Hoffman had ties to area, Daily News
Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Sunday, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. He was 46.
Spring Arts - Dance: A dozen dances for spring including a few more online picks
Tuesdays With Morrie, written by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher, produced by Bristol Riverside Theatre, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, directed by Susan Atkinson, featuring Richert Easley, D…
In Tuesdays With Morrie, now at the Bristol Riverside Theatre, sportswriter Mitch Albom visits weekly with his former professor, Morrie Schwartz. Their sessions, always heavy on life lessons…
Oh, I see. This is August: Osage County with a big, fat master's degree. Perhaps a doctorate.
So it might seem, amid the hyper-intellectual verbal volleys among the prickly, literate charact…
NEW YORK (AP) - Director Robert Zemeckis is literally going back into the past for his next project - a stage musical of "Back to the Future."
Nicknamed "Bird" because of his airborne sense of freedom, jazz icon Charlie Parker will have his alto saxophone replaced by the tenor voice of Lawrence Brownlee in the opera Yardb…
It's not every day 33 couples of different types " same-sex, heterosexual, interracial " tie the knot at once on live TV. In fact, it was unprecedented…until the 56th Grammy Awards in Los…
NEW YORK (AP) - A snowy, frigid New York is about to enjoy a blast of Caribbean warmth courtesy of Jamaica and its most favorite son, Bob Marley.
Forget T.S. Eliot, what with his dire pronouncements such as "April is the cruelest month." Not this spring, pal. No wasteland here. Only consider the richness of our theater scene!
If an 11-year old Stephen King (or Edgar Allan Poe) had written child versions of their adult horrors for grade-school assignments, they'd no doubt receive suspensions, if not arrests, in to…
NEW YORK (AP) - Get ready to goof on "Pippin," ''Kinky Boots," ''Matilda the Musical" and "Motown the Musical" - the theater spoof revue "Forbidden Broadway" is sharpening its witty claws ag…
Other Desert Cities, produced by the Walnut Street Theatre, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, written by Jon Robin Baitz, designed by Todd Edward Ivins, featuring Susan Wilder, Greg Wood, Krista…
