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LONDON " Theater fans can now stream some Shakespeare, if they have the bandwidth for the Bard.Shakespeare's Globe, London's reconstructed Elizabethan playhouse, is making its productions a…
When "The Trip to Bountiful" wrapped up its 48-performance run at the Ahmanson Theater Nov. 2, it cemented its place as one of the top-selling non-musical productions ever at the L.A. theate…
Hugh Jackman made it rain at the Broadway box office last week, as the initial performances of his topliner "The River" yielded the kind of numbers that'd be encouraging for a sizeable music…
Sarah Ruhl's new play, "The Oldest Boy," is extremely imaginative and hypnotically beautiful, but the plot is a puzzler. An American woman, the wife of a Tibetan man, is visited by a high-ra…
Sting lives up to his nickname, "the King of Pain," with "The Last Ship."
Broadway musical "The Last Ship" is full of Sting's music, but the opening night crowd got something most audiences don't: Sting himself singing it.
The Broadway revival of "A Delicate Balance" got off to a stellar start last week, as a cast that includes Glenn Close -- appearing in her first Main Stem gig in 20 years -- pushed the play …
If you were charged with naming a dance company, your mind probably wouldn't immediately go to the world of fungi. That's just where the minds...
Bramwell Tovey, a Grammy Award-winning conductor, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra this week in two of the most poignant vocal-orchestral works in the canon, Germanic masterpieces by J.S.…
Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in "Therese Raquin," toplining a fall 2015 production from the Roundabout Theater Company.Knightley will play the title character in Helen Edmund…
NEW YORK " Bradley Cooper will contort his limbs into uncomfortable positions for eight shows a week when he begins his run in the Broadway revival of "The Elephant Man." That means he'll n…
NEW YORK " Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani joined demonstrators outside the Metropolitan Opera on Monday for an emotional protest against a musical work about the death of a Jewish man they s…
NEW YORK " Actors often complain about short rehearsal times, but some of entertainment's biggest names " including Melanie Griffith, Amanda Seyfried, Uzo Aduba, Peter Dinklage, Nina Dobrev…
NEW YORK " A prominent New York rabbi led a prayer vigil Monday before the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of "The Death of Klinghoffer," which opponents say glorifies Palestinian terrorists.…
NEW YORK " Al Pacino will return to Broadway next year in a new play by David Mamet written with the Oscar-winner expressly in mind.Producers said Thursday that Pacino will star in "China D…
NEW YORK " When the Metropolitan Opera announced in February that it would present John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" this fall, there was, as Peter Gelb recalls it, "absolutely no reac…
Geoffrey Holder, a dancer, choreographer, an actor (famously in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die") and a two-time Tony winner for "The Wiz" who was famous for his deep voice and hearty,…
NEW YORK " Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter, dancer and choreographer who during an eclectic show business career led the groundbreaking show "The Wiz" to Broad…
The National Theater's stage adaptation of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" opened on Broadway to rave reviews Oct. 5, after a well-received London debut that led to a Wes…
MOSCOW " Soviet and Russian actor and director Yuri Lyubimov, founder of Moscow's renowned Taganka Theater, which he led for more than four decades, has died at age 97.During the 1980s, Lyub…
