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Playwright George Axelrod, who anticipated the sexual revolution with "The Seven Year Itch" and "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" and later wrote screenplays for such films as "Breakfast at T…
Lissa and Kean are the most unbearable people off-Broadway. Maybe on Broadway, too.
Even their names grate. Of course, they are also self-centered, neurotic and driven to talk endlessly about their problems.
Yeah, but how sexy are they? :-)
LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - American playwright and screenwriter John Guare ("Six Degrees of Separation") has done a masterly job in fusing together Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 …
Pity the dissenter in a family of true believers, especially after those beliefs are brutally battered.
"The Violet Hour" will star Robert Sean Leonard, Jasmine Guy, Mario Cantone, Laura Benanti and Scott Foley, best known for his role on the television series "Felicity."
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Tom Joyner, one of the nation's top-rated radio personalities, plans to help promote the National Black Theatre Festival.
Composer Albert Sendrey, who contributed musical talent to 170 films including "Easter Parade" and "Guys and Dolls," has died.
The only question today is how well does the current Broadway production, on view at the Royale Theatre, measures up to the play itself. For the most part, very well indeed, under Lonny Price's efficient direction.
This was posted before 2 p.m. on opening day - is this the earliest the AP has ever posted a review?
Thursday's premiere even included a joke about the long shadow of the Broadway version. While imitating the intermission chatter of bored theatergoers, Alexander's character inserted the lin…
HONOLULU - Watching a seated Kelly Hu deliver impassioned, sometimes raunchy takes on female sexuality during "The Vagina Monologues" is a stark contrast to the way most people see her these…
Betty Garrett, the once-blacklisted actress who co-starred as Edna Babish on the TV sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Performer Liza Minnelli broke her right kneecap Sunday when she tripped over a step at a hotel in Bologna, Italy, but still plans to sing at a benefit concert with famed tenor Luciano Pavaro…
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who died in 1991, never had much luck with plays.
So it's a pleasant surprise that "Meshugah," Emily Mann's adaptation of Singer's book of the same name, ends up such a winner.
Yesterday's shock value can turn into today's camp humor.
It's something playwright Douglas Carter Beane demonstrates with mixed results in "Mondo Drama," his fitful comic homage to "Mondo Cane" and all those other schlocky Italian film documentaries of the 1960s that were more titillation than entertainment.
You can hear the buzz and almost feel the sting.
IRVINE, Calif. - A technician who fell 42 feet last month while testing special effects for the stage version of Disney's animated film "Aladdin," has died, officials said.
This talky, four-character drama, which closes the Signature Theatre Company's season-long salute to Wilson, is set specifically on July 15, 1945, in Los Alamos, N.M., as testing of the bomb…
ROCKY HILL, Conn. - It's the big, first-act finale of "Les Miserables," and director Liz Daigle is urging her cast of young French revolutionaries onward.
