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Mia Farrow is a bit scared. But then she always is -- about work, anyway.
Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, best known for "Three Viewings" and "Scotland Road," has adapted the 1903 George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart classic "The Fabulous Invalid" with the Majestic playhouse in mind.
With Alice Ripley.
Between them, Marilyn Horne and Barbara Cook have been singing professionally for more than a century.
While Hurricane Isabel was lashing North Carolina, Darcie Roberts, the star of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," was onstage in a Raleigh theater, singing and dancing her heart out.
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the award-winning composers of "Ragtime," "My Favorite Year," and "Seussical," will be on the Harvard campus next week, teaching a master class and talking …
How does a novice playwright get his first play produced at the Shubert Theatre, directed by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's founding artistic director, Steven Maler, and starring Judd Ne…
Not all divas duel. Barbara Cook and Marilyn Horne have been members of a mutual admiration society for decades, friends for more than a dozen years.
BEVERLY - When rock 'n' roll meets musical theater the result is usually rock 'n' snooze. The rebelliousness of rock and the uplift of show music often make for pretentious crossovers rather than for harmonious soul mates.
Not so for "Memphis,'' which blends the virtues of both genres into a most agreeable mix in its world premiere at the North Shore Music Theatre. To its credit, the theater averages one new work a year, and this is easily the best since "Abyssinia'' in 1995. It is also, judging from Thursday's opening-night audience, a real crowd pleaser.
LOWELL -- Writer William Mesnik couldn't be too happy that the movie "A Mighty Wind" -- Christopher Guest's parody of a folkie reunion concert -- came along just in time to steal the thunder from his own small-scale theatrical foray, "Three Songs," now receiving its East Coast premiere at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Ultimately, there's not much of a contest.
With Kaitlin Hopkins.
Boston police are investigating a report of assault and battery during an Actors' Equity Association demonstration outside the Wang Theatre on Wednesday evening.
New York's Aquila Theatre Company is performing "Othello" this weekend in Keene, N.H. But some of the most newsworthy drama has already occurred offstage.
Protesting the use of non-union actors and stage managers in a touring production of "Miss Saigon," Actors' Equity Association members last night staged one-act musical and informational pic…
He enters theater by writing songs for rock musical
Back in the days when the Theater District was dark and dreary, a tattered pylon and tacky ticket trailer stood outside the Wilbur Theatre, symbols of a neighborhood in decline.
In a couple of months "The Sound of Music" will celebrate its 44th birthday. It's looking pretty indestructible. It has survived Hollywood, a tour with Debby Boone, summer stock, high schools; it even survived the dreadful sound system that was in use at the Wang Center last night and distorted every word and tone.
With Marla Schaffel and Burke Moses.
With Elisabeth Waterston.
Tommy Tune.
Tonight's "American Masters" look at the intersecting lives of playwright Arthur Miller and director Elia Kazan twins one very smart idea with an equally stupid one. The resulting documentar…
Cape theater companies grow in popularity, but they need to do more before they rival beaches as a destination point
Just about every night the audience in the Colonial Theatre gives the cast of "The Producers" a standing ovation. Conductor Steven Tyler takes a bow from the orchestra pit and acknowledges the 23 musicians, all but two of them hired locally.
Twenty are crowded with Tyler in the Colonial's cramped pit during the show. Another three musicians -- harpist Cynthia Price-Glynn, cellist Michael Curry, and percussionist Mark Worgaftik -- perform in a pair of third-floor dressing rooms because there isn't room for them down below.
With the usual hustle and bustle of Friday night in Provincetown outside, the Mailer family gathered inside town hall to read from Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" to benefit…
GLOUCESTER -- Israel Horovitz and Terrence McNally are not playwrights one would think go hand in hand, but they are, says Horovitz, "the oldest of old pals." So it isn't that surprising that Horovitz could convince McNally to write a new play that would accompany a new play of Horovitz's at the Gloucester Stage Company, which he runs.
Too bad he couldn't talk him into writing one with more substance than an ingrown toenail.
Fourteen years after his last dramatic role on stage, Mandy Patinkin, with a big gulp, is taking on one of drama's most challenging characters, Dr. Thomas Stockmann.
