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Teller aims for a grand trick with "The Tempest," now through June 15 at the American Repertory Theater. The legendary illusionist and half of Penn & Teller seeks to bind his populist ma…
Waiters and waitresses of Boston, stand-up comedian Brad Zimmerman feels your pain. Zimmerman has channeled his 29-year experience as a waiter in New York City into the one-man show “M…
NEW YORK " Twenty-five years ago while doing "Gypsy," Tyne Daly met a special group of people backstage.One was Valerie Gladstone, her dresser. Another was Geordie Sheffer, who did her makeu…
There's magic in Shakespeare.Not just literary wizardry. The Bard populated his works with witches, ghosts and the mighty sorcerer Prospero.The lead character in Shakespeare's "The Tempest,"…
DAMASCUS, Syria " Just as Leen Arbid entered the front gate of the Damascus Opera House, a potent symbol of the Assad family's decades-long authoritarian rule over Syria, she heard a deafen…
NEW YORK " Michelle Obama, one of the most fashion-conscious first ladies in decades, joined a who's who of designers Monday as she cut the ribbon at the Metropolitan Museum's new costume c…
NEW YORK " First lady Michelle Obama is expected at the Metropolitan Museum Monday for the opening of the museum's newly renovated costume center.The first lady is scheduled to cut the ribbo…
'Triple Deluxe" isn't a cheeseburger. It sounds like fast food, but it's actually a triple-sized serving of Kirby, the pink little ball of fluff who has starred in several Nintendo games sin…
Jason Alexander's role as stocky bald man George Costanza tops his resume. But just below his "Seinfeld" work, musical theater fills Alexander's CV.The actor has appeared in a dozen stage pr…
NEW YORK " The lineup of pop stars keeps coming for new Tony Award-nominated "After Midnight."Producers of the show that celebrates Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club say Patti LaBel…
Dreams can come true. Just ask Belen Pereyra and Kirven Douthit-Boyd.The two Boston Arts Academy alumni perform with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Citi Wang Theatre, Thursday thr…
NEW YORK " The musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a comedic romp in which a poor man eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, nabbed a leading 10 Tony Award nomin…
by Stephanie JanesAiley is coming, May 1-4! Don't miss out on the opportunity to see one of the world's most acclaimed dance companies as they make their 44th appearance with the Celebrit…
'House of Cards" star Kevin Spacey is a bit of a Hollywood maverick.The two-time Academy Award winner left Tinseltown a decade ago to become artistic director at The Old Vic theater in Londo…
NEW YORK " Javier Camarena received a rare honor at the Metropolitan Opera, becoming only the third singer in 70 years to perform an aria encore.
If you run into Diane Paulus outside Cardullo's, give her a big thumb's up. Time magazine named the artistic director of Harvard's American Repertory Theater one of the 100 Most Influential …
NEW YORK " Someone pretty critic-proof is coming to Broadway: The Almighty.Producer Jeffrey Finn on Wednesday said he hopes to mount a stage adaptation of the humor book "The Last Testament…
LONDON " Four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare is probably Britain's best-known export, his words and characters famous around the world.Shakespeare's Globe theater is setting…
NEW YORK " Annie Baker's "The Flick" has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for drama, a play set in a rundown movie theater that was hailed by the judges as a "thoughtful drama with well-crafted …
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, and the judges' comments:___JOURNALISM
"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty da---d good," wrote somebody named Woody.Two of our most talented and controversial entertainmen…
Motherhood is filled with the good, the bad and the funny.Fifteen local writers and artists celebrate that journey in the Boston debut of "Listen to Your Mother," at Old South Church on Apri…
NEW YORK " Tickets to watch Denzel Washington on Broadway in "A Raisin in the Sun" are hard to come by, but one man managed it " President Barack Obama.The president and first lady caught t…
Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin will star in a new production of Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 play "This Is Our Youth," originating this summer at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater and moving on to Br…
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