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NEW YORK " "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly Rae Jepsen has had her calls returned by Broadway.Producers of "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" said Sunday that the Canadian singer-songwriter w…
NEW YORK " It's not yet Christmas, but Debbie Allen has already gotten a nice present " the Goldstar National Nutcracker Award.The ticket discounter has declared the director and choreograph…
NEW YORK " Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy will star in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" in Brooklyn in 2015.The Brooklyn Academy of Music said Tuesday the pair of stars, who…
by Stephanie JanesAlthough it's cold outside, don't let that stop you from enjoying some of the best performing arts Boston has to offer this winter! Celebrity Series of Boston is featuri…
NEW YORK " Before there was "Mean Girls," there was "Heathers." Now that dark comedy is ready to bully its way into New York as a musical.The 1988 film starring Winona Ryder, Shannen Dohert…
NEW YORK " A few years ago, Kyle Riabko found himself in the most intimidating of places on Earth for a young singer-songwriter.First, he was in the home of Burt Bacharach, a songwriter who …
NEW YORK " The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy will be making her New York stage debut next month in the Greek tragedy "Antigone."Kick Kennedy will …
Actress Sirena ÂIrwin sounds familiar to "SpongeBob SquarePants" fans " she's voiced the perky yellow sponge's mother since 1999. But her recent turn as Lucy Ricardo defines what it means…
Ebenezer Scrooge is a role many actors have tackled, from Michael Caine ("The Muppet Christmas Carol"), Patrick Stewart ("A Christmas ÂCarol," 1999) and Bill Murray ("Scrooged") t…
NEW YORK " U2 frontman Bono feels optimistic that his musical, "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark" will continue to thrive after the show turns the lights out on Broadway early next year."When …
NEW YORK " James Franco and Chris O'Dowd will make their Broadway debuts next year as unlikely friends in a stage adaptation of "Of Mice and Men."Producer David Binder said Tuesday that "Mi…
The magic of "A Christmas Story" depends deeply on the charm of Peter Billingsley. Creators Jean Shepherd and Bob Clark packed the movie with wit and wild characters, but without Billingsley…
The Christmas creep is hitting the theater scene. But it's hard to complain with so many classics and fresh highlights ringing in the season.Here are a few of our favorite things."A Christma…
LONDON " Another much-loved film is getting the screen-to-stage treatment. Producers say a theatrical adaptation of "Shakespeare in Love" is coming to London's West End next year.The script …
Dwaine Devonish-Daye's theater career is about to heat up.The Boston firefighter works out of Ladder 14 in Allston and takes the stage at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester next week in the Fi…
I can't decide if building a Broadway show out of Queen songs is too easy or inevitably awesome.The band's catalog ranges from operatic to show-tuney, epic to super epic. But should the …
Here's the funny thing about Joel Hodgson.After 25 years in the comedy business " creating TV's "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and performing a live version of the cult show on stage for the…
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NEW YORK " If you're overwhelmed by the laundry piling up and the sheer amount of stuff that needs sewing, consider what faces Alyce Gilbert every week.Dozens of her dresses need checking or…
by Catherine Gambardella
LONDON " Britain's National Theatre on Tuesday named stage director and former actor Rufus Norris as its next chief. He is the first actor since Laurence Olivier to lead Britain's biggest an…
PARIS " Patrice Chereau, a celebrated French actor and director in film, theater and opera who was renowned for cutting-edge productions, has died, officials said Tuesday. He was 68.Chereau…
NEW YORK " Don't be fooled by how mild-mannered Ben West seems. He's the musical theater world's Sherlock Holmes and Victor Frankenstein rolled into one.As artistic director of the nonprofit…
NEW YORK " Few people get to meet a U.S. president. Dule Hill has met four " one fake and three real ones. And now he's gotten to strut his stuff in front of a sitting one.The actor and dan…
During Wednesday's "Potted Potter" performance, a 98-pound kid from the audience tackled actor Jeff Turner.Nobody planned it, but in the middle of a mock quidditch game " the wizarding world…
