LONDON - Rock guitarist Pete Townshend was released from police custody Tuesday, resting at home after his arrest on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, his lawyer said.
Paul Newman winds his last stand on Broadway, "Our Town," on his birthday, Jan. 26, and on the 28th they start taping the production for Showtime and Masterpiece Theater -- "so it can also b…
You don't necessarily think of "Tartuffe" — Moliere's scathing indictment of religious hypocrisy — as a particularly poignant play.
On his classic sitcom 40 years ago, Dick Van Dyke kept things squeaky-clean with Mary Tyler Moore.
Now any PBS station who prefers them that way can air a "clean" version of "The Gin Game," D.L. Coburn's 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, in which Van Dyke is reunited with his long-ago co-star for the first time since "The Dick Van Dyke Show" ended in 1966.
Funny how seductive a country-western twang can be, especially when it's set to music.
When Fiona Shaw talks about acting, it pays to listen.
Lynn Redgrave (third item) and "The Lion King" (fourth item).
Mel Brooks and Martin Short have gotten together in advance of rehearsals for the (May) bow of "The Producers" at the Pantages.
Third item. Plus an item on Gordon Davidson.
Is it too early to start thinking about the 2003 Tony Award nominations?
The exhibit, "Best of Times: The Theater of Charles Dickens," at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, focuses on Dickens' association with theater, not the acclaim he won as …
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Susan Marx, who appeared in more than a dozen films in the 1930s opposite such stars as John Wayne and W.C. Fields and later married comedian Harpo Marx, died Sunday of a heart attack. She was 93.
Marx, who was born Susan Fleming, started her acting career in New York City during the 1920s, where she appeared in the Broadway musical "The Ziegfeld Follies."
I loved her as W.C. Fields' daughter in "Million Dollar Legs" - she was a fine comic actress and a great beauty.
For those familiar only with the movie, the play will come as something of a surprise. It's a bit different but equally tough and funny, a sturdy piece of theatrical timber directed here wit…
Martin Landau returns to the stage for the first time in 15 years, to star in "16 Wounded," a contemporary Amsterdam-set story about a Holocaust survivor and a Palestinian at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn.
Final item.
What's apparent after years of watching Tune — and this reviewer first saw him dance back in 1966 at the old Shady Grove Music Fair in Rockville, Md. — is his sense of joy in performing.…
Neil LaBute is a master of the intimate argument, those private, often intense battles, usually between a man and a woman, that produce more than enough pain for both of the combatants. And …
Hazeldine became ill Dec. 10, four days after beginning performances in the new Christopher Hampton play "The Talking Cure" at the National, in which he played Sigmund Freud.
On a swing through St. Louis, comedian Mel Brooks was awe-struck by the Fox Theater, where he watched a local performance of his Tony-winning musical, "The Producers."