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LONDON (AP) - Theater designer Alan Tagg, who produced the scenery for London's Royal Court Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company in a career spanning four decades, has died at age 74.
NEW YORK (Variety) - Leave it to Baz Luhrmann to bring some savvy Hollywood press pizzazz to staid old Broadway.
Making his theater debut here, the Australian director of "Moulin Rouge" is promoting his incoming stage production of "La Boheme" with a movie-style media junket, complete with print-and-radio round tables and back-to-back mini interviews for TV journalists. A staggering 200 reporters are invited for Monday's press fest in Gotham.
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - ABC is developing a gay version of "Hart to Hart," in which a pair of interior decorators stumble upon a murder each week.
The network has ordered a script for "Mr. and Mr. Nash," and Alan Cumming ("Cabaret") has signed to play one of the leads.
LONDON (AP) - It's a tale of toil, trouble and aristocratic squabbling worthy of the Bard.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Shaken but defiant, the cast of the Russian musical "Nord-Ost" wrapped up on Sunday concerts staged in memory of the 128 people killed after Chechen rebels stormed a Mosco…
LONDON (AP) - Actress Dilys Hamlett, who starred in heavyweight roles from Shakespeare, Strindburg and Ibsen and helped to found Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, has died at 74, theater …
"The Exonerated," "The World of Nick Carter" and Marvin Hamlisch.
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - After a very long break, playwright Neil Simon is returning to series television.
SEATTLE (AP) - Barbara Berjer, a former Broadway actress who starred in television soap operas for four decades, including 11 years as Bridget Connell in "Another World," died Oct. 20 of pne…
Lanford Wilson's "Book of Days" is a meandering murder mystery by way of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" and "Saint Joan" by George Bernard Shaw.
There are not many musical-theater performers who can carry off a solo evening of song at Carnegie Hall. Barbara Cook comes to mind. And then Betty Buckley, Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone perhaps.
You may now add Audra McDonald to that illustrious list, judging from her entrancing performance Saturday night at the fabled auditorium.
LONDON - Brian Behan, the colorful, contentious Irish writer and younger brother of the noted dramatist Brendan Behan, has died at the age of 75, friends said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Brian Stokes Mitchell was 17, he sang in the chorus of "Man of La Mancha" at a dinner theater in San Diego. He looked at the man playing the part of Don Quixote and th…
American film director Woody Allen and playwright Arthur Miller on Friday received two of the eight Prince of Asturias Prizes — the Spanish-speaking world's version of the Nobel prize.
BERLIN (AP) - Actress Marianne Hoppe, a leading light on the German stage throughout much of the 20th century, has died.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley was stabbed to death in her home, and a man who police say was driving her car was charged with murder.
LONDON (AP) - Some London theaters are increasing security in reaction to the siege of a Moscow theater by Chechen rebels, while on Broadway additional measures also have been taken to ensur…
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen separatist guerrillas killed one woman as they seized a Russian theater and threatened to shoot or blow up 700 hostages Thursday unless Russia pulled its troops ou…
MOSCOW (Reuters) - For half a century, the name of Russian theater director Yuri Lyubimov has been a byword for irreverent, subversive drama.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Up to 30 armed men held hundreds of people inside a Moscow theater staging a musical late Wednesday, firing shots in the air, police and news agencies said.
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