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Dan Gross, Sandy Goff Farkas and Lesley Malin Helm, board members of Manhattan's Lark Theatre, have personally given and raised nearly $1.6 million toward a new $2.3 million International Ce…
A special gala performance of "The Diary of a Madman" included a dinner on the stage of the BAM Opera House.
In her 25 years with the company, Debra Brown has created bizarre, hair-raising stunts that seem physically impossible.
Peter Schneider, the producer who hired Julie Taymor to direct the hit musical "The Lion King," weighs in on why her passion and creativity didn't pay off on her troubled show "Spider-Man Tu…
With Charlie Sheen�s primetime television career in question, the embattled actor is taking it to the stage.
A producer of Julie Taymor's 'Lion King' on why successful musicals are the exception, not the rule. (Mr. Schneider, former chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, is an independent producer an…
In "Ghost-Writer," a secretary continues to hear from her employer and transcribe his novels after he's dead. It's a tale pulled from the real life of author Henry James, at the Florida Stag…
Playwright Rajiv Joseph's dark comedy, "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," starts previews.
Building up some battle scars may be the superior long-term strategy for "winning." Might even have helped Julie Taymor.
Longtime director Julie Taymor and the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" are at odds over the terms of her departure from the helm of the $70 million musical.
Playwright Rajiv Joseph's dark comedy, "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," starts previews.
Director Julie Taymor was ousted Wednesday from the helm of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," as producers instituted a new artistic team to overhaul the troubled production.
The coming of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Cleveland Orchestra to the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival has long been announced. But on Tuesday, the full programming lineup will be relea…
The Allman Brothers Band has undertaken lengthy stays in New York City since 1989, outlasting even "Law & Order" as a local institution. The band returns to the Beacon Theatre this week.
Julie Taymor, director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," may be forced to part ways with the troubled production as early as Wednesday as producers plan to overhaul the musical.
The coming of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Cleveland Orchestra to the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival has long been announced. But on Tuesday, the full programming lineup will be relea…
Feinstein's Hosts a Weeklong Tribute to One of Theater's Greatest Wordsmiths
On the eve of a weeklong tribute at Feinstein's, Broadway wordsmith Sheldon Harnick chats about what makes a great song.
David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People" was a hit before it even opened. But then his audiences can always expect to be told just what they'd like to hear.
About two weeks after Al Pacino ended a hit Broadway run in "The Merchant of Venice," another version of the play starring F. Murray Abraham opens Off Broadway.
Meryl Streep and fellow Vassar alumni Lisa Kudrow and Frances Sternhagen perform 'Vassar Voices' at the school's 150th anniversary gala at Lincoln Center.
The 99-seat theater Ars Nova calls itself "NYC's premier Hub for New Talent." What did ticket buyers prefer to see in 2010?
Orlando Shakespeare Theater makes a strong case for presenting in tandem "Pride and Prejudice" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
The comedian makes his theater debut in "That Championship Season" on Broadway.
Even as most arts organizations have struggled through a brutal few years for raising money, the New York Philharmonic not only has met its fund-raising-campaign goal of $50 million, but has…
