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After eight years in gestation and rave reviews elsewhere, The Big Life starts up in London's West End as the first ever black British musical set in a black British community to enter the c…
A new, energetic adaptation by Craig Lucas ("The Light in the Piazza") is receiving a production that is at once vital, enlightening and puzzling.
Although cloying and precious at times, the ultimately winning "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is an undeniable audience pleaser and somehow seems even more at home in the larger Ci…
It's clearly a crowd pleaser, especially of the moppet variety, and is well poised to steal some considerable family business currently taken by the Disney shows and "Wicked."
While the artificiality of Ernest Thompson's play has only become more apparent with the passing years, "On Golden Pond" remains an effective if manipulative comedy/drama that clearly connec…
Pop superstars and Broadway hits with their own dedicated theaters are the town's new royalty. Resorts without such anchors are scrambling to catch up. And outside of town -- most notably in…
"This Is How It Goes" reveals the weakness that dogs most of LaBute's plays. Seizing on an idea (racism, fat women), he manipulates characters to reveal people's supposed amorality. But he n…
A group of Israeli actors and playwrights has refused to perform in West Bank settlements just days before U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations start over the occupied territory where Palestini…
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Producers of "American Idiot," the anti-establishment Broadway adaptation of a Green Day album, have been sued by a former cast member who isn't happy about t…
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris is going to be the father of twins.
LOS ANGELES (Back Stage) - Whether it's suburban zombie farce, British buddy-cop satire, or a pixel-powered comic book adaptation, director Edgar Wright forges genres all his own.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, a fixture in Hollywood for six decades, asked that a priest read her the last rites on Sunday, following hospitalization two days earlier due…
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Kristen Bell is putting on her ballet slippers for "Dance of the Mirlitons," giving the indie black comedy a second shot at the big screen.
LOS ANGELES (Back Stage) - Jennifer Salt has the distinction of breaking into and succeeding in the competitive world of the entertainment industry twice.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran singer, actress and director Barbra Streisand, the top-selling female music artist of all time, will recount her six decades in show business in a memoir due …
LONDON (Reuters) - Al Pacino apologized on Monday for his singing in the movie in which he plays the aging rock star Danny Collins.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - British soprano Sarah Brightman called off plans for a flight to the International Space Station, citing family reasons, the singer said in a statement on Wed…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kristin Chenoweth, star of the Broadway musical "On the Twentieth Century," will juggle two roles during the Tony Awards as a co-host and a nervous nominee for theater's…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lesbian coming-out musical and a comedy about a teenager with an out-of-control, foul-mouthed sock puppet are proving that the off-kilter can kill it on Broadway and b…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two new musicals, "An American in Paris" with a score by Ira and George Gershwin and the lesbian coming-out story "Fun Home," led the Tony nominations, theater's highest…
