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A.R. Gurney's "Sylvia," which is being performed with terrific comic energy by the Florida Repertory Theatre, is both clever and cute in all the right ways.
Scheduled to open in less than a month, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" still hasn't figured out its final scene and its lead producer has bought repeat tickets for audience members to get f…
The Museum of the Moving Image's renovation and expansion has added some 47,000 square feet of space to the city-owned building that has housed the museum since 1988.
Philanthropists Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch have donated $10 million to finance a new costume exhibition space at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By taking this comic masterpiece seriously, Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of 'The Mikado' focuses on the operetta as something more than an antic romp, making the satire more immediate.
"Glee" fans may have to wait until Super Bowl Sunday to catch a new episode of their favorite show, but for now, they can satiate their inner Gleeks with a new Funny or Die video featuring s…
With his acclaimed 1983 opera "Nixon in China" coming to New York's Metropolitan Opera, composer John Adams talks about procrastination, isolation and how he does his best work.
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" led at the Broadway box office last week, unseating "Wicked" from a top slot it had largely owned since 2004.
Culture City's month-long resolution to venture forth beyond familiar museums and performances is now in its second week. This time, the anti-procrastination effort takes us deep into the he…
With his acclaimed 1983 opera "Nixon in China" coming to New York's Metropolitan Opera, composer John Adams talks about procrastination, isolation and how he does his best work.
Vampire stories have been done to undeath in Hollywood and on TV, raising the stakes for anyone putting Count Dracula's original story back on stage.
Beyond film posters, collector Peter Kiesewalter has sheet music and an eight-track. He has about 30 copies of the original film soundtrack laying by a keyboard; 82 or so others are in...
One of the reasons "Finishing the Hat," Stephen Sondheim's annotated volume of his song lyrics, has attracted so much attention is because he takes potshots at certain of his colleagues...
After a recent performance, actress Jennifer Damiano of Spider-Man packed up her things from her dressing room, and armed with a Sharpie signed a few autographs in the frigid cold.
Sonia Friedman, the Tony-winning producer behind such shows as "La Cage Aux Folles,” “The Norman Conquests” and “Boeing- Boeing,” says she's working with Disney…
After a 14-month Broadway run, "Fela!" could return to its origins. Producers for the Tony-winning show are in talks for a two-year international tour that would stop in the Nigerian capital…
Broadway enjoyed what was likely the highest-grossing week in its history this holiday season, with at least three shows reporting the highest one-week dollar figures in their respective run…
Christopher Tierney, one of four actors who have been injured on the new musical "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" talked to CBS News about his on-set accident.
In this season of resolutions, here's one that's intended to last just 31 days: Culture City is taking on January as a month of discovery. And prior to last week, I had never seen Tony Kushn…
When not writing plays like "August: Osage County" and "Killer Joe," Tracy Letts acts. In David Cromer's 2005 Off Broadway staging of Austin Pendleton's "Orson's Shadow," he played an effete…
Natalie Mendoza, a leading actress of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has left the production, the show's lead producer confirmed Thursday.
Natalie Mendoza, one of the leading actresses in the "Spider-Man" musical on Broadway, is leaving the troubled production after suffering a concussion in a backstage accident.
Over the past few weeks, Speakeasy has been asking various celebrities to name the piece of culture -- be it a record, a book, a film, an art exhibit -- that most moved them in 2010. John Ca…
Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard, choreographer Bill T. Jones and others were feted at the Kennedy Center Honors, which were broadcast last night.
