Who is the real person of the year? On a skit on "Saturday Night Live," WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (played by Bill Hader) presented his case on why he should have beaten out Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg.
A theater group has mounted a production of the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" in Chicago, but with a twist--this version is in Klingon, the language of an alien race in the sci…
"60 Minutes" had a fascinating piece on tonight about folks with "superior autobiographical memory"--the ability to recall, in some detail, almost every day of their lives. And, in an intere…
The legal battle between the Parks Department and artists took another turn this week, one that will allow artists to sell their works without restriction in parks until the matter is decide…
When Edward Albee returns to the Provincetown Playhouse on Sunday, he'll find a theater dramatically altered from the one where his first play, "The Zoo Story," was staged in 1960.
A cupcake shop opening in Athens under the Magnolia Bakery name has raised the suspicions of the owners of the New York institution about the involvement of the owner of rival Buttercup Bake…
Fresh off a plane from London, Oscar winner Kevin Spacey was in New York Thursday to promote his newest film, “Casino Jack,” which tells the story of former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff.SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑
The staged battlefields of Metropolitan Opera productions try to evoke the fog of war, but a recent behind-the-scenes quarrel has hinged on a different phenomenon: the war of fog.
In the course of a few seasons, Berlin-based author and director Roland Schimmelpfennig has become German-speaking Europe's most celebrated younger playwright.
Blake Edwards, the writer/director behind the "Pink Panther" series and the Audrey Hepburn movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's," died this morning. He was 88.
"Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" its delaying its opening a third time, moving the official debut of Broadway's most expensive musical to February so the creative team can work on the ending a…
Of all the great musicals, "Candide" poses the greatest problems to anyone who tries to stage it. Mary Zimmerman, whose "Metamorphoses" hit it big in 2002, is the latest director to take up …
Once a shadowy dead zone stacked with rusting warehouses along deserted streets, the blocks that surround the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn have become the city's unlikeliest cultural hot spot.
It is completely possible to avoid the Radio City Christmas Spectacular forever. A reporter has tried to do just that. But, then, he received an email that a few of the Knicks and the Ranger…
Stephen Colbert continues to make comedic hay at Goldman Sachs's expense. Colbert has been holding hostage what he says is a misplaced credit card belonging to Buckley T. Ratchford, a partne…
After 25 years on the air Larry King will say goodbye to his audience on Thursday. The 77 year-old will sign off as host of CNN's "Larry King Live," to be replaced by Piers Morgan, who joins…
Director John Cameron Mitchell says he grew up in "the closest thing to a socialist state in America" -- the military. When we spoke to the "Hedwig" star recently about the new film he direc…
"The Great Game: Afghanistan," a three-part theatrical event covering the past 150 years of Afghanistan's history, is being presented by the Public Theater at New York University's Skirball …
Paul McCartney rocked out at the legendary Apollo Theater in front of hundreds of Sirius XM subscribers and celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Martha Stewart; The intelligence of mankind is…
