Irish plays and actor have big day at UK Theatre Awards
LONDON (Reuters) - It was a great day for the Irish at the UK Theatre Awards on Sunday as a new production of Brian Friel's "Translations" and Belfast-born "Game of Thrones" British-Irish ac…
LONDON (Reuters) - It was a great day for the Irish at the UK Theatre Awards on Sunday as a new production of Brian Friel's "Translations" and Belfast-born "Game of Thrones" British-Irish ac…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood film director Bill Condon is making his Broadway debut next month with a revival of the 1997 musical "Side Show" about British conjoined twins, Daisy and Viole…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "On The Town" is back on Broadway, 70 years after its debut, in a revival that critics hail as "fizzy and frisky" and a "helluva show."
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar- and Tony-winning actor Al Pacino will return to Broadway next year in the world premiere of "China Doll," a new play by David Mamet, its producers said on Thursda…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Neil Patrick Harris, popular with younger TV viewers as the star of the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," has been tapped to host next year's Academy Awards cerem…
LONDON (Reuters) - American minimalist composer Philip Glass's new opera "The Trial", based on the Franz Kafka novel, begins with a waltz that is really the start of a "dance of death" for t…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former New York businessman was sentenced to nearly three years in prison Friday after admitting to defrauding the producers of Broadway production "Rebecca - The Musi…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "It's only a Play," the latest revival of Terrence McNally's show business comedy is packed with plenty of timely jokes, wise cracks and a stellar cast but Broadway vete…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tony-winning actress Marian Seldes, regarded as one of the great ladies of the American stage and famed for never missing a single performance during an entire four-year…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - British import "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" mesmerized audiences on Broadway in its New York opening with a dazzling display of technical wizardry…
VIENNA (Reuters) - Not many opera seasons start off as dramatically as this year's did at the Vienna State Opera with two star conductors storming off, but the opera's director Dominique Mey…
LONDON (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan kept an opening night audience hanging on her every word, in part to see if she'd forget any, as she made her stage debut on Thursday night in a West End rev…
ROME (Reuters) - Riccardo Muti has said "basta" to Rome's opera house after a six-year tenure as honorary director blighted by strikes, infighting and financial woes.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stage musical of "The Lion King" has generated the highest total box office of any production in any entertainment medium, with worldwide takings of more than $6.2 b…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In an age of instant messaging, digital communication and fleeting relationships, the revival of "Love Letters," a play about an enduring friendship recorded with pen an…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co is adding a new attraction based on the movie "Frozen" to its Epcot theme park in Orlando, Florida, the media company's latest move to capitalize on th…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly two decades after its New York debut, "This is Our Youth," Kenneth Lonergan's play about privileged, aimless youth, opened on Broadway on Thursday with critics pr…
LONDON (Reuters) - The Royal Opera House rolled out the red carpet for young people on Thursday for season opener "Anna Nicole," based on the life of American stripper and Playboy model Anna…
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Royal Opera House will open its doors to children as young as two when its new season starts on Thursday, as the 282-year-old institution seeks a new generation …
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Tuesday evening for one minute in memory of the late Tony-nominated comedian Joan Rivers, after theater executives rev…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - By the time Oscar-winning actor Kevin Kline began filming the comedic drama "My Old Lady," he was very familiar with the role of the down-and-out, divorced New Yorker, w…
TORONTO (Reuters) - Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters says a new movie about his monumental, three-year remounting of the band's famous "The Wall" album should be seen as a protest against …
VIENNA (Reuters) - Franz Welser-Moest, one of Austria's most famous conductors, has quit as musical director of Vienna's famed State Opera just days after its 2014-15 season began, citing an…
(Reuters) - Actor Tom Hanks, British rock star Sting and comedian Lily Tomlin are to receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors, one of the top cultural prizes in the United States.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Ariana Grande landed her second chart-topping album on Wednesday as her latest record debuted atop the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart.