Freud's goal: Keep Chicago's Lyric Opera relevant
CHICAGO (AP) -- When Anthony Freud was 14, his favorite pastime was going to the opera in London and then, on the train ride home to Wimbledon where he lived with his parents, "dreaming …
CHICAGO (AP) -- When Anthony Freud was 14, his favorite pastime was going to the opera in London and then, on the train ride home to Wimbledon where he lived with his parents, "dreaming …
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you think you can sing "It's Too Late" and "So Far Away" like Carole King, some Broadway producers would like to hear from you....
NEW YORK (AP) -- And now for something completely different....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The loss of individuality in small-town America takes a beating in "Pocatello," a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, whose dark comedy "The Whale" was well-received off-Broad…
It's impossible to talk about "Annie" without admitting up front when you first experienced John Huston's 1982 film....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The thing about one-person shows is, you usually have to like the actor as well as the character they're portraying....
NEW YORK (AP) -- You don't have to be Jewish to love Shlomo - but it helps....
It would seem the timing could hardly be more apt for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's new civil rights-themed piece, "Odetta," a tribute to the late folk singer often referred to as the…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Time is running out to "Come Look at the Freaks."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a bare rehearsal room three floors underground at the Metropolitan Opera, Michael Volle was learning how to move around on a set that wasn't there....
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- The Golden Globe nominations for best actress in a musical or comedy film have been announced in Beverly Hills, California, by the Hollywood Foreign Press A…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Joan Rivers left her daughter in charge of her fortune in a revocable trust....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Rita Wilson is on the hook for comedian Larry David's Broadway writing and acting stage debut "Fish in the Dark."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Leave it to the Sexiest Man Alive of 2011 to give us a lesson about ugliness....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The naughty kids in "Matilda the Musical" have one reason to smile: Their show paid back its $16 million investment on Broadway....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Inmates at Rikers Island jail this week could have been forgiven for wondering if they were suddenly in an episode of "Orange Is the New Black."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Peter Pan Live" didn't exactly fly for NBC. The Nielsen company said Thursday night's musical production reached 9.1 million viewers, or less than half of what "The Sou…
NEW YORK (AP) -- This "Peter Pan" needed a lot more fairy dust....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gavin Creel is going back to an old role in a new place: He's joining the cast of Broadway's "The Book of Mormon."...
The battle of the sexes and classes rages on in director Liv Ullmann's adaptation of August Strindberg's infamous 1888 play "Miss Julie." One tempestuous Midsummer's Eve finds a vast country…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anna Chlumsky will replace Rose Byrne in Broadway's zany play "You Can't Take It With You."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The boy who refused to grow up: It sounds like men today in this youth-obsessed culture. But nearly a century before his name found its way into pop psychology, Peter Pa…
CARACS, Venezuela (AP) -- In life, Venezuela's exuberant leader Hugo Chavez often captivated supporters by bursting into song, even the occasional dance. Now that he's gone, supporters a…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bob Baker, the founder of one of America's oldest puppet theaters, died Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90....
PARIS (AP) -- An accidental discovery in a northern French library of an original first folio of Shakespeare's plays - one of the rarest books in the world - has sent a jolt of excitemen…