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Actors Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will reunite on Broadway with Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" and Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land."
Eloise, the hotel's most famous literary resident, was feted with a spirited tea party attended by some of her more recent fans, as well as Hilary Knight, the illustrator of the perennially …
At Opera Philadelphia, a haunting portrait of female solidarity.
Every now and then, the first time's a charm. This is the case for Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian, whose first collaboration, the two-man musical comedy "Murder for Two" reopens Nov. 6.
A tribute to great vocal groups, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, Ted Nash's latest full-scale orchestral work and more in this week's Jazz Scene.
If a you went to Yankee Stadium and the Mets were playing, it'd take a minute to adjust. That's what it was like when the American Ballet Theatre opened its season at the David H. Koch Theat…
The Paris Opera's new production of Strauss's 'Elektra' is a spare, powerful triumph.
Founding guitarist Brian May oversees the U.S. launch of the rock musical "We Will Rock You" while trying to get a film about late frontman Freddie Mercury off the ground.
London theaterland is alive with the sound of musicals and serious drama.
Through the first five games of the World Series, Fox averaged over 14 million viewers, 12% more than last year. There's one problem, though: Too many kids have found something else to do.
On Monday night, at the annual LAByrinth Theater Company fundraiser, respectable attorneys competed in a fierce game of charades with a crew of professional actors.
Linda Ronstadt was 'completely confused' when recording this song without her bandmates, and with a wildly new arrangement, It launched her career.
From an opera company that tends toward the offbeat, an ingenious idea for a season-opening production.
A new weekly calendar of theater listings which this week includes Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf in "Domesticated," Taylor Mac and Lisa Kron in "The Good Person of Szechwan" and the stage…
"Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance," now at City Center, is a prime example of the imagination and originality that have marked the British choreographer's work since 1987.
"Fun Home," a musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic-novel memoir about her gay father's suicide, has mainstream appeal. The problem is that the stage version is fundamentally untrue to t…
The character of Hecate is all too often cut from Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Not so in the production opening Nov. 21 at Lincoln Center Theater. She'll be wearing the witchiest clothes.
John Kander, Fred Ebb and Sheldon Harnick were among the Broadway tunesmiths who produced shows for corporate events and meetings.
At Lincoln Center's fall gala, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the honoree, and his accomplishments were the official topic.
Will Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" help the Metropolitan Opera bridge the gap to a new, younger audience?
Paul Rudd hosted kids and show-business types alike at his second annual bowling benefit for Our Time, a nonprofit organization for kids who stutter, at Lucky Strike lanes in Midtown.
Actor Shuler Hensley, whose musical theater credits include "Oklahoma!" and "Les Misérables" and who will soon be seen in on Broadway "No Man's Land" and "Waiting for Godot," opts to see "B…
Fractured Atlas, a New York-based nonprofit group, Monday is set to launch new, free, software for arts organizations to sell tickets and create a unified database of their audience members …
A mailer announcing up to $40 off tickets for the upcoming musical adaptation of "The Bridges of Madison County" included a postcard in it, meant to send to friends in order to share the dis…
"The Shepherd of the Hills," a play about Ozark life staged in Branson, Mo., every year since 1960, is closing.
