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The author clearly has an affection for these ladies that comes through in director David Esbjornson's crisp production.
The show's new home will be a custom-built, 1,750-seat theater at The Venetian hotel-casino, officials announced Thursday.
LONDON - All the written works of Shakespeare will be performed for the first time in one season in 2006, the Royal Shakespeare Company said Tuesday.
Duke was returning home after performing in the off-Broadway play, "Waitin' 2 End Hell," when a car cut him off, said his wife, Monica Duke. His vehicle jumped a divider and struck an oncomi…
Ebb died Saturday at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime collaborator. The lyricist was believed to be 76, although Ebb always was "sweetly vag…
Grosses last week during the GOP festivities at Madison Square Garden were off 20 percent from the same week a year ago and attendance slumped 18 percent, according to figures released Tuesd…
Daniel Petrie Sr., director of "A Raisin in the Sun" and winner of two Emmy Awards, died Sunday of cancer at his home in Los Angeles.
The composer, who wrote the music for such shows as "Jekyll & Hyde," "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "The Civil War," writes melodies that seem to evaporate as soon as they are heard.
David Raksin, the widely respected dean of American film music whose "Laura" became one of the most famous movie songs in history, died of heart failure Monday morning in Van Nuys, Calif. He…
Road grosses climbed 5.6% to $11,262,496 during Week 8 (July 19-25).
ICA's cautionary tale of 'Fever' vs. flops
Shedding tiers, Equity, producers had other issues
Strikers were poised to walk the Broadway barricades. And producers were digging in their heels. But despite appearances to the contrary, the main arguments at the just-settled negotiations between Actors' Equity and members of the League of American Theaters actually had little to do with the complex road salary tiers that have grabbed most of the attention.
Take this as fact. "Fiction," a new play by Steven Dietz, is a work of uncommon insight, an adult, unsparing and yet often witty look at the intimate relationship between a man and a woman d…
The show has all the basic elements one hopes for in a musical revue — a talented cast performing fresh, but faithful, interpretations of favorite classics.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ingmar Bergman, one of the great masters of modern cinema, celebrated his 86th birthday Wednesday with a sour gift for fans — an announcement that he's retiring from th…
Whatever the outcome of the ongoing dispute between Broadway producers and the actors' union, at least one show will survive.
