Providence theater experiments with 'tweet seats'
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Sarah Bertness slipped into her seat at a recent staging of the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" and, when the lights dimmed, started doing something that's long been …
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Sarah Bertness slipped into her seat at a recent staging of the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" and, when the lights dimmed, started doing something that's long been …
Like a number of his they-wuz-robbed "American Idol" kin, Constantine Maroulis has done quite well for himself.
The writer is dead, but his secretary is still taking dictation. Is she insane? A forger? Or is she a bona-fide medium? The Boulder Ensemble Theatre production of "Ghost Writer" opens Friday…
Anyone who's ever peeked into a lover's journal or snooped their text messages takes a chance on getting more misery than they bargained for. Imagine the dangers of opening the Pandora's box…
If the Denver Center's Colorado New Play Summit exists to care, feed and herald new work, then "Ed, Downloaded" doesn't disappoint. Far from it.
In 2012, the Physically Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists League changed its name from the slightly unwieldy but sweet acronym PHAMALy to the Phamaly Theatre Company.
NEW YORK—Serious theater fans have a reason to suddenly freak out: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will team up on Broadway this fall in two of the most iconic plays of the 20th centu…
NEW YORK—Illness has forced Barry Manilow to postpone the opening night of the legendary crooner's latest concert show on Broadway.
NEW YORK—Before long plane flights, Thomas Schumacher likes to download talks from some of the world's brightest and creative minds speaking at TED conferences, watching them on his iP…
NEW YORK—Playwright Rolin Jones is not one to really brag, but he thinks he's made history with his latest work.
NEW YORK—A stage musical of the animated film "Aladdin" is riding a magic carpet to Broadway and the president of Disney Theatrical Productions promises it will be "a full-length, big …
Josh Gad shot to fame as a wacky Mormon missionary in a Broadway musical. He's currently starring as the goofy son of the president of the United States in the TV sitcom "1600 Penn.
For the world premiere of Lauren Feldman's "Grace, or the Art of Climbing," a spare scaffolding of black steel beams juts up from the floor of the Denver Center's Space Theatre.
NEW YORK—Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts.
"Maple and Vine" is packed with ideas about presence and nostalgia, about what we think ails us and what we imagine might be the tonic.
When Charlie Baker and his dear friend Froggy LeSueur arrive at a Georgia fishing lodge in "The Foreigner," the pair pretend that the painfully shy Charlie is a traveler from an exotic land…
Right about now, the 29-year-old playwright appears to be the type of secret everyone will soon know. His sci-fi, multimedia play "Ed, Downloaded" receives its world premiere when it opens a…
Over coffee, playwright Michael Mitnick tells you he's fond of "what-if" scenarios. So here's one. What if, instead of famously uttering "plastics," the associate of Benjamin Braddock's fath…
Philip Sneed will leave his position of producing artistic director at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the end of January, the Camera has learned. Sneed, who has helmed the festival sin…
Philip Sneed will leave his position of producing artistic director at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the end of January, the Camera has learned.
NEW YORK—A good one-man show leaves the audience wanting more, which is exactly what happens with James DeVita's satisfactory piece, "In Acting Shakespeare.
During the opening-night performance of "War Horse" at the Buell Theatre, a very polite, preternaturally calm voice interrupted the pitched battlefield action to say there had been a technic…
In the one-man show "RFK — A Portrait of Robert Kennedy," Sen. Bobby Kennedy takes a moment to share his pleasure in a train tour he's taking around California during the 1968 Democr…