892 stories from Boston Herald
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of "Rear Window" are the windows -- not to mention th…
NEW YORK " A new online streaming service launches on Monday that hopes to one day become the Netflix of Broadway, offering high-definition broadcasts of top theatrical events to computers …
Two stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today.
The Boston Ballet's recent human sculpture performance under Janet Eschelman's now-iconic sculpture over the Greenway is just the latest example of dance making it out of the proscenium stag…
BOSTON " Amateur musicians from across Massachusetts are joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra onstage this week.For a second year, the BSO is bringing accomplished adult amateurs aboard. It…
NEW YORK " Misty Copeland has already achieved a crossover pop culture fame that few dancers could ever hope to have. She's a best-selling author, a celebrity spokesperson, and a role model…
NEW YORK " For her latest Broadway role, Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford took acting lessons from someone very close to her " her dog.The actress' toy Australian shepherd Gracie was inva…
Broadway star Kelli O'Hara has been added to the Celebrity Series of Boston's 2015-16 performance season.An Evening With Kelli O'Hara will take place on Feb. 28, 2016 at 7 pm at Sanders Thea…
The lights continue to dim on the Hub's theater scene after Boston University announced plans yesterday to end its 33-year partnership with the Huntington Theatre Company and sell the proper…
"The Wars of the Roses" was a landmark production back in 1963 -- one for the history books. Compressing the three parts of "Henry VI" and "Richard III"
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to check out the fall theater lineup.What? You expected Muppets?While we're all excited about the Muppets' return to TV …
Autumn brings falling leaves and crisp weather, and a blooming arts scene. From theater (musical and otherwise), to cutting-edge exhibits and installations of Old Masters, area arts organiza…
Hi! I'm Jessica Muise, Artistic Director of Intimations Dance -- a contemporary dance company that creates and performs new interdisciplinary dance work, provides performance platforms fo…
The U.K.'s Chichester Festival Theatre topper Jonathan Church will take over at the Sydney Theatre Company when Andrew Upton steps down in September.
Thought you knew "Hamlet"? Think again. Benedict Cumberbatch's prince might have triggered a media frenzy, but make no mistake, this is director
Kevin Bacon will break a leg this fall in the world premiere of the stage adaptation of "Rear Window," which bows at Hartford Stage
Forest Whitaker, the actor and director who won an Academy Award for his performance in the 2006 film "The Last King of Scotland," will make his Broadway debut
"Kinky Boots" is the best based-on-a-movie modern musical about an unlikely band of misfits who pull together just in time to save the day.Oh wait, what about "Newsies?" And what about "Brin…
Writer Harvey Fierstein and director Jerry Mitchell know plenty of song experts. They needed an authority on songs and shoes to pen the music for the Broadway adaptation of "Kinky Boots.""Ha…
Based on the number of the Bard's productions this summer, one can only conclude that Shakespeare and summer nights make good bedfellows, and thus (as we thrust our hands with great dramatic…
OGUNQUIT, Maine " Performer Brenda Vaccaro will replace Valerie Harper in a play in Maine as Harper recovers from an illness and brief hospitalization.The Ogunquit Playhouse says in a relea…
State of the Arts features some of Boston's most inspiring creatives, ranging from studio artists to curators to arts administrators. Multiple speakers present their creative practice in Pec…
NEW YORK " Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway: Marimba ringtones! Rat-a-tat texting! The shaming "shhhhh!"Years of mounting tension over audience behavior hit a dramatic cl…
