LONDON " The critics bashed Douglas Gordon, and he bashed back " with an ax.The Turner Prize-winning artist hacked the wall of a theater where his play has opened to largely negative review…
NEW YORK " Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Wednesday night in memory of Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director.The Broadway League says the ligh…
Over the past 14 years, you could catch Penn & Teller live in Vegas, all over television, including on their Showtime series "Penn & Teller: Bulls--!," and even on a Katy Perry music…
LONDON " Britain's Royal Opera says it's sorry for causing distress but the show will go on after a rape scene in "Guillaume Tell" sparked boos and walkouts.Director Damiano Michieletto's p…
Think Broadway audiences are tough?Try doing song and dance numbers for couples in cabana-wear killing time ahead of the midnight buffet.Before Michael Ryan landed a spot in the national tou…
"The Tempest" and Central Park were made for each other, so it must have taken a Herculean effort on the part of director Michael Greif to drain Shakespeare's most mysterious play of all its…
NEW YORK " There's finally reason to be happy in a funeral home " "Fun Home" has won the best musical Tony Award.The poignant show, based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel memoir about growi…
NEW YORK " The poignant and groundbreaking coming-of-age show "Fun Home" was named best musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday, one of five big trophies it won on the way to making history fo…
NEW YORK " Helen Mirren, who starred this season in a familiar and regal role, has won her first Tony Award.Mirren won for playing a sly and polished Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's "T…
NEW YORK " The dazzling show "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" has won the 2015 Tony Award for best play.The London import is based on an adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-s…
NEW YORK " When Larry David was showing his old "Seinfeld" pal Jason Alexander the quirks of his Broadway dressing room, the discussion naturally went to the toilet."You know what he said? …
NEW YORK " Like so many other aspiring actresses, Olivia Washington is paying her dues at a small, off-Broadway theater. Unlike so many other aspiring actresses, she's not relying on her fa…
NEW YORK " If the Tony Award for best director was handed out on quantity alone, Jeremy Herrin would easily be the winner.He has helmed the double bill stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's T…
Broadway stars put on rollicking 'Hairspray'
It sounds so good on paper. Seven playwrights adapting seven fairy tales.
Entrepreneur Bill Hanney has brought back the North Shore Music Theater in Beverly, but with a smaller staff and an outsourced full-time restaurant to make the venture financially viable.
Plimoth company presents Shakespeare's work as originally staged
The voice is mesmerizing.
It belongs to veteran New York actor Jay O. Sanders, and it fills an amphitheater at Harvard Medical School with the anguished screams of the dying Greek warrior, Philoctetes.
Red Sox legend Bill Lee loves 'Johnny Baseball' By Jim Sullivan