Ricky Rojas performs "Roxanne" with Robyn Hurder in Moulin Rouge! (Photo by Matthew Murphy)How wonderful life is for Moulin Rouge! The Musical standout Ricky Rojas. The triple threat is rock…
The work at Pittsburgh Public Theater, with music as its heartbeat, transcends genres to tell the story of devoted people of the stage.
Drama school audition fees are a scandal. They are immoral and unfair. Drama aspirants should not be punished for their passion.
Arts on the Green and A Taste for Murder Productions present "I Remember Murder," an audience participation murder mystery by Dean Fiala. Performances are Friday, March 22 and Saturday, Marc…
“In 1597, Jonson and Thomas Nashe co-wrote a satirical play called The Isle of Dogs. Not much is known about the plot or contents of the show; what is known is that almost immediately …
He has put an Isis fighter's mother in the Ghent Altarpiece and restaged a murder. Now the Swiss director plans to get radicalWhen Milo Rau first saw the Ghent Altarpiece, one detail leapt o…
Actor & arts educator, Tim Dolan is a collector of stories. In his Broadway Up Close tours, he shares his love of theater by revealing the fascinating history of famous Broadway venues.
The Hottentot Venus was real, but at the same time, she wasn't. That was the persona created for Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman, a black South African woman who was displayed in British freak sho…
There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play Indecent, a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that featured a scanda…
Many of the most popular celebrities cannot seem to distance themselves from scandals and controversies. Ironically, however, most of these celebrities reap big from their epic fails. For br…
Ahead of the Royal Ballet's new production of Philip Glass's dance opera, based on the poetic French novel, choreographer Javier De Frutos and his principal dancers talk incest, jealousy and…
She was the first woman to be admitted to the club of American dramatists, writing a hit play when she was 29. Her love affair with Dashiell Hammett was a scandal and her memoirs were n…
Illustrator and cartoonist Edward Sorel joins us to discuss his new book Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936. He vividly details Mary's life as a child star wit…
Choderlos de Laclos was a career soldier looking for a way to alleviate his boredom, so he wrote a novel that became the scandal of France.
David Gest, who was found dead Tuesday in London, may be best known for his brief, made-for-the-tabloids marriage to Liza Minnelli.
The acclaimed choreographer explains the origins of Strapless " his new ballet about Madame X, the It Girl of 19th-century Paris who was destroyed by a daring portrait When I moved to New Yo…
She was the first woman to be admitted to the club of American dramatists, writing a hit play when she was 29. Her love affair with Dashiell Hammett was a scandal and her memoirs were n…
A public official stands at a podium, his steely-faced wife by his side. You can see that he is angry, feeling forced into this situation. He speaks into the microphones. He says that he'll …
It wouldn't have occurred to him at the time, but the title of Harley Granville Barker's play Waste, which has just opened
Matt Ryan says its about, 'what happens when two people give in to their most primal urges and instincts.'
The life of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, is explored in Thomas Kilroy's My Scandalous Life at the Irish Repertory Theater, beginning Feb. 2 Off-Broadway.
This repackaging of Lenny Bruce's best material appears stuck between a stand-up routine and a biographical treatment.
Thomas Kilroy's absorbing picture of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover, is a must for Wilde fans, even if Oscar remains offstage much of the time.