Sunday, March 15, 2015
'Let It Go' may be Walt Disney's anthem these days, but 'Everything's Coming Up Roses' might be the more accurate theme song for the Disney juggernaut.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:27PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
NEW YORK " Albert Maysles, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer feature-length nonfiction movies that used lightweight, hand-held cameras to spontaneously record the lives o…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Die Hard actor will play the part of captive author Paul Sheldon in adaptation by William Goldman Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:26AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
Breaking Bad star joins team for Harvey Weinstein's Broadway show about the Peter Pan authorThe upcoming Broadway musical Finding Neverland has found a new producer to join its ranks: Bryan …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
NEW YORK " Suzan-Lori Parks' historical trilogy set during the Civil War has won a theater award honoring the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, one of the largest prizes given for dramatic wri…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:07AM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
NEW YORK " Trust Helen Mirren to look regal while surrounded by rats, seat hogs and grime.The 69-year-old Oscar winner has been spotted riding the city's squalid subway system and offering a…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:28AM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2014
LONDON " British actress Billie Whitelaw, who collaborated closely with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and appeared on stage and screen for decades, has died in a London nursing home at ag…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 7, 2014
NEW YORK " Rita Wilson is on the hook for comedian Larry David's Broadway writing and acting stage debut "Fish in the Dark."Producers said Sunday that Wilson will follow her husband Tom Han…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
PARIS " The accidental discovery in a small library in northern France of an original first folio of Shakespeare's plays has sent a jolt of excitement around the world of Shakespeare schola…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:52AM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
NEW YORK " Sting is hoping his star power can plug up a leaky ship.The singer-songwriter will play the role of an inspirational foreman onstage in "The Last Ship" starting Dec. 9 at the Nei…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
Co-writer and original star of Tony-winning musical to return to the role on Broadway, 15 years after he last performed it Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
NEW YORK " It is hard to describe the hysteria that was whipped up by the new NBC drama "Dr. Kildare" and its 27-year-old leading man, Richard Chamberlain.Adding to the excitement was the ha…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:08AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
Lionsgate film studio to team up with other entertainment firms to put story from bestselling books on stage in London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
LONDON " Theater fans can now stream some Shakespeare, if they have the bandwidth for the Bard.Shakespeare's Globe, London's reconstructed Elizabethan playhouse, is making its productions a…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
NEW YORK " Bradley Cooper will contort his limbs into uncomfortable positions for eight shows a week when he begins his run in the Broadway revival of "The Elephant Man." That means he'll n…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Actors including Melanie Griffiths will write and perform in The 24 Hours Plays, a Broadway benefit taking place in November Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani joined demonstrators outside the Metropolitan Opera on Monday for an emotional protest against a musical work about the death of a Jewish man they s…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:47AM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Actors often complain about short rehearsal times, but some of entertainment's biggest names " including Melanie Griffith, Amanda Seyfried, Uzo Aduba, Peter Dinklage, Nina Dobrev…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:14AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
NEW YORK " A prominent New York rabbi led a prayer vigil Monday before the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of "The Death of Klinghoffer," which opponents say glorifies Palestinian terrorists.…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
NEW YORK " Al Pacino will return to Broadway next year in a new play by David Mamet written with the Oscar-winner expressly in mind.Producers said Thursday that Pacino will star in "China D…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
NEW YORK " When the Metropolitan Opera announced in February that it would present John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" this fall, there was, as Peter Gelb recalls it, "absolutely no reac…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
NEW YORK " Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter, dancer and choreographer who during an eclectic show business career led the groundbreaking show "The Wiz" to Broad…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
MOSCOW " Soviet and Russian actor and director Yuri Lyubimov, founder of Moscow's renowned Taganka Theater, which he led for more than four decades, has died at age 97.During the 1980s, Lyub…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
BOSTON " Five centuries after William Shakespeare wrote "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," the Boston Red Sox have been deposed as World Series champions, bouncing from last place t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
NEW YORK " Joan Rivers will be memorialized by the dimming of Broadway's lights, after all. But just some of them.The Broadway League, which represents theater owners and producers, said Mo…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
NEW YORK " Michael C. Hall's next step is going to be gender bending one " the former "Dexter" star will play the rock chanteuse at the center of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on Broadway.Pro…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
NEW YORK " New York City's Metropolitan Opera reached a deal early Wednesday with its stagehands and said it expects to avert a lockout by reaching agreements with the remaining unions.The …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
NEW YORK " A two-year global tour of William Shakespeare's powerful "Hamlet" has landed in a building known for hosting its own drama " the United Nations.A Shakespeare's Globe production wi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
NEW YORK " The Broadway musical "Rocky" is hanging up its gloves after being battered at the box office.Producers said Tuesday that the show will play its final performance at the Winter Gar…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:32PM[SHARE]Tupac Shakur fans, keep ya head up: The Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me that uses songs from one of hip-hop's greatest artists is closing after less than two months
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:17AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
NEW YORK " Tupac Shakur fans, keep ya head up: The Broadway musical "Holler If Ya Hear Me" that uses songs from one of hip-hop's greatest artists is closing after less than two months.Produ…
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