
Lincoln Center names a Broadway producer as head
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has tapped as its new leader a Broadway producer who has helped mount such hits as the Tony Award-winning ...

PBS 'Masterpiece' producer has book deal
A longtime producer at PBS is ready to pull back the curtains on "Downton Abbey" and other "Masterpiece" favorites. Rebecca Eaton, executive producer ...

'Harry Potter' actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65
Richard Griffiths was one of the great British stage actors of his generation, a heavy man with a light touch, whether in Shakespeare or Neil Simon.

Daniel Radcliffe returns to London stage
The time is coming — maybe sooner than you expect — when you look at Daniel Radcliffe and don't think "Harry Potter." The 23-year-old actor has gone ...

New theater production office opens in NYC
The producers behind one of the largest comedy festivals in the world are launching a new theatrical subsidiary that hopes to become a major player ...

SHOW BITS: A bump in the night for Kim K.
Show Bits brings you the 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where ...

Affleck's 'Argo' wins best-picture Oscar
Ben Affleck's "Argo," a film about a fake movie, has earned a very real prize: best picture at the Academy Awards. In share-the-wealth mode, Oscar ...

Waltz wins supporting-actor prize for 'Django'
Christoph Waltz really owes Quentin Tarantino. Waltz won his second supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for a Tarantino film, this time as a ...

Producers: 'Chicago' cast to join Oscar performers
Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have run out of rehearsal space. Dressing rooms, too. The award-winning production duo is planning ...

Radcliffe conjures brave new role as gay poet
Daniel Radcliffe doesn't mind hearing that schoolgirls were staking him out at the Sundance Film Festival, hoping for a Harry Potter sighting.

Radcliffe explores daring territory in new film
Daniel Radcliffe has really left Harry Potter behind with a startling and explicit Sundance Film Festival role as poet Allen Ginsberg. "Kill Your ...

Indie time: Sundance sets focus on low-budget film
It's that time of year again when a tiny ski-resort town becomes the place to be for anyone in show business — stars and directors, distribution ...

Sundance books record slate of female filmmakers
The Sundance Film Festival has an apparent record lineup of female directors competing for its top honor this January. Half the entries — eight of the ...

'Potter' star Radcliffe heads to Sundance fest
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe has landed his first entry in the Sundance Film Festival. Radcliffe plays poet Allen Ginsberg in the drama "Kill ...