
'Cabaret' celebrates 41st birthday with a party
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome — to middle age. The landmark film "Cabaret" — starring Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey and Michael York — has turned 41, but ...

Dick Van Dyke honored for lifetime achievement
He's acted, danced and sang his way through movies, television and the stage, making Dick Van Dyke an entertainment triple-threat long before ...
Providence theater experiments with 'tweet seats'
Sarah Bertness slipped into her seat at a recent staging of the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" and, when the lights dimmed, started doing something ...

New opera's success is beyond 'Doubt'
"Only the children's voices soothe me," an anguished Sister Aloysius sings at the conclusion of "Doubt," the new opera based on John Patrick Shanley's ...

New production of Rossini's Cinderella a delight
There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the ...

Opera about Nazi atrocity shown in Austria
Thousands of children were murdered by the Nazis because they fell short of the Aryan ideal. On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's ...

SAG honoree Van Dyke glad he made someone smile
Forget dishonest modesty. Dick Van Dyke seems nothing short of gobsmacked about receiving the life-achievement honor at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild ...

Neil LaBute play highlights off-Broadway festival
Next week, you'll get the chance to see a small play by Neil LaBute that's running off-Broadway. If you do, you'll have a leg up on LaBute — he's ...

Barry Manilow reschedules Broadway opening night
Illness has forced Barry Manilow to postpone the opening night of his latest concert show on Broadway. Producers said that Thursday's performance of ...

Paris Opera Ballet names Millepied of 'Black Swan'
Benjamin Millepied, the "Black Swan" choreographer who helped transform Natalie Portman into an obsessed, paranoid ballerina for the film and later ...

Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart heading to Broadway
Serious theater fans have a reason to suddenly freak out: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will team up on Broadway this fall in two of the most ...

Conference asks: What is the best Broadway can be?
Before long plane flights, Thomas Schumacher likes to download talks from some of the world's brightest and creative minds speaking at TED ...

Sin City Duke: Met moves 'Rigoletto' to Las Vegas
Diana Damrau recalled when she learned the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto" would be set in the glitzy Rat Pack-era Las Vegas of ...

'American Horror Story' star scared by show, too
For those who get creeped out watching "American Horror Story: Asylum," don't worry. You're not alone. Sarah Paulson, one of its stars, says the ...

Rolin Jones writes a 'big 'ol dumb comedy'
Playwright Rolin Jones is not one to really brag, but he thinks he's made history with his latest work. "I feel fairly confident I've written the ...

Disney's 'Aladdin' to sweep into Broadway
A stage musical of the animated film "Aladdin" is riding a magic carpet to Broadway and the president of Disney Theatrical Productions promises it ...

Haitian amputee makes comeback on dance floor
Georges Exantus thought he'd never dance again. He was lucky just to be alive. The earthquake three years ago in Haiti's capital flattened the ...

Sting's daughter to make her off-Broadway debut
Sting's daughter Mickey Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy "The Lying Lesson." The Atlantic Theater ...

Review: America Ferrera stars in edgy 'Bethany'
When living in an abandoned house, be sure to choose your fellow squatters with care. That's just one of the cautionary lessons in Laura Marks' edgy ...

Bolshoi ballet names acting artistic director
The Bolshoi ballet on Tuesday named a former prima ballerina to fill in for artistic director Sergei Filin, whose face and eyes were burned in an acid ...

Joshua Tree spider species named for U2's Bono
It appeared Bono and arachnids didn't mix when his "Spider-Man" musical had a rough Broadway run, but that didn't keep a biologist from naming an ...

Bolshoi ballet chief has surgery after acid attack
An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce "Black Swan" -like competition for starring roles ...

Review: Pretty Yende debuts at Met in Rossini romp
Preparing to exit the stage during the opening moments of Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" at the Metropolitan Opera, Pretty Yende tripped on a couple of ...

Playwright Anna Deavere Smith wins Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts. The committee that awards the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize ...

Bolshoi's artistic director attacked in Moscow
The artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater's ballet troupe was attacked with acid in Moscow and his eyesight is threatened, the theater said Friday.