Theater

Opera Comes to Duane Park

Alex Geana | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York


Alex Geana

During the beginning of the last century New Orleans was the center of the opera universe. Duane Park drew inspiration from there for their new Thursday night series, Theatre d'Orleans.

Vince Lombardi To Get Play On Broadway

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — OK, Cheeseheads. Get ready to visit Broadway. "Vince," a play about the legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, is planned...

Off-Broadway's Wonderettes Closing Its Gym Doors

James Sims | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York


James Sims

The Marvelous Wonderettes has been playing to enthusiastic crowds since it settled in New York City following a run in Los Angeles -- where I first saw the show and fell in love.

Northern Uganda: The Biggest Forgotten Humanitarian Crisis

Melissa Fitzgerald | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact


Melissa Fitzgerald

As I was leaving an IDP camp, a man said to me, "Please don't let us die in this horrible place. Please tell the people in America what is happening here." I promised myself I would.

Let Me Off at Off- and Off-Off-Broadway

Brad Schreiber | Posted 11.01.2009 | Entertainment


Brad Schreiber

There is nothing inherently wrong with movie and TV stars being big draws on Broadway, watching them on seats in the mezzanine that are so narrow they make you feel morbidly obese.

Sienna Miller Stressed About Working Near Ex Jude Law

nypost.com | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment


The pressure of acting on Broadway a block away from ex Jude Law is apparently getting to Sienna Miller. The beauty got teary on the street when the p...

Stage Door: The Royal Family, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Memphis

Fern Siegel | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York


Fern Siegel

Broadway reviewed: a reminder of how wonderful revivals can be, a family story of burgeoning sexuality and a musical about the epicenter of R&B and soul.

Deaf/Blind Advocates Angered By Casting Of Abigail Breslin As Helen Keller

nytimes.com | Patrick Healy | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment


Two weeks after a group of deaf actors protested the choice of a hearing actor for a deaf role in an upcoming Off Broadway production, the issue has s...

Abigail Breslin To Play Helen Keller On Broadway

AP | MICHAEL KUCHWARA | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — From spunky "Little Miss Sunshine" to an even more heroic young girl. Abigail Breslin will play Helen Keller in the first Broadway r...

Matthew Broderick Flubs 'The Starry Messenger' Preview, Play Opening Delayed

AP | Gatecrasher | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Look for "The Starry Messenger" to arrive off-Broadway later than originally planned. The new play starring Matthew Broderick has pu...

Still Crazy After All of These Years: An Interview With Carrie Fisher

Ashley Van Buren | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment


Ashley Van Buren

Carrie Fisher has been called a lot of things in her life: an actress; an author; a wife (twice); an alcoholic; bipolar; the Princess of Alderaan; and a product of Hollywood inbreeding.

Sienna Miller's HOT Shredded Sequins, NOT-HOT Broadway Reviews

Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment


Sienna Miller made her Broadway debut with "After Miss Julie" Thursday night. The not-so-slutty Brit came to the opening night party afterward in a sh...

Circle Rules Football -- The Road Ahead

Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York


Eugene Michael Santiago

As a boy, Greg Manley grew up in Oakland California. As a young man Greg invented a sport in New York. That sport? Circle Rules Football. Almost three...

Gina Gershon's Flamenco Look; Love It Or Leave It?

Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment


Gina Gershon wore a vest and tuxedo pants to the "Bye, Bye Birdie" on Broadway opening party Thursday night. With a fur chubby, a slit up to her thigh...

Deaf People Speak Out Against Hearing Actor Portraying Deaf Role

Lennard Davis | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment


Lennard Davis

The normal education in the US involves extensive training in speech for deaf people. While not all will end up speaking in ways that might work on stage, so many can.

Pamela Anderson To Star In Aladdin Pantomime Production

Sky News | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment


Pamela Anderson is to make her pantomime debut this Christmas in a production of Aladdin. The former Baywatch babe is joining an illustrious cast at ...

Inside Jeremy Piven's Offstage Drama With 'Speed-the-Plow'

nytimes.com | PATRICK HEALY | Posted 10.09.2009 | Entertainment


The actor, Jeremy Piven, stunned the theater world in December by bolting the revival of David Mamet's Hollywood drama "Speed-the-Plow," citing health...

Tony Roberts Returns For 'Royal Family' Opening Post-Seizure

AP | Posted 10.09.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Tony Roberts has returned to the Broadway revival of "The Royal Family" on opening night. The actor came back to the show Thursday a...

Philip Roth's The Humbling Is, At 140 Pages, His Best Book In Years

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books


Jesse Kornbluth

Roth is 76 now. He's outlived all of his rivals. He's our most prominent novelist. And over 30 books, he's learned how to disturb us -- and keep us reading.

Andrew Lloyd Webber Announces 'Phantom' Sequel

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment


LONDON — The Phantom of the Opera is coming back – but this time, he'll be haunting the amusement park at New York's Coney Island. Star c...

Jude Law's 'Hamlet' Gets RAVE Reviews (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment


Jude Law's 'Hamlet' opened on Broadway Tuesday night, and the new father is killing it in the title role. Will Jude become the second Hamlet (after Ra...

Actor Tony Roberts Had Seizure During Broadway Play

AP | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Tony Roberts had a minor seizure during the Sunday matinee of "The Royal Family," but is looking forward to returning to the Broadway...

Tony Roberts Gets Sick Mid Play: Broadway Performance Canceled

AP | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — A preview performance of the Broadway revival of "The Royal Family" has been canceled after one of its stars became ill on stage. Sh...

Carrie Fisher Spills Secrets On Broadway, Slams Weight Critics

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Carrie Fisher usually kicks off her one-woman show with a delightful story about finding a dead guy in her bed. Then she asks the au...

Philip Seymour Hoffman's Othello Ravaged: Audiences Leaving At Intermission

nypost.com | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment


It's not just critics who hate Peter Sellars' production of "Othello" starring Philip Seymour Hoffman at NYU's Skirball Center. Audiences hate it too,...