1,219 stories by "David Ng"
It was a VIP guest list that few Broadway productions could dream of.
Set for 2013-14: 'Harmony,' 'The Sunshine Boys,' 'Peter and the Starcatcher,' 'The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess' and the Queen musical 'We Will Rock You.'Fanilows, your wait is finally over. …
The theater producer has profited from the growing popularity of American-style musicals in Korea and hopes to become a major Broadway player.His offices in Seoul are nearly 7,000 miles from…
One of Helen Mirren's four-legged co-stars in the new play "The Audience"Â apparently has been fired after it failed to obey the actress' royal commands in her role as Queen Elizabeth II.…
For the actress, its allure is the challenge of playing a great classical part plus the chance to work with playwright Neil LaBute, who adapted Strindberg's work. She makes her L.A. stage de…
Logan Marshall-Green, who appeared last summer as one of the doomed space voyagers in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," will co-star alongside Lily Rabe in the Geffen Playhouse's revival of Strin…
The Windham-Campbell Prizes, a new literary award from Yale University, has announced its inaugural roster of winners. Among the nine recipients are three playwrights --Â Naomi Wallace, St…
Los Angeles' primary election for mayor is Tuesday. In a recent survey conducted by Arts for L.A., a nonprofit group that promotes cultural funding, the candidates responded to a series of q…
When Andrew Lloyd Webber bade farewell to the U.S. touring production of "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood in 2010, he promised the audience that the beloved mu…
In an Oscars broadcast that was packed with tributes to movie musicals, "Les Miserables" won three Academy Awards on Sunday, including a win for Anne Hathaway for supporting actress. The fi…
Helen Mirren's big return to the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the new play "The Audience," by Peter Morgan, now will be a global event. Fans around the world will be able to experience the …
The casting hole created by Shia LaBeouf's abrupt departure from the Broadway revival of "Orphans" has been filled. Ben Foster will take the role of Treat, one of two brothers who hatch a pl…
The tale of a "A Bronx Tale" never seems to end.
Shia LaBeouf won't be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play "Orphans" in New York over "creative differe…
A new play about artist Ai Weiwei's secret detention in 2011 will premiere in April in London. Written by British playwright Howard Brenton, "#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei" is set to open a…
Once more to the barricades, "Les Misérables" fans.
Banana Joe, the lovable affenpinscher who won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York on Tuesday, has chosen Broadway for a victory lap.Â
It's fair to say that the 1983 touring production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, wasn't a high point in the couple's catalog of professional …
The already bizarre case of Sergei Filin, the artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet who was attacked with acid last month, has a new twist: Suspicions reportedly are now being turned …
"Once," the intimate, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that is based on the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, has won a Grammy Award on Sunday.
The Metropolitan Opera's recent recording of Wagner's "Ring" cycle and the Chicago new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird were winners in the classical music categories at the Grammy Awards on Su…
The playwright wanted to see 'Chinglish' produced in mainland China, but says the Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai scandal derailed it. It will play a Hong Kong festival.David Henry Hwang knows firsth…
Operatic tenor Jay Hunter Morris has withdrawn from Los Angeles Opera's upcoming production of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman," which is scheduled to begin performances on March 9 at the Doro…
New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is looking to go bi-coastal and will make its Los Angeles debut in April with a production of "Slipping," starring Seth Numrich, at the Elephant St…
Now that they both have landed TV series that require them to spend significant time on the West Coast, Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Andrew Rannells will be performing on stage together …
