1,219 stories by "David Ng"
Richard Linklater's 2003 crowd pleaser "School of Rock" will become a Broadway musical when the world-premiere production opens at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York on Dec. 6, 2015, prod…
The top conductors of the San Diego Opera and the San Diego Symphony will be departing their respective organizations in the months to come.
The new movie version of "Into the Woods" is big in many ways " big stars (Meryl Streep, Chris Pine), big visual effects (giant beanstalk, angry giantess) and big score (booming orchestra th…
The Geffen Playhouse will honor George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, as well as Sir Elton John and his partner, David Furnish, at its annual fundraising gala that is set to take place …
A cultural columnist at the Wall Street Journal has been disinvited to shows by a top Broadway press agent in response to a column she wrote in which she confessed to leaving a number of sho…
Bradley Cooper has already made the new Broadway revival of "The Elephant Man" a hot ticket, with fans lined up in front of the theater for scarce seats and behind it for autographs and self…
Leaders at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater said that the company has no plans to stop presenting shows following the death Friday of Baker, who founded the beloved organization in 1962.
The end of the Thanksgiving holiday usually means the beginning of "Nutcracker" season. In the Los Angeles area, there will be a typically abundant number of performances of Tchaikovsky's mo…
Bradley Cooper hasn't officially opened in the new revival of "The Elephant Man" on Broadway, but the Hollywood star has already proved himself to be a strong box-office draw in the play's p…
Will the physical presence of Sting on stage be enough to keep his musical "The Last Ship" from sinking?
"A Delicate Balance," Edward Albee's 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about emotional repression in an upper-crust WASP family, is once again a hot ticket on Broadway thanks to the new, star…
From his popular act with Elaine May to his widely lauded directorial efforts on Broadway that netted him multiple Tony Awards, Mike Nichols was a giant of the New York theater scene -- a wo…
Starting as a modest club production at the King King in Hollywood, "Rock of Ages," the sweet-natured musical homage to 1980s hair-metal bands, went on to become a stage juggernaut with a fi…
"Side Show" returned to Broadway on Monday in a revised version helmed by "Dreamgirls" filmmaker Bill Condon. The musical flopped in 1997 but still managed to earn plaudits and devoted fans …
Hugh Jackman officially returned to Broadway on Sunday for the first time in three years, though the theatrical vehicle he chose this time around is about as far from a traditional crowd-ple…
A new stage musical based on the protagonists of the A&E reality series "Duck Dynasty" is aiming to open next year in Las Vegas.
It's been nearly 15 years since Stephen Daldry made his film breakthrough with "Billy Elliot" and almost a decade since he first staged the musical version based on the popular movie.
It's like every "Glee" character's dream, except it's real.
"Birdman," the latest movie from director Alejandro González Iñárritu, is generating significant awards buzz for its comeback leading man, Michael Keaton, and a supporting ca…
The new musical from the Academy Award-winning songwriters of "Frozen" will tell the story of a socially awkward computer repairman named Dan who becomes attracted to Lindsay, a t-shirt desi…
"Pippin," the profitable 2013 revival of the popular Stephen Schwartz musical, will play its final performance on Broadway in January.
The sea has been choppy for "The Last Ship," the new Broadway musical from pop star Sting.
Kristin Scott Thomas will have to tone down her natural glamour and don a series of conservative dresses as Queen Elizabeth II in a return London engagement of "The Audience." The role was f…
Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal made their Broadway debuts Thursday in a new revival of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," which is being produced by the Roundabout at the American Airline…
Sting officially opened his musical "The Last Ship" on Sunday at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York. The pop star not only wrote the show's songs, which can be found on his 2013 album of the…
