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NEW YORK " Reeve Carney, the actor who played the hero in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" for three years on Broadway, returned to his dressing room to clean it out Monday, a day after bidd…
WASHINGTON " Phylicia Rashad is best known for starring roles on stage and television, but as a director she decided to commemorate a historic moment that helped spur the civil rights movem…
PITTSBURGH " Franco Harris is going from Super Bowl champ to "Champion of Champions."The Pittsburgh Opera says the Steelers' Hall of Famer will be featured in its season-opening production …
NEW YORK " Fresh off his success with "Kinky Boots," Harvey Fierstein will be offering his first play in almost 30 years " and there's plenty of kink.The Manhattan Theatre Club said Monday …
Andre De Shields couldn't resist playing King Louie in the stage version of "The Jungle Book" " even if Disney made him up."Orangutans aren't even indigenous to India," said De Shields, who …
WASHINGTON " Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will honor Carol Burnett as she receives the nation's top humor prize in Washington.The Kennedy Center for the Performing …
NEW YORK " There's Denzel Washington and Billy Crystal, plenty of Shakespeare and a nice dash of Harold Pinter. There's even a musical of the boxing classic "Rocky" and the much anticipated…
NEW YORK " One of the actors playing the comic book hero in the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was badly injured during a performance, a fresh reminder of the dangers facin…
SALT LAKE CITY " The University of Utah has announced its first-ever course examining the Book of Mormon as a work of literature.Instructor David Bokovoy says the class scheduled this fall w…
Tickets have just gone on sale for our 2013-2014 season, and we could not have picked a better lineup to keep our momentum going from last season. From Our Town to the Tony Awards and everyt…
On TV, Kim Zimmer battled amnesia, time travel and being cloned.Now the former soap star is reinventing her real life.The Emmy winner has taken to the stage as Madame Morrible in the current…
NEW YORK " Denzel Washington is returning to Broadway " but he won't be singing.Standing with his wife, Pauletta Pearson, on the red carpet Monday at the premiere his new movie, "2 Guns," t…
NEW YORK " LaChanze plans to return to Broadway for the first time since winning a Tony in 2006 for "The Color Purple."Producers of "If/Then" said Monday that the singer and actress will st…
LAS VEGAS " The Cirque du Soleil show "Ka" has reopened on the Las Vegas Strip 17 days after an acrobat fell to her death in its closing scene.The Tuesday evening show was marked by a memor…
CHICAGO " Patrick Poulin alternates between sitting and standing in the lobby of Chicago's Briar Street Theatre, nervously flipping back and forth through the pages of his application to jo…
LONDON " Shakespeare's Globe theater is about to take the Bard's words literally " "All the world's a stage."The London theater announced Tuesday that it plans to tour a production of "Haml…
The Power of Duff marks the return of playwright Stephen Belber to the Huntington, following 2005's Carol Mulroney (the first production of ours to feature Johanna Day, who has since become …
NEW YORK " The actress who will fill Condola Rashad's shoes in "The Trip to Bountiful" has been revealed: Adepero Oduye.Producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival said Monday that Oduye,…
This week, the A.R.T. welcomed the Institute for Advanced Theater Training Class of 2015. In addition to being a professional theater company, the A.R.T. is also a teaching institu…
Between great sets of rock 'n' roll (and pop, blues, bluegrass, jazz and electronica), why not catch a little culture?Outside the Box showcases many of Boston's best theater companies  
We could not be more excited to welcome Mary Zimmerman back to the Huntington, and what better way to mark her triumphant return than a stage adaptation of The Jungle Book? Some of our subsc…
LONDON " Sotheby's says the manuscript of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's first novel has sold at auction for almost 1 million pounds ($1.5 million).Britain's University of Reading bought "Mur…
JERUSALEM " A one-woman play about an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza is being performed for Hebrew-speaking audiences for the first time.…
NEW YORK " One brought leading man grace. One brought a little raunch. Together they left New York with the top National High School Musical Theater Awards.Sarah Lynn Marion, from Fullerton…
LAS VEGAS " The founder of Cirque du Soleil says his tight-knit performance company is "completely devastated" after a veteran acrobat died in Las Vegas over the weekend in a fall witnessed…
