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Sharply directed by Barbara Damashek, the Aurora Theatre production captures a highly dysfunctional family.
Now 80, Dame Edna's alter ego Barry Humphries has decided to bring her theatrical globe-trotting to an end with 'Dame Edna's Glorious Goodbye: The Farewell Tour,' which began two years ago i…
Idina Menzel performs before Seahawks, Patriots battle in big game.
The Lesher Center has plenty of entertainment to choose from in February beginning with Center Rep's "The Book Club Play," running Jan.
The “Harry Potter” star will play Belle in Disney’s live-action film, which begins production later this year.
Carey Perloff deftly directs Stoppard's time-jumping, idea-packed work that is surprisingly moving but occasionally bogs down.
The singer recounts she was in the middle of the Disney hit song when fake snow got caught in her throat, causing her to throw up during taping.
There are strong spirited performances in the musical number, but the play's grim tone takes a toll.
It's not Noel Coward's best play, but Lansbury's charming turn as a daffy mystic makes the romantic comedy a must-see.
Bay Area Children's Theater's upcoming 'Three Little Birds, A New Reggae Children's Musical,' based on a story by Marley's daughter, Cedella Marley, opens Jan. 24 and runs through Feb. 15 at…
This adaptation of Victor Hugo's sprawling tale of rebelling French peasants gets good performances throughout. The musical runs through Jan. 31 at Livermore's Bankhead Theater.
The play about two musicians dreaming of becoming concert pianists is well-performed, but could be more revealing about the nature of a life in music.
Former New York City Ballet star pairs off with four male choreographers/dancers at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Dancing with the Stars performer Cheryl Burke, who grew up in Atherton, Calif., recently posted an early photo of herself learning to dance.
PASADENAThey're the ones that Fox wants.The network on Saturday announced that it has found its Sandy and Rizzo for next year's live production of "Grease.
PASADENACount on seeing more soapy hip-hop drama from Fox.The network on Saturday announced that it has renewed the freshman series "Empire" after only two episodes.
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After spending years super-sizing televisions, connecting them to the Internet, bumping up their resolution multiple times and dabbling with 3D images, TV makers now seem to think that the w…
J.C. Chandor's cerebral, multilayered crime story 'A Most Violent Year' adds more shine to the 24-carat reputation he established with 'Margin Call' and 'All Is Lost.'
'Justified' launches final season; Rain Wilson returns in 'Backstrom
Queen Victoria's goddaughter tapped into her India roots
There’s everything but synchronized swimming in “Monkey: Journey to the West.” With its acrobats, martial artists and contortionists, its death-defying slack-rope walkers, …
“The Two-Character Play” is Tennessee Williams to the hilt — a world turned in on itself, a closed-circuit system of madness and memories. Williams once called it his ̶…
On the heels of success in Broadway's "GHOST The Musical," television's "The Good Wife" and in a benefit performance with Anne Hathaway at New York City's Public Theater, Bryce Pinkham is ho…
The hottest dish out of the New York press this afternoon is the gossip that the “Diner” musical, based on the ’80s cult classic, may not be having an out of town tryout in…
