An angry art-loving judge on Monday threw the book at the career con man whose exploits ended with a delicate portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot dumped in some Upper East Side bushes.
When The Post's theater columnist Michael Riedel was notified by NBC he'd been axed from a planned appearance on the network's upcoming series about Broadway, "Smash," sources speculated it …
Hugh Dancy was spotted putting the moves on a hot blonde in leather lingerie Tuesday night, and his wife, Claire Danes, saw the whole thing. Luckily, Dancy was acting as a seducer onstage in…
The Biller Family Foundation has opened a new source of private funding for smaller LA theater companies with its annual BEST awards. The first batch of grants has provided $47,500 to a tota…
Medvedev and Putin to preside over gala opening of historic Russian theatre following work to restore pre-Soviet opulenceIt has been a renovation marred by endless delays and allegations of …
Playbill.com has learned that due to the vocal demands of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice score, Olivier Award-winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger will play six of the eight weekly perf…
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the stage musical by Lindsay Warren Baker and Amanda Jacobs, has received the most honors of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's Awards for Exc…
The Bush Theater in London is producing "Sixty-Six Books," a collection of short plays, poems and songs, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
Royal Court; Donmar Warehouse; Bush, LondonTwo years ago when she was 17, Bel Powley was one of the stars in Polly Stenham's Tusk Tusk. Now here she is again, proving the staying power of th…
You can't accuse the Bush Theatre of failing to do its bit by the Bible. Back in the spring, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James version, it sent audiences off on selectiv…
TheaterMania checks out the new releases of Anna Nicole: The Opera, Bette Midler: The Showigrl Must Go On, Forever Plaid, Memphis, The Pee-wee Herman Show, and Wishful Drinking.
If this first 24-hour performance of Sixty-Six Books felt like a pilgrimage for those of us who witnessed every second, it must have seemed even more so for the team at the Bush Theatre. Aft…
Sometimes theatre people do mad things. Like stay up all night and the following day to "celebrate" the King James Bible and a theatre's house-move to a new premises. Its 400th year has been…
Bush, LondonI confess that this is a partial response to the vast enterprise with which Josie Rourke has chosen to christen the spaciously handsome new Bush theatre. The event consists …
The Six Brown Brothers were a sextet of Canadian saxophonists (or should I say a saxtet of Canadian sexophonists? Perhaps not) The group is largely credited with helping to popularize the sa…
Catherine Zeta-Jones took her kids to see Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," but it was a trip backstage that scared her family more than any high-flying action in the show.
Six Canadian playwrights have made the 2011 shortlist for the largest award in Canadian theatre, the Siminovitch Prize. The finalists are: ' Robert Chafe of Newfoundland, who was shortlisted…
Only Brooke Shields could get Lurch, "Asian Sexation" Calamity Chang and a 9-foot python together in one room for a party. The actress and her friend and makeup artist Tina Turnbow put on a …
The quality varies at the TWTF, but here is a chance to become aware of rarely done Williams plays. And if a production does not measure up to one's expectations, the effort will inspire a f…
This column is about Baltimore theater, and, admittedly, the connection between Studio Six (in New York City) and Baltimore is a little tenuous. The artistic director, Vaz Santosham has root…
