Legendary rocker David Bowie has given permission for a stage show based on his...

London, May 16 : An actress who renounced the idea of Oxford and Cambridge for the stage has been chosen to play the class 'geek' in a UK stage version of the hit show High School Musical....

Theatre performers get the chance to demonstrate their rock-n-roll chops May 17 when the second annual Broadway Battle of the Bands plays the Zipper Factory. Original Jersey Boys cast member Daniel...

photo by Halsman (Martin) and Joan Marcus (O'Hara) "A Salute to Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific" is the title of a May 17 television special that will air in the metropolitan area on WABC-TV. ...

Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who was recently seen in the starry Chess concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall, makes an in-store appearance at Dress Circle May 17. Menzel will head to the London...

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It will be art and it will also, quite possibly, be terrifying - unless the feeling of paddling off the side of a building, or lying 20ft in the air on a transparent pillow, is one that fills you...

· An impossibly glossy Brangelina, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have appeared on the red carpet; the streets are throbbing with scantily clad wannabes; restaurants are heaving with...

ghostbike.org , there are now similar memorials in more than 30 cities across the world. I've never seen one in London, but there are, apparently, ghost bikes in Manchester, Oxford and Brighton.On...

PESCOCOSTANZO (Italy): Gabriele Bosisio of LPR won the seventh stage of the Tour of Italy here yesterday on a day when Giovanni Visconti retained the overall lead and Danilo di Luca and Riccardo...

Andrew Gans 16 May 2008 Erik Liberman, who received a 2008 Helen Hayes Award nomination for his performance in the Signature Theatre production of Merrily We Roll Along, will play Julius...

May 16, 2008 - It's been more than a century since the Fisk University Jubilee singers started performing Negro spirituals and slave songs. Today, the Fisk singers are still spreading the songs of...

Robert Simonson 16 May 2008 The Provincetown Playhouse, the Greenwich Village theatre built in 1918 which many historians regard as one of the crucibles of modern American theatre, may be saved...

Fox Broadcasting says it's trying a "potentially revolutionary" concept in North American television by cutting the amount of commercials by half for two of its new prime-time dramas airing this...

photo by Jim Cox Winners of the 74th Annual Drama League Awards were announced May 16 at a luncheon in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel hosted by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein,...

NEW YORK : The joint financial triumph enjoyed by the two giants dominating the international auction scene that concluded sales of contemporary art this past week has no precedent in art market...

Andrew Gans 16 May 2008 Yes, Disney's High School Musical is, unsurprisingly, one of the most-produced musicals in high schools around the country, but it isn't at the very top of the list: That...

May 16, 2008, 04:00 pm ET · It's true: "Desperate Housewives" will flash-forward five years.Marcia Cross, who plays domestic goddess Bree on the ABC comedy-drama, told AP Radio in a recent...

Adam Hetrick 16 May 2008 The Berkshire Theatre Festival will present Noël Coward in Two Keys as its final offering of the 2008 summer season. Two Keys replaces the Jan Maxwell-Richard...

photo by Tristram Kenton The world-premiere staging of the new musical Marguerite began previews in London May 7 and will officially open May 20. The final production of Jonathan Kent's Theatre...

The Regina Symphony Orchestra has held its own version of Canadian Idol and crowned its first-ever Symphony Singing Star, who will perform with the RSO next year. Makyla Ingram was selected by...

In this May 14, 2008 file photo, American actress Eva Longoria waves as she arrives to the opening night ceremony and the premiere of the film "Blindness," at the 61st International film festival in...

Adam Hetrick 16 May 2008 Olivier Award winner Deborah Findlay will star in the New York premiere of Vincent River, presented as part of the ongoing Brits Off-Broadway series at 59E59 Theatres. ...

Andrew Gans 16 May 2008 British actor, director and teacher Mark Wing-Davey has been named chair of and arts professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Wing-Davey will...

and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the Maldives. Britain's High Court says The Big Pictures and Eliot Press Sarl agencies have apologized for using a long...

photo by Aubrey Reuben Zoe Kazan and Michael Esper have won the 63rd annual Clarence Derwent Awards that are presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation to honor "the most promising female and male...

Ernio Hernandez 16 May 2008 New Dramatists honored Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein during its 59th Annual Spring Benefit Luncheon May 15. Friends and collaborators of the...

Residents of Calgary and Ottawa had their eye on the deadline Friday for cities bidding to host the Portrait Gallery of Canada. Dozens of supporters who want the gallery in Ottawa, including artists...

Singer R. Kelly, right, leaves with a bodyguard after the first day of jury selection on May 9 in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in...

Andrew Gans 16 May 2008 Kathy Brier and Friends, starring daytime actress and former Hairspray star Kathy Brier, will be presented at the Metropolitan Room May 16 and 17. The 10 PM concerts,...

William Elder, the illustrator who pioneered the visual style for iconic humour title Mad magazine, has died at the age of 86. Gary VandenBergh, Elder's son-in-law, told comic world blog Journalista...

Kenneth Jones 16 May 2008 Alabama Shakespeare Festival's sixth annual Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays May 16-18, shedding light on five new scripts, boast four that are set in...

Will the Zutons send the Glastonbury crowd crazy with their zombie soul? Sylvia Patterson meets a young band dead set on raising the...

This month, The Birthday Party returns to the same theatre where it opened exactly 50 years ago. Slated by the critics, it nearly ended Harold Pinter's career. So how did it go on to become such a...

American Idol " alum will join the Broadway cast of "Grease" on June 6, playing Teen Angel in the revival of the popular musical. The gray-haired singer -- whose "Idol" fan base was called "The...

Lured by the success of the Indian Premier League, Cricket Australia has started the ground work for staging its own version of the Twenty20 tournament within two to three years.The CA would retain...

NEW YORK : Without horses, where would we be? Trousers might never have become fashionable. The violin might never have come into existence. The Aztecs might have thrived another few centuries. The...

Brisbane - The Western Force made a stunning comeback to beat the ACT Brumbies 29-22 in a Super 14 match in Perth on Friday. Down 22-0 after 20 minutes, the Force scored 29 unanswered points. ...

May 16, 2008 · The Black Entertainment Television Network was created to bring authentic representations of African-Americans to cable television. After a couple of decades, however, it finds...

bread and brewing a smooth cup of espresso. But although he made espressos for years at his bakery, he only recently bought an espresso maker for his home. He was eager to show me what he could do...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 09:00 CDT What if you gave a concert and the crowd refused to watch? It's not as far-fetched as it seems. As more and more concertgoers fiddle with cell phone cameras...

CANNES : Artists are like the rest of us, but perhaps they retain everything - happy and sad - that happened in childhood. All those family feasts, spoiled. At Christmas, they still open their...

Adrian Bailey, who was severely injured prior to the May 10 matinee performance of The Little Mermaid at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, filed a petition May 14 with the Manhattan Supreme Court. ...

Lynn Redgrave, who was most recently seen on the New York stage in the Mick Gordon-AC Grayling play Grace, will present her latest solo show June 2 at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. Following...

HARDIN CENTER COURTYARD: Courtyard Concert Series; decisions on weather cancellations made by 4 p.m. on show days; 543-2787, ext. 0, for status; today, Ed Howard; Saturday, no concert; May 23, Foggy...

CANNES, France : The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women. Midway through Day 2,...

DHAIRA, SOUTH LEBANON, 16 May 2008 (IRIN) - Several hundred Palestinian refugees marched to the Lebanon-Israeli border on 14 May exchanging loud-hailer greetings and storming part of the fence in...

Lucky me. I've got an advance copy of the new Woody Allen film, Cassandra's Dream, so I invite friends rounds for tea and a private screening. We're all Woody fans, and as usual there is a starry...

It was 1968, so what more natural time to make a film about Che Guevara? And what better place to make it than Cuba's close relative, Puerto Rico, with its palm trees and rainforest and fancy hotels?...

There are few guitarists who can claim to have created a style quite as individual as that of Debashish Bhattacharya. He's not just a composer and virtuoso instrumentalist, but has also transformed...