Return of theatre's grand old man
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Peter Zadek was born in Berlin in 1926. His family emigrated to England when Hitler came to power in 1933, and Zadek went on to study at Oxford with the great English scholar Nevill Coghill, followed by an ...
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Christopher Sieber, late of the Broadway editions of "Chicago," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Into the Woods," is living the life that many New York actors once had in the theater but rarely do anymore: He closed Sunday in one show (the New York City Opera's production of "Cinderella" with Eartha Kitt, Dick Van Patten, Lea DeLaria, et al.) and now immediately jumps into another, playing Sir Galahad in Mike Nichols' "Monty Python's Spamalot," with Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce and Tim Curry, which prevues Dec. 21-Jan. 23 in Chicago before its Broadway opening at the Shubert on March 17.
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The film industry salutes the legendary actor.
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A marketing expert is returning to his birthplace to project Tyneside's cultural gems on to the world stage.
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The actor Jefferson Mays is putting his own spin on professor Henry Higgins in the first major Broadway revival of George Bernard Shawâs âPygmalionâ in more than two decades.
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Workers renovating a British theatre have uncovered a personal time capsule left the last time the building was spruced up, containing a letter and, more curiously, a pair of Victorian trousers.
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Phantom of the Opera, the film, is reviving theatrical interest.
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The company's original visionary returns to the helm.
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There's something old-fashioned about Tyler Perry.
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A highly acclaimed version  of Dmitry Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" has  returned to London's Royal Opera House on the 100th anniversary  of the Russian composer's birth, bowling the critics over with  its originality.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 18 -- Former Texas senator Phil Gramm was wrapping up his introduction in Des Moines on Saturday morning when a white-haired man wearing gray slacks and a big, brown leather jacket ambled up the aisle and stopped at the side of the stage, the curl of a smile on his lips.
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It seems fitting that this  revival of Harold Pinter's classic play should arrive on the  40th anniversary of both its original Broadway production and  the first (and ridiculously, only) Broadway appearance by its  star, Ian McShane.
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THE circus that changed traditional entertainme
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The actor returns to what he does best: act as a bhai.
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The Vineyard Theaterâs rare revival of J. M. Barrieâs elegantly plotted ghost story is an occasion of some interest.
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Michael Frayn seemed unfazed on Nov. 1, just two days before the first Broadway preview of his newest London hit, "Democracy." Tall, lean and friendly, the 71-year-old dramatist ("Copenhagen," "Noises Off") and ...
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Variety - The late Gregory Hines is among this year's inductees into the Theater Hall of Fame. Induction ceremony will be held Jan. 24 in the north rotunda of Broadway's Gershwin Theater.