Autopsy on Gandolfini Finds Actor Died of ‘Natural Causes,’...
An autopsy on James Gandolfini, the “Sopranos” star and actor who died on Wednesday in Italy, has found that he died of a heart attack, a spokesman for the actor’s family said on Friday. The...
View ArticleFrank Langella To Play ‘King Lear’ at Brooklyn Academy
Frank Langella will follow in the transatlantic footsteps of Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, playing the title role in “King Lear” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a production imported from...
View Article'After Midnight' to hit Broadway this fall
Click photo to enlarge FILE - This April 24, 1969 file photo shows musician Duke Ellington in New York. "After Midnight," a joyous musical revue celebrating Duke Ellington's years at the famous Cotton...
View ArticleBloomberg Charity to Underwrite Mobile Guides for Museums
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s company, Bloomberg LP, has long provided financial support to museums to help underwrite audio guides. Now his foundation is also getting into the act. Bloomberg...
View Article$40,000 Organ Prize Goes to Juilliard Student
The Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition, a new contest open to pipe organists between the ages of 18 and 30, has chosen its first winner. On Saturday, Benjamin Sheen was named as the...
View ArticleNew York City Ballet Announces Fashion-Focused Fall Gala
New York City Ballet will hold its annual fall gala celebrating dance and fashion on Sept. 19, featuring three world premieres, the company announced Thursday. Participants this year include the...
View ArticleParis Barclay to Lead Directors Guild of America
LOS ANGELES — Paris Barclay, whose extensive television directing credits include episodes of the “Sons of Anarchy” and “Glee” series, was elected president of the Directors Guild of America at the...
View ArticleFantasia Barrino In Talks For Broadway-Bound ‘After Midnight’
Fantasia Barrino has made a great home for herself on Broadway. It looks like she may return to the stage, as it’s rumored that she’s currently in talks to star in Broadway-bound show After Midnight....
View ArticleGrisham’s ‘Time to Kill’ Coming to Broadway
A stage adaptation of “A Time to Kill,” John Grisham’s legal thriller about a young white lawyer defending a black man for a revenge murder in Mississippi, will open on Broadway in the fall, the...
View ArticleSomething for Every Taste in Next Glimmerglass Season
As it often does, the feisty and inventive Glimmerglass Opera, in Cooperstown, N.Y., will offer a broad range of styles within a compact program during its 2014 season next summer. Its schedule, which...
View ArticleRattlestick Season Includes World Premieres and Five-Play Cycle
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s 2013-14 season will include new plays by such Off Broadway veterans as Charles Fuller and Craig Lucas alongside works by the rising stars Samuel D. Hunter and Halley...
View ArticleFat Joe Sentenced to Prison for Failing to Pay Taxes
The rapper Fat Joe was sentenced to four months in prison on Monday in federal court in Newark for failing to pay his taxes, the United States Attorney’s office for New Jersey said. Fat Joe, whose...
View ArticleGandolfini Funeral to Be Held at St. John the Divine in Manhattan
The funeral for James Gandolfini has been scheduled for Thursday at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Gandolfini, the actor and...
View ArticlePaul Giamatti to Appear on ‘Downton Abbey’
Television’s most popular Yorkshire estate is about to receive another high profile visitor: Paul Giamatti has been cast to appear in the Season 4 finale of “Downton Abbey,” according to a statement...
View ArticleSeaport Museum Loses an Institutional Backer
Having struggled to make a go of the South Street Seaport Museum in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the Museum of the City of New York has decided to pull out of running the troubled institution. “Sandy...
View ArticleMariah Carey to Join New York Philharmonic Benefit Concert
The New York Philharmonic said on Monday that two unusual stars (unusual for the Philharmonic, anyway) would join the orchestra for a concert in Central Park on July 13: Mariah Carey and Joe Torre....
View ArticleCotton Club Musical Headed to Broadway With a New Name
Following popular runs at New York City Center under the title “Cotton Club Parade,” the show – a musical revue about the famed Harlem nightclub – will begin performances on Broadway in October with a...
View ArticleDirector of Ashmolean Museum at Oxford to Step Down
LONDON — Christopher Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford for the last 16 years, announced his retirement on Wednesday. He plans to leave the...
View ArticleNew Bruce Norris Play Will Be Part of Steppenwolf Season
New plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”) and Mona Mansour (“Urge for Going”) are among the productions in the 2013-14 season at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater,...
View ArticleIn Performance: ‘Hands on a Hardbody’
“Hands on a Hardbody,” a new Broadway musical at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, concerns a group of Texans vying to win a truck in an endurance test. The country-rock score was written by Trey Anastasio,...
View ArticleBarry Manilow Returns to Broadway
Barry Manilow is returning to Broadway for a limited engagement at the St. James Theater this month, and demand for tickets has been so strong that the producers have extended his run for an additional...
View ArticleRelease of Third ‘Hobbit’ Film Delayed
Peter Jackson has pushed back the release date for the third installment of his Hobbit trilogy, “The Hobbit: There and Back Again,” for five months to December 2014, Warner Brothers announced. The news...
View Article“Peter and the Starcatcher” Headed Off Broadway
Though “Peter and the Starcatcher” is scheduled to close on Broadway on Jan. 20, the show, Rick Elice’s imaginative prequel to “Peter Pan,” has clearly not run out of magic. The show’s producers said...
View ArticleWoody Allen Names His New Movie ‘Blue Jasmine’
It’s hard to know where one might define the beginning of a blue period for Woody Allen, since that writer-director (or his on-screen alter egos) always seem to be down about something. At the very...
View ArticleBook Review Podcast: Grading Higher Education
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Andrew Delbanco reviews two new books about the state of higher education in the U.S. Mr. Delbanco writes: More than a century ago, the president of...
View ArticleNew ‘Arrested Development’ Episodes Aren’t Enough for Some...
AUSTIN, Tex. — For years after the cult series “Arrested Development” went off the air, the question was whether a movie about the demented Bluth family would follow. Now that the show, which ended in...
View ArticleCrosby, Stills and Nash to Join Fund-Raiser for Jazz at Lincoln Center
Crosby, Stills and Nash will perform with Wynton Marsalis and his orchestra in May to raise money for Jazz at Lincoln Center, continuing the nonprofit’s strategy of joining with pop and rock musicians...
View ArticleThis Week’s Movies: ‘World War Z,’ ‘Monsters...
In this week’s video, Times critics offer their thoughts on “World War Z,” “Monsters University” and “A Hijacking.” See all of this week’s reviews. Movies, A Hijacking (Movie), Monsters University...
View ArticleAccused Picasso Vandal Surrenders at U.S.-Mexico Border
A Houston man accused of vandalizing a Picasso painting has surrendered to federal marshals after having fled to Mexico for several months, The Associated Press reported. The man, Uriel Landros, 22,...
View ArticleSondheim and Marsalis to Collaborate on Show for City Center
Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis are collaborating on a new show to be staged at the New York City Center next November that will feature jazz interpretations of Mr. Sondheim’s love songs. The...
View ArticleA $1.6 Million Grant for the American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum has received a $1.6 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a national traveling exhibition of masterworks from its collection, the museum announced Thursday. The...
View ArticlePulitzer Prize-Winning Play to Make New York Debut at Second Stage
Quiara Alegría Hudes’s play “Water by the Spoonful,” the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for drama, has found a New York home. The play, about a Puerto Rican veteran of the Iraq war who faces...
View ArticleJazz Hall of Fame Opens Voting to Fans Online
As part of a broader effort to harness the Internet to engage more jazz fans, Jazz at Lincoln Center is inviting the general public to vote online for the 2013 inductees to the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall...
View ArticleTheater Talkback: A Good Play Can Be Read as Well as Seen
You can’t see Quiara Alegría Hudes’s “Water by the Spoonful” right now, even though it just won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play, the second part of a trilogy, ran for less than a month in its...
View ArticleJohn Doyle to Direct a London Revival of ‘The Color Purple’
John Doyle, who received a Tony Award for best direction in the 2005 Broadway production of “Sweeney Todd,” will bring his talents to London for his next project, a revival of the musical version of...
View ArticleRare Box Stolen from Oakland Museum
A box created from gold and quartz at the time of the California Gold Rush was stolen early Monday morning from the Oakland Museum, marking the second theft from the museum in two months, according to...
View ArticleIn Performance: Zabryna Guevara of ‘Water by the Spoonful’
Quiara Alegría Hudes’s play “Water by the Spoonful,” winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama, is about the intersecting lives of a group of people struggling with issues of addiction, family...
View Article‘Cotton Club Parade’ Will March Onto Broadway
After two popular engagements at New York City Center, “Cotton Club Parade” – a musical revue celebrating the Harlem nightclub during the Duke Ellington era – will move to Broadway this fall, its...
View ArticleFantasia Barrino returns to Broadway in 'After Midnight'
Grammy winner Fantasia Barrino, who came to fame as winner of the third season of “American Idol,” is heading to Broadway to star in “After Midnight,” producers said Thursday. The jazzy musical revue...
View ArticleToronto Video: Jason Bateman on ‘Bad Words’
TORONTO — “Bad Words,” a comedy about a man who enters a children’s spelling bee competition, directed by and starring Jason Bateman, has a bright future. Focus Features bought worldwide distribution...
View ArticleFantasia Barrino tells her 'After Midnight' team that backstage, she's got...
Fantasia Barrino’s Broadway co-stars should get ready for a lot more Fantasia — we’re told the “American Idol” alum is planning something very revealing during her upcoming run in “After Midnight.”...
View ArticleK.D. Lang to Make Debut on Broadway
The genre-crossing singer K.D. Lang will make her Broadway debut in February in “After Midnight,” the musical about Harlem’s legendary Cotton Club that opens at the Brook Atkinson Theater in October....
View ArticleFantasia Barrino Celebrates Harlem's Jazz Age In 'After Midnight' (REVIEW)
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — There are few things that bring smiles to even the most jaded faces — balloons, blaring trumpets and tap dancers. A new Broadway revue has two — no, make that all three —...
View ArticleAfter Midnight: Theater Review
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Matthew Murphy Fantasia Barrino in "After Midnight" The Bottom Line I can't give this show anything but love, baby. Venue Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York (runs...
View ArticleJames Gandolfini on Film: Emotional Textures in a Deceptive Face
At one point in David Chase’s coming-of-age movie “Not Fade Away,” the young protagonist – a Jersey boy who dreams of breaking free of 1960s suburbia and the towering, disproving father played by James...
View Article‘Avenue Q’ Puppets Help With Ad Campaign About HIV
Three of the puppet characters from the saucy musical “Avenue Q,” the Tony Award winner about the challenges of early adulthood, will star in a series of public service announcements on the Logo cable...
View ArticleIn Performance: Jenn Harris and Carson Elrod of ‘All in the Timing’
“All in the Timing,” a collection of offbeat one-act plays, established David Ives as a playwright when it was first produced by Primary Stages 20 years ago. In the comedy “The Universal Language,”...
View Article‘The Revisionst’ Eyes Broadway as it Extends Run
One of the hottest Off Broadway tickets, the Vanessa Redgrave-Jesse Eisenberg play “The Revisionist,” is adding an extra week of performances before its new closing date of April 27, Rattlestick...
View ArticleAn Off Broadway Rarity: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ Turns a Quick Profit
The critically acclaimed play “Buyer & Cellar,” an Off Broadway show starring Michael Urie (“Ugly Betty”) as a struggling actor who goes to work for Barbra Streisand, recouped its $500,000...
View ArticleWynton Marsalis Taking ‘Abyssinian Mass’ on American Tour
Wynton Marsalis plans to take his “Abyssinian Mass” on the road in October, traveling to 16 cities with a 70-member gospel choir and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Mr. Marsalis, the jazz...
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