BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The management of Hungary’s prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts resigned on Monday in protest over the imposition of a government-appointed board which they say will undermine the school’s autonomy. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’... More »
(Reuters) – AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said on Thursday it expects all its international theaters to resume operations in the next two to three weeks, while two-thirds or more of its U.S. theaters are set to reopen later this month. Movie theaters across t... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will invest nearly $2 billion in the arts and hopes to allow outdoor and socially distanced performances at cultural venues as it tries to help a high-profile sector hit hard by the coronavirus. Spanning theatres in London’s West End... More »
(Reuters) – Broadway theaters will remain closed through Jan. 3, 2021, industry group the Broadway League said on Monday, extending their coronavirus-related shutdown for another four months. The New York City theaters, which went dark in mid-March, had previo... More »
(Reuters) – AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said on Monday it has delayed the reopening of its theaters in the United States by two weeks to July 30. The world’s largest movie theater operator said that the date aligns with the release of Disney’s “Mulan” and C... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors asked a court in Moscow on Monday to sentence prominent film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov to six years in jail on embezzlement charges, the RIA news agency reported. The prosecution of Serebrennikov, an award... More »
(Reuters) – AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said Friday it will require guests to wear face masks at all of its U.S. movie theaters when they reopen in July, a reversal of a policy from a day earlier that prompted a swift backlash. Regal Cinemas, owned by Cinew... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is urging writers, dancers, poets and other artists to help make the names of abusive police officers as well known as their victims. Media company ARRAY, founded by DuVernay, has launched the Law Enforcement Acco... More »
(Reuters) – AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (AMC.N), the world’s largest movie theater operator, said on Friday it has enough cash to withstand a global suspension of operations until a possible partial reopening of its locations in July. The company said it wa... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian ballet dancers on partial lockdown have begun giving performances at home to keep fans engaged online after theatres across the country closed their doors due to the coronavirus. Seven dancers from the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Pet... More »
(Reuters) – Broadway theaters, among New York’s most-visited tourist attractions, will remain closed through June 7 due to the global coronavirus outbreak, an industry group said on Wednesday. The theaters closed on March 12 for what was supposed to be one mon... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Fans of musical theatre forced by the coronavirus pandemic to stay at home will be able to watch some of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most popular shows for free on Youtube every week. The series, entitled “The Shows Must Go On!”, will kick off on ... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow’s famed Bolshoi Theater has begun streaming some of its most notable past performances online after being forced to shut its doors to the public as a result of tough new restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. The... More »
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo said on Sunday he had tested positive for coronavirus and had gone into self isolation with his family. “We are currently all in good health but I developed a cough and a fever and decided to get tested, ... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – The French capital’s Opera Bastille has been silent for nearly a month because its orchestra is on strike, but on Tuesday the musicians performed on the steps of the opera house to bring attention to their anger at planned pension reforms. Th... More »
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian Stoyanka Mutafova, one of the world’s oldest actresses performing regularly on stage, has died aged 97. Dubbed the queen of Bulgarian comedy, Mutafova began performing in 1945, when she played a maidservant in Moliere’s “Scapin the ... More »
ROME (Reuters) – Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his politically charged contemporary works, will try his hand at opera by directing “Turandot”, which is set in his homeland. The Rome Opera said on Friday Ai will direct Giacomo Puccini’s work and design th... More »
ROME (Reuters) – Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world’s greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died. He was 96. In a statement, his foundation said he died in Rome on Saturday. “Ciao Maestro,” said the announcement.... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Hadestown,” a folk opera about a young couple’s dark trek to the underworld, topped Broadway’s Tony awards on Sunday winning eight honors, including the top prize best musical. Based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, Anais Mitchell’s musi... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Tony awards honoring the best of Broadway theater take place in New York on Sunday, hosted by James Corden. Following is a list of nominees in key categories: Best Musical “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” “Beetl... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Tony awards honoring the best of Broadway theater were handed out in New York on Sunday, hosted by James Corden. Following is a list of winners in key categories: Best Musical “Hadestown” Best Play “The Ferryman” Best Revival of a Musi... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Twenty-first-century Londoners will be transported back to the late 19th century of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds” to join a fight for survival after a Martian invasion in an interactive experience featuring theater and virtual reality ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – English Tudor king Henry VIII and his six wives are a staple tale of costume dramas – now a new television series is turning viewers’ attention to the story of the first, Catherine of Aragon. “The Spanish Princess”, a British-American produc... More »
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The last shadow puppeteer in Damascus lost most of his equipment to war and endured life as a refugee in Lebanon, but he now believes the old Syrian art form might survive after the United Nations said it needed to be saved. Traditional sh... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cher, Reba McEntire, and the creators of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” — superstars of the entertainment world — gathered in Washington on Sunday to enter the ranks of highly celebrated artists as recipients of the Kennedy Center Honor... More »
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The squabbling residents of a dilapidated building at risk of collapse serve as an allegory for Lebanon’s political and religious divisions in a new drama by satirical playwright Georges Khabbaz. The play “Only If – Something Changes” is int... More »
BEIRUT (Reuters) – As a child, Riham would wake up at night to her half-brother molesting her. Now she is one of seven women recounting their suffering in a play about sexual violence in Lebanon. Recordings of the women’s voices ring out as the audience moves ... More »
TIRANA (Reuters) – Albanian actors and activists rallied on Thursday to demand the government halt a project to demolish the National Theatre in Tirana, but the ruling Socialists pushed the plan through parliament. They protested in front of parliament as lawm... More »
(Reuters) – The producer of a Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the author’s estate have settled a legal dispute over the Aaron Sorkin-penned script, which will allow the production to go head on schedule. In a joint statement on ... More »
BEIRUT (Reuters) – One is the grandson of an Armenian troubadour who fled to Syria in 1915. The other is a descendant of a Syrian army chief who died fighting the French in 1920. One hails from Aleppo, the other from Damascus. Both Syrian artists call New York... More »
FILE PHOTO – Writer, director and executive producer David Mamet takes part in a panel discussion of HBO’s “Phil Spector” during the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, California January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Gus Ruelas LOS A... More »
Ballet dancers of Municipal Theatre attend a ballet class in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 14, 2017. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Rio de Janeiro’s opulent Municipal Theatre has gone quiet this year as months of unpaid wages emptied its ... More »
People watch on a maxi screen the opening of the La Scala opera house 2017-2018 season in Milan, Italy December 7, 2017. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini MILAN (Reuters) – Rose petals, flowers and golden confetti showered the stage of the rarely-performed Italian op... More »
The Old Vic Theatre is seen in London, Britain November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Mary Turner LONDON (Reuters) – The Old Vic theater in London said on Thursday it had received 20 separate allegations of inappropriate conduct by Kevin Spacey from 20 men who came into c... More »
In an age where a real-estate salesman has assumed the highest political office in the United States, a new revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Glengarry Glen Ross" in London is highlighting the dark side of the art of the deal. More »
After years of refusing to address rumors about his sexuality, Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey said on Sunday he has chosen to live his life as a gay man. More »
Country star Jason Aldean said on Tuesday he would cancel three shows this week to honor victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in which a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a Las Vegas music festival during the singer's performance. More »
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that neither censorship nor pressure was behind the arrest of prominent Russian film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, who has a history of criticizing authority. More »
Laughing at their own tribulations, Venezuelan theatergoers have been enjoying a new satire about a senior official who broke with President Nicolas Maduro and fled the socialist-ruled country in a boat. More »
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A theater director whose edgy work angered traditionalists in the Russian establishment was placed under house arrest on Wednesday in a fraud case his supporters say is part of a government crackdown on artistic freedoms. More »
A Russian court on Wednesday ruled that director Kirill Serebrennikov should be placed under house arrest until he goes on trial for embezzlement in a high profile case that his supporters say amounts to a government crackdown on the arts. More »
A prominent Russian theater director who has lamented what he says is the lack of freedom and growing social conservatism in his country was detained on Tuesday and accused of embezzling state funds. More »
Bruce Springsteen is headed to Broadway for an eight-week solo theater run that he says will feature "just me, the guitar, the piano and the words and music." More »
Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's famous fables, "The Concrete Jungle Book" offers a gritty outlook on life where tigers and forests have been replaced by homeless people and refugees struggling to survive in an urban jungle filled with drugs and knife crime. More »
FILE PHOTO: Actor Sam Shepard talks about Discovery Channel’s “Klondike” during the Winter 2014 TCA presentations in Pasadena, California, January 9, 2014. Actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard has died from complications related to amyotrophic lat... More »
Director general of the Bolshoi Theatre Vladimir Urin speaks during a news conference on the postponement of the world premiere of the Nureyev ballet, weeks after its director Kirill Serebrennikov was questioned as a witness in a fraud investigation, at the Bo... More »
FILE PHOTO: A sculpture of the Greek God Apollo is seen above the entrance of the Bolshoi Theatre in central Moscow, Russia March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Files Photo The Bolshoi Theatre has postponed the world premiere of Nureyev, a ballet about famou... More »
Barry Gibb performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, Britain June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Barry Gibb brought some Sunday afternoon fever to the legends slot at Glastonbury Festival when he... More »
Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses revellers from the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 24, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn got a rock st... More »
Radiohead performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Britain’s Radiohead returned to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Friday, 20 years after a legendary performance a... More »
FILE PHOTO: Actor Johnny Depp poses on a Cadillac before presenting his film The Libertine, at Cinemageddon at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File Photo Johnny Depp on Friday apologized... More »
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Newark International airport in Newark, NJ U.S., to spend a weekend at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminister, New Jersey, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo New York’s Public Theater on Monday defe... More »
71st Tony Awards – Show – New York City, U.S., 11/06/2017 – Musical Falsettos performance. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Some six million Americans watched the Tony Awards on television on Sunday, down sharply from last year’s televised ceremony when pop culture jugge... More »
Jun 11, 2017- New York, NY, USA- Cast and crew members of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ accept the award for Best Musical at the 71st TONY Awards at Radio City Music Hall. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports “Dear Evan Hansen,” the teen-angst driven musical... More »
The Tony Awards, American theater’s highest honors, were handed out on Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York. More »
A Delta Airlines aeroplane is seen inside of a hangar during a launch event of the new alliance between AeroMexico and Delta Airlines and their announcement as sponsors of the Mexican soccer team, in Mexico City, Mexico, May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido Del... More »
The musical “Come From Away,” the play “Oslo,” and Bette Midler in a hit revival of “Hello, Dolly!” were among the top winners at Sunday’s Drama Desk Awards, one of a series of theater honors leading up to Broadway’s top honors, the Tony Awards.... More »
Actor and presenter Kevin Spacey arrives at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo Stage and screen actor Kevin Spacey will step up to host Broadway’s Tony Awards, organizers said on Tuesday, less than t... More »
A display hangs outside The Palace Theatre where the Harry Potter and The Cursed Child play is being staged, in London, Britain July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Louise Gumuchian More »
Sheena Easton in Vina del Mar, about 75 miles (120 km) northwest of Santiago, January 19, 2008. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez Grammy award-winning artist Sheena Easton has made her West End debut in the musical “42nd Street”, with Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge Kat... More »
When Judy Norman walks on stage for the play “Spillikin”, she performs beside a somewhat different cast member – a humanoid robot. More »
Author Robert James Waller is interviewed at the premiere of the new film ”The Bridges of Madison County,” which is based on his book of the same name, May 30 on the Warner Brothers Studio lot in Burbank, California. Robert James Waller, author of the best-sel... More »
The cast of the play ‘My Country- a work in progress’ perform during a dress rehearsal at the National Theatre, in London, Britain March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Brendon O’Donnell voted to leave the European Union because he felt British money should go... More »
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal presents director Ang Lee with the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Los Angeles’ Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills, California, October 28, 2016. REUTE... More »
File Photo: Actor Daniel Radcliffe stands during a ceremony honoring him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California November 12, 2015. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has plenty of stage experience... More »
Feature Film Award nominee, Damien Chazelle, poses for photographers at the 69th annual DGA Awards in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. February 4, 2017. REUTERS/Phil McCarten Hollywood directors named Damien Chazelle the best film director of 2016 for “La La La... More »
A Connecticut hedge fund manager has pleaded guilty in a case linked to an alleged Ponzi scheme involving the resale of tickets for popular events, including smash Broadway musical “Hamilton.” More »
FILE PHOTO — Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (C) laughs next to cast members while greeting spectators after taking part in his last performance with Hamilton in New York July 9, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo The producer of “Hamilton” has been sued by a bli... More »
Author J.K. Rowling poses for photographers at a gala performance of the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child parts One and Two, in London, Britain July 30, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo After a hit debut on London’s West End this summer, “Harry Potter ... More »
U.S. singer Meat Loaf performs during the German game show ”Wetten Dass” (Bet it…?) in the southern German town of Friedrichshafen December 3, 2011. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Rocker Meat Loaf’s 1977 breakthrough album “Bat Out Of Hell” has inspired a pa... More »
People gather for a global fan event to preview the film ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ at Cineworld IMAX at Leicester Square in London, Britain October 13, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall Roy More »
Italian 1997 Nobel literature prize winner Dario Fo reacts on unveiling a commemorative postage stamp in Stockholm November 13, 2008. REUTERS/Scanpix/Anders Wiklund Nobel prize-winning Italian playwright, director and political activist Dario Fo, an acclaimed ... More »
The stock of theater operator AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc could rise to $40 a share from around $31 now thanks to a variety of moves under new chief executive Adam Aron, according to Barron’s. More »
Model Emily Ratajkowski arrives at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 18, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Roy More »
Roald Dahl’s “The Twits”, a children’s tale about a cruel and spiteful married couple, is being brought to life through an immersive theatrical show in London. More »
To be clothed, or not to be clothed? That was a no-brainer for members of an all-female cast in Brooklyn who stripped down to celebrate their freedom of expression in a nude version of Shakespeare in the park. More »
Edward Albee arrives on the red carpet for the Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center in Washington, December 5, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, whose provocative and often brutal look at American life in works... More »
The cast of School of Rock performs during the American Theatre Wing’s 70th annual Tony Awards in New York, U.S., June 12, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Prolific British Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing the Broadway stage adaptation of the Jack Black c... More »
Geoffrey Carey and Valerie Crouzet perform at the dress rehearsal of Eat a Crocodile’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain August 11, 2016. Picture taken August 11, 2016. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne Rappi... More »
By Andrea Shalal | UEDEM, Germany UEDEM, Germany The German air force worked closely with a Berlin theater on its production of “Terror”, a play about a pilot prosecuted for shooting down a hijacked airliner to prevent it from hitting a crowded stadium. “The p... More »
LOS ANGELES/LONDON “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the script for a new London play telling the eighth story in the boy wizard series, has sold more than 2 million copies in its first two days on the market in the United States, publisher Scholastic said ... More »
NEW YORK “Cats”, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical based on poet T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats”, has returned to Broadway after 16 years. The revival show, starring singer Leona Lewis, had its official opening on Sunday at the Neil... More »
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK It’s been five years since fans of “Harry Potter” tearfully said goodbye to the boy wizard they had grown up with, but a new play, book release and spin-off film are casting his spell all over again. Fans around the world went into mournin... More »
LONDON BP has agreed to renew five-year sponsorship deals with several British cultural institutions, including the British Museum, just days after reporting a 45 percent drop in profits. In May the British Museum was forced to temporarily close after Greenpea... More »
LONDON After 11 Tony awards, a Pulitzer prize and plenty of critical acclaim, Lin-Manuel Miranda bowed out of his hit Broadway show “Hamilton”, the pop culture phenomenon based on U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton, at the weekend. Miranda – visibly moved... More »
NEW YORK “Hamilton”, the pop culture phenomenon based on U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton, swept the Tonys on Sunday, winning 11 of Broadway’s top awards including best musical, best actor, best direction and best score and book for creator Lin-Manuel M... More »
NEW YORK A non-profit that exhibits art by the late theater and screen caricaturist Al Hirschfeld has filed a lawsuit against a New York gallery that has long sold his work, court records on Wednesday showed. In a statement on its website, the Al Hirschfeld Fo... More »
LONDON Dressed in Hogwarts robes and waving wands, eager fans got a first glimpse of the next installment in the Harry Potter saga, giving a new London stage production glowing reviews. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” brings back to life author J.K. Rowlin... More »
LONDON Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg brings his self-penned play “The Spoils” to London audiences, making “a nerve-racking” stage debut in Britain which he regards as a theater mecca. The tragicomedy, in which Eisenberg also stars, showed off-Broadway ... More »
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Cirque du Soleil said on Friday it was canceling shows in North Carolina over a new state law that it called discriminatory, the performance group said on Friday, becoming the latest entertainment act to take a stance against the measure. “... More »
ISLE OF BUTE, Scotland A nearly 400-year-old copy of a first edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays has been found in a vast aristocratic house on the Isle of Bute, off the western coast of Scotland. Published in 1623, the First Folio contains Shakes... More »
LONDON Veteran film, television and stage actress Judi Dench picked up her eight Olivier Award on Sunday, a record tally at Britain’s biggest night for theater. The 81-year-old scooped the Olivier for best actress in a supporting role for “The Winter’s Tale”. ... More »
TEL AVIV Israel’s culture minister had a blunt message on Sunday for liberals worried about what they consider efforts by the government to stifle dissent in the arts: “Cut the bullshit.” Free-speech debate in Israel has grown fierce under conservative Prime M... More »
NEW YORK Harper Lee’s classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is coming to Broadway for the first time in a new stage version written by “West Wing” writer Aaron Sorkin, producers said on Wednesday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel about racism and injustic... More »
PARIS French choreographer Benjamin Millepied said on Thursday he was stepping down as director of dance at the Paris Opera after little more than a year in the role, citing personal reasons. The 38-year old — who is married to Hollywood actress Natalie Portma... More »
LONDON Having tackled Shakespeare’s works on stage and screen, Ian McKellen will host bus tours of locations used in his movie adaptation of “Richard III” as part of a film program marking 400 years since the playwright’s death. The 76-year-old McKellen, who h... More »
STRALSUND, Germany A satirical play touring Germany aims to debunk any suggestion that the million migrants who entered Germany this year have made it to paradise. Heiko Ostendorf, director of “Asylant im Wunderland” (“Asylum Seeker in Wonderland”), said many ... More »
WASHINGTON Singer-songwriter Carole King, Star Wars creator George Lucas and actress Cicely Tyson descended on Washington on Sunday to be feted for their contributions to the arts as the latest recipients of the coveted Kennedy Center Honors awards. Joined by ... More »
JERUSALEM The Palestinian National Theatre, for three decades the leading performing arts and cultural centre for Arabs in Jerusalem, is facing potential closure after running up large municipal debts, its director said on Friday. Known as “Al Hakawati” (The S... More »
