Joaquin Phoenix, the Oscar nominated actor of 'Walk the Line', is planning to move to music after he discovered his musical abilities while acting in the...

By MIKE SILVERMANASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NEW YORK -- Lay on Macduff - and Banquo, too. It was these two supporting characters who stood out Friday night as the Metropolitan Opera assembled an...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Authorities say an actor in "The Little Mermaid" fell at least 20 feet through a trap door minutes before a performance. The 51-year-old man was taken to a...

May 10, 2008, 12:11 pm ET · Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new...

“The circus is my passion.... But I wouldn't mind having a base, somewhere every now and then [where] I can stop. I wouldn't mind having a garden to plant my flowers, I wouldn’t mind...

Actress Uma Thurman has slapped a lawsuit against French cosmetics giant Lancome for $15 million US over the use of her face and name in ad campaigns. The 38-year-old performer said the company used...

Soprano Leyla Gencer, who made her career at Italy's famed La Scala opera house, has died in Milan, officials said Saturday. She was 80. The singer known as "La Diva Turca" — the Turkish Diva —...

A model of the planned National Mall memorial for Martin Luther King Jr. is seen at a press conference February 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. The MetLife Foundation donated $2 million to the Martin...

By Robert Millward Cristiano Ronaldo has been mesmerising defenders all season with his high-speed stepovers, dribbling skills and scoring touch with Manchester United. At next month's European...

Actress Liv Tyler has split from British rocker Royston Langdon of the British band Spacehog, after five years of marriage. Tyler, who may be best known for portraying elf princess Arwen in...

A musical based on the songs of the Bee Gees is being written for London's West End and Broadway. Robin Gibb said the project was already in the pipeline and could be on stage in the next 12-16...

Police are responding to a report of a possible homicide at 28th Street and Broadway just before 8 a.m., according to MetroSafe Communications.No other information was immediately...

News ) - One of The City's most creative animals is about to bask in the spotlight. Theatre Rhinoceros, which has ushered in thought-provoking LGBT-related works since it stormed onto the scene 30...

Wrestling The Iranian 96-kg wrestler Mohammad-Reza Akbari will compete against his Turkish rival to win championship medal in the International Greco-Roman Wrestling (IGRW) competition underway in...

May 9, 2008, 09:10 pm ET · Barbara Walters says she refuses to engage in a debate with Star Jones, who accused her of revealing a past affair with a senator just to sell books. Walters said...

Jerry Herman: Up Close and Personal is the title of the May 10 evening with the Tony Award-winning composer that will be presented at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Michael Kerker, the...

DETROIT -- They don't have vocal music, drama or art programs at their school, but that didn't stop the third- and fourth-graders from Hanstein Elementary from writing and staging their own opera....

"It has even infiltrated into the front-page territory. My new book 'Fragmented Frames' is a celebration of this change in perspective," Somaaya said at the box release function of 'Fragmented...

Although Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., shows no signs of dropping out until after the final primaries June 3, the Democratic Party is slowly but surely beginning to coalesce around Sen. Barack Obama,...

Andrew Gans 09 May 2008 A by-invitation-only reading of Charles Messina's Homeland will be held May 20 at the Triad Theatre in Manhattan. The 3 PM reading will feature the talents of "Sopranos"...

Adam Hetrick 09 May 2008 A Chorus Line fans have the opportunity to win tickets to the national tour when the musical plays Los Angeles May 20. The national tour, currently playing its premiere...

Forty years later, the idea behind the remix is everywhere you look. Video game code is deliberately left unlocked so fans can tweak and improve it. Boeing's new Dreamliner airplane was designed in...

Kenneth Jones 09 May 2008 Magic Theatre, San Francisco's home for contemporary plays, will welcome the work of Theresa Rebeck, Lloyd Suh, Carter Lewis, Craig Wright, Laura Schellhardt and the...

In 1857 a village schoolteacher from the hamlet of Kilburn on the edge of the North York Moors had the idea of carving this colossal white horse. He was inspired by the white horses of southern...

Having played to robbers and BNP supporters, comedian Paul Chowdhry can handle the toughest crowds. Apart from US customs officers, that...

After eight years in the wilderness, TV's best beat 'em up is back. But, says David Stubbs, for sheer stamina, the audience are the real...

Ian Fleming's time in the secret service during the war gave him the background for James Bond, but his style came from journalism and marriage gave him the impetus to write. By Charlie...

PUERTO MONTT, Chile – A towering plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could rain down on the surrounding area and cause devastating damage, a volcano expert warned...

Aussie graphic design boffins turned indie-electro heroes Cut Copy may have made the album of the year. How did they do it? Tony Naylor gets them to lift the lids off their...

'Fools rush into my head, and so I write,' Alexander Pope declared. His mock-epic poem The Dunciad was inspired not just by revenge, but also, John Mullan argues, by the folly it appears to...

From Dostoevsky to Burroughs to pulp sci-fi, Ian Curtis devoured offbeat literature. Jon Savage, writer of a new film about Joy Division, explores the impact of the front man's reading on the band's...

What does light sound like? A buzz? A muffled conversation? Louis Armstrong singing What a Wonderful World? What is the texture of light? Fevered Sleep's David Harradine thinks that it is sometimes...

Barbra Streisand so put her stamp on this 1960s musical about the American comedian Fanny Brice that she seems to have frightened off any successors. Now the show gets a rare revival and, although a...

Here’s a brief look at the history of women in Turkish cinema. Take a look at how the one-dimensional female characters found their unique and distinctive voices in the last centuryEMRAH...

Rapper DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, is seen in this undated mugshot provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Simmons was arrested Friday, May 9, 2008 — the second time in a...

Andrew Gans 09 May 2008 Ars Nova's free play-reading series, Out Loud, will continue May 12 with Sarah Hammond's The Extinction of Felix Garden. Directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman, the...

photo by Kyleriabko.com Playbill.com has learned that Canadian musician Kyle Riabko will succeed Tony nominee Jonathan Groff as Melchior in the Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring...

Adam Hetrick 09 May 2008 The Inevitable Theatre Company will present the Dallas-area premiere of Jeff Whitty's The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler and a world premiere reading of a new...

The House of Commons standing committee on Canadian heritage will be holding hearings on proposed changes to CBC Radio 2. Beginning Labour Day, Radio 2 will offer what the CBC describes as "a...

A play examining the life and work of 1970s Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash is raising new questions about her death. Aquash, a Canadian woman who belonged to the radical American Indian...

As George W. Bush approaches the end of his second term this fall, Oliver Stone's star-studded biopic about the U.S. president will hit theatres, indie studio Lionsgate said Friday. Tom Ortenberg,...

Adam Hetrick 09 May 2008 Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson has signed on for the new ABC television pilot "Castle." The Seven Guitars Tony winner joins Nathan Fillion ("Desperate...

Adam Hetrick 09 May 2008 Late-night comedian Conan O'Brien will take part in the Barrow Group Theatre's "Celebrity Doodles" fundraiser May 19. The annual event auctions drawings, scribbles and...

09 May 2008 Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley, a veteran actress of plays by the late Tennessee Williams, will talk about his life and work in a post-show chat at the May 10 matinee performance...

Andrew Gans 09 May 2008 Casting has been announced for the Los Angeles premiere of Love, Janis, the celebration of the life and music of the late rock legend Janis Joplin. Conceived, adapted...

photo by Aubrey Reuben The 39 Steps, the 2007 Olivier Award winner for Best New Comedy, reopened on Broadway May 8 at the Cort Theatre. Billed as "equal parts hilarious whodunit, espionage thriller...

Andrew Gans 09 May 2008 The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, will celebrate the songbook of Broadway composer Cole Porter this summer. From June 26-July 20, A.R.T. in association...

After a summer music festival was cancelled, an organizing committee in Saint John has announced it will go forward with a new event. The Saint John Saltyjam festival announced in April that it...

Do we need another waist-deep wallow in the 1960s, ensconcing us cheek by jowl with Frank Rizzo and Eldridge Cleaver, Sam Yorty and Mark Rudd, Lester Maddox and Herbert Marcuse and other...

May 9, 2008 · There's a game of musical chairs coming on late-night television, and it could potentially involve multiple hosts at multiple networks. NBC was planning to announce big, upcoming...