Michelle Obama took her daughters for a Broadway show in New York while her husband continued to battle the health care debate in...

In a bid to raise funds to help a teenaged girl selected for the Mount Everest expedition, a martial arts trainee of Mumbai Police climbed 15 storey building here on...

Abbey Hoekzema sets up a shot Sunday while Michael Randolph (center) and Lorenzell Wilson play the keyboard in Roanoke. Lorenzell Wilson is going to learn to play the banjo. In 48 hours. On film. ...

New York, March 22 : Michelle Obama took her daughters for a Broadway show in New York while her husband continued to battle the health care debate in...

announced a deal with the pop star’s estate worth up to $250 million, perhaps the largest in history. Under the deal, Sony will release 10 projects — probably a combination of albums,...

Edward Tufte was appointed by the president to a panel advising the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. Among other things, he criticizes the font used for “New York” and...

Washington Wizards on Sunday. Gasol scored 28 points and had 12 rebounds after switching from his normal forward role following the loss of Andrew Bynum, who suffered an injury to his left Achilles'...

Susie Essman, an actress in “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” In November, the channel — previously known for running a scroll of what’s on other channels — snapped up the first...

Twitter for plotlines and punch lines. This month even Homer Simpson got in on the act, punishing Bart by telling him to tweet his every action “even though I don’t know what Twitter is,...

The ticket window of Times Square Cinema suffered an estimated $20,000 in damage when a Big Sandy man allegedly crashed his vehicle into the building multiple times early Sunday...

LONDON (AFP) - Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz scooped a top prize at Britain's Laurence Olivier theatre awards for her role in the classic play "A Streetcar Named Desire."Weisz was named best...

The US$940 billion, 10-year health care bill would extend coverage to an estimated 32 million people who now lack it. The result is a bill that would raise a total of US$438 billion from tax increase...

Ms. O’Donnell has formed a company with the executives, and they intend to independently distribute a show next year, according to a person briefed on the plans, who requested anonymity because...

Ronald K. Brown of the Evidence Dance Company in Brooklyn leads children with the Sakhuluntu company in the Joza township of South Africa. Mr. Brown’s visit was sponsored by the State...

Johannesburg — South Africa should strive to improve the lives of its citizens as part of the freedom it is now enjoying, acting President Kgalema Motlanthe told hundreds gathered for the main...

Puccini's “Madama Butterfly” returned Friday night in a revival of the pretty minimalist production by Mark Lamos that was first seen in November 1998. Joined by revivals of Chabrier's...

TAICHUNG, Taiwan -- Chinese film director Zhang Yimou will travel to Taiwan March 27 to stage his extravagant production of Puccini's opera “Turandot” in the central city of Taichung March 27-28,...

Published Date: March 21, 2010 From the moment teenager Egan Torrecampo and his fellow prisoners step out of their crowded cells, the maximum-security Philippine jailhouse rocks. Dressed in...

Rachel Weisz added a stage accolade to Hollywood stardom Sunday, winning the best-actress prize at London's Laurence Olivier theater awards for her role in "A Streetcar Named Desire." The prize for...

However, the term "hanefashot hapoalot" is the standard theatrical Hebrew term for "cast of characters" - just as "dramatis personae" is used in English. Similarly, the original Italian title uses a...

, Hubble gives us a 3D view of the universe in the latest Imax film, and we visit a new exhibition about what future technologies might look...

Bayreuth/Berlin - Long-time Bayreuth Festival director Wolfgang Wagner, 90, a leading figure in the opera world for half a century, has died, spokesman Peter Emmerich told the German Press Agency dpa...

Rachel Weisz poses as she arrives to attend the 2010 Laurence Olivier awards in central London on Sunday. She later won for best actress for her role in A Streetcar Named...

The captain of the British Muslim women's football team, an intersex waiting for the operation that will reassign her gender, and a daughter driven to contemplate knifing her belligerent father. ...

Blaze scoops up street dance, reality TV dance competitions and stage and video designers, cramming them all together to make a noisy, scattershot show. In one mood, it can frame champion-level...

South by Southwest Music and Media Conference, four days of nearly nonstop music by performers known and unknown, many of them playing two or three times a day in hopes of ... well, another...

Fess Parker , who died at 85 late last week, is an essential part of your mental furniture. His ballad most likely still plays over and over in your head, especially the fourth line, with its odd...

Martha Stewart , also of Westport, to conduct a taste-off and make sure people liked the stuff. At the time these two Westport eminences had little else in common. Now they share the dubious...

Rather than use the costly automated system of some big-budget shows, the crew for the new Broadway play “Next Fall” manually slides pieces of its set into place for different scenes. An...

LONDON — It’s only when you come to this city and hear British actors playing Americans that you realize how funny we all talk. I’m kidding, of course, but after listening to the...

”(RBMG/Island)This much is clear from the rise of the 16-year-old pop-R&B phenom Justin Bieber: We have the technology, the means to chisel a bona-fide American singing star from a Canadian...

Jerry Adler, a harmonica virtuoso whose pure, open sound can be heard on the soundtracks to “Shane,” “High Noon,” “Mary Poppins” and other films, but who labored...

“At the Hawk’s Well,” performed by the Fisher Ensemble at Judson Memorial Church, with Margaret Lancaster, left, and Christy...

George Balanchine were both born in St. Petersburg just a week apart in January 1904. But whereas Balanchine moved away, becoming the most important ballet choreographer of his time, Jacobson...

Monteverdi 1610 Vespers St. Thomas Church Monteverdi’s brilliant “Vespro Della Beata Vergine” (“Vespers of the Blessed Virgin”), the unlikeliest of juggernauts,...

acbl.org .) In Saturday’s semifinals Zimmerman trailed Aubrey Strul of Delray Beach, Fla.; Michael Becker of Boca Raton, Fla.; Boye Brogeland and Erik Saelensminde from Norway; and Fulvio...

LONDON (AP) - Rachel Weisz added a stage accolade to Hollywood stardom Sunday, winning the best-actress prize at London's Laurence Olivier theater awards for her role in "A Streetcar Named Desire."...

Northern Iowa's Ali Farokhmanesh lets loose after sinking a three-pointer in the final minute of the Panthers' upset of No. 1 Kansas Saturday. Farokhmanesh also hit the game-winning shot in Northern...