Arts News

The University of Alabama is ending an alliance with the Montgomery-based Alabama Shakespeare Festival that has produced top actors, stage managers and designers for Broadway and Hollywood.

Actor Karl Malden is being remembered in Emporia for ties he had to the city and Emporia State University.

Music lovers are hoping the clouds will part in time for the opening of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood season.

MINNEAPOLIS - With a sometimes bumpy Minneapolis test debut for his new family drama out of the way, playwright Tony Kushner is setting his sights on getting the play to Broadway by the end of the year.

July's cultural calendar is a little light - and a good thing, too: June's pace was way too intense.

"Public Enemies" is a very good film. It is not far away from being a great film about good guys and bad guys.

Katie Holmes will be showing off her dance moves on an upcoming episode of "So you Think You Can Dance." ET has confirmed that Holmes will appear on the 100th episode of the Fox reality competition show.

Kambakkht Ishq has gone where no other Bollywood film has gone before - the digital space.

One of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's top violinists is fighting extradition to Virginia on charges he used the Internet to try and entice a 14-year-old girl into having sex.

Ok, so NEW YORK has been a huge success while coming weeks promise jumbo size entertainment as well, what with KAMBAKKHT ISHQ, SHORTKUT - THE CON IS ON, SANKAT CITY, JASHNN, LUCK, LOVE AAJ KAL, AGYAAT and KAMINEY arriving in quick succession.

Well, it's not my favorite Michael Mann film, and is sure not The Untouchables , but for all it's faults, Public Enemies is still a fair film filled with some great moments, and it's worth a good long look.

A federal judge has struck down a Connecticut law that requires people calling themselves interior designers to get a license or face fines and possible prison time.

MUMBAI: Deepika Padukone has everything going for her in Bollywood. She has worked with top stars and big banners.

Oscar-winning actress Holly Hunter joined the growing rank of actors finding interesting roles on basic cable series.

The life work of Rembrandt -- all 317 known paintings, 285 etchings and more than 100 drawings -- go on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to recreate the works as they emerged from the artist's studio rather than as they exist today.

Jude Law is heading to Broadway! According to The New York Times , the actor, who's currently starring in a Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare's Hamlet , will bring the show to Broadway in September.

The story of a man's lifelong obsession with whales won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize Tuesday.

She was 68 years old. Bausch, artistic director of the Wuppertal Dance Theatre, earned world renown for her avant-garde performances and choreographies mixing dance, sound and fragmented narrative.

Michael Jackson fans converged on Harlem's famed Apollo Theater Tuesday for a public tribute to the performer, clutching photographs, cheering and dancing to his music at the legendary venue that launched the one-time child star's career.

Legendary Indian actor Dilip Kumar -- known as Bollywood's "Tragedy King" -- is being treated for malaria in hospital, according to health officials.