Arts News

There's no film festival like Provincetown. While other festivals focus on independent films, or genre films, or foreign cinema; The Provincetown International Film Festival casts a wider net.

The Arkyd telescope, a publicly funded project planned by Planetary Resources, will let people control the satellite for education, space photography and A A'space selfies,A images with Earth in the background.

A Massachusetts woman says she and her 5-year-old developmentally disabled daughter were thrown out of a Providence, R.I., theater during a "Beauty and the Beast" performance because the girl was making giggling and humming noises she makes when she's happy.

Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate mother.

Provincetown is known for its guest houses that are old captain's mansions restored to glory by ambitious entrepreneurs, who have invested their lives to pampering their clients.

She is young, vivacious and has played the love struck romantic in reel life, but Sonam Kapoor confesses that she has not been lucky when it came to love in real life, Zee News reports.

There's a country song by Carrie Underwood, 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' that Richard Masters has often listened to while he paints in the basement of his home.

There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," "Matilda the Musical" and "Motown the Musical."

This June 9, 2013 file photo shows Patina Miller accepting her Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her role in "Pippin" at the 67th Annual Tony Awards in New York.

National Theatre Live, which broadcasts stage shows from England to movie screens worldwide, said Monday that its June 13 live broadcast of Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in the play "The Audience" has captured its largest audience to date.

Photographer Spencer Tunick fills landscapes and public places with the naked body.

Renovations of a former Coast Guard building to a new student center at UConn Avery Point in Groton, seen Wednesday, are nearing completion.

Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, who co-founded Chicago's Second City theater and who nurtured the early careers of many of "Saturday Night Live's" biggest stars over the years, has died.

New Delhi, June 16: The dance reality show "Dance India Dance Super Moms" may have given wings to several women and choreographer Marzi Pestonji, one of the judges on the show, says their life stories are shocking.

Written bySir Noel Coward as a vehicle for his own multifaceted talents, the 1939 comedy "Present Laughter" has proven irresistible to many of the larger-then-life leading men of stage and screen, who find in its portrait of an aging matinee idol just the sort of send-up they can sink their teeth into.

Egyptian employees of the Cairo Opera House and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi hold placards during a demonstration inside the opera's compound in Cairo on May 30, following the dismissal of the head of the opera house.

Twenty-three contestants modeled outfits provided by Richland Mall merchants Saturday afternoon, from casual shorts and tops to sundresses and skinny jeans in front of a crowd of well-wishers.

Art Caplan, of New York University's Langone Medical Center, says organ donors can't have infectious diseases.

"Gypsy." "Follies." "West Side Story." Did you know these three landmark shows did not win the Best Musical Tony Award? Peter Filichia does and he's fashioned a volume, "Stripper, Showgirls, and Sharks," that looks at these and other titles that were passed over for that award.

Chicago police have identified a woman killed late Friday in a hit & run accident as a 21-year-old coffeehouse worker who had studied graphic design.