Arts News

Matthew Broderick says he's puzzled by the bashing he's received for his actions during the first New York preview of "The Starry Messenger," a new play by good friend Kenneth Lonergan.

In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of Miami Book Fair International, is shown at Books & Books, in Coral Gables, Fla.

The Honolulu Symphony said Friday it's canceling concerts for the rest of the year and filing for bankruptcy, citing a big drop in donations.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept.

Tourists pass a painting on a segment of the reopened East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday,... Tourists pass a painting on a segment of the reopened East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov.

When decorating our homes, we tend to consider things like beauty and comfort, the durability of pieces we might buy or the image they project.

Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 scooped up four gold gramophones at the Latin Grammys Thursday night, with their politically charged reggaeton winning best urban album for "Los de Atras Vienen Conmigo." The half brothers that make up Calle 13 - Rene Perez, who is known as "Residente," and Eduardo Cabra, or "Visitante" - posed for cameras on the carpet ...

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 31 in Texas.

All stage managers are. She wears a comfortable purple hoodie and a headset. She knows where every chair is marked onstage and the timing of every light cue.

When the Killers started out, they wanted to raise a ruckus like their favorite rock stars did on the road: Frontman Brandon Flowers heard of the legendary exploits of Led Zeppelin and David Bowie and wanted to emulate those experiences.

Angela Lansbury, the legendary actress, will receive the first Stephen Sondheim Award from Signature Theatre, the company will announce Thursday.

The honor reunites two old friends, as well as artistic talents who are acknowledged innovators in their disciplines and have each forged careers that cover 50 years of theater and music history.

'Angela Lansbury's first appearance on the musical stage was in a show called 'Anyone Can Whistle,' for which I wrote the score. That appearance was a gift to the musical theater, although perhaps not such a gift to her, since the show only ran for nine performances,' Sondheim said in a statement, referring to his 1964 musical. 'I am thrilled that Signature Theatre is helping me make it up to her by giving her the first Stephen Sondheim Award.'

HELSINKI: Malaysia will start to promote its diverse arts and culture as a niche tourism product for fine arts lovers beginning next year.

JEDI MIND FREAK Clooney endeavors to convince McGregor he has superpowers in Heslov's comedy.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 66-year lease for the Exploratorium at its planned new site on the waterfront.

Before Patrick Swayze was a film actor, a TV actor and People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive," he was a dancer.

In this theater publicity image released by The Public Theater, Willem Dafoe, left, and Alenka Kraigher are shown in "Idiot Savant," in New York.

NEW ORLEANS - Actor Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic "wartime experience" when the new film he produced, "Beyond All Boundaries," opens at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Friday.

A A 550,000 grant has been awarded to help Cambridge University to buy the personal belongings of First World War soldier, poet and author Siegfried Sassoon.

The Ambassador Theatre Group said Tuesday it has completed a 90 million pound deal that makes it one of Britain's biggest theater groups.

THEATRE By Steve Weinstein Kevin on Kabaret :: Melinda Dillon debuts Let's hear it for Melinda Doolittle -- the American Idol runner-up was considered by many to be the one of the most accomplished vocalist ever to appear on the series.