Theater News

MANY BAY AREA theaters have celebrated anniversaries in recent years, but it's hard to top the Mountain Play, which celebrates its 100th year on Mount Tamalpais this summer.

Hollywood star Brad Pitt gave fans in New Jersey a treat by showing up unannounced at a screening of his new zombie movie, World War Z. The audience was settling down to watch Pitt's apocalyptic horror film when the actor walked into the theater at Clearview Cinemas in Hoboken, N.J. He handed out T-shirts to the delighted crowd before giving a ... (more)

La Scala has reduced the number of operas it will stage during the 2013-14 season due to Italy's economic crisis, the theater's general manager said Thursday.

This May 19, 2013 file photo shows film director and playwright Ethan Coen during a photo call for the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France.

The world premiere of Ethan Coen's first full-length stage play, a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis will highlight the Atlantic Theater Company's upcoming season.

Tyler, The Creator shows are known to get a little too rowdy and out of hand, but last night in Pomona Tyler let loose and got silly instead of psycho.

Lissie with Vance Joy Varsity Theater, Minneapolis Wednesday, May 22, 2013 When an artist says at the beginning of their show, "We're gonna play a lot of new stuff tonight," there's often a collective groan from the room, but when Lissie told that to the sold-out room at the Varsity, everyone hooted and cheered.

One of the longest running theater experiences on Capitol Hill could end this summer.

The Playbill cover for "Murder Ballad" has a sexy-looking man and woman sharing an open-mouthed kiss.

An independent Australian film that drew a rave response at the Cannes Film Festival opens May 24 at the Farmington Civic Theater .

Everything is dark except for the truck-sized monolith. Two female figures emerge from the shadows, their bodies athletically twisting and spinning and stomping to the electronic beat, which sounds like someone drumming on crystal stalagmites.

With all the events that make up the DC Black Pride weekend, quite a few people from workshop coordinators to town hall facilitators to speed-dating overseers will have that well-known phrase in mind at some point: ''It's showtime!'' In the case of Alan Sharpe, however, not only will he bring the phrase back to its roots, he'll use it twice.

Moviegoers in Oak Bluffs may be out of luck this summer. The Island Theater is undergoing major repairs, and the Strand Theater's availability as a backup is uncertain, according to owner Benjamin Hall Sr.

We're conditioned to think of the performing-arts "season" as fall through spring, but summer is when many of the state's stages come alive.

Puerto Rico's tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory's governor is cutting some of those strings.

Smash has turned out to be the big gamble that didn't catch on, despite dramatic changes behind the scenes, heavy promotion, a new time and an additional narrative that focused on twenty-somethings putting on a show that would end up competing with "Bombshell" for a Tony.

The deal comes as live events continue to be a top priority in the era of time-shifted DVR viewing.

An oversized puppet of the Wendy's mascot, provided by the People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, took part in silent street theater to convince the fast food giant to sign onto the Fast Food campaign.

Pittsburgh is packed with theaters - large and small, amateur and Equity, and each is a little bit different from all the others.

The REDCAT has received a major grant that will help it expand Radar L.A., an international contemporary theater festival set for late September.