Theater News

The women's unloving, miserable husbands accidentally lock themselves into a meat locker in the basement.

Broadway has found its Spider-Man -- rock singer Reeve Carney. Producer Michael Cohl says Carney will portray celebrated web-slinger Peter Parker in "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark." The lavish musical is still scheduled to open sometime in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre.

Love doesn't quite conquer all in "Fat Pig." From "Bash" to "In the Company of Men," Neil LaBute has become the bard of men behaving badly.

Former colleagues from across the region and the state hailed Mayor John Barrett III as a "regional treasure," a "legendary" advocate for his community who displayed "grit" and "passion" in steering his city through its darkest times and preparing it for a bright future.

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.

The power balance has shifted in Londona s West End with the creation of a theater company bigger than those owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh .

Many stars and special guests are enjoying a private party to honor New Orleans theater owner Teddy Solomon and his family for their $5 million donation to the World War II Museum's expansion.

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.

"I know a lot of people say we're crazy," says a member of the acting profession in "The Understudy," a backstage comedy about oh-so-insecure thespians.

Actress Angela Lansbury will be the first recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Award from a Washington-area theater that has produced more of the composer's works than any other U.S. theater.

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.

Hosting the Oscars is the worst job in comedy. Everyone at home expects you to be funny.

'Mauritius,' a Campus Community Players production, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

Mixing the seriousness of the founding of our country with the lightheartedness of musical theater does not seem like a winning formula for a play.

That rumbling sound you hear is the stampeding of a million fangirls already lining up for Robert Pattinson's latest project.

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.

The Oscars will get a double dose of funny this March when not one but two all-star comic actors take the stage in Hollywood 's biggest awards night.

Playwright Henry Jaglom's homage to theater people is populated with a host of eccentric but lovable characters who bring to mind Kaufman and Hart's "You Can't Take It With You." Although "Just 45 Minutes from Broadway" contains several inside jokes, there are plenty of one-liners certain to tickle general audiences.