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Musician Prince appears onstage at the Apollo Theater 75th Anniversary Gala at The Apollo Theater on June 8, 2009 in New York City.

Details of Michael Jackson's public memorial remained under wraps on Sunday as Los Angeles police braced for a huge crowd of fans expected to turn out and again warned those without tickets to stay away.

Harve Presnell, whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' and 'Annie,' died Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif.

CNN : About 1.6 million fans registered for a chance at fewer than 9,000 tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service next week, organizers said.

Anyone who's tried undoubtedly knows how tough it is to build a theater space and have them come.

Actor Russell Crowe arrives at Paramount Vantage's Los Angeles premiere of 'Revolutionary Road' held at Mann Village Theater on December 15, 2008 in Westwood, California.

Mollie Sugden, who achieved wide popularity in Britain and the United States as Betty Slocombe, the snooty, officious head of the ladies' department at Grace Brothers department store in the long-running BBC comedy series Are You Being Served?, died Wednesday in Guildford, Surrey.

I read two reviews on the play Stunning and felt compelled to go. I took my Dad and his wife.

Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air on an Independence Day that began with the Statue of Liberty's crown opening to the public for the first time since Sept.

With Blackbird, William Petersen, former star of CBS-TV's CSI, returns to the theater where he first earned his Equity card to tackle a role that echoes his earliest work on Chicago's stages playing morally damaged characters in In the Belly of the Beast, The Night of the Iguana, and Flyovers.

When he hired Itzhak Perlman as artistic director of the Westchester Philharmonic in 2007, Joshua Worby thought he'd hit a grand slam.

Share + Jul 3, 2009 3:00 pm US/Eastern 1 of 5 Actor David Carradine arrives at the premiere of The Weinstein Company's "Hell Ride" held at the Egyptian Theater on July 31, 2008, in Los Angeles, Calif.. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images 2 of 5 Daryl Hannah, Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman and David Carradine pose during a photo call for the film ...

The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News , the Obama administration broadcast another health care propaganda play this week under the guise of a citizen "town hall." Chicago consigliere and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett managed the floor and human props for Obama.

In a nod to the struggling economy, organizers of the Contemporary American Theater Festival are now offering two budget-friendly alternatives.

SUMMER BRINGS OUT the pioneer spirit, which in the Bay Area manifests itself in picnics, hikes and, when night begins to fall, al fresco theater.

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.

If the voice of God sounds like Mayor John E. McCormac that's because it will be - but for five days only.

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

Stage Research, show sound and lighting software designers, will be providing a day of SFX training to students on July 15th at the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Experience-Based Technical Theatre Training Program .