Macbeth News

Television actor Kelsey Grammer has signed on to make his Broadway musical debut in the revival of "La Cage Aux Folles," the show's producers said.

Seeing as how the whole "Macbeth with gunz" thing has already been done , we're ever so curious to learn more about Marc Ecko's canned game concept for a "completely re-imagined Macbeth." Unfortunately, the famed clothing designer -- turned failed game designer -- has his lips sealed.

Emmy award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer will make his Broadway musical debut in April playing the gay owner of a transvestite club in the revival of "La Cage aux Folles," publicists said on Monday.

Mathiasa sell-out production of Samuel Becketta s Waiting for Godot will return to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season - from January 27 to April 3, 2010.

The annual concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, which was created in 1975 to offer emerging singers awards, grants and performance opportunities, took place at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday evening.

Lenny Henry, left, went for the part of Othello after being inspired by taking an Open University degree in English literature; Rachel Weisz, was named best actress, taking the award which was renamed this year to honour Natasha Richardson; Sir Ian McKellen received an outstanding contribution award.

In the space of 90 minutes Saturday night, Roger Rees took an enthusiastic audience at the Folly Theater through a few hundred years of great literature and pungent theater history in his splendid one-man show, What You Will.Rees, a Welsh-born veteran stage and screen actor, would be the ideal guy to convince high-school kids that Shakespeare is ...

Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Williams, Miller - all these playwrights and many more wrote memorable roles that over time have become iconic.

Mozart's opera The Magic Flute has been staged countless times since its debut more than 200 years ago, tonight a new adaptation of the classic will meet Beijing audiences at the National Center for the Performing Arts .

There is no need to tell Ashlanders that Shakespeare represents a commercial opportunity.

Beautiful piece that will hopefully slap some people silly who have wanted to condemn this movie for existing.

The Prisoner has held its fans captive for two generations. Now, a new generation will see a new version, this one starring Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel .

British actor Sir Ian McKellen poses for photographs after receiving his Companion of Honour from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, in London, on June 25, 2008.

Sir Ian McKellen has performed more than 250 different roles, both in live theater and on screen, including parts in the 1979 TV adaptation of "Macbeth" and the popular "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

The professional reviews were already in, but the notice that seemed to strike Sir Ian McKellen most meaningfully came from a 10-year-old who had just seen him as King Lear.

Friend of the Bard: Ian McKellen is renowned for his timeless roles such as Macbeth and Richard III.

The creators of 'The Laramie Project' revisit the Wyoming city to assess lasting impact of the gay student's killing.

Too many young actors are bent on achieving instant screen stardom and fail to develop their craft by learning from their predecessors in the theatre, Dame Judi Dench believes.

Tony Award winner Roger Rees will bring his one-man show, What You Will , to the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ, next month.

London, Dame Judi Dench's attack could strangle theatre talent, says director 13.10.09 Dame Judi Dench has clashed with a star theatre director over her view that today's new generation of actors are obsessed with films rather than the stage.