A play featuring dialogue in Kurdish is to be performed for the first time at a Turkish state theater Thursday in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
But the new Broadway play featuring the two hot stars? Not so much
Catherine Zeta-Jones is limbering up for her Broadway debut.
The quirky actress drops out of a stage production in New York due to the illness
Robert Williams, 12, wasn't worried about flying for the first time or visiting a big city. He was only concerned that his manners wouldn't be up to his grandmother's standards.
The How I Met Your Mother star will host TV's biggest night
Catch Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law and T.R. Knight on the Great White Way
The Poison frontman was spared from injury in Saturday's road accident
The Poison frontman tells PEOPLE he's "okay" after his injury - and with his dating life
Drive through downtown Minneapolis these days and you're almost certain to bump into a billboard (or two or three) emblazoned with the title of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's latest work, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures."
A play featuring dialogue in Kurdish is to be performed for the first time at a Turkish state theater Thursday in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
But the new Broadway play featuring the two hot stars? Not so much
Catherine Zeta-Jones is limbering up for her Broadway debut.
The quirky actress drops out of a stage production in New York due to the illness
Robert Williams, 12, wasn't worried about flying for the first time or visiting a big city. He was only concerned that his manners wouldn't be up to his grandmother's standards.
The How I Met Your Mother star will host TV's biggest night
Catch Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law and T.R. Knight on the Great White Way
The Poison frontman was spared from injury in Saturday's road accident
The Poison frontman tells PEOPLE he's "okay" after his injury - and with his dating life
Drive through downtown Minneapolis these days and you're almost certain to bump into a billboard (or two or three) emblazoned with the title of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's latest work, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures."
The rocker blames organizers for his injury at award show broadcast
The rocker's lip and his nose got the worst of it during his stage mishap
The Poison frontman is knocked to the ground during Broadway's big night
With 15 nods, the British musical is the one to beat in this season's Broadway race
The Private Practice actor and his Wicked star wife are getting ready for their first baby
The acclaimed actress and "fierce mom" leaves behind her husband of 14 years and two teenage sons
Actress Jasmine Guy looks for the joy in bad times.
The Entourage star opens up about the life-threatening mercury poisoning that forced him out of a Broadway show
Broadway dreams can come true. Just ask 10-year-old Nicholas Dayton.
Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter whose absurdist and realistic works displayed a despair and defiance about the human condition, has died, according to British media reports. He was 78.
PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive will emcee Hollywood's biggest night
Van Johnson, whose boyish looks and earnest manner made him a Hollywood heartthrob in the 1940s and '50s, died Friday in an assisted-care facility, a friend told CNN.
Three Broadway revivals feature star turns by Kristin Scott Thomas and Frank Langella, plus Katie Holmes' stage debut
"It felt like Christmas," the actress tells PEOPLE after her opening night in All My Sons
Daniel Radcliffe makes his Broadway debut and proves he's ready to graduate
The actors' union and Broadway theater producers have reached a tentative agreement for a new 39-month contract that covers Broadway shows and touring productions
Plus: Whoopi dances with Mario Lopez, while Gypsy star Patti LuPone is a big winner
Broadway looked to the future -- and to its past -- at the 2008 Tony Awards with In the Heights, the best musical winner, and August: Osage County, the best play, sharing the spotlight with a nearly 60-year-old South Pacific
Who should win? Who will win? Don't ask Richard Zoglin. But here's his ballot, with his annotated choices
The high school musical has graduated from Oklahoma! -- and from High School Musical too
This new, big, smart, kid-friendly epic is as wonderfully American as 'Batman' and apple pie
The Census Bureau has scaled back its dress rehearsal for the head count, raising fears that many hard-to-reach people will go uncounted in 2010
It's boom-boom time for comedians and satirists. They pack out tents at music festivals, clubs and pubs and fill up the prime time slots on TV and radio. They have colonized multimedia with podcasts, vodcasts and blogs. So if you need cheering up or feel like a laugh, there have never been more places to get it.
The Dancing with the Stars finalist is stepping into A Chorus Line
Avoid the mile-long lines at the Times Square TKTS booth by buying discounted Broadway tickets using one of these eight approaches.
A playwright who worked with Lana Clarkson a month before her death said the actress never displayed suicidal tendencies, but did voice disappointment about the trajectory of her career and worry about her future as an aging actress in Hollywood.
Jessica Alba is pregnant with boyfriend Cash Warren's child, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening, ending a 19-day strike.
Broadway raced to reopen for business Thursday after stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement, ending a crippling 19-day strike
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday, ending a 19-day strike.
In the past, the bellowing cry of "the show must go on" has assured theater-goers that no matter what happens, someone, anyone, will appear on stage once the curtain opens.
So how did Jennifer Garner feel after making her Broadway debut Thursday night?
Award-winning singer-actor Robert Goulet died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 73.
Clay Aiken has found his Holy Grail: Broadway.
Hopes were high, with the likes of Kenneth Branagh, Harold Pinter, Michael Caine and Jude Law at the helm. But the result's a disaster.
Candy Buckley, a Broadway stage actor acclaimed for her performance as Frau Kost in the recent Sam Mendes staging of Cabaret, is onstage portraying a martini-swilling 57-year-old mother. "I want to be healthier, but I also want a martini," laments Buckley's character. "I'm torn."
A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
Can using a TV reality show to pick two stars for a musical revival really be bad for Broadway? Hardly
A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
Producer Mel Brooks is charging a record high of $450 a seat for a weekend performance of his new Broadway musical, 'Young Frankenstein,' according to a newspaper report.
Expectant parents Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts are not married - even though the actor told reporters over the weekend that they'd tied the knot.
TIME's Richard Zoglin gives his appraisal of all the nominees for the four top awards and gauges their chances on this Sunday's awards show as Broadway honors its best
The first Broadway show that Christine Ebersole ever saw was not on Broadway, but in the auditorium of Skokie Junior High School in Winnetka, Illinois. It was Finian's Rainbow, and she sat in the orchestra pit, a dutiful student, violin at the ready. "I was so busy watching, it ended my career as a violinist," Ebersole says.
He sits among critics, producers and agents in the darkened theater, looking almost as cowed as the hyperventilating young recruit in his show.
Two weeks to the night after the Olympic flame was extinguished in this Italian Alpine city, something as good as gold was conferred on a long-proved mental athlete.
Halle Berry had to write "I will not make 'Catwoman II' " on a chalkboard four times in order to earn her pudding pot as Harvard's Hasty Pudding woman of the year.
(CNN) -- "The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life," so said Oscar Wilde.
The most-talked about movie-star scene this year wasn't Harry Potter getting chosen by the Goblet of Fire. It wasn't "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" getting his chest hair ripped off. It wasn't Sarah Silverman telling a filthy joke, or Darth Vader getting burned, or George Clooney being tortured.
It's impossible to imagine any movie getting as much advance publicity as Mel Brooks' "The Producers."
"Brokeback Mountain," the story of two cowboys grappling with their love for each other, was the top Golden Globe contender Tuesday, picking up seven nominations, including best dramatic picture.
However slippery and accommodating his nature, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Julian Sands) is still a proper Brit.
Actress Anne Bancroft, who seduced Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" and won Oscar and Tony awards for playing Helen Keller's teacher in "The Miracle Worker," has died of cancer at age 73, her agent said Tuesday.
This summer thousands of theatergoers will gravitate to an open tent at the Boscobel Restoration, about 50 miles north of New York City, for a few hours of greed, envy, jealousy, and power struggle...
"Wild On!" is back, and Tara Reid has signed on as host.
When singers and performers set out to sharpen their skills, some attend music conservatories, some go to a university with a strong performing arts program, and some take private lessons.
No, says director Mike Nichols, he wasn't trying to create a cultural icon or even a film that would captivate some members of the under-30 generation in 2005 just as powerfully as it had in 1967.
Besides Lewis Black, comedian, there's Lewis Black, playwright, a man who's written more than 40 plays and still keeps a good bit of his heart in the theater.
Arthur Miller, the American playwright whose works "Death of a Salesman," "All My Sons" and "The Crucible" made him one of the leading lights of 20th-century theater, has died. He was 89.
"Finding Neverland" is a beautifully crafted exploration of the many dimensions of the human heart.
Comedian George Carlin was launched into the upper echelon of humorists in the '70s by uttering seven words -- seven dirty words, to be exact. At 67 he still tells it like it is, which keeps censors (and other folks in positions of power) on their toes.
Well, you can say one thing about Rosie O'Donnell: She puts her money where her mouth is. She footed the entire $10 million bill for her recently opened Broadway musical Taboo and voiced her intent...
Basil Hero plans on being the next Ted Turner. At a time when potential investors are balking and theatergoers are shunning the Great White Way--and despite his Lower Manhattan office building havi...
"STELLAAA!" The cry of Kowalski and others like it were once first heard on the grand commercial stages of New York City. Now 1,100 regional nonprofit theaters "identify and create the great litera...
In 1982, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a stage version of the 1954 MGM movie musical, opened on Broadway. David Landay, producer and co-author of the show's book, had raised $1.25 million--nothi...
Theater fans may talk about the lullaby of Broadway, but there's nothing soothing about paying as much as $100 for an orchestra seat on the Great White Way, $199 a night for a hotel room in Times S...
Meet Cicero and his understudy, ''B'' -- cockatoos currently appearing in Boston in the comedy La Bete and due to make their Broadway debut at the Eugene O'Neill theater on January 31. The birds ar...
What would a hit playwright know about investing and takeovers? Plenty, in the case of Jerry Sterner. A former packager of real estate tax shelters and a serious part-time stock market investor, St...
Forget about Wall Street's favorite stocks. Let's talk about Wall Street's favorite play. Surprising numbers of investment bankers have been leaving work early and lining up at an off-Broadway thea...
Ever since the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis opened 25 years ago with a production of Hamlet, regional theater has been a powerful cultural force in America. Such hits as Agnes of God, Crimes of t...
IN A DIMLY LIT ROOM crammed with piles of black boxes and tangles of colored wires, a young scientist is talking to his computer screen in a loud voice as if it were a slightly deaf friend. Into hi...
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