'Threepenny Opera' Brings Renewed Decadence to Studio 54
2006-04-21 14:14:06
AND you thought those crazy, hazy nights when Studio 54 sizzled were strictly a thing of the past...
Bellini and the East
2006-04-20 20:00:27
This exhibition is best enjoyed as a fine setting for a single fabulous pearl. The jewel is, however, not the portrait of Mehmed II - "the Conqueror" - that Gentile Bellini travelled to Istanbul to paint...
Antony and Cleopatra, The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon
2006-04-20 19:57:15
We are only into the second of the RSC's Complete Works season and already there are fascinating resonances. Like the opening Romeo and Juliet, this is a love-tragedy that ends in dual suicide. But, as Gregory Doran's magnificent production makes clear...
Tom Hanks expected to star 'Mamma Mia' heading
2006-04-20 16:35:18
"Mamma Mia!", the campy, crowd-pleasing musical inspired by ABBA disco-pop hits, is heading for the big screen, the trade paper Variety reported Wednesday.
Delacroix Painting Gets 1st Public Display
2006-04-18 19:13:14
The image on the canvas swirls in a frenzy of violence - two horses tangled in a fight set against a dark, turbulent landscape...
Sea Creatures Spare Nothing, Especially Not the Glitter, in 'Red Tide Blooming'
2006-04-19 17:25:03
Taylor Mac, the first recipient of the Ethyl Eichelberger Award, has taken a page from Charles Ludlam's Theater of the Ridiculous to concoct an over-the-top kitschfest that pokes fun at anything from Lynne Cheney to television weathermen to religious fundamentalism, exposing a lot of flesh along the way...
Butler Confused by Fans'Devotion
2006-04-18 18:57:18
Scottish heart-throb GERARD BUTLER is amazed his fans stage conventions to celebrate his budding career, because he can't understand why anyone would be so interested in him. Devotees of the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA star staged the first Gerard Butler convention in Glasgow, Scotland...
Romeo and Juliet
2006-04-19 16:54:34
How do you start a marathon? Opening the RSC's Complete Works season, Nancy Meckler's production begins with a radical gesture as Montagues and Capulets surrender their weapons in an amnesty...
Dancing faces take to the stage
2006-04-19 16:45:49
It's the new dance sensation that's sweeping a small corner of north London. While unlikely to prove as popular as the Boogaloo, facedancing has one undeniable attraction: you can do it even if you've got two left feet...
A Game-Show Play With High Prizes and Higher Velocity
2006-04-18 18:33:25
David Calvitto spews an amazing volume of words in "screwmachine/eyecandy" as the host of a game show gone wrong, and it's an impressive performance to witness. Whether he actually says anything with all that verbiage, however, is another matter...
A curious fusion:Stephanie Marshall as Proserpina in ENO's Orfeo.
2006-04-18 17:29:24
Next year Monteverdi's Orfeo will be 400 years old, yet the power of this first operatic masterpiece remains undiminished. In a good performance, its perfect fusion of words, music and drama seems to render the subsequent four centuries of operatic history redundant...
Julia Roberts set for Broadway debut
2006-04-18 10:02:42
Julia Roberts, Movie Star, officially becomes Julia Roberts, Stage Star, when the Oscar winner opens Wednesday on Broadway in a revival of Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain."