London, May 17 : British actor Daniel Day-Lewis is all set to make his first musical debut on the big...

London, May 17 : Glam rock legend David Bowie has given permission for a stage show based around his mighty catalogue of classics....

London, May 17 : A martial arts expert stunned the audience by holding a running drill to his head and walking away without a scratch....

Dundee Rep heads the field with 13 nominations across nine categories in the 2008 Critics' Awards for Theatre In Scotland (CATS) shortlists. Four of the Rep's productions have been nominated for...

amazon.com The iNo turns your iPod into an interactive multi-player music quiz. Up to four players have to buzz in - four wireless buzzers are included - and guess the album, artist or song. Also...

Former American boxer Mike Tyson and American director James Toback pose at the photo call for the film "Tyson" during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May...

Boundary-breaking pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died May 12 at the age of 82. Bettina Wiesenthal-Birch, who works at NPR's West Coast production facility, had known him since 1970, when she went to...

May 17, 2008 · Liao Yiwu, who spent four years in prison for his work protesting the killings at Tiananmen Square, wrote a compilation of oral histories about life in Sichuan. The book was...

On the death of Ted Hughes nearly 10 years ago the search began for a writer to fill the historic role of Poet Laureate. Among those considered frontrunners, alongside Andrew Motion, the current...

You don't need a degree in applied mathematics to unravel their formula. In Katie White, they boast a frontwoman so pretty you feel like giving her a round of applause just for existing. In That's...

At complicated times one envies born-again Christians their patent, decision-making system, What would Jesus do? How comforting to have a test that apparently works just as well for motorised...

, comes from a poor, rural village. He's desperate to break out of the "Darkness," as India's hinterland is called, and move to the big city. In witty, often humorous prose, Adiga shines a light on...

Italy's Riccardo Ricco of the Saunier Duval team won the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia cycle race from Rivisondoli to Tivoli on Saturday. Ricco beat compatriot Paolo Bettini and Davide Rebellin...

Tivoli, Italy - Italian Ricardo Ricco on Saturday scored his second stage victory at this year's Giro, when he took the 208 kilometre-long stage from Rivisondoli to Tivoli. The 24-year-old Saunier...

CANNES, France -- Woody Allen's latest film touches on that classic male fantasy, a romantic threesome with two women. Has Allen ever entertained the notion himself? "You know, it's hard enough to...

The Barnes Foundation collection, seen here in 2007, is located in Lower Merion, 17 kilometres outside Philadelphia. Officials plan to move the collection to the downtown...

Joe Handley, who retired as premier of the Northwest Territories last year, has been appointed to the CBC's board of directors. Federal Heritage Minister Josée Verner announced Handley's...

MONTGOMERY - Gadsden State Community College has a new acting president starting Monday.Alabama Community College System Chancellor Bradley Byrne Friday named Valerie Richardson as acting president...

Alice in Wonderland--A new opera by composer Peter Westergaard will have it's premiere in Princeton, NJ, and New York City by the Center for Contemporary Opera. New York, NY...

Reba McEntire acknowledges the crowd during taping of "CMT Giants" honoring Reba McEntire, in this file photo from Oct. 26, 2006, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. the tireless country star is...

Fox has become the first distributor to buy Steven Soderbergh's Che double bill, buying rights to distribute the film in Spain.Fox has been building its profile in Latin America in recent years and...

Tyson is director James Toback's portrait of the artist as self-loathing, self-justifying screw-up. Here is a film that supposedly allows the boxer free rein to set the record straight and yet...

Actor Kris Marshall has made his debut in West End comedy Fat Pig as planned, three weeks after suffering head injuries when he was hit by a car. The former My Family star showed no ill effects...

Theatre performers get the chance to demonstrate their rock-n-roll chops May 17 when the second annual Broadway Battle of the Bands plays the Zipper Factory. Original Jersey Boys cast member Daniel...

photo by Halsman (Martin) and Joan Marcus (O'Hara) "A Salute to Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific" is the title of a May 17 television special that will air in the metropolitan area on WABC-TV. ...

Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who was recently seen in the starry Chess concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall, makes an in-store appearance at Dress Circle May 17. Menzel will head to the London...

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· An impossibly glossy Brangelina, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have appeared on the red carpet; the streets are throbbing with scantily clad wannabes; restaurants are heaving with...

It will be art and it will also, quite possibly, be terrifying - unless the feeling of paddling off the side of a building, or lying 20ft in the air on a transparent pillow, is one that fills you...

ghostbike.org , there are now similar memorials in more than 30 cities across the world. I've never seen one in London, but there are, apparently, ghost bikes in Manchester, Oxford and Brighton.On...

PESCOCOSTANZO (Italy): Gabriele Bosisio of LPR won the seventh stage of the Tour of Italy here yesterday on a day when Giovanni Visconti retained the overall lead and Danilo di Luca and Riccardo...

May 16, 2008 - It's been more than a century since the Fisk University Jubilee singers started performing Negro spirituals and slave songs. Today, the Fisk singers are still spreading the songs of...

Andrew Gans 16 May 2008 Erik Liberman, who received a 2008 Helen Hayes Award nomination for his performance in the Signature Theatre production of Merrily We Roll Along, will play Julius...

Robert Simonson 16 May 2008 The Provincetown Playhouse, the Greenwich Village theatre built in 1918 which many historians regard as one of the crucibles of modern American theatre, may be saved...

Fox Broadcasting says it's trying a "potentially revolutionary" concept in North American television by cutting the amount of commercials by half for two of its new prime-time dramas airing this...

May 16, 2008, 04:00 pm ET · It's true: "Desperate Housewives" will flash-forward five years.Marcia Cross, who plays domestic goddess Bree on the ABC comedy-drama, told AP Radio in a recent...

NEW YORK : The joint financial triumph enjoyed by the two giants dominating the international auction scene that concluded sales of contemporary art this past week has no precedent in art market...

photo by Jim Cox Winners of the 74th Annual Drama League Awards were announced May 16 at a luncheon in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel hosted by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein,...

Andrew Gans 16 May 2008 Yes, Disney's High School Musical is, unsurprisingly, one of the most-produced musicals in high schools around the country, but it isn't at the very top of the list: That...

Adam Hetrick 16 May 2008 The Berkshire Theatre Festival will present Noël Coward in Two Keys as its final offering of the 2008 summer season. Two Keys replaces the Jan Maxwell-Richard...

photo by Tristram Kenton The world-premiere staging of the new musical Marguerite began previews in London May 7 and will officially open May 20. The final production of Jonathan Kent's Theatre...

The Regina Symphony Orchestra has held its own version of Canadian Idol and crowned its first-ever Symphony Singing Star, who will perform with the RSO next year. Makyla Ingram was selected by...

and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the Maldives. Britain's High Court says The Big Pictures and Eliot Press Sarl agencies have apologized for using a long...

photo by Aubrey Reuben Hallie Foote and David Rasche have been named the 2008 recipients of the annual Richard Seff Awards, presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation. The announcement was made May...

Adam Hetrick 16 May 2008 Olivier Award winner Deborah Findlay will star in the New York premiere of Vincent River, presented as part of the ongoing Brits Off-Broadway series at 59E59 Theatres. ...

Kenneth Jones 16 May 2008 Alabama Shakespeare Festival's sixth annual Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays May 16-18, shedding light on five new scripts, boast four that are set in...

Ernio Hernandez 16 May 2008 New Dramatists honored Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein during its 59th Annual Spring Benefit Luncheon May 15. Friends and collaborators of the...

In this May 14, 2008 file photo, American actress Eva Longoria waves as she arrives to the opening night ceremony and the premiere of the film "Blindness," at the 61st International film festival in...

Singer R. Kelly, right, leaves with a bodyguard after the first day of jury selection on May 9 in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in...

Andrew Gans 16 May 2008 Kathy Brier and Friends, starring daytime actress and former Hairspray star Kathy Brier, will be presented at the Metropolitan Room May 16 and 17. The 10 PM concerts,...