Playwright Mike Daisey talks about his one-act performance looking at working conditions in Apple factories in China.
As you drink a pint of Guinness or eat your corned beef and cabbage at the local Irish pub on St. Patrick's Day, consider the far-flung corners of Ireland where inspiration flourishes.
A theater company from South Sudan is translating Shakespeare into the local dialect for the first time, before performing the play at London's Globe Theatre.
How the Handspring Puppet company is cashing on success with the much acclaimed production of "War Horse."
For decades, fans of Oscar Wilde have paid tribute to the Irish writer by leaving kisses on his tomb at Paris's famed Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
A new film is set to re-open one of the most persistent questions in literary history - was William Shakespeare a fraud?
The idea that Shakespeare did not write the works attributed to him didn't surface until 1856, 240 years after he died. Until then no one even suggested he might not have done so.
For those of you desperately missing basketball during the NBA lockout, an antidote to your hoop pangs is on the way -- a musical comedy about basketball will open for previews on Broadway on Nov. 12. It's called Lysistrata Jones and is based on the original Lysistrata, which, of course, was written by Aristophanes back in 411 BC.
It will be Shakespeare as nobody has seen it before. Over six weeks next spring, London's Globe Theatre will present all 37 of the Bard's plays in 37 languages, performed by companies from as many countries.
The season 8 contestant sings for his bride, Christina Teich, at their Arizona ceremony
The Hairspray star now works part-time at a boutique in her hometown
Matador Network's Eva Sandoval lays out the city's most avoidable attractions...and what you should do instead.
Peter Falk looks back on his 'Columbo' days during a 2005 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live.
Actor Peter Falk, who rose to fame on a shambling manner and a rumpled raincoat as the TV detective Lt. Columbo, has died. He was 83.
Actor Peter Falk, who rose to fame on a rumpled raincoat and a shambling manner as the TV detective Lt. Columbo, has died at 83.
The actress presents the top acting awards at Sunday's Broadway event
Frances McDormand and Sutton Foster also land in Broadway's winners circle
Robyn Curnow discovers one of Zimbabwe's last bastions of free speech on stage in Harare.
In Zimbabwe, where speaking out on political issues can be risky, one theater troupe is refusing to tread the boards cautiously.
Ben Brantley also has roles picked out for Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen
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A short clip from the National Theatre of Great Britain's production of "War Horse."
The rocker seeks unspecified damages after his June 2009 show mishap
The first production in centuries of a lost Shakespeare play has experts debating who really wrote it. CNN's Nick Glass reports.
How a play is helping refugees in Egypt find their voice. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
An innovative theater program is highlighting the plight of the tens of thousands of refugees trying to forge a life in Egypt. On a stage in Cairo, a Somali man is brutally interrogated by a police officer, who jabs a lit cigarette at his neck to force a false confession. All the actors in the play, with the exception of five Egyptians, are refugees who have experienced the horrors of war first hand. Those behind the performance hope an Egyptian audience will take away their message: refugees are not in Egypt because they want to be. They've fled war and persecution in search of the most essential aspect of human existence: security.
Great Southern authors: Many of them were restless souls who drank too much, understood the dark underbelly of humanity and lived in Southern cities where they produced some of the most enduring literature the world has ever known.
The actress is reveling in her first Tony Award - and recuperating from a throat virus
"Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be on Broadway," exclaimed Tony winner Johansson
The two stars will honor the best featured actress at this Sunday's ceremony
The stars and writer of "Thurgood" talk about the civil rights pioneer portrayed on stage.
The Will & Grace and Promises, Promises star will emcee on June 13
Broadway's highest honor focuses on stars including Scarlett Johansson and Jude Law, too
Shakespearean experts have deemed a play dismissed as an elaborate theatrical hoax by 18th century critics to be the true, albeit heavily diluted, work of the Bard.
John Malkovich sits on stage, adrenalin rushing through him, as he prepares to claim another victim in his illustrious acting career -- this time, an Austrian serial killer.
Pee-Wee Herman's ready for a comeback -- and he's starting in Los Angeles with a stage play.
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.
The quirky actress drops out of a stage production in New York due to the illness
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."
Pulitzer-winning playwright Tony Kushner talks to CNN's Chris Welch about gay marriage, politics and President Obama.
The rocker blames organizers for his injury at award show broadcast
The Poison frontman is knocked to the ground during Broadway's big night
The president and first lady enjoy dinner and a Broadway show in the Big Apple
The producers of Speed-the-Plow move forward in their dispute with the actor over quitting the play
Plus: Jessica Alba gets emotional at event to fight violence against women
The Entourage star opens up about the life-threatening mercury poisoning that forced him out of a Broadway show
The nominations for the 66th annual Golden Globes are listed below, with winners in bold:
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.
The actor was forced to leave Broadway after suffering "shocking levels" of mercury, his doctor tells PEOPLE
Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy will replace the ill star in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow
The nominations for the 66th annual Golden Globes were announced Thursday morning. They are:
In a sense, retirement planning is all about deferred gratification. You live below your means while you work so you can save for a time when you can live however you want. In short, you give up something today so you can live better tomorrow.
Cruise joins standing ovation for Holmes after her first preview performance of All My Sons on Broadway
An 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling, sold for nearly 25,000 pounds at a charity auction Tuesday
An 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series, handwritten by author
J.K. Rowling, will be auctioned for charity Tuesday night
Why do we have to suffer through movies like What Happens in Vegas, which is the worst-in-breed not only for this year, but very likely in living memory?
This new, big, smart, kid-friendly epic is as wonderfully American as 'Batman' and apple pie
The British stage actor, 86, became an international name with 1966's A Man for All Seasons
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.
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.
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."
Make no mistake: Kenneth Branagh's "Sleuth" is not a remake of the 1972 film.
A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
Norway is the world's best place to live, according to the United Nations Human Development Index. Here's everything you'd want to know about the Scandinavian paradise.
(CNN) -- Dynamite and diplomacy. Everything you need to know about this year's Nobel prizes.
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.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playwright Tyler Perry, who turned his crazy-granny "Madea" character into a lucrative cottage industry, returned to the top of the box office Sunday, exactly one year after stunning the industry with a No. 1 bow for his first film.
showbuzzupdated: Fri Feb 17 2006 10:10:00
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.
British playwright Harold Pinter has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.
However slippery and accommodating his nature, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Julian Sands) is still a proper Brit.
showbuzzupdated: Mon May 09 2005 14:36:00
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.
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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.
"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall is to make her British stage debut -- swapping her role as manhunter Samantha to play the paraplegic victim of a road accident.
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