Theater Articles

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VbSfQ3nAM[/youtube] Beatrice Arthur, the witty television star in the hit shows Maude and The Golden Girls, and a Tony winner, died today at her Los Angeles home. Arthur, who was suffering from cancer, was 86. Born Bernice Frankel on May 16, 1922, (1923 according to some sources) in New York City, Arthur — generally known as Bea Arthur — first caught critics' attention with her [...]

In the New York Times, Ben Brantley reviews Jane Fonda's return to Broadway after 46 years: "It’s a fine line between brittle and breakable. Jane Fonda blurs that distinction to memorable effect in 33 Variations, the new drama written and directed by Moisés Kaufman that opened on Monday night at the Eugene O’Neill Theater. Playing a sharp-witted, terminally ill musicologist confronting the betrayal of her [...]

In addition to a screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have another East Asian cinematic event in the upcoming weeks: an evening dedicated to the Japanese magic lantern tradition of Utsushi-e, described as "a blend of moving images, light, color, music, storytelling and traditional art." Presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, the Minwa-za Company [...]

Variety reports that the New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain," the source of Ang Lee's acclaimed 2005 film. Brokeback Mountain — the movie — caused a sensation in 2005. The story of a two-decade-long love affair between a ranch hand (Heath Ledger) and a cowboy (Jake Gyllenhaal), Brokeback Mountain won the [...]