Julie Taymor

Dominic Cooper Joins Cast of National Theatre's Phaedra

Dominic Cooper will join previously announced stars Helen Mirren and Margaret Tyzack in the National Theatre production of Jean Racine's Phaedra, to be directed by Nicholas Hytner, in June 2009. The 1677 classic tragedy, being...

New York's Metropolitan Opera to drop planned revival of 'The Ghosts'

The Metropolitan Opera is giving up "The Ghosts." Gelb had been a big proponent of increasing the Met's presentations of works by living composers. Gelb hopes to find another opera for the Tony Award-winning Chenoweth, an...

Chris Cooper joins "Tempest" update

By Borys Kit LOS ANGELE (Hollywood Reporter) - Chris Cooper has joined the cast of "The Tempest," Julie Taymor's gender-bending adaptation of the Shakespeare play. The Oscar-winning actor will play Antonio, who usurps the...

Live From New York, It's New Saturday Nighters (E! Online)

Josh Grossberg Josh Grossberg – 29 mins ago E! Online – Live From New York, It's New Saturday Nighters(E! Online) – Never heard of Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins? Well, they just might be the next Tina Fey and Amy Poehler,...

TKTS gift certificates are available for Broadway shows

Customers line up at the TKTS tickets booth in New York's Times Square. This Kander and Ebb-Bob Fosse creation is Broadway's longest running musical revival and deservedly so. A powerhouse Patti LuPone stars as the mother of...

Djimon Hounsou is Marvel's 'THE BLACK PANTHER' on BET

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- BET Networks and Marvel Animation are pleased to announce that the iconic Marvel Super Hero THE BLACK PANTHER will be voiced by Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou. The series will be adapted...

Metropolitan Opera Launches 55th Annual Competition for Young Singers

Young singers from around the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico will compete for $15,000 cash prizes and the chance to perform in the Grand Finals Concert on the nations most prestigious opera stage when the Metropolitan...

Blue Collar Comedy Reunion Tour and Bill Engvall - "Chuck" Leading Lady Yvonne Strahovski

Attention, Blue Collar Comedy fans. Bill Engvall tells us there's a possibility of a Blue Collar Comedy reunion tour. "Would I love to do a reunion tour? Yeah. Maybe do 10 or 12 cities in one year. I don't think I see it going...

What next, a Battleship Potemkin at Wembley?

Some were always films. Some are works that have become better known as films than the novels they once were. But ever since Kathleen Turner flashed her all in The Graduate, transposing movies to the stage has become a trend, a...

Elton John: Back to Broadway

The Rocker Talks About His Musical 'Billy Elliot' and Crying at the Movies The British rock star Elton John has become a fixture on Broadway in the past decade. His first Broadway venture, "The Lion King" -- a spinoff from the...

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