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Q&A: Lashana Lynch is on the hunt for Eddie Redmayne in 'The Day of the Jackal'

Nov. 12, 2024 10:39 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Lashana Lynch was running away from spies. After playing Nomi in 2021’s “No Time To Die,” she was actively avoiding any role that involved working for the secret service. What part could beat a Bond girl who took James Bond’s 007 code name from him? ...

Theater festival offers solace in Burkina Faso, a nation torn by violence

Nov. 12, 2024 05:41 AM EST

OUGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso. She fled her village after it was attacked by extremists, leaving her husband and her farm behind....

Q&A: Cillian Murphy on following ‘Oppenheimer’ with the Irish drama ‘Small Things Like These’

Nov. 04, 2024 15:59 PM EST

Cillian Murphy didn’t read “Small Things Like These” looking for a film to do. He was simply a fan of the author, Claire Keegan. Her story, nominated for the Booker Prize, was a work of historical fiction about the Magdalene laundries in Ireland and an ordinary man with...

There's a ton of Hollywood stars on and off Broadway these days. Here's a game you can play

Oct. 25, 2024 11:01 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — There are so many Hollywood stars on New York theater stages or on the way that you might want to level up your stargazing game. Why not play some bingo? Sure, Robert Downey Jr., Daniel Dae Kim, Jim Parsons, Mia Farrow, and Katie Holmes are currently in New York,...

Louis McCartney will lead 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' on Broadway

Oct. 24, 2024 09:35 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Something wicked this way comes: Louis McCartney who starred in the play “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” in London will reprise his creepy monster on Broadway. “It’s such a privilege to be able to tell this story in another part of the world,”...

Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway

Oct. 15, 2024 13:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — When Elton John was on tour in America in the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye. She was an over-the-top, heavy makeup-wearing performer who wore her heart on her sleeve and yet seemed in on the joke — televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. You could say game was...

Mali's traditional theater gives psychiatric patients the stage

Oct. 10, 2024 00:23 AM EDT

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In the courtyard of a psychiatric ward in Mali’s capital, a small group of patients acts out scenes of a village dispute to the beat of a djembe, a traditional West African drum. One patient, Mamadou Diarra, cries out to another in the Bambara language,...

All of Broadway's theater lights will dim for actor Gavin Creel after an outcry

Oct. 09, 2024 16:50 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — All of Broadway's marquees will dim to honor the life of Gavin Creel following an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the 48-year-old Tony Award-winner's death last month. The Committee of Theatre Owners on Wednesday said all 41...

Golijov's Flamenco-tinged opera about slain Spanish playwright Lorca comes to the Met

Oct. 08, 2024 09:40 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Osvaldo Golijov was running out of time. The Argentine-born composer had been commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center for a chamber opera to be performed in the summer of 2003. And with the deadline just months away, his original idea wasn’t panning out. ...

Robert Downey Jr. found inspiration from the screen to prepare for his Broadway debut in 'McNeal'

Oct. 02, 2024 11:07 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. made his Broadway debut this week in the play “McNeal,” revealing some unexpected inspirations that helped him prepare for the stage. “Doing ‘Oppenheimer’ with (Christopher) Nolan got me back into this very monastic focus and then doing...