More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian...
In the first installment of an interview with the “Downton Abbey” creator and writer Julian Fellowes, he discussed how some key departures from the series occurred in Season 3, and how he is starting...
View ArticleWoody Allen Names His New Movie ‘Blue Jasmine’
It’s hard to know where one might define the beginning of a blue period for Woody Allen, since that writer-director (or his on-screen alter egos) always seem to be down about something. At the very...
View ArticleThe Week in Culture Pictures, March 1
More photographs. A slide show of photographs of cultural highlights from this week. arts general Previous Post Cleveland TV Station Celebrates Andy Griffith After Oscars Snub Search This Blog Search...
View Article‘Honey Boo Boo’ Has the Ratings, if Not the Critics
When TLC’s reality series “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” made its debut in August, it was met with such derision by some television critics, that it seemed like the title should be changed to “Look Out!...
View ArticleRecord Ratings for ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’
Television viewers and party hosts have been given more programming options on New Year’s Eve in recent times, but on Monday night most of them still chose to ring in the new year with an old,...
View Article$40,000 Organ Prize Goes to Juilliard Student
The Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition, a new contest open to pipe organists between the ages of 18 and 30, has chosen its first winner. On Saturday, Benjamin Sheen was named as the...
View ArticleBrits Off Broadway Adds ‘Bull’ to Slate
“Bull,” a drama about office politics by the British playwright Mike Bartlett (“The Cockfight Play”), will have its New York premiere in the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, the theater...
View ArticleScenes From South by Southwest Music
South by Southwest Reports from the South by Southwest conference and festival in Austin. A slide show of images from the festival in Austin. South by Southwest Previous Post Manhattan School of Music...
View ArticleA Glimpse of the Coming ‘Downton Abbey’ Catfight
Cue the sharp gasps and the “Oh no she DIDN’T” drumroll on Twitter: judging from a clip from the upcoming season of “Downton Abbey,” fans will get the period catfight they were hoping for when it was...
View ArticleThe Black Keys, Fun. and Mumford & Sons to Perform at Grammys
The Grammy Awards show next month will include performances from three nominees for album of the year: the Black Keys, Fun. and Mumford & Sons, the Recording Academy announced on Wednesday....
View Article‘Cotton Club Parade’ Will March Onto Broadway
After two popular engagements at New York City Center, “Cotton Club Parade” – a musical revue celebrating the Harlem nightclub during the Duke Ellington era – will move to Broadway this fall, its...
View ArticleHang On to Yourself: New Album Coming From David Bowie
The Thin White Duke has returned. After a 10-year span in which communication between David Bowie and his devoted listeners had become about as infrequent as the transmissions between ground control...
View ArticleRare Box Stolen from Oakland Museum
A box created from gold and quartz at the time of the California Gold Rush was stolen early Monday morning from the Oakland Museum, marking the second theft from the museum in two months, according to...
View ArticleNBC Gets Early but Mixed Results for New Shows
With the other broadcast television networks opting to roll out most of their fall programming later, NBC has taken the opposite tact by unveiling most of their new shows right out of the gate. The...
View ArticleShirley MacLaine Will Return to ‘Downton Abbey,’ But Others Are...
The revolving door of casting continues to spin at “Downton Abbey” as that popular PBS/”Masterpiece” period drama prepares for its fourth season. After a year in which the series lost the actors Dan...
View ArticleShirley MacLaine to Return to ‘Downton Abbey,’ But Others Are...
The revolving door of casting continues to spin at “Downton Abbey” as the popular PBS/”Masterpiece” period drama prepares for its fourth season. After a year in which the series lost the actors Dan...
View ArticleA ‘Downton Abbey’ Prequel in the Works
How did the distinguished Earl of Grantham, Robert Crawley, hook up with the American Countess Cora? Did he marry for love or her inheritance? Stay tuned. “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes is...
View ArticleIn Performance: Zabryna Guevara of ‘Water by the Spoonful’
Quiara Alegría Hudes’s play “Water by the Spoonful,” winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama, is about the intersecting lives of a group of people struggling with issues of addiction, family...
View ArticleCharting “Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself” by Omar S
Omar S is a DJ and producer from Detroit who specializes in house music and is perhaps best known for the club hit “Here’s Your Trance Now Dance.” (He has also worked at a Motor City automobile...
View ArticleFinal Play in Pulitzer Winner’s Trilogy Set for Second Stage
“The Happiest Song Plays Last,” the new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes and the final work in her Elliot Trilogy about an Iraq War veteran, will be part of Second...
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