SHANGHAI, China - Cirque du Soleil made its China debut last week, opening in Shanghai for a two-month run.
The Canadian circus has pitched its high-tech tent in the city’s Pudong district to perform “Quidam” (pronounced “key-dam”), one of its six touring shows displaying the company’s signature acrobatics, [...]
[Read more...]“The Lord of the Rings,” the most expensive production in the history of London’s West End, opened last week to a standing ovation from its audience and mixed reviews from the critics, with some praising it as brilliant and a “wonder” while others called it “a thumping great flop” and corny.
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[Read more...]Two passionate works - “Spring Awakening,” a pounding, post-rock musical of teenage sexual anxiety, and “The Coast of Utopia,” Tom Stoppard’s sweeping examination of 19th-century Russian intellectuals - dominated the 2007 Tony Awards in New York on Sunday.
“Spring Awakening,” with a score by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, was named best musical, [...]
[Read more...]For the second year in a row, there will be no single host of the Tonys, the annual awards presentation that honors the Broadway theater season.
Lack of a celebrity host didn’t seem to hurt the viewership last year when the ratings for the television broadcast of the Tony awards actually rose a [...]
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