Hundreds of Tibetans-in-exile along with foreign tourists marched in Dharamshala to mark the 51st anniversary of the uprising against the Chinese rule on Wednesday (March...

Beijing came alive this weekend with blazing Bollywood music; film and classical Indian dances mostly by Chinese artists at an Indian consumer show...

Acting on the recommendations of the inquiry committee probing the disastrous tour Down Under, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday imposed a life term ban on captain Mohammed Yousuf and experienced middle-order batsman Younis Khan and slapped hefty fines on various players, holding them responsible for the team's pathetic...

This month’s predicted Budget statement may be the first of two this year if the polls have got it right, advisers warn.Should there be a power shift after the general election, expected in...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 10. THE first night of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Minneapolis, Minn., featured distance freestyle swimming.Black Hawk's Bailey...

NASHVILLE, TN--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - F-Stop/Atlantic recording artist Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights will release their national debut "PARDON ME" on April 27. The band will...

The former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith will become the latest operatic heroine to meet a tragic end at the Royal Opera House when the musical version of her life story opens there on 17 February...

said Wednesday it recently won the contract to provide parking management services for the city of Denver at the Denver Performing Arts Complex (DPAC). The $2.643 million DPAC contract runs through...

Eonnagata combines exotic techniques — in this case drawn from Japan's Kabuki theatre tradition — in a visual spectacle. The work is created and performed by Lepage, French ballerina Sylvie...

B.C. Cancer Agency researchers Dr. Randy Gascoyne, left, and Dr. Joseph Connors. The New England Journal of Medicine is saying research as the Hodgkin’s lymphoma “breakthrough we have been...

Greece is expected to grind to a halt for the second time in a month as hundreds of thousands of state and private workers stage a general strike.The stoppage is in protest at the country's austerity...

THE life of Playboy centrefold Anna Nicole Smith is to be turned into an opera. The production, co-written by a creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera, will be staged at the Royal Opera House, London,...

Grateful Dead performed the last of their more than 2,300 concerts in 1995 and thus belong increasingly to history, not the present. Two related events make that reality clear: a new exhibition about...

The Lyon Opera Ballet, which opened its weeklong season at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, is presenting two works by internationally celebrated living...

Metropolitan Opera last week. As well as alchemy involving at least three genres, the new production bridges three centuries. It has been directed and co-designed by the South African...

University of Louisville has administered the annual Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, a prize that carries a large purse — the last one was $200,000 — and ample prestige. To...

Not until he is kidnapped while on his way to work, held for ransom with a 50 million euro asking price and a severed finger is delivered to his family, do the sins of the spoiled corporate honcho in...

Laments over a lack of ideological balance in the theater never have seemed to me to be of great concern. The supposed liberal uniformity of our plays is often overstated, and the rules of drama are...

Samuel Barber realized the power of his potent Adagio immediately after composing it as the second movement of his Op. 11 String Quartet (the precursor to his version for string orchestra). He then...

MTV recently announced that the “Jersey Shore” cast would not return to Seaside Heights, but head to Miami instead. Well, for those wanting to relive the antics of DJ Pauly D and Co. a...

Think that this spring’s “Robin Hood” movie will be a blockbuster at the box office? Next week you will be able to put your money on...

Ryan Seacrest , 35, let down the fourth estate — or at least the fashion slice of it — when he failed to ask that question while interviewing many of the arriving celebrities on...

Genuine punch ... Seroca Davis in Random. Photograph: Johan Persson It is hard to think of a more suitably potent play than Debbie Tucker Green's 2008 knife-crime monologue with which to christen...

. said Wednesday it had completed $660 million in financing to upgrade almost 14,000 theater screens to digital projection systems. In a release, New...

Agriculture and manufacturing will make a greater contribution to Nigeria's economic growth in the coming years at it seeks to reduce its dependence on crude oil, Acting President Goodluck...

I'd spent a year on the site, from Monday to Friday, and this was a very big moment. We'd watched every layer of the prison fall. The crew were using a 650-tonne crusher that looked like a...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady...

this letter to the Mayor regarding the BDC and the Senator RFP process. She wants theater preservation experts to guide the BDC's plans for the Senator. I have been told that Ms. Noonan agreed to...

The Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., has locked out its maintenance employees in an ongoing labour dispute. The festival devoted to the works of Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries sent...

Stage Drapery and Backdrop Manufacturer Sew What? Inc and Concert and Event Drapery Rental provider Rent What? Inc combined forces in February to provide a complete stage drapery solution for Alice...

Over the next decade, investors and consumers will expect more comprehensive disclosure from businesses about what climate-related risks they face and what they are doing about them, the Boston-based...

Just as David ­Tennant did not perform Hamlet sitting behind a desk, children are being encouraged to walk around. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using...

Out-of-body experience: Film director and artist Takeshi Kitano poses by one of his artworks at a Tuesday exhibition in Paris along with French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand. AP...

(AP) — LONDON - The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and...

One of Europe's leading dance companies says the high standard of Australian audiences convinced it to be part of this year's Adelaide Festival. French company Montalvo-Hervieu has premiered its...

The inaugural UEFA Women's Champions League final was heralded by a launch event at Getafe's Teatro Federico García Lorca on Wednesday which included the handover of the trophy and the first...

The Eighties revival has been making its mark on music and fashion for years, but now the decade of leg warmers and shoulder pads seems to be crashing the world of movie comedy, too. An unfilmed...

. said Wednesday it had completed $660 million in financing to upgrade almost 14,000 theater screens to digital projection systems. In a release, New...

National Public Radio will host a night of music and conversation with Rosanne Cash and Michele Norris of "All Things Considered" on May 1 at Seattle's Paramount Theatre. Cash, the oldest daughter...

In this theater publicity image released by Lincoln Center Press Office, from left, Fulvio Pepe, Alessandro Averone, standing left, Giovanni Visentin, Luca Jervolino, Carlo Bellamio and in a scene...

A rare 1868 Canadian Red Ensign flag will hit the auction block this summer. Sotheby's Canada says the item will be in its June 2 sale of important Canadian art in Toronto. The auction house said...

Britain's Royal Opera House will stage the premiere of an opera about ex-model and actress Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007. Marc-Anthony Turnage will compose the music...

By Julien Pretot Aurillac, France - Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan claimed a shortened third stage of the Paris-Nice race on Wednesday while Alberto Contador showed in a nervy finale he had...

Northwestern University students know how to raise some serious cash for good causes. In both 2008 and 2009, Northwestern's Dance Marathon raised more than $900,000 for Bear Necessities and Project...

RJD and Samajwadi Party members on Wendesday staged a walked out in Rajya Sabha demanding revocation of the suspension of seven members who were marshalled out from the House for their "unruly"...

Pop diva Madonna and Scottish star Gerard Butler had a dance-off at a post-Oscars party hosted by actress Demi Moore. The 'Material Girl' singer helped host the bash at manager Guy Oseary's Los...