theater

Although the prices and release speeds of theatre-to-DVD movies seem to change mildly every year, as consumers, we've gotten pretty comfortable with the new millennium mechanism of delivering movies to consumers. First, you have your movie theatres, where the blockbusters and more successful...

Enjoy a free theater performance during the month of October as part of an arts promotion called Free Night of Theater. Make your reservation now for shows between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31, 2010. Tickets for some shows might not yet be available as release dates vary by region. Start by finding free...

The Pasadena Playhouse, a landmark theater that was first opened in 1917, can count itself as yet another victim of the Great Recession. On Tuesday, the venerable theater, located in Pasadena, Calif., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. For theater goers in the area, the news isn't...

This week, the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks will reach its 50th anniversary. The show, a valentine to young love requiring no more props than a stick, a sheet, and some confetti, is the longest-running musical of all time. That unprecedented record isn't the only miracle: Its original...

The glass bowl filled to the rim with dollar bills didn't look like any old tip jar. Resting on the wood table behind which Mike Daisey had just performed his monologue "The Last Cargo Cult" at the Public Theater in New York, the bowl of money seemed to glow. The green never looked so green. The...

On October 12, theaters across the world will try something that hasn't been attempted in decades when they simultaneously present a reading of the same show on the same night. The Laramie Project-10 Years Later is a sequel to writer/director Moisés Kaufman's 2000 ethnological coup The...

With more than 75,000 free tickets available, you'd think that there would be no problem getting tickets for the Free Night of Theater 2009 event on Oct. 15. But as WalletPop's Geoff Williams pointed out last year, it's a good idea to jump fast at the offer if you want to find free theater tickets...

Ticketmaster is facing a $50,000 fine and a change in how it does business after an Illinois Attorney General investigation found that the company had not clearly told customers they were paying marked up ticket prices. As part of the agreement, TicketsNow, owned by Ticketmaster, will also close...

During the Great Depression, Americans flocked to ornate movie houses to forget about their troubles. Now, they are turning to impersonal multiplexes for relief. Movie admissions are up about 10 percent year-to-date, according to the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), a trade...

La Grande High School in eastern Oregon had intended to mount a production of Steve Martin's acclaimed 1993 play Picasso at the Lapin Agile. But one disapproving parent had other ideas. Objecting to some profanity, "adult themes," and accusing the play of being about, as Martin says, "people...