Maggie Smith News

The Buck Creek Players will continue their 41st season of quality theater, LIFE 101: A Season of Life Lessons, with the Indianapolis premiere comedy, QUARTET, by Ronald Harwood.

Stage and screen actresss Billie Whitelaw died early Sunday MORNING at 82.

Fox Searchlight Pictures has revealed an all-new trailer for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, hitting theaters on March 6, 2015. Get a first look below!

BAM Fisher performances as part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival culminate in December with an elaborate story ballet and a critically-acclaimed one-man show. Designed as an intimate and flexible performance space for both emerging and established artists, the BAM Fisher became part of the BAM campus in the fall of 2012. All tickets are $20.

Below, get a first look at George Clooney, who will portray an American guest at a wedding in the highly anticipated fifth season of DOWNTON ABBEY.

This December the national tour of SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL is coming to the Garden State with stops in New Brunswick and Morristown. First up, the show will play the historic State Theatre in New Brunswick for three performances on December 12th and 13th. The SISTERs then swing back through New Jersey to perform at the Mayo Center for the Performing Arts in Morristown on January 31st and February 1st.

The Acting Company will present a staged reading of The Millionairess, George Bernard Shaw's delightful satire on romance, religion, capitalism and how the other half lives at 7 pm tonight, November 24 at the Pearl Theater, 555 West 42nd Street (10th - 11th Avenues).

The Acting Company will present a staged reading of The Millionairess, George Bernard Shaw's delightful satire on romance, religion, capitalism and how the other half lives at 7 pm on Monday, November 24 at the Pearl Theater, 555 West 42nd Street (10th - 11th Avenues).

Alan Bennett's prize-winning comedy Talking Heads will receive its central Ohio premiere when APT launches its third professional touring production with three public performances beginning today, November 13, through the 21st.

Highly-acclaimed New York based theater/film actress Angelica Page will co-star in the Palm Beach Dramaworks production of the Israel Horowitz play My Old Lady, which runs from December 5th, 2014 through January 4th, 2015 at Palm Beach Dramaworks at 201 Clematis Street in West Palm Beach.

On Tuesday, Nov. 18th, two weeks after Remembrance Day, Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox will present one of Canada's greatest ... and rarely seen anti-war movies - Robin Phillips' adaptation of Timothy Findley's The Wars, (a Canadian-West German co-production.) It won the 1978 Governor General's Prize for literature. Findley also wrote the screenplay.

The Daily Mail writes that Nicholas Hytner has zeroed in on his first big project following his departure from the National Theatre -- a new version of Bizet's CARMEN with book by Lucy Prebble. Hytner led an informal read through of the new adaptation last weekend, and the production is aiming for the West End in 2016.

Hub Theatre Company of Boston will close its critically acclaimed second season this November by once again joining up with the region's most famous playwright Israel Horovitz for the Boston premiere of 6 Hotels. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2:00pm from tonight, November 7 through Saturday, November 22 at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave, Boston.

Hub Theatre Company of Boston will close its critically acclaimed second season this November by once again joining up with the region's most famous playwright Israel Horovitz for the Boston premiere of 6 Hotels. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2:00pm from Friday, November 7 through Saturday, November 22 at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave, Boston. There will be a talk-back and reception with the the playwright Israel Horovitz on Saturday evening, November 8 immediately following the performance to celebrate the Boston premiere of 6 Hotels and Hub Theatre's second anniversary!!

Jeremy Swift will play Mr Perks and Caroline Harker will be recreating the role of Mother in the Olivier Award-winning production of Mike Kenny's stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel The Railway Children when it returns to London on 16 December 2014 in its new home, the King's Cross Theatre. There will be a press night on 14 January 2015 and the production is currently booking until 1 March 2015.

The legendary performer talks about her upcoming film, OFFER AND COMPROMISE, and about her current television roles, as well as the delight of villainy in WICKED

Laura Pedersen, renowned author, is the playwright for Brightness of Heaven no onstage at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre in New York City through December 14th. Broadwayworld.com had the opportunity to interview Pedersen about some of her inspirations, her fascinating career and the show.