John Guare

Ben Stiller and Edie Falco star in director David Cromer’s Broadway production of "The House of Blue Leaves." BROADWAY REVIEW: "The House of Blue Leaves" at the Walter Kerr Theatre; 212-239-6200 or www.houseofblueleaves.com NEW YORK — In his...

Jennifer Jason Leigh will join the previously announced Ben Stiller and Edie Falco in David Cromer's Hollywood star-laden, upcoming Broadway production of John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves." Leigh plays Bunny Flingus; Stiller is Artie Shaughnessy;...

First, Will Smith put his son, Jayden, in a remake of "The Karate Kid." Now the actor-producer is looking to create a star vehicle for his daughter, Willow, in the form of a new, big-screen version of the stage musical......

Harold Gould, a veteran character actor who played con man Kid Twist in the 1973 movie "The Sting," Valerie Harper's father on TV's "Rhoda" and Betty White's boyfriend on "The Golden Girls," has died. He was 86. Gould, who also was known for his stage...

-- Real-estate woes: The Chelsea Art Museum in New York has shut its doors for the remainder of August as it fights the possibility of foreclosure on its home. (Wall Street Journal) -- Celebrity art: Bob Dylan will unveil a......

-- Lineup: New York's Lincoln Center Theater has announced three Broadway productions for the 2010-11 season, including John Guare's "A Free Man of Color," the musical "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and the British play "War Horse."......

OF THE three buildings that make up architect Welton Becket's original Music Center on Bunker Hill -- the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion -- it is the smallest of the group, the Taper, that can make the most...

Theater this year had a hard time competing with real-life drama (the melodramatic collapse of the economy; Barack Obama's stirring, historic victory; and, for heart-attack-inducing suspense, Rafael Nadal's superhuman defeat of Roger Federer in the...

Stephen Sondheim and Georges Seurat. John Guare and Wassily Kandinsky. Edward Albee and Louise Nevelson. Throughout theater history, writers have mined the works and biographies of artists to create such vastly different dramas as "Sunday in the Park...

GROPING for a comfortable moral in John Guare's classic black comedy "The House of Blue Leaves," which opened Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum in a sensational revival directed by Nicholas Martin, is a little like asking an escaped felon for some friendly...

Touring the newly renovated Mark Taper Forum a few weeks before its official unveiling was a bit like standing at the crossroads between the past and the future. It wasn't merely the sight of stage carpenters readying the set for "The House of Blue...

It's a truism of the theater: Nuns are funny. Just ask Nicholas Martin, director of John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves," the inaugural production of the newly remodeled Mark Taper Forum, reopening Saturday after a $30-million makeover. "It's true....