Playbill - Raúl Esparza, Edward Hibbert, John Ellison Conlee and Jeff Blumenkrantz will join the previously announced Tony Award winners Donna Murphy and Sutton Foster in the City Center Encores! production of Anyone Can Whistle. -- read full article
Reuters - Christie's has put a record price tag on an important Picasso painting from his celebrated Blue Period that will be offered for sale in London in June. -- read full article
Reuters - Ugandan security forces killed two people and wounded five on Wednesday after fire destroyed historic royal tombs, heightening tension between the government and the powerful Bugandan kingdom.
Playbill - The New York City premiere Marisa Wegrzyn's Killing Women, a dark comedy about corporate America, will play May 13-June 5 at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. -- read full article
Reuters - Literary heavyweights Andrea Levy and Hilary Mantel are up against seven first-time novelists in the longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction honoring women writers in the English language. -- read full article
Reuters - Hysterical and tearful messages from Italians imploring Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to persevere after being attacked last year fill a new book that hits stores just as campaigning for regional elections steps up. -- read full article
Reuters - The discounted claims of an 18th century author to have re-shaped the words of Shakespeare into a play are finally being taken seriously by a respected publisher of the Bard's works nearly 300 years on. -- read full article
Reuters - Considering her scant film career and that her last stage appearance was more than half a century ago, actress Tallulah Bankhead has proven a surprisingly irresistible subject for stage biographies. -- read full article
Playbill - Prior to the Broadway arrival of Sondheim on Sondheim, the Attic Theatre in California presents the earlier Sondheim revue, Side by Side by Sondheim, beginning March 12. -- read full article
Reuters - The leading lights of U.S. musical theater will sing "Happy Birthday" to the great Broadway composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim on his 80th birthday in two New York Philharmonic concerts next week. -- read full article
Reuters - In a macabre echo of the punishments Belgian colonials once meted out to their Congolese laborers, a faded bronze statue of the explorer who carved out the country is missing two of his limbs. -- read full article
Reuters - The Bolivian woman who inspired Mario Vargas Llosa's 1977 novel "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," and married Peru's best-known writer when he was 19, has died at age 84.
