Jerome Robbins

The next few weeks of dance will combine works by established masters with original pieces by rising stars. In separate fall outings, both the Joffrey Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago are blending old and new, a tried-and-true programming recipe....

MIAMI CITY BALLET Mercuric Tidings: Dec. 5-7, Kravis; Jan. 9-11, Arsht; Jan. 16-18, Broward Center; In the Night and Symphony in C: March 13-15, Broward Center; March 27-29, Kravis ; April 3-5, Arsht; special performances with the Cleveland Orchestra,...

NEW YORK (AP) _ The highly anticipated revival of "West Side Story" has found a theater and set an opening date on Broadway. The classic New York musical about the Sharks, the Jets and the ill-fated love affair involving two people caught between the...

The highly anticipated revival of West Side Story has found a theater and set an opening date on Broadway. The classic New York musical about the Sharks, the Jets and the ill-fated love affair involving two people caught between the gangs will open March...

A UCLA astronomer who is pioneering ways to minimize image distortion caused by the Earth's atmosphere and a Caltech physicist developing quantum computing are among the 25 winners of the 2008 MacArthur awards announced today. The winners, cited for...

Its long, rich history notwithstanding, the San Francisco Ballet that arrives at the Harris Theater on Tuesday is very much the House of Helgi. Acclaimed artistic director Helgi Tomasson took over the venerable company nearly a quarter of a century ago,...

Everybody loves a new home. But when it's the Joffrey Ballet relocating to a shiny new skyscraper boasting the troupe's name, with full-length glass windows overlooking State Street, that theme from TV's "The Jeffersons" comes to mind: They finally...

"Once on This Island," a tale of love and redemption in the Caribbean, marks a new beginning for L.A.'s leading presenter of old musicals. "Island," which opens Wednesday at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, is the first show of Reprise Theatre Company's first...

West Side Story returns to Broadway in 2009. The classic New York musical about the Sharks, the Jets and the ill-fated love affair involving a young man and woman caught between the gangs opens in March, producers Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander and...

Traditional or not traditional? That is the question when directors mount productions of William Shakespeare's plays. Over the decades, theater, movie and even television versions of the Bard's plays have defied convention, some turning them into...

The Joffrey Ballet's lineup for this year's outing at the Ravinia Festival boasts a couple of works seen last spring, but has its share of interesting pieces not seen downtown for a while, too. Among the latter, the Aug. 16 program will include an...

FOR HALF an hour on a late May afternoon, Damian Woetzel had the New York State Theater stage to himself. Although odd noises emerged from the wings as stagehands went about their business, Woetzel, in a T-shirt and stretch pants, focused intently on...