NEW YORK — The long-running Broadway hit “The Book of Mormon” will close its doors through May 17 as its theater undergoes repairs after a fire shut down the musical. Performances are canceled through Sunday, May 17. Ticket holders for impacted performances will be notified via their point of purchase to receive refunds or reschedule….
Maybe out of fear of putting filmgoers to sleep, the sheep has not been much of a mainstay at the movies. There’s Charles Burnett’s lyrical classic “Killer of Sheep.” You could get creative and cite Chris Farley’s “Black Sheep.” But, really, this is the domain of “Shaun the Sheep,” the uber-charming Aardman Animation about the…
NEW YORK — The last decade has not been good for big-screen comedies. Hollywood studios nearly stopped making them. Horror became the in vogue genre. Laughs were out. Good comedies have kept being made, of course — it’s just taken a little more effort to find them. This month marks the 10th anniversary of “The…
Talking animal movies do not, on the whole, have the best reputation. Yes, there is “Babe,” but “Babe” is the exception. Most are pretty bad, whether it’s the uncanny effects, the shoddy storytelling or some horrifying combination of the two. Audiences have earned the right to be skeptical when something like “The Sheep Detectives” comes…
NEW YORK — A poet renowned for her insights into the natural world and our inner lives has received a $100,000 award. Marianne Boruch is this year’s winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize for “exceptional talent.” Judges praised Boruch’s work, including such collections as “Bestiary Dark” and “The Anti-Grief” as affirmations of human genius amid…
NEW YORK — When “The Nice Guys” debuted 10 years ago, the writing was on the wall for the big-screen comedy. It came out sandwiched between “Captain America: Civil War” and “X-Men: Apocalypse.” It opened against “Angry Birds.” The cartoon birds, Ryan Gosling has lamented, “just destroyed us.” “They’re just so angry,” Gosling once sighed….
NEW YORK — A few years ago, Ashley McBryde fell off the horse. “That’s not a figure of speech, sadly,” the country star told The Associated Press. “I was really, really badly hurt, and it was a bad enough injury that there was a chance that I wouldn’t have been able to perform ever again.”…
VIENNA — For more than a century, only conservators and experts could catch a close-up glimpse of early works by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in Vienna, but Klimt fans are now getting that opportunity on daily guided tours high up on scaffolding. The 10 oil paintings, which are on the 18-meter-high (60-foot-high) ceilings of the…
VENICE, Italy — The Venice Biennale previewed its 61st and most chaotic edition ever on Tuesday, just days after the unprecedented resignation of its jury over the participation of Israel and Russia undermined the very structure of the world’s oldest contemporary art exhibition. Tensions were evident as Ukrainian artists stood by a truck that had…
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Friends” memorabilia, artwork and other valuables from the estate of Matthew Perry are being put up for sale at an auction to benefit the charitable foundation established in the actor’s name soon after his 2023 death. The June 5 event put on by Heritage Auctions will benefit the…
