Theater
Sting Thanks Queen Elizabeth for Touching Off the Ambition Leading to Last Night's Broadway Opening of His Musical 'The Last Ship'
Mark Harmon and The CW Developing TV Series About Young William Shakespeare
The 'NCIS' star is branching out into producing -- and into the distant past. His new 'tale of black magic, romance and revenge' is set all the way back in the 1590s. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Leon Klinghoffer's Daughters Respond to Metropolitan Opera, John Adams' 'Death of Klinghoffer'
The Metropolitan Opera's new production of The Death of Klinghoffer, drew not only theater enthusiasts but a swarm of angry protesters, as well. The controversial performance, penned by minimalist composer John Adams, portrays the death of Leon Klinghoffer--a 69-year-old, wheelchair-bound Jewish American--by Palestinian hijackers while aboard a cruise with his wife in October 1985.
