It's just been announced that Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave are returning to the stage this October to star opposite one another in the Broadway premiere of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy. Redgrave was last seen on Broadway in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, while Jones made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning play Sunrise at Campobello in 1958, and won a Tony for his performance in original Broadway production of Fences (Denzel Washington just won a Tony for his performance in the same role.) more ›

Yesterday, Natasha Richardson's husband Liam Neeson, their 12- and 13-year-old sons and other relatives were comforted by friends, including Diane Sawyer, Lauren Bacall, and Ralph Fiennes, at the American Irish Historical Society, where a wake was held for the 45-year-old actress. Richardson passed away on Wednesday, after suffering a brain injury while skiing in Quebec on Monday; the Daily Mail reported that Richardson's mother Vanessa Redgrave sang "Edelweiss" before she was taken off life support. Richardson is expected to be buried near her and Neeson's weekend house in upstate New York. Yesterday, the NY Times found a three-hour difference between ambulance records and the ski resort's account, raising questions about whether a quicker response might have changed her condition. more ›

Last night TMZ reported that Natasha Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, was seen entering Lenox Hill Hospital to visit her daughter sometime just before 9 p.m. Richardson, a Tony-winning stage and film actress was transported to New York yesterday after suffering a brain injury during a skiing accident in Canada. more ›

THEATER: At the end of December 2003, with her daughter in an induced-coma brought on by septic shock from a fatal bout with pneumonia, Joan Didion’s husband John Gregory Dunne unexpectedly died during dinner. Her struggle to navigate the subsequent minefields of grief formed the basis for her best-selling memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. She’s now adapted the book into a one-woman play of the same name, directed by David Hare and starring Vanessa Redgrave. (Photo of Didion and her late husband.) - John Del Signore more ›

MOVIE: Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island is...a real movie! With a plot and everything! Wanna hear it?: "Jack Jones, a pledge in Zeta Alpha Rho Fraternity must battle homophobia and a killer clown during his fraternity's Hell Night." Sounds pretty deep. more ›

Wallace Shawn has long enjoyed a fruitful career as a character actor in mainstream movies (Clueless, Princess Bride, Chicken Little). He also happens to be one of the world’s most significant dissident writers. His plays The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and The Fever – to name just a few – have garnered much praise (and controversy) for their unflinching examinations of brutality. Shawn’s plays are political but not polemical; through his writing he questions everyone’s complicity – liberal intellectuals especially – in the horrors unleashed out of sight and out of mind. more ›

has been building. Maybe it's merely the oddity of combining Garrison Keillor's radio program, Altman's usual troop of amazing character actors and the teen starlet that has people intrigued but it finally hits general theatrical release. Besides a blonde LIndsay trying to hold her own with the likes of Lily Tomlin and Kevin Kline, it should be fun to see Streep behind the mic, as apparently she and many other cast members sing in the film. more ›