Mandy Patinkin

New York Philharmonic and Broadway stars celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday. The ladies in red brought down the house.

NEW YORK (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.

NEW YORK (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.

Hyundai swaps out Jeff Bridges voiceovers for Oscar ads to satisfy Academy rule on nominees. Having Jeff Bridges do a voiceover during the Oscars?

Summary Box: Hyundai swaps out Jeff Bridges voiceovers for Oscars to meet Academy rules. THE PROBLEM: Hyundai is switching actor Jeff Bridges' voice from ads to air during the Oscars show to satisfy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rules on using nominees in ads during the broadcast.

NEW HAVEN - Anne Frank the person has by now been almost completely obscured by Anne Frank the icon: the pure, abstracted image onto which we project a slew of thoughts and feelings about the Holocaust and its slaughter of innocents. So it's ingenious of Rinne Groff to represent Anne in her new play, ``Compulsion,'' not by a live actor but by a puppet. That choice might offend if ``Compulsion,'' now receiving its premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre, were a play about Anne Frank, but it isn't. It's a play about a play about Anne Frank, or more precisely about two plays about Anne Frank: the well-known one by the Hollywood scriptwriters who also gave us ``It's a Wonderful Life'' and ``Father of the Bride,'' and an almost unknown one by the novelist Meyer Levin, whose bitterness over his treatment by Anne's father, her diary's publishers, and his rival playwrights led to the lifelong obsession that is Groff's real interest here. Levin is perhaps best remembered for his own lightly fictiona

Today is Monday, November 30, the 334th day of 2009. There are 31 days left in the year.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Five weeks into the new 2009-10 television season, three of the four major U.S. networks are seeing surprisingly bigger audiences than last year and fewer embarrassing flops.

Mandy Patinkin is returning to CBS ? and he's bringing a personal story line with him.

Mandy Patinkin returns to CBS as guest star on medical drama `Three Rivers'. Mandy Patinkin is returning to CBS ? and he's bringing a personal story line with him.