Enjoy a night out with friends! Good music, a little laughter, maybe some dancing! All provided by the diversely talented members of The Little Theatre Group and producer Barry Slutskin. 7:30pm Friday 8th February in the Shakespeare Bar (Avenida 2, Calle 28). This will be an evening of lighthearted cabaret, that will feature musicians: Jim Trollinger, Silvia Schneegans, Mati Seth Bertucci, ...

Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez will perform a concert on April 12 in Costa Rica's Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, after 23 years of absence from the national scene, the organizers reported here today. According to companies Ariel Rivas Entertainment and Evenpro, Rodriguez, composer of over 500 songs, will arrive in Costa Rica with a team of about 25 people, including eight musicians who wil...

Miley Cyrus and fiance Liam Hemsworth dodged the cold weather last week to celebrate Liam's birthday in Costa Rica. A pair of fansites snapped photos of the two enjoying some time with friends at a secluded river. Cyrus was spotted in a bikini in the middle of six friends by freshCyrus. They look a little cold, but at least they seem to be having fun. Another shot was taken by TeamMiley with th...

Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:08pm EST (Reuters) - "Zero Dark Thirty," Hollywood's re-telling of the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden, captured the No. 1 spot on movie box office charts over the weekend with $24 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales. The movie starring Jessica Chastain as a dogged CIA agent edged out horror movie spoof "A Haunted House," which fi...

Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:10am EST (Reuters) - The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards for film and television will be handed out on Sunday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Presidential drama "Lincoln" goes into Sunday's ceremony with seven nominations, followed by Iran hostage movie "Argo" and Quentin Tarantino's slavery-era "Django Unchained" with five apiece....

Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:31am EST (Reuters) - Miss New York won the 2013 Miss America crown on Saturday at the annual pageant which tapped into the reality TV format by incorporating fan participation that pulled one contestant into the semifinals. Mallory Hytes Hagan, 23, scored in the talent competition with a tap dance to James Brown's "Get Up Offa That Thing," and ...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:56pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Pictures executive Amy Pascal lashed out on Friday at a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) who accused Osama bin Laden film "Zero Dark Thirty" of promoting torture and urged fellow Academy members not to vote for it in the Oscars race. In a strongly wor...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:45pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Britney Spears on Friday called it quits with both fiancé Jason Trawick and as a celebrity judge on "The X Factor" talent show. Spears, 31, and Trawick, 41 - her former agent - got engaged in December 2011."Jason and I have decided to call off our engagement," Spears said in a sta...

WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:15pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - R&B singer Alicia Keys, country guitar slinger Brad Paisley and pop star Katy Perry are some of the A-list performers who will entertain partygoers at President Barack Obama's inaugural celebration, organizers said on Friday. Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, two prominent elder statesm...

Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:26pm EST (Reuters) - Hollywood's landmark Grauman's Chinese Theatre has a new name after a Chinese company purchased naming rights to the famous movie house and tourist destination. The one-time site of the Academy awards will now be called the TCL Chinese Theatre following a 10-year deal with Chinese TV maker TCL Corp, its owners said on Frida...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:34pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Evan Rachel Wood said on Friday that she and her husband, British actor Jamie Bell, are expecting their first child. "Thanks for all your warm wishes," Wood, 25, wrote on her Twitter account. "We are very happy. I'm gonna be a mama!"Moments earlier, Wood posted a picture of the pre...

By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES | Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:32pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As one of the entertainment industry's most sought-after photographers, Kevin Mazur is training his lens on fellow photographers who traffic in the high-stakes game of capturing images of Hollywood stars as they go about their everyday lives. Mazur, a Rolling Stone ...

By Mike Collett-White LONDON | Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:53am EST LONDON (Reuters) - The first official portrait of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known by her former name Kate Middleton, was unveiled in London on Friday, and opinion was sharply divided over an image many deemed unflattering. The 31-year-old, who as a glamorous future queen i...

One of my favorite year end activities is watching the local version of the bulls. Ticos have developed their own version of bull fighting where the bull is the aggressor and the fans or “improvised bullfighters” try to get as close as possible without injury. The best runs feature a few poor souls running for their lives and possibly being tossed or trampled but hopefully with no serious inju...

By Christine Kearney NEW YORK | Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:22am EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jessica Chastain carries the weight of starring in one of the year's most anticipated films, "Zero Dark Thirty," about the decade-long hunt and eventual killing of Osama bin Laden. Critics say Chastain pulls it off s...

LOS ANGELES | Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:14pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The premiere for Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Django Unchained," a violent spaghetti Western slave revenge tale, was canceled on Monday in the wake of the school shooting in Connecticut last week, the film's studio said. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the tragedy i...

LOS ANGELES | Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:59pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - While this year's pop charts have been dominated by young singers, it is veteran music stars, led by Madonna, who are commanding big money in tour ticket sales, according to a new Billboard list released on Tuesday. Madonna, 54, topped Billboard's list of highest-grossing live tours, earni...

By Liana B. Baker Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:30pm EST (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable TV distributor in the United States, said on Tuesday it is planning to drop arts-focused cable channel Ovation, citing its low ratings relative to the cost of carrying the network. Time Warner Cable said in a statement that Ovation is one of its "poorest ...

By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES | Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:21pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Days after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, actress Naomi Watts took part in a fundraising telethon spearheaded by George Clooney to help the region's hundreds of thousands of people in 14 nations whose lives were shattered. Little did Watts know that eigh...

LONDON | Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:31pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - With the imminent opening of its third home venue, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky opera and ballet will ramp up an already prodigious output but may ease back on hectic foreign touring, director Valery Gergiev said on Tuesday. World audiences have come to know Gergiev and his company well as they crissc...

By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES | Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:16am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Slapstick trio The Three Stooges kept Americans laughing for more than 40 years - and gave fan Jim Pauley what has turned into a lifelong obsession. After a quest of more than a decade and hours of old-fashioned sleuthing, Pauley has published "The Three Stooges: Ho...

LOS ANGELES | Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:15pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese will get up close and personal with Bill Clinton in a documentary about the former U.S. president, cable channel HBO said on Monday. The documentary, which has full cooperation from Clinton, promises to delve into the two-term Democrat's views on poli...

By Christine Kearney NEW YORK | Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:13pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow could have made a testosterone-fueled shoot-'em-up Hollywood version of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Instead, she and screenwriter Mark Boal turned "Zero Dark Thirty" into a more complex look at the decade-long hu...

By Patricia Reaney and Lisa Richwine Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:08pm EST (Reuters) - "The Hobbit" brought home a big box office treasure over the weekend, setting a December movie record with $84.77 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales as legions of fans turned out for the long-awaited big-screen return to Middle Earth. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" al...

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK | Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:11pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fashion designer Carly Cushnie, actress Kate McKinnon and videogame creator Kim Swift may not be household names yet, but they are destined to do great things and will be tomorrow's young stars, Forbes magazine said on Monday. Along with Olympic Gold medalist gymnast ...

LOS ANGELES | Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:23pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A two-day sale of clothing, jewelry and other memorabilia belonging to reclusive movie star Greta Garbo fetched $1.6 million, more than three times the original estimate, according to Julien's Auctions. Garbo's Louis Vuitton streamer trunk, which sold for $37,500, was among the top sellers...

Sun Dec 16, 2012 1:41pm EST LOS ANGELES, Dec 16 - Following are the top 10 movies at North American box offices for the three-day weekend starting December 14, led by "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at No. 1, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. 1 (*) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey........$84.77 million2 (2) The Rise of the Guardians............

LOS ANGELES | Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:04am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kelly Clarkson, who became the first contestant to win "American Idol" a decade ago and went on to several chart-topping successes, has gotten engaged to her boyfriend, the singer said in a Twitter message on Saturday. Clarkson, 30, previously revealed she had been dating talent manager Br...

By John Irish PARIS | Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:03am EST PARIS (Reuters) - Actor Gerard Depardieu, accused by French government leaders of trying to dodge taxes by buying a house over the border in Belgium, retorted that he was leaving because "success" was now being punished in his homeland. A popular and colourful figure in France, the 63-year-old Dep...

By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:46pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - There is a crazy family living at the White House, but it's not the Obamas. It's the Gilchrists, whose never-ending follies pulse and push upcoming TV comedy romp "1600 Penn." Starring Bill Pullman as U.S. President Dale Gilchrist and Jenna Elfman as his first lady, ...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:10pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Newcomer British boy band One Direction joined R&B diva Rihanna and British singer Adele to top Billboard's year-end music charts, released on Friday. One Direction, who topped the Billboard 200 album chart twice this year with their debut, "Up All Night" in March and their sophomore a...

NEW YORK | Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:09pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A piano used in the classic film "Casablanca" sold for just over $600,000 on Friday, falling far short of predictions that it could fetch $1 million or more. The 58-key upright piano on which actor and singer Dooley Wilson performed "As Time Goes By," the signature song of the 1942 film's star-c...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:16pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An auction of film legend Greta Garbo's belongings got off to a roaring start on Friday, with her clothing, jewelry and other memorabilia fetching more than ten times pre-sale estimates in many cases. Bidding was brisk and high as more than 800 items belonging to the reclusive Swedish actr...

By Lisa Richwine Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:52pm EST (Reuters) - The first of three "Hobbit" movies kicked off its box office quest with an estimated $13 million in ticket sales from showings at U.S. and Canadian theaters just after midnight on Friday, a record for a December debut. The performance topped the $8 million from midnight sales for December 2003 film ...

LOS ANGELES | Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:04pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - L.A. Reid, "The X Factor" judge, says he is leaving the TV talent show next season after two years on the panel. Reid, 56, chairman and chief executive of Epic Records, told "Access Hollywood," the television program and website, he has decided to leave the Fox reality singing show to retu...

By Naomi O'Leary ROME | Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:07am EST ROME (Reuters) - A lighthearted Christmas comedy film that stormed Italian box offices this winter is the vehicle for an unusual sponsor: a funeral home. It is a sign of how Italian cinema, traditionally reliant on public funds that have halved since the 2007-2008 financial crisis, is seeking d...

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES | Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:34am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It has taken 10 years of hard work and indie movies, but Ben Affleck finally has moved past his "Bennifer" nightmare. Affleck, 40, once a tabloid staple who risked becoming a laughingstock during his romance with Jennifer Lopez and their movie flop "Gigli," is back...

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES | Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:52am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Civil War-era drama "Lincoln" led the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday with seven nods including best drama, best director for Steven Spielberg, and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis. Following the film among top nominees for the Hollywood awards were Iran h...

BERLIN | Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:31am EST BERLIN (Reuters) - The Berlin film festival on Thursday announced the first movies of its 2013 lineup, and among the main competition entries will be U.S. director Gus Van Sant's drama starring Matt Damon and centering around the controversial shale gas industry. "Promised Land" will have its international premiere at...

By Christine Kearney and Edith Honan NEW YORK | Thu Dec 13, 2012 5:35am EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and the Rolling Stones joined with actors and comedians in headlining a benefit concert on Wednesday for victims of Superstorm Sandy, which six weeks ago devastated scores of communities along the coastline of the U.S. ...