“Ruined,” Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set against the backdrop of an African civil war, has been named best play of the season by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle.

“9 to 5″ has set a Drama Desk record and it hasn’t even won any awards yet.

Big Drama is out of the running for the Kentucky Derby after kicking himself in his stall in January.

The birds flew majestically, in perfect formation, and the co-pilot saw them coming.

Michael Chiklis didn’t lose any money in the escalating Bernard Madoff scandal. But he did fall victim to another Ponzi scheme early this year. And now, sadder but wiser, he’s developing a TV series fueled by his experience.

The public adored him, but the judges hated him. One called him a “dancing pig in Cuban heels.”

Retired BBC political correspondent John Sergeant has waltzed off the British TV talent show “Strictly Come Dancing,” saying he is afraid he might win.

It’s the Mideast version of a sordid soap opera. A Lebanese pop star is brutally murdered in her luxury Dubai apartment, her throat slashed. Arrested in her death: One of Egypt’s most politically connected businessmen, accused of paying $2 million to have

“South Pacific,” the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, was the big winner Sunday at the Drama Desk Awards, picking up five prizes including best musical revival.”August: Osage County,” Tracy Letts’ tale of a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, was chosen...

“August: Osage County,” Tracy Letts’ look at a dysfunctional Oklahoma family headed by an acidulous matriarch, was named best play Monday by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle.”Passing Strange,” one man’s journey through sex, drugs and rock ‘n’...