The reunion of the heavy-metal act Black Sabbath suffered another personnel problem as the drummer Bill Ward said he was feeling "ostracized" from the group and wanted an arrangement that "recognizes and is reflective of my contributions to the band."

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Fans of "American Idol" breathed a sigh of relief as the shows devoted to mass auditions ended last night and the program moves on to the winnowing phase in Hollywood next week.

The Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth on Thursday night assured the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" that the show would open on Broadway in April as planned, despite the departure of two of its lead producers.

In his first appearance with the Royal Ballet, Mr. Gomes will dance the role of Oberon in Frederick Ashton's "The Dream" opposite Alina Cojocaru.

"Fantastic Four: Season One" is the first in a series of graphic novels that chronicle the beginnings of Marvel's heroes like Spider-Man and the X-Men. George Gene Gustines and Adam W. Kepler review the Marvel offering.

Three short plays by Foote, who died in 2009 at the age 92, will be performed together July 24-Sept. 15 under the direction of Pam MacKinnon ("Clybourne Park").

The Oak Room is not in the plans for the Algonquin Hotel when it reopens in May after renovations.

The three-part interview with Joyce DeWitt will appeal to "Three's Company" fetishists, though there's no dish to speak of, and no discussion of why the two stars didn't speak for three decades beyond Ms. Somers's comment that "there's been ick in the air."

Blue Rider Press has acquired "Siri & Me," a new work of fiction by David Milgrim, about a 29-year-old writer and blogger who falls in love with the woman living inside his iPhone.

The tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.

David Steinberg on why stand-up comedians aren't necessarily stable and why Canadian comics are so funny.

Mike Kelley, the multi-media post-Conceptual artist with a punk rocker sensibility was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, his dealer, confirmed.

His latest release is the ferocious mixtape "DirteeTV.com," which also features artists from his Dirtee Stank label.

"House of Lies," a new show about ruthless management consultants, has had a strong start, and the naughty series "Shameless" and "Californication" have both seen their audiences increase over previous seasons.

The post-holiday lull in new record releases is over and as seven new albums showed up in the top 10, Billboard reported.

A curator at the New York Public Library minutely analyzes the floppy disks left behind by Jonathan Larson, creator of the mega-hit musical "Rent.''

A copy of the Mona Lisa thought to have been made much later than the original seems to have been made at the same time.

The producer Scott Rudin has dropped out of his involvement with "Clybourne Park," expected to open on Broadway in April and contend for the 2012 Tony Award for best play.

The novelist Paul Auster said in an interview that he would not visit Turkey because of its jailing of writers and journalists, which prompted a mocking response from the Turkish prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan.