Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Last year, Tony Awards producers Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner had the challenge of putting on the live ceremony without a written script, amid the writer’s strike, with the aid of host A…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:29PMSam Rockwell and Mark Berger of Play Hooky Productions are planning to adapt a book about middleweight boxing champion Marvin Hagler into a feature film. Play Hooky secured the rights to D…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMThe musical & Juliet announced the recoupment of its $17 million capitalization. The show, which is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set to a score of pop hits, recouped as of April 14,…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:38AMMonday, June 10, 2024
The Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People, starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, has recouped its $5.5 million capitalization. The milestone, announced by producers Seaview, Pat…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:37PMSaturday, June 8, 2024
Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois had been a formative album for director and choreographer Justin Peck, and so when it came to reinterpreting it for the stage, Peck felt a responsibility to do rig…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:25AMThursday, June 6, 2024
Dolly Parton will bring a musical about her life and career to Broadway in 2026. The musical, entitled Hello, I’m Dolly, will feature a score of Parton’s well-known songs as well as ne…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Broadway had been making progress toward an industrywide recovery, but new data shows halted momentum in the most recent season. According to data from the industry trade group The Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:05AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar will host the Tony Awards preshow on June 16. The preshow, entitled The Tony Awards: Act One, features a presentation of the first round of Tony Awards …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:00PMFriday, May 31, 2024
The Tribeca Festival will feature five short films made using technology from OpenAI. The films will use OpenAI’s Sora, which is a text-to-video model that accepts textual descriptions and…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMThursday, May 30, 2024
S&P Global has revised its outlook on Live Nation Entertainment to negative from stable following the antitrust lawsuit filed against them by the U.S. Department of Justice. The rati…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:39AMAt the Fox upfront on May 13, the network’s free ad-supported streaming service, Tubi, got just as much stage time as its traditional broadcast channels. Those so-called FAST platforms ar…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:05AMWednesday, May 29, 2024
Audra McDonald will reopen Broadway’s Majestic Theatre with a new production of Gypsy. McDonald will play Rose, one of the top roles in musical theater, which has been played by the likes …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:30PMProsecutors in the Harvey Weinstein case say they may issue a new indictment against the former mogul, as there may be more women who come out against him. “Some people who were not read…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:59PMTony Award winner LaChanze is launching her own multimedia production company. The company, LaChanze Productions, will seek to produce Broadway and other commercial theater projects, with an…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PMVox Media and The Atlantic have become the latest publishers to strike a deal with OpenAI. At Vox Media, which owns Vox, The Verge, Eater, New York Magazine, The Cut, Vulture and SB Nation…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:26AMFriday, May 24, 2024
Brooke Shields has been elected president of the Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents about 51,000 actors and stage managers on Broadway and nationwide. Shields prevailed …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:28AMThursday, May 23, 2024
At a critical moment for the entertainment company, Paramount Global and cable TV giant Charter Communications have a deal. Paramount, which owns CBS, Paramount+, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, N…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:27PMSiriusXM has struck a podcast partnership agreement with NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media. The agreement gives SiriusXM exclusive advertising rights to Dirty Mo’s prog…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Live Nation President and CFO Joe Bechtold provided an update on the Department of Justice’s investigation into the company’s business practices, amid rumblings of a potential lawsuit. …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:51AMDavid Adjmi did not intend to re-enter the world of theater. With a handful of credits under his belt, Adjmi had sworn off playwriting after a high-stakes collaboration fell apart. Then, as …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:05AMFriday, May 17, 2024
Sutton Foster will star in Once Upon a Mattress on Broadway this summer. The production, a new adaptation by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Amy Sherman-Palladino, moves to Broadway after a …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AMThursday, May 16, 2024
The CW announced its fall lineup Thursday, with the return of Superman & Lois, two new game shows based on classic board games and the new scripted entry Joan, a limited series starring …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:27PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
CNN will host the first debate between President Biden and former President Trump on June 27. The debate will air live at 9pm ET from CNN’s Atlanta studios. No audience will be present to …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:22AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Darren Criss will return to Broadway this fall in the new musical Maybe Happy Ending. The musical features music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Hue Park, a book by Aronson and Park and directi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMMonday, May 13, 2024
Melinda French Gates is resigning as co-chair of the non-profit organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates co-founded the foundation with her then-husband, Microsoft co-f…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:56PMGeorge Clooney will make his Broadway acting and playwriting debut next spring in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film about journalist Edward R. Murrow. In the play, which is also entitled…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:00PMThursday, May 9, 2024
Directors Jack O’Brien and George C. Wolfe will each receive a 2024 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Wolfe is a five-time Tony-Award winning director, helming sh…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:05PMPaula Vogel’s Mother Play is Jessica Lange’s fourth Broadway show, among the many other film and television projects that have populated her decades-long career. But unlike her past ro…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:33PMAfter many years of double-digit growth, U.S. podcasting advertising revenue growth slowed down in 2023. But there is hope ahead. Per a new Interactive Advertising Bureau study, released Thu…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:30AMWarner Music Group reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $1.5 billion, up 7 percent from a year ago, and net income of $96 million, up from $37 million a year ago. While both numbers saw…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:19AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
American Express will host an outdoor simulcast event for the Tony Awards on June 16. The “Broadway Fanfare” event will take place in Damrosch Park, an outdoor area on the Lincoln Cent…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM 
