Monday, 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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:56PM[SHARE]George 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 entitl…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 show…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:05PM[SHARE]Paula 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 role…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:33PM[SHARE]After 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 11:30AM[SHARE]Warner 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 08:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Center…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Billy Porter will receive the 2024 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for his dedication and contributions as an activist and spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ communities. The honor, announced Tue…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:05PM[SHARE]Robert Downey Jr. is making his Broadway debut this fall in a new play by Ayad Akhtar. The new play, called McNeal, will see Downey portraying a talented writer who grapples with a new n…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:41PM[SHARE]Disney is exploring licensing some more of its content. "We're already doing some licensing with Netflix, and we're looking selectively at other possibilities. I don't want to declare that i…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:51AM[SHARE]Disney plans to add an ESPN tile to Disney+ as it prepares to launch its new standalone ESPN streaming service. The tile will be added by the end of the calendar year, Disney CEO Bob Ige…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
The new musical Lempicka announced that it will play its final performance on May 19, about one month after it opened on Broadway. The musical, about the life of artist Tamara de Lempick…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:11PM[SHARE]Live Nation reported first quarter revenue of $3.8 billion, up 21 percent year over year, propelled by continued fan demand, alongside an operating loss of $37 million after operating income…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:27PM[SHARE]Jessica Casano-Antonellis is leaving SiriusXM to head up communications at the new sports joint venture formed by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. She will be senior vice president of…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PM[SHARE]Alex Edelman is among the honorees being presented a special Tony Award for his comedy show, Just for Us, which debuted on Broadway in June 2023. Edelman's one-man show, which ran throug…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:47AM[SHARE]Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will come to Broadway in the new comedy, The Roommate, by Jen Silverman. The play, directed by Jack O'Brien, will begin performances on Aug. 29, with an offic…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Harvey Weinstein is looking at a new trial in New York after Labor Day. The former Hollywood mogul appeared in court in New York Wednesday for the first time since his 2020 rape conviction w…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:51PM[SHARE]Eddie Redmayne received his second Tony Award nomination Tuesday, for his role as the shape-shifting Emcee in the Broadway revival of Cabaret. It's a role the actor, known for leading fi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Alicia Keys was doing a meditation Tuesday morning to try to stay calm amid some nerves ahead of the Tony nominations announcement. After finishing the meditation, Keys said she received…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:05PM[SHARE]Stereophonic became the most nominated play in Tony Awards history on Monday, scoring a surprisingly strong 13 nominations, including acting nods for almost the entire cast. Several other sh…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:23AM[SHARE]The Alicia Keys musical Hell's Kitchen and new play Stereophonic, about a fictional band in the 1970s, led the Tony nominations with 13 nominations each. The Outsiders, a musical based o…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:17AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
In a memo to employees Monday, Chris McCarthy, George Cheeks and Brian Robbins, who are together running Paramount after the ouster of CEO Bob Bakish, thanked Bakish for his tenure at the…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
Roku reported total net revenue of $882 million in the first quarter, up 19 percent year over year. Both platform revenue and devices revenue saw a year-over-year increase of 19 percent in t…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:29PM[SHARE]Arthur Aidala, Harvey Weinstein's lawyer in the appellate case, opened the first press conference after the former Hollywood mogul's rape conviction in New York was overturned saying that hi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:44PM[SHARE]A new Harry Potter audiobook series is coming to Audible. As part of a partnership with Pottermore Publishing and Audible, the two will release seven new English language audiobooks sche…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:34AM[SHARE]On a recent tour of the Disney Imagineering headquarters in Glendale, Calif., Larry Smoot, a Disney research fellow, appeared to be walking in place, as each tile on a small patch of floorin…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Meta reported first quarter revenue of $36.5 billion, up 27 percent from the year-earlier period and above Wall Street expectations. The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and more,…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:22PM[SHARE]Jarret Myer, Rich Antoniello and will.i.am have formed UPROXX Studios, after acquiring Uproxx, HipHopDX, Dime Magazine and other media assets from Warner Music Group. The studio will also…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:41AM[SHARE]Oh, Mary!, the Off-Broadway comedy hit about Mary Todd Lincoln, is transferring to Broadway for a 12-week engagement this summer. The show, written by and starring Cole Escola as Mary, w…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:16AM[SHARE]Marla Mindelle, who starred in and co-created the Off-Broadway hit Titanique, is debuting her new musical The Big Gay Jamboree Off-Broadway this fall. The show is co-written by Mindelle …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tubi, Fox's free, ad-supported streamer, has partnered with British streaming service DAZN to add new channels featuring live and recorded women's football, or soccer, as its known in the U.…
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