Phylicia Rashad is joining the cast of HBO's The Gilded Age for season three, alongside several other Broadway stars. Rashad, a two-time Tony Award winner and Emmy winner for her role on…
Andrew Rannells will no longer star in Tammy Faye on Broadway. Speaking on the red carpet ahead of the Tony Awards, Rannells told CBS that he would no longer be involved in the musical, whic…
Stereophonic won the Tony for best play Sunday, one of the five Tony Awards the most nominated play in Tonys history earned during the 2024 edition of the Broadway ceremony. The play, writte…
Jeremy Strong and Daniel Radcliffe both took home their first Tony Awards on Sunday, as two of many Hollywood contenders up for awards at the 77th Annual Tonys. Strong took home the Tony…
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performed their hit "Empire State of Mind" at the 2024 Tony Awards as part of a colorful and energetic number showcasing Keys' best musical contender, Hell's Kitchen.Â…
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren will star in The Last Five Years on Broadway in spring 2025. The revival of the musical, which features a score and book by Jason Robert Brown, will be dir…
Rapper Nas is working on a musical stage adaptation of the classic hip-hop film Beat Street. Nas will work to expand and create new material from the film's soundtrack for the musical, a…
Idina Menzel is slated to return to Broadway in 2025. Menzel will appear in the new musical Redwood, which she co-conceived with Tina Landau, who directed the production and wrote the bo…
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 Ari…
Sam 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…
The 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 1…
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…
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 right…
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 new …
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 Broad…
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 Award…
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 g…
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 …
At 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…
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 of…
Prosecutors 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…
Tony 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…
Vox 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 Nati…
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 ov…
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…