MrBallen Launches First Live Tour This Fall
Popular YouTuber and podcaster MrBallen will embark on his first live tour this fall. The tour, which kicks off Sept. 26 in Dallas, will see John Allen, aka MrBallen, share some of the true …
Popular YouTuber and podcaster MrBallen will embark on his first live tour this fall. The tour, which kicks off Sept. 26 in Dallas, will see John Allen, aka MrBallen, share some of the true …
"Tuition-free" is becoming the new buzzword, as several of the world's top drama schools plan to adopt that policy starting this fall, including the graduate programs at Juilliard and USC. T…
MoviePass, the movie subscription service, has received a new equity investment from Comcast's Forecast Labs. The investment from Forecast Labs, which is the consumer venture group withi…
Former pro athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are relaunching their sports and pop culture podcast A Touch More Live with Vox Media. The podcast was originally launched on Instagram by …
CAA has hired Elizabeth A. Morrison as its new global head of inclusion, recruiting and development. Morrison was previously chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer and vice presid…
Swept Away, a musical with a score by the Avett Brothers, will come to Broadway's Longacre Theatre this fall. The musical, which follows four survivors of a shipwreck in 1888 trying to s…
The Heart of Rock and Roll, a musical featuring a score by Huey Lewis, will abruptly end its run this Sunday. The musical includes pre-existing songs from Huey Lewis and the News but tel…
While Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' performance of "Empire State of Mind" at the Tony Awards Sunday was one of the ceremony's buzzy moments, it also sparked rumblings that their performance was pre…
Actors' Equity will stop issuing contracts for work on projects in development, effective immediately, as negotiations for a new contract have stalled. The union of actors and stage mana…
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…