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The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has tapped Jeffrey Finn, the Broadway producer behind shows including “An Act of God,” as its vice president of theater producing and progr…
The Broadway box office held steady last week, with the ups and downs at individual shows contributing to a slight overall rise in cumulative sales as one new title, “Falsettos,R…
Gordon Davidson, who in many ways shaped the Los Angeles theater scene as the head of the Center Theatre Group, died Oct. 2 at 83. Under his stewardship for nearly 40 years, CTG became a maj…
Variety raised a glass to “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Saturday night in celebration of the world premiere of “Hamilton’s America,” director Alex Horwi…
Ava DuVernay’s “13th” opened the 54th New York Film Festival with a jolt of topical urgency, shaking up tradition as the first documentary to kick off the festival and addr…
A slew of Broadway and Hollywood names have teamed up for a one-night only Broadway performance benefiting the Hillary Victory Fund, with Julia Roberts, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hugh Jackman a…
There's a movie hitting theaters this fall that pushes the technical limits of the filmmaking process to new extremes. But the filmmaker isn't using his tech in the service of an effects-lad…
The 2016 New York Film Festival is a big draw for the city’s movie lovers — and this year, it may attract a crowd of theater fans, too. From the premiere of a “Hamilton&…
The Complicite production of “The Encounter” opened on Broadway Sept. 29, following well-received productions at the Edinburgh International Festival and then in London. Ma…
The New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has launched a new series of initiatives aimed at combating the underrepresentation of women in the entertainment indu…
John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, is a familiar figure. He's the real-life equivalent of George Etherege's "Man of Mode" and Aphra Behn's "Rover" — a licentious anti-hero of t…
Splat! That’s playwright Neil LaBute with egg all over his face for penning “All the Ways to Say I Love You,” an embarrassingly clumsy one-act …
Elizabeth LeCompte, founding member and director of the Wooster Group, the pioneering experimental theater troupe, has won the 2016 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with a cash pr…
Garth Drabinsky, the Canadian stage producer who’s served jail time for fraud and forgery, has locked in plans for his comeback production. “Sousatzka,” a new musical…
Kevin Kline is set to return to Broadway in a new revival of “Present Laughter,” slipping into the St. James Theater for an April opening. Kline, who hasn’t been on Broadwa…
"Jackie," the biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy that picked up massive buzz at festivals in Venice and Toronto, has join the lineup of the 2016 New York Film Festival, where Pablo Larrain's film …
Tony Awards, a Pulitzer, “Star Wars”: Lin-Manuel Miranda has had a damn good year. With everything that’s so obviously gone swimmingly for him, it seems like few people …
Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t playing Dick Van Dyke’s character in “Mary Poppins Returns.” But according to the “Hamilton” creator, who goes into production on…
Lin-Manuel Miranda has long stumped for Hillary Clinton, but he explained why Donald Trump would be a dangerous president in a new interview with Variety. In a passionate conversation for th…
Lin-Manuel Miranda is standing in the graveyard behind Trinity Church, just a few feet from where Alexander Hamilton is buried. On the 212th anniversary of Hamilton's death, the playwrigh…
It’s official: Tony Award-winning British director Michael Grandage will direct Disney’s Broadway musical adaptation of “Frozen,” which is on track to open on B…
It looks like Broadway’s fall season has officially begun, with four plays starting previews last week and one of them — “The Front Page” — leaping int…
David Rabe ("Streamers," "Hurlyburly"), a playwright in the midst of a creative resurgence, delivers a heavy but fascinating drama on the futility of understanding human relationships in …
The live musical adaptation of Disney animated hit “Frozen” is said to be eyeing Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage (“Red”) and his frequent collaborator, d…
Broadway veterans Robert Ahrens and Chris Aniello have opened up Live Wire Theatrical Management, a new general management company for stage productions. The New York-based firm will focus o…
