"Good Canary" is a very good film. Trouble is, it's on stage. Directed for the third time by John Malkovich, after productions in French and Spanish, Zach Helm's boulevard tragicomedy is a f…
Arnon Milchan, the founder and chairman of New Regency, will receive the annual industry tribute at the 2016 Gotham Independent Film Awards, as part of a slate of Gotham tributes that alread…
Ramin Karimloo, who played Jean Valjean in the latest revival of “Les Miserables,” has been cast in “Anastasia,” the new Broadway musical based on 20th Century Fox…
“Allegiance,” the Broadway musical that starred George Takei in a four-month run last season, will come to movie theaters around the country in a one-night-only December scree…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the 31-year-old playwright who’s considered one of the theater world’s most important young creatives, is among the 23 artists and scientists to receive a…
The Marquis Theater seems to have found a profitable use for its Monday nights, with the Broadway venue — whose current tenant, “On Your Feet!,” is dark every Monday —…
The upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!,” featuring Bette Midler in the title role, is shaping up to be a major commercial player this season, with theater owners reporti…
“The Humans,” the Broadway production that won the 2016 Tony Award for new play, has recouped its capitalization costs, according to Scott Rudin and Barry Diller, who lead the sh…
Gavin Creel and Kate Baldwin are among the actors set to join Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce in the highly anticipated Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” this spring. Creel,…
Broadway’s “Something Rotten!,” a raucous Renaissance musical comedy, will close in January after a run of a bit less than two years. The show, the tale of two brothers who…
Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s producing and licensing company, the Really Useful Group, has partnered with U.S.-based recorded music and publishing company Concord Bicycle Music to launch The …
The sound of gospel soars through the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, a re-commissioned church with excellent acoustics (if no organ.) The occasion is the limited engag…
Longtime Sony executive Lia Vollack has been named president of Columbia Live Stage, the new live theatrical productions division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In her new post, Vollack,Â�…
The new musical adaptation of “Groundhog Day,” currently wrapping up its critically adored premiere at the Old Vic in London, has set plans for Broadway, lining up an April op…
“Aubergine,” a new play by Julia Cho (a winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and multiple other honors), poses a unique challenge. The language is lovely, the dramatic st…
The annual slump that hits the Broadway box office immediately after Labor Day amounted to a decline of $3.2 million this year, or nearly 14%, compared to the previous frame, slimming the…
“Family Ties,” the ’80s NBC sitcom that launched the career of Michael J. Fox, will be adapted into a stage play under the tutelage of the Araca Group, the company that …
Laurence Connor, the “School of Rock” director who’s restaged a string of British megamusicals, has signed with Paradigm Talent Agency, where the head of the Theater Litera…
Hip-hop, Broadway showtunes, Viennese waltzes — is there anything this guy can’t write ? Â No, not “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, but Gerard Alessandrini, w…
Danny DeVito has signed on to join John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub in “The Price,” the Arthur Miller play getting a Broadway revival in the spring from Roundabout Theater Company…
You might wince at the prospect of a group of Broadway egotists landing in a conservative town to fight for a teen lesbian to bring her date to the prom — but it turns out to be a happ…
The Writers Guild of America East has teamed with New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the Department of Small Business Services for the Made in NY Wr…
There are clues about the “Avatar” sequels to be found in “Toruk,” the Cirque du Soleil “Avatar” prequel that lands tonight at Barclays Center in Br…
Amy Adams, Ethan Hawke and Oliver Stone will receive 2016 career tributes at the 2016 Gotham Independent Film Awards, the annual ceremony presented by New York’s Independent Filmmaker …
“Jersey Boys,” the long-running Broadway musical hit about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, will close in January 2017 after a run of 11 years. With strong reviews from critic…