This spring, theater is going big " at least in terms of spectacle, length, and expense. The Broadway productions lining up like 747s to land before the April 26 cutoff for Tonys qualificati…
At this year's Lucille Lortel Awards, co-host Laura Benanti says you can expect "one beautiful, hilarious theater star who has a deep respect for the theater and all it stands for and a midd…
The Metropolitan Opera fired conductor and former music director James Levine today after it "uncovered credible evidence that Mr. Levine engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct to…
Hot off of making tons of money from remaking Beauty and the Beast, Disney has found a new way to make money off of Beauty and the Beast. Zooey Deschanel is playing Belle in a live performan…
The success of The Book of Dust seems to have been the push needed to move forward a new adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. Tom Hooper is in talks to direct a new eigh…
"Don't forget me." That's what Karen Cartwright and then Ivy Lynn, dressed as Marilyn Monroe in the fake musical Bombshell from the dearly departed NBC show Smash, once implored audiences. L…
Actress Ruthie Ann Miles was injured and her 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, was killed after a Brooklyn car crash yesterday in which a car sped through a red light. Another woman, Lauren Lew,…
When Diane Lockhart returns for the second season of The Good Fight, she's not the buttoned-up lawyer she once was. She's still powerful, but thanks to the pressures of living under the Trum…
After winning a Tony for Dear Evan Hansen, Ben Platt is continuing to book roles that will (probably, definitely) involve crying. Variety reports that Platt will star in the film Love & …
Wendell Pierce has a master plan: Each year he tries to shoot a film and a TV show, and also appear in a play. Even with training from Julliard, he's still interested in honing his skill as …
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll are returning to host the Independent Spirit Awards this weekend, and don't worry, their success last year has made them extremely complacent. Kroll and Mulaney d…
Barbra Streisand hasn't directed a feature-length film since 1996's The Mirror Has Two Faces, but not for lack of trying. In an interview with Variety, Streisand discussed the various direct…
David Mamet has, for some reason, decided to add in his own perspective on the Harvey Weinstein story. In an interview with the Chicago Tribute, the playwright, who recently published a crim…
NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert has found its Judas and he's a [pauses to reach for a high note] gooood choice. Brandon Victor Dixon, who recently played Aaron Burr as a replace…
Though she's currently nominated for an Oscar playing a 21st-century American teen in Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan really built her career on playing melancholy women in period clothing, and dog…
Greg may have disappeared from West Covina, but he's popping up again in Yonkers. Santino Fontana, known for his work on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, is stepping into Broadway's Hello, Dolly! for a …
Years before they made their names on television, Gillian Jacobs and Aya Cash would run into each other at the same auditions with the same group of people. "We were in a lot of waiting…
Harvey Fierstein's landmark play is returning to the Broadway theater where it was first performed nearly four decades ago. After a successful run of performances last fall, the Second Stage…
Though it may have burnt out on Broadway in the wake of a casting controversy last September, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will soon reappear overseas. The boundary-pushing …
There are fans of curling, the Winter Olympics most calming and misunderstood sport, everywhere, and one of them happens to be Brian Tyree Henry. At a press event for Lobby Hero, the Broadwa…
The Newsroom lives, in that Jeff Daniels and Aaron Sorkin are working together again, and pretty much no other ways. Daniels will star as Atticus Finch in Sorkin's upcoming stage adaptation …
Amazon has officially cut Jeffrey Tambor from Transparent after an investigation into sexual-harassment claims against the actor. Per Deadline, Amazon has said Tambor will not return for the…
Forget the pie that came before, forget what used to be, the past is on the cutting room floor, for Waitress, the future is here: McPhee. With all the enthusiasm of people on Twitter who won…
One might assume it's a stretch for Taylor Trensch to go from starring in a big theatrical confection like Hello, Dolly! to a tearjerker like Dear Evan Hansen, but Trensch thinks of it more …
Meet Donna, Donna, and Donna. The upcoming Broadway musical based on the life of Donna Summer has cast LaChanze, Ariana DeBose, and Storm Lever as three different incarnations of Summer: the…