Rehearsals got underway today for Paramour, Cirque du Soleil Theatrical’s first show created specifically for Broadway. The global entertainment giant resolved an intriguing labor issu…
Netflix, Inc. and DreamWorks Animation will expand their partnership to include new series and more family-targeted entertainment, the companies announced Tuesday, “making Netfli…
Accepting his Best Director nod  for Carol from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday night, Todd Haynes recalled arriving as a boy in New York from Los Angeles in 1970. “This …
As Broadway holiday-show schedules last week boosted from the usual eight performances to nine (or, in the case of The Illusionists, 13), the news of the week was a sky-high tally in both do…
American Cinema Editors, representing 800-plus members working across film and television, today revealed nominations for the 66th Eddie Awards, recognizing outstanding editing in 10 c…
For the first performance of the New Year, “Ham4Ham” — the free show for lottery hopefuls outside Hamilton at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre that’s be…
It’s not as if Santa brought a big bag o’ coal to Times Square last week: Total box office gained a healthy 23 percent from the week before, and attendance perked up by 8 p…
EXCLUSIVE: There was a time when reality TV and mock-docs like This Is Spinal Tap and Best In Show not only amused us but made us consider the fuzzy line between truth and fiction onsc…
Names drive the news, especially in stories where media and entertainment cross wires, throwing off sparks and sometimes even blowing fuses. These are my candidates for the top names driving…
As promised on Wednesday, a new trailer for Deadpool was released into the world this morning. Two trailers, in fact — one that Fox dubbed “naughty” and the other,…
Ayad Akhtar, McKinley Belcher, Ray Fisher, Greta Gerwig, Jake Gyllenhaal, Katori Hall, Peter Sarsgaard and John Turturro have signed on for "One Night 100 Years," honoring playwright Arthur …
EXCLUSIVE: Five years ago around this time, director John Crowley was in rehearsal on Broadway for the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s play A Behanding In Spokane. AÂ bizarre (an…
It’s not Star Wars or The Book Of Mormon, but it’s a start: The December 10 performance of off-off-Broadway’s musical two-hander Daddy Long Legs was performed before an aud…
The week before Christmas brought less-than-cheery tidings to Broadway. Not only was the overall tally of $29.48 million down 1 percent from the previous week, but a season-on-season …
Bartlett Sher’s shows tend to announce themselves with a visual bang, an effect that delights the eye and lassoes us into the story: The levitating orchestra floating away to reveal…
For better or worse, 2015 has been the year of Hamilton … and everything else (so what’s not to like about that?).  Yet it’s been a remarkable time — for …
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a Christmas present for Tyrone the puppet and the rest of the Hand To God gang: U.S. District Court Judge George B. Daniels today ruled that the use of a section from…
As the man warbled: “How I got here, I haven’t a clue.” Me neither, though a couple trillion in record sales and related tchotchkes plus a global brand in place surely have…
Among the things the Beatles share with William Shakespeare is this: Bend, twist and reshape them as you will, they’re impervious to humiliation. Set Billy Big Boy in the Wild West …
UPDATE, 1 PM, with more information throughout. Broadway has its first new house since the opening of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in 1998. Co-chief executive officers Howard Panter and R…
Love is a drug-induced psychotic state, right? But what if the drug isn’t pheromone-and-dopamine based but a product of Big Pharma? That’s the question explored in Lucy Prebble&#…
Validation by the National Film Registry, possibly better than the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, was bestowed upon that trio of hose-wielding, ectoplasm-extinguishing urban cowboys …
EXCLUSIVE: Not satisfied with the $500 million tally for 10,000 productions around the world (a number that undoubtedly includes the one in your nephew’s back yard six summers ago), th…
San Antonio-born comedian Carol Burnett — actress, author and spirit guide to several generations of self-deprecating, rubber-limbed, humanely hilarious thesps — will be the Aust…
Two new musicals with a good beat you can dance to showed gains on Broadway last week as the overall box held steady moving into the Christmas-New Year’s influx of legal, credit-car…