The actress, who just won an Oscar for her role as the mom ion Boyhood, will write about her unconventional family, being a single mother at age 20 and her experience as a woman in Hollyw…
One of the many things I never knew until I saw Cush Jumbo’s show Josephine And I is that Josephine Baker sang Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A Changin'” at Carnegie…
In a significant free-speech victory, Loretta A. Preska, Chief United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, ruled Tuesday that 3C, a play that parodies the 1970s…
The Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman musical transferred to Broadway in November on the wings of great reviews and a leading performance by Tony Danza that drew praise for its Rat…
EXCLUSIVE: Adaptive Studios, which recently rebooted HBO's Project Greenlight with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, has signed an overall deal with actress-writer-blogger Amy Main to develop and …
If you’re not on commission or the bonus track at Bertelsmann’s toddling Penguin Random House megapublisher, there’ll be a nice tip for you come April 17: An extra $750 in …
Lionsgate said Tuesday morning it will partner with Dubai Parks and Resorts to bring The Hunger Games to Motiongate Dubai, the Hollywood-themed park slated to open in Dubai in October 2016. …
Twelve shows were in previews last week and one departed on a high note: Roundabout Theatre Company’s revived revival (so glad IÂ won’t have to type that anymore, but stillR…
Skiing, snorkeling, snarking and sautéing fill out the Bravo menu, the NBCU arm announced at today’s upfront presentation in Manhattan. Here’s the official announcement: NEW YOR…
Esquire Network and Oxygen Media announced their new lineups at today’s NBCU upfronts in Manhattan. The rollout includes Comedians Of L.A. (working title) and Living With Funny, a join…
Fox’s specialty arm acquired worldwide rights minus France and other French-speaking territories, according to a statement from Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and S…
UPDATES with more information: Comedy Central made it official this morning, leaking to the New York Times its planned Monday announcement that the young South African comic will take over t…
Gene Saks, an actor-turned-director whose long kinship with Neil Simon led to the film versions of two of the most successful comedies of their time, Barefoot in The Park and The Odd Couple,…
Dwayne Johnson eased on through the Saturday Night Live live sketches; the funniest had him in a WWF promo (B) and later paired him with Cecily Strong’s twit Brit as his date (A+), cra…
Last night’s Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson-hosted Saturday Night Live wasn’t what you’d call intellectually brilliant. It was merely flat-out funny, as the Furious …
Tonight’s the night Broadway gets a look at Fun Home, possibly the first Tony-eligible musical based on a graphic memoir, and certainly one of the most beautiful new shows we’…
The genius of Harvey Weinstein’s New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall is that he and his sly collaborators — Diane Paulus (Pippin), Randy Weiner (Queen Of T…
The all-time Tony-wining champ (21) will direct The Band’s Visit for off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company next spring. It’s based on Eran Kolirin’s award-winning 2…
Larry David’s final performance in his play will be on June 7, which is when the freshman playwriting effort was slated to shutter. Instead, the run has been extended six weeks, with h…
Tom Stoppard, a fevered friend of free expression and foe of bad writing, will receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for his “extraordinary career as a dramatist and …
Stritch, the Broadway diva who played Alec Baldwin’s mom on 30 Rock and was the memorably frank subject of the docu Shoot Me, will get the bio treatment from New York Times fa…
EXCLUSIVE: The famed safe-house for developing theater writers will honor multiple Tony Award nominee (and winner for Kiss Me, Kate) and Actors Fund board chair Brian Stokes Mitchell with it…
Danny Schechter, an unabashed advocacy journalist and media critic who moved in and out of mainstream television and wore his legend as “Danny Schechter, the News Dissector” like…
Pray for the puppet. In an up week that saw eight new shows previewing on Broadway, several looked like early contenders for the pre-Tony homestretch, while others already bore signs of a co…
Comedian and philanthropist Jerry Lewis will receive the National Association of Broadcasters’ Distinguished Service Award at next month’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. Lewis is s…