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Kevin Spacey will host the 71st annual Tony Awards, to be telecast live by CBS on June 11 from Radio City Music Hall.
This will be the first time hosting for Spacey, who won a Tony in 1991 f…
Groundhog Day, the very good new musical from composer-lyricist Tim Minchin (Roald Dahl’s Matilda) and Danny Rubin (who co-wrote the original screenplay for the 1993 film), opened Mond…
Easter Week was especially springlike for Broadway as five musicals surpassed the $2 million mark at the box office, boosting overall sales to $41 million. That’s a 17 percent incline …
A roar of cheers greeted Andy Karl from the first moment he appeared onstage this evening at the August Wilson Theatre, where Groundhog Day has just opened. It had been touch-and-go since…
Caissie Levy, who played Fantine in the 2014 revival of Les Misérables and Elphaba in Wicked, will play Elsa, and Patti Murin (Lysistrata Jones, Xanadu and currently in NBC̵…
Carousel, the sophomore effort by the Oklahoma! team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, will be revived on Broadway next season, according to producers Scott Rudin and Roy Furman. Ope…
Andy Karl, the Olivier Award-winning star of Groundhog Day The Musical, was injured Friday night near the end of a critics’ preview of the show, bringing the curtain down at 10:20 P.M.…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth discuss the hottest topics on the Rialto, the only precondition being: no holds…
Professional relationships are as disposable in our culture as goods on the shelves at Walmart, and so it is an especially happy occasion to report on the flowering of an artistic pairing…
Here’s an exclusive look at Radio Dreams, the newest feature from Iranian-British director Babak Jalali (Frontier Blues), in theaters in May. Film centers on the real, if semi-funct…
Pop continues its push into original scripted programming. The cable network, owned jointly by CBS and Lionsgate, is expanding its original slate with three new scripted series, Pop presiden…
In the pictorial dictionary of the English language, you’ll find Barbara Barrie in the definition of “imp.” Even if you can’t place her name, you will recognize her f…
Linda Hopkins, one of Broadway’s great gospel and blues voices, died Monday in Milwaukee at 92. Perhaps best known for her popular one-woman show Me and Bessie – a 1970s tribute …
The culling of the Broadway ranks, common among box-office laggards in the weeks leading up to the Tony Awards nominations, struck this week for the second time as In Transit announced that …
Diane Lane received the Sarasota Film Festival’s Award for Cinematic Excellence on Sunday, where Paris Can Wait was the closing night event. The first feature by Eleanor Coppola (whose…
An influx of big new musicals, including Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Anastasia and Bandstand, has cash registers on Broadway are ringing off the charts, with almost eve…
Lynn Nottage won her second Pultizer Prize for Drama today, winning the award for Sweat, a drama set in a Pennsylvania  factory town ravaged by changing economics and the social forces th…
The 2017 Olivier Awards were held this evening in London with Harry Potter And The Cursed Child conjuring a record-breaking nine wins including Best New Play. Coming into tonight, it was alr…
It must have seemed an inspired idea: Cast competing divas to play the business titans who created rival women-centered businesses. And could the timing for the Broadway opening have been be…
Kevin Kline has loomed, larger than life, over Broadway for more than four decades: as the preening, prat-falling Pirate King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance; the probosco…
Center Theatre Group is celebrating 50 years of excellence, with a star-studded event, featuring a one-night-only production from writer, director and producer Robert Egan, followed by dinne…
New musical Hadestown and a revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street scored seven nominations each, followed by six for the Sutton Foster-led revival of Sweet Charity at thi…
Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's good-natured 2001 film, was produced for an estimated $10.7 million and has grossed $132 million to date. That’s not bad for a sentimental fantasy about a…
Women stars are the talk of the town as Broadway rolls into the final four weeks of openings before the April 27 Tony Awards deadline. Leading the way are Bette Midler, breaking house record…
Like certain sanctified Hollywood creation myths — pretty girl, soda fountain, famous director — the one about going out a chorus girl and coming back a star retains a surefire a…
