Hot on the heels of the much-lauded film The Big Short comes Dry Powder, Sarah Burgess’ new play about finance and the U.S. economy that will star Homeland‘s Claire Danes and Han…
The last picture show to run at the Ziegfeld Theater, Manhattan’s sole remaining uniplex, is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to Cablevision, which has leased the theater from r…
Just in time for the dog days of summer, Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot’s Cats will return to Broadway this summer, the first revival since the original blockbuster closed after an…
Posing no threat to his reputation for being late, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed January 20, 2016 “David Bowie Day.” The announcement from the Mayor’s Office of Media and…
Asked this afternoon for his take on the lack of Oscar nominations for African Americans, Quincy Jones — who’s scored 34 films beginning with The Pawnbroker in 1964 — to…
EXCLUSIVE: TV and radio personality and author Alani Nicole Anthony — better known as La La — has joined the producing team of Eclipsed, the celebrated drama that will mark the B…
While Hollywood denizens dodge fallout from the monochromatic Oscar nominations, Broadway might be feeling smug in this season of The Color Purple, On Your Feet!, Allegiance, Eclipsed and, o…
Penthouse, the girly magazine that took on Playboy by going hardcore in the 1990s only to see its market overcome by the tsunami of Internet porn, has gone digital-only, owner General Media …
Despite a negligible dip in the overall Broadway box office last week, several shows had reason to cheer through the January blahs. Three musicals showed significant gains, including laud…
Lionsgate and New Regency are pooling resources through a multi-faceted production and distribution agreement announced today at NATPE that will “capitalize on content opportunities in…
Last time out, it was superagent Sue Mengers. On Monday night, Bette Midler posted this tease: making it look a lot like she plans to return to Broadway in a revival of Hello, Dolly! More …
A behind the scenes look at the creation of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing Broadway musical about the first Treasury Secretary, has been added to the Public Broadcasti…
American Fault Line: Race And The American Ideal—Ken Burns & Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will be streamed live from the Brooklyn Academy of Music on March 16, with newly announced moder…
The 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards tonight is, more to the point, the 1st annual Critics’ Choice Awards, as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Jo…
Adam Driver hosted the season return of Saturday Night Live, which opened with a parody of the latest GOP presidential hopefuls’ debate, as if parody could do the actual Fox Business N…
Lena Dunham was nowhere to be seen as Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live in its return from holiday break as a newly minted movie star on the heels of his Star Wars: The Force Awakens sh…
Fred Armisen cameoed on last night’s season-return of Saturday Night Live, offering a brief and deeply felt tribute to David Bowie, who died this week of cancer at 69. “Whe…
Here’s Megan Hilty bouncing down a stairway — bounce bounce bounce — and strutting her outrageous stuff in a pink beribboned bustiere, mouth agape and eyes betraying an ove…
Thumbing their mouses at the already crowded field of last minute Broadway season Tony contenders, the producers of Nerds, a new musical about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates h…
Athena Film Festival, a public film confab spotlighting works by and about women, will launch this year’s edition with the New York premiere of Dawn Porter’s Trapped, a docume…
Brian Bedford, a British-born actor of formal elegance, contagious modesty and impish spontaneity, died Wednesday in Santa Barbara after a long battle with cancer. He was 80. In a career spa…
Bradley Cooper, who appeared on Broadway in last season’s smash revival of The Elephant Man, has added his name to the roster of stars participating in the January 25th salute to Arthu…
Expanding UTA has signed a new long-term lease at Vornado Realty Trust's 888 Seventh Avenue and plans to build a new NYC headquarters, the talent and literary agency announced Wedne…
It’s been almost a year since the untimely death of New York Times “Media Equation” columnist David Carr sent shockwaves through both sides of the journalism grinder,…
David Margulies, who played the Mayor of New York in the Ghostbusters films and Tony Soprano’s classy lawyer Neil Mink, died Monday afternoon in New York City after a long illness. His…