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They’re called trends for a reason — the darned things repeat themselves with startling regularity. Attendance and ticket sales at Broadway shows fell off sharply in the wake of …
The act — or was it real? — grew tiresome even before the end of Ricky Gervais’ comparatively brief, zinger-laden monologue launching the 73rd Golden Globes on Sunday. His …
Hosting the Golden Globes for the fourth time, the first since 2012, Ricky Gervais had a small sackful of barbs, several aimed at Jennifer Lawrence and her campaign for equal pay for women i…
The developers of “Image Shaker” — which like shredded blue jeans was once something to avoid but now is de rigueur in filmmaking — are among the 10 innovations…
Anderson Cooper sat opposite the President in an auditorium at George Mason University  in Fairfax, VA filled with people who, Cooper promised, represented every side of the gun control d…
Jane Fonda, enjoying a resurgence on TV (Grace And Frankie, The Newsroom) and the big screen (Youth, This Is Where I Leave You) will host "A Night of Comedy with Jane Fonda" at Carolines on …
Paige Evans, a key force in drawing attention to new plays and writers in New York, has been named artistic director of the Signature Theatre. She will take over the reins of one of the c…
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, the film studio’s live stage play division, has commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside And Crazy, The Mot…
January always brings bad news for Broadway’s faltering shows, as the tourist crowds recede and ticket sales plummet from their holiday highs. Allegiance, which recounted the experienc…
Elizabeth Swados, whose transcendent pan-cultural musical Runaways inspired generations of theater artists well beyond its 1978 Broadway run, died Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 64 and had re…
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 …
Patricia Elliott, who won a Tony for A Little Night Music and appeared for many years on One Life To Life, has died. She was 77. The actress died Sunday of cancer at her Manhattan h…
