The three actors who will lead Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, the West End play that’s been referred to as the eighth part of the series, have been revealed in London. Stage vetera…
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…
In today's glut of original scripted series " FX just pegged the number at 409 for 2015 " it would seem like a golden age for actors, with more opportunities in television than ever. It is t…
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…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: A…
The stars already are beginning to align for next season on Broadway. Producers Howard and Janet Kagan, with Paula Marie Black, announced today that they have signed pop crooner Josh Groban …
Fun Home, an intimate, dark-hued show that won last year’s Tony Award for best musical, has recouped its $5.25 million capitalization after eight months at Circle In The Square Theatre…
CBS-owned Simon & Schuster, publisher of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hunter S. Thompson, announced Sunday plans to sell a book about Taylor Swift to be crowd-sourced …
One of the highlights of Saturday Night Live‘s 41st season has been watching the seriously improving chemistry between “Weekend Update” hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost. Th…
The penultimate Saturday Night Live of the fall season began — and pretty much ended — with the cold open, a welcome return by Will Ferrell as George W. Bush announcing that he w…
The Last Man On The Moon, a documentary about astronaut Eugene “Gene” Cernan, has been set for theatrical, digital and video-on-demand release on February 26. Gravitas Ventures w…
Bruce Willis visited The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to plug his starring role in the Broadway production of Misery, during which the Die Hard franchise star said he does his own stunts. …
Here is one of the great triumphal surprises in a Broadway season that has had its share of them: A revival of The Color Purple that lifts an already formidable musical into greatness jus…
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Moore, the Pitch Perfect helmer whose Universal comedy Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opens December 18, has just closed a deal for what he hopes will be his next fil…
Norm MacDonald has signed with Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau to publish his memoir, Based On A True Story, in 2016. The martini-dry comedian is best known for his stint as an…
Sam Mendes’ pull-out-all-the-stops production of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory — which overcame mixed reviews to become a hit at London’s Drury Lane Theatre — is …