Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star in the world premiere of "Mother Play," a new Broadway show by playwright Paula Vogel. Tina Landau is directing the limited engag…
Following its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. rights to Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson's "Waitress: The Musical," which is set for a…
Broadway video design is a lot more complicated than it looks. And it already looks pretty complicated. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: On the new episode of "Stagecr…
Matt Smith, known for playing Doctor Who in the eponymous BBC series and the Duke of Edinburgh in Netflix's "The Crown" is returning to London's West End. Smith will headline an adaptation o…
London's National Theatre has unveiled the complete ensemble cast for Roald Dahl's "The Witches," a co-production with the Roald Dahl Story Company. The stage musical is directed by Lyndsey …
A few years ago, Alexis Scheer wrote a play and, by her own admission, figured "it was a little too crazy and weird and nobody would do it." So she had her own theater company, Off the Grid,…
Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift is here to save movie theaters. Her "Eras Tour" concert film, which opens theatrically on Oct. 13, has already earned a massive $26 million in presale tick…
Stage show "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has unveiled a new cast for its London production. David Ricardo-Pearce will play Harry Potter, with Polly Frame as Ginny Potter and Ellis Rae …
The Drama League is expanding its artist development programs, which are collectively called The Directors Project, and include support for people working in film, television and on stage. A…
Bob Barker was a pillar of television's greatest generation. Barker, the enduring host of "The Price Is Right" who died Aug. 26 at the age of 99, was a World War II veteran who trained as a …
A new sound rocked the Ace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night as musical trio Chris Moten, Devon "Stixx" Taylor, and Cassius Jay unveiled Andscape's "Trap Jazz" documentary t…
Republic Records' Kids & Family division and the Rock and Roll Playhouse have announced an exclusive partnership with a multi-album record deal. Founded by Brooklyn Bowl owner and live m…
Reneé Rapp opened up about struggling with an eating disorder during her tenure on the "Mean Girls" musical, which was exacerbated by production staffers who, she said, "would say some vile…
"Peter Pan Goes Wrong," now playing at L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre, has its roots partly in silent-film slapstick, partly in British pantomime and partly in Python. But maybe the best shorthand …
Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, the musical "If/Then": These aren't the usual conversational touchpoints in a discussion about a video game. But all three of those musical theater refer…
"Once Upon a One More Time," a fairy tale-inspired musical powered by the discography of Britney Spears, is closing on Broadway. The show, which opened in June, will play its final performan…
"The Outsiders," a musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 movie, is heading to Broadway. The show will open on April 11, 2024 at the Bernard B. Jac…
The second single from Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's upcoming Broadway musical "Harmony" has been released, "Every Single Day" sung by Danny Kornfeld. In a statement to Variety, Manilow …
Shia LaBeouf will make his stage debut in the world premiere of "Henry Johnson," a new play from David Mamet. The production will be mounted at the Electric Lodge venue in Venice, Cali…
The Ariana DeBose and Chris Messina-led sci-fi thriller "I.S.S" has been picked up by Bleecker Street. Helmed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the film follows a research trip on the International…
"My job is to make sure that every production, wherever it is in the world, is to make it seem like nobody has ever seen it before," theater producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh says talking abou…
"Try to Remember," the most famous song to have come out of the stage musical "The Fantasticks," was noted for its autumnal feel, sung by someone reflecting back on youthful days. The happy …
Tom Jones, who wrote the book and lyrics for the longest-running musical "The Fantasticks," died Friday at his home in Sharon, Conn. He was 95. Jones' son Michael told The New York Times the…
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Anything that has to do with Steven Spielberg's award-winning 1975 film "Jaws" should be fun. After all, it's a movie about the sudden appearance of a freakishly large, man-eating shark in a…