Some thirty acts have announced the cancelation of their performances or attendance at the Sydney Festival, a major arts festival that started Thursday in Australia's biggest city. They argu…
Costume designer Sharen Davis is having a big year, having worked with both Denzel Washington, who directed "A Journal for Jordan," now in theaters, and with Will Smith, who stars in "King R…
"West Side Story" star Ariana DeBose will make her "Saturday Night Live" hosting debut on Jan. 15, the NBC sketch show's first installment of the new year. When Tony Award and Critics Choice…
"Belfast" stars CaitrÃona Balfe and Jamie Dornan will be among the awards season frontrunners honored with the Virtuosos Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival…
The Fred Ebb Foundation has donated $2.6 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, marking the largest donation the organization has ever received. Ebb, the lyricist known for musicals s…
TodayTix Group has acquired Goldstar, a live events ticketing platform that operates in 60 cities across the country. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it comes as TodayTix…
Joan Copeland, who graced both the stage and screen for decades as a Broadway star and soap opera actress, died the morning of Jan. 4 in her New York City home, Copeland's family confirmed t…
The producers of "Mrs. Doubtfire" will suspend performances of the musical until March 14 as the show struggles to find a way to survive during a resurgence of COVID-19 that has imperiled Br…
"Denzel" " like Bono or Prince, the sheer mention of the mighty figure doesn't require a surname. The industry-given mononym implies adoration and respect; yet in selecting the best performa…
"The Music Man" will cancel performances through Jan. 1 after Hugh Jackman tested positive for COVID-19. The revival of Meredith Wilson's classic musical is one of the hottest tickets on Bro…
Broadway is losing another show. "Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of the Temptations," the jukebox musical about the influential vocal group behind "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg…
Super-producer and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has halted performances of hit West End musical "Cinderella" until Feb. 2022 as the Omicron variant of coronavirus surges across the U.K. "I a…
In another nod to worsening pandemic conditions, SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity Association have extended the agreement struck last year 2020 that makes it easier for producers to offer live s…
The National Association of Theatre Owners, the trade organization that represents the country's cinemas, has announced the promotion of two executives. Jackie Brenneman has been upped to ex…
Peter Dinklage was never very interested in playing the lead role in "Cyrano de Bergerac" " until a new musical adaptation of the story got rid of the fake nose that has come to define the c…
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £1 billion ($1.3 billion) plan designed to help businesses impacted by the Omicron variant of coronavirus that is sweeping acro…
"Jagged Little Pill" has closed on Broadway. After announcing the cancellation of performances on Saturday due to positive COVID-19 tests among the production, the musical has determined tha…
"Spitting Image," the iconic British satirical puppet show rebooted for streamer BritBox U.K., is set to make its stage debut at London's West End in 2022. The target of the show will be bel…
Welcome to the new COVID normal. About 30 minutes after Thursday night's performance of "A Christmas Carol," starring Bradley Whitford, Alex Newell and Kate Burton, at Los Angeles' Ahmanson …
On Monday, Sony Pictures Entertainment hosted a raucous premiere for "Spider-Man: No Way Home," a superhero adventure widely expected to generate a new COVID-era record opening weekend. The …
The American Cinematheque announced today the honorees for the inaugural Tribute to the Crafts, which will take place in-person on Jan. 26, at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, Calif. Tribut…
Heidi Blickenstaff doesn't want to exert her voice. It's proving difficult, because although the Times Square eatery where she's grabbing food after a matinee of "Jagged Little Pill" is most…
Hope Dickson Leach, BAFTA-winning director of acclaimed Toronto, Rotterdam and London festival selection "The Levelling," has embarked upon a hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's ic…
In the midst of the deadly dull 1950s, Hollywood celebs Cary Grant, Claire Booth Luce and Aldous Huxley escape their ennui by dropping acid. No serious sex is involved and no one rushes out …
Ever since Bob Fosse cast a never-better Liza Minnelli in his Oscar-winning re-imagining of the musical "Cabaret," revivals of the original musical have leaned toward being "All About Sally.…