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Disney Plus released the trailer for "Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts,"Â which will premiere on July 28. Each episode will feature an intimate roundtable conversation between the "Go…
More than two weeks after Ariel Emanuel stepped down as a Live Nation board member after 14 years, the Department of Justice announced that he and fellow top Endeavor officer Mark Shapiro re…
As Broadway and local stages remained closed over the past year of the pandemic, it was television that kept the spirit of theater alive. Watching a taped version of a stage performance does…
It didn't take long for the enormity of the moment to sink in. Just moments after Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl led the band into "Times Like These" at New York's Madison Square Garden on…
Vivendi has reached a deal with Bill Ackman's Pershing Square to sell a 10% stake in Universal Music Group, a transaction that values the world's largest music company at $40 billion. In Viv…
Tribeca Festival, the first in-person film festival in the U.S. since the pandemic, closed out its 20th edition with a tribute to a small town in the midwest. Filmmakers Julia Reichert and S…
Pacific Theatres Exhibition Corporation, which includes ArcLight Cinemas, announced they are filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 in order to liquidate their assets for the benefit of credi…
Grammy-winner Sara Bareilles is honest about the "so many" experiences in the music industry where someone may be really having a moment and then they disappear from the zeitgeist. That, she…
THEATER Smash hit musical "Mamma Mia!" will return to London's West End at the Novello Theatre from Aug. 25. The beleaguered U.K. theater sector is operating at a vastly reduced capacity for…
From a standing start 19 months ago, Disney's video streaming operations in Asia-Pacific have already amassed 36.9 million subscribers. Boosted by launches in more Asian territories this yea…
In person, Ann Dowd, sweet, solicitous and ready to laugh at herself, is far removed from Gilead, the totalitarian state where Aunt Lydia, her alter ego on "The Handmaid's Tale," rules with …
Walt Disney Animation Studios and the pan-African entertainment company Kugali revealed the first images of their hotly anticipated Disney Plus original series "Iwájú" during a present…
Disney has tapped top toon talents from across the African continent for "Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire," a Disney Plus Original anthology of animated films set to premiere on the Mouse House…
Rita Moreno has posted a new statement saying that she is "incredibly disappointed" following her comments about the lack of Afro-Latino representation in "In the Heights." During an appeara…
Rita Moreno is defending Lin-Manuel Miranda and "In the Heights" following criticism over the film's lack of Afro-Latino representation. On tonight's episode of "The Late Show With Stephen C…
"The Book of Mormon" is the latest long-running show to announce its return to Broadway. In another sign that the lights are flickering back on along the Great White Way, "The Book of Mormon…
AMC is close to taking over the Pacific Theatres locations at two popular Los Angeles shopping malls, a source confirmed to Variety on Tuesday. Pacific Theatres, founded in 1946, announced i…
A new musical will serve as both a sequel to one of the greatest children's stories of all time, as well as a prequel to another iconic fantasy adventure. "Alice in Neverland" brings togethe…
Hollywood icon Rita Moreno went for it " and the message is loud and clear. Speaking to an audience at the Tribeca Festival 2021 premiere of her new uninhibited documentary "Rita Moreno: Jus…
On April 12, Pacific Theatres issued a terse, five-sentence statement announcing that it would not reopen its theaters, which include the much-loved ArcLight Cinemas chain. On one level, it …
Sales, production and financing company Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired worldwide rights to the live-action musical fantasy "A Fairy Tale After All." PEG will be introducing the fi…
December 24, 2014 " not exactly at 9 p.m. eastern standard time " certainly capped off Andy Señor Jr. shooting without a script in Havana, Cuba as he staged a production of Jonathan Larso…
"In the Heights" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is addressing criticism over the film's lack of Afro-Latino representation. In a statement posted to Twitter, Miranda apologized for not including…
Stephen Colbert has, nearly every weeknight for the past 15 months, led the nation's most-watched late-night show without many of the trappings viewers have come to expect. He's had no live …
Madison Avenue's interest in digital ads, sports and new concepts tied to bolstering messages of diversity helped Disney close a fast-paced upfront that saw more than 40% of total dollars co…