The Writers Guild of America has singled out Hollywood's largest talent agencies, William Morris Endeavor and Creative Artists Agency, for allegedly soaring profits. The WGA, in an acrimonio…
Myspace-related news travels very, very slowly in the late 2010s. So while the company had quietly acknowledged a massive data loss in response to user inquiries last year, it took until thi…
Wall Street is rooting for Disney as the media giant reaches the finish line this week in its 15-month quest to acquire most of Rupert Murdoch's film and TV empire. Fox shareholders, on the …
After several days of rumors and a last-minute attempt by local promoters to save it, Philadelphia's Trocadero Theatre " part of the city's entertainment skyline since 1870 " is closing at t…
"Saturday Night Live" aired last October a sketch about a pumpkin patch where the employees, much to the consternation of the proprietor, engage in sexual intercourse with the product. "The …
No "Bad Blood" after all? A Taylor Swift and Katy Perry collaboration may be in the works. During an interview with Entertainment Tonight at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Perry said she woul…
No, Kate doesn't get spanked. And for those wondering how the dicey ending of "Kiss Me, Kate" " that musical mashup of "The Taming of the Shrew" and backstage battling exes " would come acro…
It takes three to tango, and Jamie Lloyd's "Betrayal" completely grasps that. Having made it his mission to modernize the way we stage Harold Pinter's plays, his chic, stripped-down staging …
Denzel Washington is in talks to star in the thriller "Little Things" for Warner Bros., sources tell Variety. "The Blindside" and "Highway Men" director John Lee Hancock is board to write. H…
Elton John has announced his first-ever autobiography, set to hit bookshelves this fall. "My life has been one helluva roller coaster ride and I'm now ready to tell you my story, in my own w…
Bob Fosse's signature style as a director and choreographer was stripped-down and then askew, removing familiar excesses of movement or film language so that he might replace them with entir…
Toni Collette ("Hereditary") is set to star as Jan, a woman who starts a racing syndicate in her small Welsh village and attempts to raise a champion racehorse, in "Dream Horse." Damian Lewi…
Aretha Franklin is going on tour " or, rather, the concert movie she stars in is, as "Amazing Grace" is being booked for a solid week's worth of premieres across the country at the end of Ma…
Miranda Priestly can't call all the shots. The upcoming musical adaptation of "The Devil Wears Prada" has tapped Anna D. Shapiro to direct the show, which is eyeing an eventual Broadway run.…
Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway in an upcoming revival of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man." It marks Jackman's first musical role in more than a decade, which should make it a hot tic…
Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, star of films including "Black Swan" and "Jackie," is launching her first-ever online class. In the class, priced at $90 for unlimited access, the self…
Playwright David Mamet has expressed sympathy for his longtime friend Felicity Huffman and her husband, fellow actor William H. Macy, following her indictment in a widespread college admi…
Sound design might be the most thankless job on Broadway " because when you get it right, nobody notices. Besides, a lot of theatergoers " and more than a few Tony voters " don't quite know …
The songs of Britney Spears will be featured in "Once Upon a One More Time," a musical comedy featuring 23 titles from the singer's catalog, theater owner James L. Nederlander announced t…
You ain't never had a friend like Will Smith's Genie. Disney released the first full-length trailer for the studio's live-action remake of "Aladdin," starring Smith as the Genie, Mena Massou…
Disney has set March 20 as the closing date for its acquisition of 21st Century Fox. Disney announced the formal closing process Tuesday morning, indicating that the company has received the…
Like "The Father," which won the 2016 Tony Award for Frank Langella in the titanic lead role, "The Mother," which features a searing performance by Isabelle Huppert, advances French playwrig…
More audiences are opting to buy movie tickets online as opposed to in theaters, a new study shows. Online movie ticket purchases rose 18.7% in 2018 and in-theater buying of tickets slid 5.4…
"Be More Chill" is already a Broadway Cinderella story. A tale of nerdy teen angst and technology by songwriter Joe Iconis and bookwriter Joe Tracz, this geek-love, sci-fi, high school music…
Seth Rogen is a big fan of "Roma," the multi-hyphenate star admitted on a muggy Sunday morning at SXSW, but he doesn't know how to make movies or do comedy for any other format than a packed…