Hollywood studios are bidding for the movie rights to a recorded version of a live performance of the smash hit musical “Hamilton,” with the price as much as $50 million, accordi…
“A Star is Born,” “First Man,” and “Widows” are among the awards-season hopefuls that will screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival…
In “Straight White Men,” Young Jean Lee's cutting but deeply humane satire about straight white male privilege and pain, Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and, in an especially heart-wr…
Bradley Cooper’s remake of “A Star Is Born,” starring himself and Lady Gaga, is to have its world premiere at the 75th Venice Film Festival. The festival confirmed the Aug.…
Fifty years after his play "Forty Years On," Alan Bennett is still pining for the England of old. Just as his first play lamented the slipping standards of an old public school and, by exten…
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will make his feature film directorial debut with “Tick, Tick…Boom!” for Imagine Entertainment. The movie will be based on…
Internet-video veteran Marc Hustvedt is leaving Above Average, the digital comedy brand formed by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, to join Fine Brothers Entertainment as CEO. Fine Broth…
Bruce Springsteen’s one-man show “Springsteen on Broadway” is coming to Netflix as a special to bow Dec. 15, the final night of the rock legend’s run on the Great Whi…
Denzel Washington offered a bemused reaction as to why Sony’s “The Equalizer 2” was his first sequel. “People keep talking about it, but it’s not that big a dea…
It's a credit to Denzel Washington's career choices that he's gone four decades without making a single sequel. That's not to say that breaking the pattern with "The Equalizer 2" means he's …
Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown are in talks to lend their voices to Disney's "Frozen 2," the sequel to the 2013 smash hit. Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, and Josh Gad are returnin…
In Judaism, death is followed by the sitting of shiva. For seven days, seated mourners reflect on their loss. The ritual recurs throughout "The Lehman Trilogy," playwright Steffano Massino's…
In the wee hours of Friday morning Ariana Grande dropped "God Is a Woman," the second single from her forthcoming fourth studio album "Sweetener," and the song features surprisingly explicit…
In “Mary Page Marlowe,” Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning actor (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) and Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright (“August: Osage C…
British entertainment business union BECTU has claimed a partial victory in an ongoing industrial dispute with Picturehouse Cinemas, Britain’s largest arthouse theater chain. An employ…
This year’s Emmy race in the music categories takes on greater interest because a win in the song category could instantly give songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul an EGOT, having a…
On Tuesday night Bruce Springsteen played the first in what is expected to be the final run of his "Springsteen on Broadway" one-man show "Â and he observed the occasion by playing the fir…
Peter Rotter is at the podium on the Warner Bros. scoring stage, about to conduct music for the season finale of "The Handmaid's Tale." "You really bring the humanity to a very intense sh…
With “Equalizer 2,” Denzel Washington tackles the first sequel of his career. The movie, debuting July 20, follows the first film’s breakout success. Released in 2014, the …
Today, Amazon Music announced that Ariana Grande will headline the Amazon Music Unboxing Prime Day concert in New York on July 11, streaming for fans globally on Amazon.com begin…
Dan Talbot, an exhibitor who brought arthouse films to the residents of New York's Upper West Side, died last December at the age of 91, leaving a void in the cultural life of the neighborho…
Ashes to ashes, Dusty to Dusty. Almost 20 years after her death, the loss of Dusty Springfield still stings on these shores. Sniffles ring out at the end of Jonathan Harvey's jukebox musical…
Having scooped awards for its West End and Broadway runs, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" will premiere in Germany in 2020, marking the first non-English-language production of the hit p…
The Go-Go's have never had a harmonic bicoastal convergence like the one they're enjoying in both Los Angeles and New York this month. On the east coast, Broadway is currently playing host t…
"Imperium" builds Rome in a day. Robert Harris' trilogy of novels charts the city's slide from a great civilization to a grim imperial power, as democracy buckles and dictatorship digs in. O…