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Tony Award-nominated musical “Frozen” will kick off its North American tour in fall 2019 with an official opening at the Pantages in Los Angeles during the theater’s 2019-2…
Atom Tickets is expanding its online-ticketing network to include Landmark Theatres, allowing the studio-backed startup to sell tickets for the indie-film exhibitor’s 53 theaters with …
The scene of "Paradise Blue," Dominique Morisseau's black-and-bluesy play, is the Paradise Club, a drink and dance joint in Paradise Valley, the entertainment district of Detroit's black com…
A stage adaption of the classic Marilyn Monroe-starrer “Some Like It Hot” is set to premiere on Broadway in 2020, the Shubert Organization announced Monday. “Jesus Christ S…
Global Road Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to “The Secret Garden,” a big-screen adaptation of a much-loved children’s novel that inspired eve…
As buzz builds on his directorial debut, “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper looks to have found his next directing vehicle. The A-lister will helm and star in the Leonard Bernstein…
When it comes to the lack of female directors, Elisabeth Moss says the answer is simply sexism. In an interview with Katie Couric for the new National Geographic docuseries “America In…
Following the enormous success of his directorial debut “Get Out,” Jordan Peele is gaining momentum on his next film, which is now being called “Us.” Peele announced …
In the minds of a lot of people, the classic musical “My Fair Lady” is about a man who molds a young woman into society’s ideal of a proper lady — and it seems like a…
Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, and Dylan Gelula have joined the cast of Bow and Arrow Entertainment's music drama “Her Smell,” starring Elisabeth Mos…
Producing the Tony Awards is hard enough without everyone on Broadway telling you how to do your job. But that's exactly what White Cherry Entertainment's Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, the…
To hell with harmony: "Mood Music" is all dischord. The first play in more than five years by Joe Penhall ("Mindhunter") presents a sharp dissection of power in the music industry. A horribl…
Ariana Grande stopped by "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Tuesday night to give the debut television performance of her new single "No Tears Left to Cry" and announce tracks from her…
No matter how frosty the West's relations with Russia, is there really any reason to roll "Chess" out of cold storage? For all the bangers of its retro score, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulva…
If the Broadway musical "Wicked" has taught us anything, it's that even villains have sympathetic backstories. This is certainly the case with the new YouTube Red dramedy "Cobra Kai." A thou…
Howard Kagan, the Broadway producer who placed a Hail Mary bid for the Weinstein Co. on Tuesday, told Variety that he was shut out of the process because the company refused to turn over inf…
The Weinstein Co. declared Tuesday afternoon that Lantern Capital was the winning bidder in its bankruptcy sale, turning away a late bid from Broadway producer Howard Kagan. The company anno…
Lynn Nottage is a playwright best known for socially engaged realism (“Sweat,” “Ruined”), so it’s pretty surprising that her new play, “Mlima’s Tale…
The Weinstein Co. sale is not settled yet, as a second buyer submitted a late bid for the company on Tuesday. A source told Variety that the bidder is Howard Kagan, a former partner at Harbi…
The Tony Awards will honor Bruce Springsteen in June for his production of “Springsteen on Broadway.” In the live-streamed ceremony early Tuesday morning announcing this ye…
At its heart, “God of War” is the story of a journey, an odyssey undertaken by father and son in the face of incredible odds. It's a game with an incredible story, and one that's…
Nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards were announced Tuesday morning at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (“Hamilton”) …
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Frozen,” and “Mean Girls” are ready to make a splash in the 2018 Tony nominations Tuesday morning — but those …
La MaMa E.T.C., the downtown Manhattan theater that was one of the major birthplaces of the Off Off Broadway scene, will receive the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. Founded by the late Ell…
"The Writer" has split the critics — as proper writing probably should. Some have dismissed Ella Hickson's new play at the Almeida Theatre, about a frustrated female …
