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Audiences encountering Joshua Henry's electrifying performance as the charismatic but star-cursed Billy Bigelow will long remember the experience. In this new Broadway revival of Rodgers and…
Speculation has long surrounded Disney CEO Bob Iger and a possible presidential run in 2020, and in a new interview, he says entering the race was on his mind until recently. He told Vogue t…
Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee will announce nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards next month. Odom Jr. won a Tony in 2016 for his performance as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton.” M…
Mark Medoff wrote "Children of a Lesser God" specifically for Phyllis Frelich, a deaf actress who made her professional debut as the character Sarah Norman in the 1979 production at the Mark…
Donnie Yen is set to star opposite Liu Yifei in Disney's live-action adaptation of "Mulan." Niki Caro is directing, and Chris Bender, Jason Reed, and Jake Weiner are producing the movie. The…
Much of the media focus has been on the size of the salary gaps. But what really tells the story about ingrained gender inequality is the disparity in bonus pay (men receive 67% more than wo…
Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents theater actors and stage managers, has launched a push for two new categories at the Tony Awards that would collectively honor ens…
Making a rare stage appearance, Elaine May will star alongside Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera in a new Broadway staging of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 play “The Waverly Gallery,”…
Immigration, parental absence and cyber-relationships all figure in to the road trip musical "Miss You Like Hell," an earnest " and now very Trump-topical " show that too often gets stuck in…
Lauren Ridloff is playing the lead role in the Broadway revival of “Children of a Lesser God.” Haven’t heard of her? That’s probably because this is her first acting …
Organizers of the Oliver Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys, apologized “unreservedly” Tuesday for omitting theater legend Peter Hall from the awards ceremony’…
Emily Blunt knew immediately that John Krasinski needed to direct “A Quiet Place.” As soon as her husband finished describing the story, which centers on a family struggling to s…
In late April, theater lovers devote most of their attention to the clutch of Broadway shows rushing to open before the eligibility cutoff for Tony nominations. But this year fans should be …
Well, that didn’t take long. In only its third week of previews, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” has set a new record at the Broadway box office — by a wide margi…
It may not be William McKinley High School, but two “Glee” alumni are reuniting on a much bigger stage. Lea Michele and Darren Criss announced Monday that they are re-teaming for…
The Mattel-owned American Girl doll line " familiar to virtually any adult with female children " today announced a partnership to launch a new musical production inspired by the stories …
Uzo Aduba (“Orange is the New Black”) and Janet McTeer (“Jessica Jones,” “A Doll’s House”) have signed on to headline New York stage productions tha…
It’s been 14 years since “Mean Girls” hit cinemas — but it’s only gotten more timely. “The movie was about relational aggression among women,” said …
How did director Kay Cannon get the job of helming the new sex comedy Blockers - and making it "a harder R" than it had been in its original script? She went to a meeting. "Point Grey and Go…
Those high-school girls who laughed themselves silly at Tina Fey's 2004 movie “Mean Girls” are now old enough to take their own teenaged daughters to this bouncy musical adaptati…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” took home seven awards at the U.K.’s Laurence Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London Sunday, winning for best new musical, …
Sweden’s Dramacorp, the Patrick Nebout-Beta Film joint venture, has come on board “Cyptid,” a Swedish horror thriller series created by up-and-coming Swedish director Danie…
Soon-Tek Oh, a pioneering figure in Asian-American theater who voiced Fa Zhou in two “Mulan” films and acted with Roger Moore in “Man with the Golden Gun,” has died. …
The official video of the catchy Spanish-language track, featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee, on Wednesday surpassed 5 billion views on YouTube " becoming the first video …
Veteran stage and screen actor Victor Garber, currently starring opposite Bernadette Peters in the Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!" listed his multi-residence compound in the unsung Town …