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Beau Willimon has an ambitious new drama series launching next year on Hulu, and he has a Broadway play opening in late November. But a busy schedule has not deterred him from taking the rei…
The Warner Bros. classic film, Broadway adaptation, and Roald Dahl novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” will get the live-in-concert treatment this Nov. 3 and 4 with “…
Question: What amenity does an urban center for homeless LGBTQ youth need more than anything? Answer: Why, an Emily Post charm class, of course " so long as it's like the one in Philip Dawki…
TV’s top talent and executives celebrated this year’s Emmy nominees far after the ceremony ended. Emmy darling Sterling K. Brown was caught dashing from party to party with wife …
Hot on the heels of her Emmy win for best actress in a drama series for her role in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Elisabeth Moss has found her first feature follow-up to the hit s…
After the annual post-Labor Day slowdown, the Broadway box office climbed last week in a rise led by Bette Midler, back at “Hello, Dolly!,” and by two shows that got surges of la…
Signature Theater keeps finding new ways to support and nurture worthy playwrights and to showcase their work with true (i.e., non-commercial) integrity. This season, artistic director Paige…
After seven nominations, “The Handmaid's Tale” star Elisabeth Moss has won her first Emmy. And in her excitement, it looks like she may have dropped a couple of expletives. While…
John Lithgow was the first winner of the evening Sunday at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards. Winning for his role as Winston Churchill in Netflix’s “The Crown,” Lithgow beat …
The Emmys red carpet provides an opportunity for stars to make a statement. This year, several stars donned ribbons to support the American Civil Liberties Union. “Top Chef” host…
Walt Disney Studios continued to dominate disc sales the week ended Sept. 9, with the studio once again snagging the two top spots on both the NPD VideoScan overall disc sales chart, which t…
Paul McCartney’s One on One tour is off to a rousing start, as Bruce Springsteen and E Street vet Steven Van Zandt hopped on stage at Madison Square Garden on Friday night (Sept. 15…
In its upcoming third season, Netflix’s “Fuller House” will embrace its family sitcom roots more than it ever has. While the show has always explored the complicated dynami…
Nick Kroll and his childhood best friend Andrew Goldberg mined their adolescent experiences for the upcoming raunchy coming-of-age comedy “Big Mouth.” Co-creator Goldberg, voi…
The din during the intermission of a recent performance of the Broadway-bound musical "Frozen" might have broken decibel records at Denver Center's Buell Theater. No doubt the house's hum wa…
Fox has dated Brad Pitt’s science-fiction movie “Ad Astra” for Jan. 11, 2019. It’s the first movie to land on that date. James Gray directed “Ad Astra” fr…
“Get it from your father-in-law " he has all the money in the world.” That’s the instruction from a kidnapper in the first trailer for Sony’s “All the Money in …
Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns has predicted that major film studios will reach a deal within a year with exhibitors on the launch of a premium video-on-demand window for new theatric…
Disney, one of Argentina's most decisive movie players, has acquired rights to Argentina and the rest of Latin America to Constanza Novick's "El futuro que viene" (The Future Ahead), produce…
Nicole Kidman and cinematographer Edward Lachman have joined the roster of industry figures to be honored with tributes at the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s annua…
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched "The Battle of the Mothers," the Sept. 12 finale of "Top of the Lake: China Girl." "Top of the Lake: China Girl" ends with Miranda (Gwendol…
After recent TV stints in series including "The Blacklist," "The Good Fight," and "Hawaii Five-0," Christine Lahti's latest gig is an Off Broadway play with an unprintable title. In Signatur…
William H. Macy, Wendie Malick, William Fichtner, Richard Kind, and Xander Berkeley will be honored next month at the third annual Carney Awards, which celebrate achievements in character ac…
Peter Hall, a lion of the British theater who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and won two Tony Awards, has died. He was 86. The National Theatre in London, which Hall directed for 15 y…
The Shubert Organization, the company that owns 17 Broadway theaters, has given up efforts to construct a new Broadway venue on West 45th Street, after years of working to add one more house…