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“Rent” is heading to television. The award-winning musical is being adapted as Fox’s next live production, Variety has learned. Fox’s show comes as the musical cel…
“Will & Grace” is back — but will the revival be a musical? NBC released the first footage from the upcoming revival series on Friday, and in the blink-and-you&#…
“A Christmas Story” will be the subject of the next live musical at Fox, Variety has learned. The production, which will air this December, will be based on the Broadway music…
The nominees for the 18th Annual Golden Trailer Awards were announced on Friday, with “The Lego Batman Movie” and its studio, Warner Bros., coming out on top. With 11 nomin…
Running a nice little family restaurant in New York isn't what it used to be, what with spiking rent prices, competition with hipster eateries and ever-changing food tastes. These and more a…
It’s been over four years since “Top of the Lake” closed its first case, but the Elisabeth Moss murder mystery series is returning with a new case. On Thursday, BBC Two, BB…
Ben Whishaw, Alan Cumming and Russell Tovey are set to headline "Queers," a new series of one-off monologues for BBC Four curated and directed by "Sherlock" co-creator Mark Gatiss. The eight…
NBC has selected “Jesus Christ Superstar” as the next live musical to head to the network, Variety has learned. The show follows in the footsteps of NBC’s successful run…
"A Star Is Born" and a credit scorned: what does Lady Gaga's use of her real name mean for the studio's marketing efforts and reach?
The Broadway musical “School of Rock” has turned a profit, with producers of the show announcing the recoupment of its capitalization cost of $15 million. The Andrew Lloyd Webber…
After six seasons on “Downton Abbey,” Elizabeth McGovern will head back to Broadway in “Time and the Conways,” a revival of the 1937 J.B. Priestley play to be produce…
How do you make a comedy about the absurdity of modern terrorism? For bold, outside-the-box American playwright Rajiv Joseph ("Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo"), you set the satire a century…
ESPN’s tough mix of subscriber losses and higher programming costs put Disney on the defensive during its fiscal second quarter earnings conference call. Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger t…
Unlike its rival movie studios, Disney is not looking at an early premium video-on-demand window for theatricals, according to Chairman-CEO Bob Iger. The executive made that point emphati…
Despite the mishap that saw this year’s Oscar ceremony end with the temporary announcement of the incorrect best picture winner, Michael De Luca, one of the producers of the 2017 Acade…
The Walt Disney Company has topped Wall Street earnings estimates for its fiscal second quarter that ended on March 31, thanks to strong performances by feature films and theme parks. The co…
Emmy voters got an early look at the Season 5 premiere of “House of Cards” at Netflix's FYSee event Monday night. The rest of the world has to wait three weeks to screen th…
The Broadway revival of “The Glass Menagerie,” with a cast led by Sally Field, has thrown in the towel earlier than initially expected, with the production, which had been schedu…
The Hamptons International Film Festival will honor actress Julie Andrews with the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of its 25th anniversary festival, running Columbus Day weekend from Oct.…
While Hollywood hosts any number of film premieres, legit world premieres are more rare. On Sunday, Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum hosted the opening of Rajiv Joseph‘s &…
The Tony-nominated Broadway play “Oslo” made it a hat-trick, winning the award for best play from the New York Drama Critics Circle after snagging the same honor from the Lort…
With Tony nominations dropping early last week to add a jolt of awards-season buzz to the Broadway box office, plays were the biggest beneficiaries in an overall steady week as both “O…
Mark Rylance, the Oscar and Tony-winning actor who has been much employed in Stephen Spielberg’s recent films, will return to Broadway later this year in “Farinelli and the King,…
“Once Upon a Time” aired a musical episode Sunday night, but it was not enough to improve the ABC series’ overnight ratings. According to Nielsen data, the episode — …
“In & Of Itself,” the solo show starring illusionist Derek DelGaudio and backed by a team of Hollywood veterans that includes Neil Patrick Harris, has proven successful enoug…
