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The megaselling revival of “Hello, Dolly!” and the sleeper success “Come From Away” walked away with five awards each from the Outer Critics Circle Awards, underscori…
“Oslo,” the play by J.T. Rogers that’s currently in the running for seven Tony Awards including best play, topped the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging four trophies inc…
Longtime Disney production executive Kristin Burr is transitioning to a Disney-based producing deal on the Burbank lot as Burr! Productions. Burr joined Disney in 1997 as a creative executiv…
The filmmaker discusses his latest epic project, navigating the industry's superhero status quo, and nearly 20 years of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."
Dave Chappelle has joined Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in the Warner Bros. remake of “A Star is Born.” Cooper is also directing, which marks his feature film helming debut. He is…
Better on angels than it is on America, Marianne Elliott's grand revival of “Angels in America” brings Tony Kushner's sprawling fantasia back to London’s National Theater 2…
Director John Doyle is such a wizard, he could probably stage a show on a postage stamp. The stage at Classic Stage Company is larger than that — as reconfigured for this Off Broadway …
In the first sign of fallout from the recent announcement of the Tony nominations, producers of the Broadway musical “Amelie” have decided to throw in the towel, posting a closin…
Mae Whitman is joining MGM’s musical remake of the 1983 romantic comedy “Valley Girl.” The film is toplined by Jessica Rothe and Josh Whitehouse as Julie and Randy " the le…
Jez Butterworth tapped into England's green and pleasant land in “Jerusalem,” summoning ancient feet and pagan spirits to the stage. “The Ferryman,” his first major p…
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End smash that extends the uber-popular “Harry Potter” franchise to the stage, has officially made a date with Broadway,…
Two new theatrical releases stormed into the two top spots on the national home video sales charts for the week ended April 30, bumping Walt Disney's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," the seco…
Filming has wrapped on modern-day musical "Been So Long" in London. The film, which London-based international sales company Film Constellation will introduce to buyers at the Cannes Film Ma…
Glenn Close's return to Broadway in “Sunset Boulevard” was one of the tentpoles of the theater season: A big star earning big raves in a big-selling show that has grossed more th…
Nigel Cox-Hagan, Freeform’s senior vice president of marketing, creative and branding, is exiting the network after two and a half years, Variety has confirmed. “It’s wi…
Here are two nuggets of conventional Broadway wisdom: The new play is dying. And when it’s not, the Brits usually steal the spotlight. But this year’s Tony nominations for new pl…
With a crowded field of contenders and no clear frontrunner, Broadway’s busy 2016-17 season was packed with potential for the Tony nominations. But with so much competition for so few …
Maker Studios was once a sprawling agglomeration of some 60,000 YouTube channels. Now Disney, which has owned Maker since 2014, has dramatically pared back the unit’s focus " …
“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” jumped to the head of the pack of the 2017 Tony nominations, taking the lead with an even dozen noms ahead of “Hello, Dolly!,&…
The 71st annual Tony Award nominations will be announced live on Tuesday morning. Christopher Jackson and Jane Krakowski will do the honors of announcing the 2017 nominees. Jackson it known …
Hong Kong's Legislative Council has approved the government plans to co-finance the $1.4 billion (HK$10.9 billion) expansion of the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park. The expansion plan was pr…
The 71st annual Tony Award nominations will be announced live on Tuesday morning. Christopher Jackson and Jane Krakowski will do the honors of announcing the 2017 nominees. Jackson it known …
Dallas Theater Center will take home the 2017 Regional Theater Tony Award, with its leadership due to receive the trophy during the 71st Annual Tony Awards. The Tonys hand out its annual reg…
The overall Broadway box office slowed last week, but some of the Street’s newer shows picked up — among them “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Groundhog…
With his new show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” Michael Moore is taking his fight against Donald Trump to the Broadway stage. After he announced the production, he spoke with …
