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Ewan McGregor is in talks to star in Disney’s “Christopher Robin,” sources confirmed to Variety. “World War Z” director Marc Forster is helming. In line with Di…
Disney is not abandoning local content production in India, despite a decision last year to close its Bollywood film making side. The country is often overshadowed by the growth of China, bu…
Despite the vitalizing presence of Allison Janney in director Trip Cullman's elegant revival, "Six Degrees of Separation" lacks the comic bite of the original production. In its time, John G…
Martha Lavey, ensemble member and former artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, died Tuesday. She was 60. Lavey has spent nearly two years recovering from a debilitat…
Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner have been tapped to voice Timon and Pumbaa in Disney’s live-action adaptation of “The Lion King,” sources confirmed to Variety. Donald Glover i…
Baayork Lee, the actor-director-choreographer who originated the role of Connie in “A Chorus Line,” will receive the 2017 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, which honors a member …
“Spotlight” writer-director Tom McCarthy is in talks to direct an adaptation of the children’s book “Timmy Failure” for Disney. McCarthy would also co-write the…
Disney dated a slew of films on Tuesday, including “Star Wars: Episode IX,” the live-action “Lion King” reboot, and “Frozen 2.” It also moved the openings…
New musical “Anastasia” and the megaselling revival of “Hello, Dolly!” with Bette Midler took the lead in the nominations for the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards, wi…
“Descendants 2” — the sequel to the hit Disney Channel Original Movie “Descendants” — is getting a massive boost for its summer premiere with a simultaneo…
The annual Webby Awards celebrate the very best the Internet has to offer, and the winners for this year’s award show were just announced. There were over 13,000 entries across h…
Young women and girls in search of a new Broadway role model need look no further than the title character in "Anastasia," the sumptuous fairy tale of a musical that should please the kids, …
After the previous week’s boom, sales slowed predictably last week at the Broadway box office — although there were still plenty of strong earners on the chart, and one show in p…
The Tony Awards will bring back two awards for sound design next season, restoring categories that had been summarily dropped in 2014. The move comes after a long review by the Tony Awards A…
When good playwrights are unable to write, they sometimes write bad plays about being unable to write.  Annie Baker, who is normally a very good writer (of plays including Pulitzer Pri…
It was easy to spot the dash of Hollywood glam at the Broadway opening night party of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” There were the chocolate fountains and the all-you-can-…
It’s hard to predict how grownups might feel about this inflated musical adapted from previous stage and film treatments of Roald Dahl’s beloved novel, “Charlie & the C…
Lady Gaga chose the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to announce the launch of her upcoming film “A Star Is Born.” The pop star closed out her he…
To play a young serial killer in "My Friend Dahmer," ex-Disney Channel star Ross Lynch didn't just walk in his character's shoes. He took over the childhood home where Jeffrey Dahmer grew up…
The producers of Broadway musical "Anastasia" knew they had a big built-in audience for their show. They just didn't know how big. As the team behind the production discovered early, the app…
The audience claps at the overture and whistles at the set; and when Bette Midler makes her entrance, everyone falls into a dead swoon. “Hello, Dolly!” is back on Broadway, and i…
Two veteran Broadway stage managers, Nina Lannan and Alan Wasser, will be awarded the 2017 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater, recognizing long careers and work that has been integral…
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will create a new English adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” to be directed by prominent German director Thomas …
Chris Evans will make his Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan's play "Lobby Hero," starring opposite Michael Cera in a production that will reopen the newly renovated Helen Hayes Theater and …
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference has set its 2017 lineup of eight plays to be developed during the center’s summer season, including new …
