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It wasn’t trick casting on the part of director Daniel Sullivan to have Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon alternate lead roles in “The Little Foxes,” Lillian Hellman’…
Daniel Craig, Cate Blanchett, Allison Janney, Josh Groban, Daniel Radcliffe, Sally Field and Corey Hawkins are among the actors nominated for the performance trophy at the 2017 Drama Leag…
The title of this engaging dark comedy by Tracy Letts ("August: Osage County," "Superior Donuts"), "Linda Vista," refers to the San Diego community in which protagonist Wheeler (Ian Barford)…
Fox 2000 has hired “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail to direct World War II female pilots drama “Silver Wings.” The film will be produced by Anonymous Content's Michael…
Audra McDonald is not only the winningest actress in Broadway history (with six Tony Awards and counting), she’s also a vocal activist and a new mom. A Variety Power of Women New York …
“Indecent,” the production created by playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, opened April 18, 2017, at Broadway’s Cort Theater after an Off Broadway run last…
Verizon, which is in the midst of closing its deal for Yahoo, is open to M&A talks with the likes of Comcast, Disney and CBS, CEO Lowell McAdam said in an interview with Bloomberg. A …
Good Friday, Easter, the first night of Passover and spring break for New York City public schools all fell during the same week last week, and it added up to a huge boom at the Broadway box…
Kevin Spacey has signed on to host the 2017 Tony Awards — thereby answering a major outstanding question about the upcoming awards ceremony, which this year has waited until late in th…
You’re not imagining it: The Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” really has been unusually accident-prone. Following a couple of days of doubt, Andy Karl performed in the prod…
Once you get involved in "Indecent," "Indecent" doesn’t let you go. Just ask its cast and creative team. The production’s complete ensemble of seven actors (along with two com…
As musical theater performers go, you couldn’t ask for a more personable fellow than Andy Karl. His high-energy athleticism kept “Rocky” on its toes. And his comic chops ea…
Disney Theatrical Prods. has lined up the principal casting for its Broadway-bound musical adaptation of “Frozen,” with Caissie Levy and Patti Murin on board to play the sisters …
Asked to pick his favorite memories at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Gary Sinise can only muster: "Oh, geez." It's a tall order, for sure, and one on which Sinise could spend hours rum…
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are about to go where Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand have gone before. Filming began Monday on “A Star Is Born,” the latest remake of the the oft-…
A new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 musical “Carousel” has lined up a spring 2018 opening, in a production backed by Scott Rudin and Roy Furman and …
Fans won’t be able to immerse themselves in “Star Wars” land until 2019, but new details and concept art revealed at “Star Wars Celebration” should keep them en…
The April 15 matinee of the previewing Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” has been cancelled after Andy Karl, the lead actor in the production, injured himself during the second ac…
PARIS — The selection of two movies backed by Netlix, Bong Joon-Ho’s “Okja” and Noah Baumbach’s "The Meyerowitz Stories,” has triggered protests from Fran…
Following a well-received Off Broadway run last year, the Lincoln Center Theater production of J.T. Rogers’ play “Oslo” opened April 13 at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont …
Apple could potentially find the cash to pull off a $200 billion-plus takeover Disney "Â creating a company worth $1 trillion with “almost limitless opportunities in content and tech…
When "Oslo" opened Off Broadway in the middle of July, it sounded like the opposite of summer popcorn fare. The latest play by J.T. Rogers was a meaty evening, a thinking theatergoer’s…
Joseph David-Jones has joined the cast of Denzel Washington’s crime drama “Inner City,” written and directed by Dan Gilroy. Cross Creek will co-finance the film under its S…
Salma Hayek blisters John Lithgow’s self-satisfied real-estate mogul at a dinner party that goes off the rails in the first trailer for Roadside Attractions’ dark comedy “B…
Broadway names Sherie Rene Scott and Micah Stock and “The Blacklist” cast member Amir Arison have signed on to join Arian Moayed in the upcoming Off Broadway production of “…
