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For a few minutes, Lady Gaga took over the Super Bowl. Gaga performed a medley of her hits, ranging from her 2008 album “The Fame” all the way to her most recent, “Jo…
Original “Hamilton” stars Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo and Jasmine Cephas Jones added a feminist touch to their rendition of “America the Beautiful” just befo…
Given the guild's track record when it comes to foreshadowing Oscar victory, the modern musical got a nice feather in its cap Saturday night.
“La La Land” director Damien Chazelle admitted Saturday that he had obsessed over the minute details of castings of the musical comedy-drama. “The most difficult parts to c…
Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson, meet Ariana Grande and John Legend. After teasing the duet in a final trailer for “Beauty and the Beast” on Monday, Disney released Grande and Legen…
John Lithgow, hot off his SAG Awards win for his performance as Winston Churchill in Netflix’s “The Crown,” will be rounding out the cast of Universal’s “Pitch …
The hit London stage adaptation of “1984,” the George Orwell novel that has suddenly become a bestseller in the age of Trump, will come to Broadway this summer in a production ba…
The New York Comedy Festival has found a new network partner in TBS, the Turner cabler that will integrate its talent into the festival — including Conan O’Brien, whose latenight…
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, in conjunction with Variety, announced on Thursday the nine recipients of the third annual Variety Artisans Awards. The honorees, all nom…
The seven major Hollywood studios have failed to elevate minorities and women to the director’s chair over the past decade, according to a new report by the University of Southern Cali…
Even tucked away in her dressing room deep in the basement of Broadway's Palace Theater, it proved impossible for Glenn Close to ignore what was happening in the outside world on a recent Fr…
"La La Land"Â has exploded myths that musicals are mindless and have a hard time at the box office. For the industry, the movie has also helped explode some myths about filming in Los Ange…
It sounded like a stunt. Last year, the English National Opera, cash-strapped and hungry for a big draw, produced a semi-staged revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1993 musical "Sunset Boulevar…
Laurene Powell Jobs is no longer Disney’s largest single shareholder, after she recently reduced her ownership stake in the Mouse House by half, regulatory filings show. Powell Jobs, t…
Animation workers have reached a $100 million settlement with the Walt Disney Company, Pixar, and Lucasfilm in a class action lawsuit claiming that the defendants violated antitrust laws by …
Colin Farrell is in negotiations to co-star with Denzel Washington in the legal drama “Inner City” from “Nightcrawler” director and scribe Dan Gilroy. Sony recently a…
A lawsuit brought against the producers of “Hamilton” and the owners of the theater in which it’s playing has turned attention to issues of accessibility for disabled Broad…
Hollywood is getting ready to tackle the Super Bowl as hard as longstanding sponsors like PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch InBev. Disney’s studios, NBCUniversal’s Universal and V…
Jason Katims is back in business with NBC. The “Parenthood” creator has landed a pilot order for “Drama High,” an hourlong series about the drama department at a work…
Disney will discontinue the Club Penguin subscription social game for desktop and mobile devices, and at the same will launch a new mobile game featuring the cartoon aquatic birds in March. …
The barking dog locked in the next room isn't the only animal neglected in Anna Jordan's bleak, brutal yet surprisingly tender play "Yen," making its American premiere in a powerfully acted …
The Broadway box office barely budged last week, as a small slate of about 20 shows held steady in the days before the spring’s stars — among them Glenn Close, Sally Field and Ja…
"La La Land" producer Fred Berger will produce Max Minghella's directorial debut, "Teen Spirit," alongside Brian Kavanaugh-Jones ("Midnight Special") under their Automatik banner. The movie …
Clive Owen will team with director Julie Taymor on a new Broadway production of “M. Butterfly,” the 1988 play about a romance between a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer…
A few surprises kept the awards season interesting at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night.
