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Damien Chazelle’s magical musical “La La Land” and the gripping, coming-of-age drama “Moonlight” led the nominations for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards wit…
“La La Land,” a musical ode to Los Angeles, topped the Golden Globe nominations on Monday, picking up seven nods. It was followed closely behind by “Moonlight,” a low…
Subways are for singing, at least in the world of "In Transit," the charming a cappella musical of metropolitan life that's rapturously harmonious, even when the times aren't. The likable, l…
Local disaster blockbuster, "Pandora" debuted on top of the South Korean box office. Opening on Wednesday (Dec 7) in Korea, the Next Entertainment World picture earned $10.1 million from 1.4…
When it comes to movie musicals, there’s a reason Hollywood doesn’t make them like they used to. “La La Land,” a throwback to a time when bursting out in song was a f…
Disney’s “Moana” topped a sleepy weekend at the multiplexes, earning $18.8 million to lead the domestic box office. It was the third straight victory for the animated adven…
"It's a crazy time and I'm not going to talk about it," said Sandra Bernhard by way of introducing "Sandra Monica Boulevard: Coast to Coast," her traveling one-woman show that kicked off its…
The opening scene of Sarah DeLappe's exhilarating play “The Wolves,” which depicts the tough, tender and complicated lives of nine members of a girl's high school indoor soccer t…
Thousands of screaming fans at Madison Square Garden on Friday night " who never seemed to tire of wailing louder and louder for each consecutive artist " were treated to a snapshot of the c…
Lionsgate’s awards contender “La La Land” is off to a sizzling start with about $300,000 on Friday at five theaters in Los Angeles and New York, early estimates showed. Sho…
AARP announced Friday their “Top 10 Movies for Grownups” list for 2016, which represents the best acting, writing, and overall filmmaking for viewers with a “grown-up state…
The Walt Disney Co.'s annual 10-K report, released Nov. 23, does little to back up management's confidence in a turnaround in 2017. The report indicates that almost all of Disney's major cab…
It’s impossible to resist the quirky appeal of “The Band’s Visit,” a modest but charming musical directed by David Cromer and featuring Tony Shalhoub. David Y…
It’s an hour before the live broadcast of NBC’s musical “Hairspray Live,” and the show-within-the show is going through last-minute rehearsals. Darren Criss, who̵…
Feeling confused, stuck, crushed and desperate? (Who isn't these days?) Then "Tiny Beautiful Things," the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's collection of empathetic advice columns that sh…
Aaron Sorkin, the creator of “The West Wing” and “The Social Network,” will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's 2017 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Televis…
Having won Emmys, Golden Globes, a Tony, and an Oscar nomination for playing such dramatic operators as Walter White, Dalton Trumbo, and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Bryan Cranston was pleas…
“Dear Evan Hansen” is shaping up to be this season’s Little Broadway Musical That Could, ringing in more than $1.5 million in advance sales since its Dec. 4 opening, wit…
We may have reached a ratings plateau for live televised musicals. NBC's "Hairspray Live!" on Wednesday night pulled in a 5.9 household rating in Nielsen’s metered market overnight rat…
It took about an hour for "Hairspray Live!" to find its sweet spot. The energy was a little low, a line got dropped, and the production " the most complex, it appeared, that NBC has attempte…
Jennifer Hudson and Ariana Grande generated major heat on social media for their performances in “Hairspray Live,” NBC’s latest holiday musical production. The three-hour t…
After two weeks at No. 1, Walt Disney Studios' "Finding Dory" finally slipped a notch on the national home video sales charts " replaced at the top by another Disney film, "Pete's Dragon," a…
Life is imitating art on the Disney Channel. “Bizaardvark,” which premiered on the kids’ cabler earlier this year, is a tween sitcom about two young girls who make videos f…
“Prince of Broadway,” the long-aborning Harold Prince retrospective, will arrive in New York later this year with a Broadway run that opens in August. Manhattan Theater Club will…
Only the most astute viewers of “La La Land” will notice a slight change to the final cut of a movie that many expect will be a formidable Oscar contender. That’s because J…
