Nothing about Bob Iger's middle-class upbringing in New York, or his years as a television and radio major at Ithaca College, or his long run up the corporate media ladder at ABC and Disney,…
“Fences,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson, was written in 1983 and had its premiere on Broadway in 1987. But the play is set 30 years before that, in a lower-mi…
The weekend’s spat between President-elect Donald Trump and the cast of “Hamilton” still lingered at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Fall Gala, which honored Nathan Lane…
With “Moana,” another princess will join the Disney fold. After Snow White hit the big screen decades ago, princesses have become a staple of the Disney brand. There’s stil…
Disney has been drawing a lot of aces lately. From “Doctor Strange” to “Zootopia” to “Finding Dory,” the studio has amassed an impressive streak of blockb…
Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, made her case against CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s criticism of Trump’s tweets this past weekend that attacked b…
The buzz that musical “Dear Evan Hansen” built up Off Broadway has apparently carried over at the Broadway box office, where the show’s first seven previews rang in an impr…
“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” is now in the black. The Off Broadway play has recouped its capitalization costs with an unusual model that sees the show perform once a week with a dif…
Disney-Pixar’s first teaser trailer for its animated film “Cars 3” promises more racing action, including a big crash, courtesy of Lightning McQueen. The 45-second te…
“If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?” Alexander Hamilton asks Aaron Burr in the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton.” In an example of life imitati…
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will present the film “La La Land” with the Vanguard Award at its annual awards gala on Jan. 2 at the Palm Springs Conven…
With Sutton Foster in the title role of “Sweet Charity,” we now know that even big, beautiful, corn-fed girls from the American heartland can be fragile Fellini waifs. Although c…
Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play "The Beauty Queen of Lenane" was the first of half a dozen scripts to come pouring out of McDonagh during a particularly prolific period back in the mid-'90…
Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s demands that the cast of “Hamilton” apologize to Mike Pence for its statement on Friday, the future vice president took a much more m…
Chrissy Teigen briefly took her Twitter account off its private setting on Saturday to unleash a tweetstorm directed at Donald Trump. Earlier that morning the president-elect demanded tha…
Several Hollywood figures jumped to weigh in Saturday morning after Donald Trump and Mike Pence supporters called for a boycott of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” in defense o…
Supporters of Donald Trump and Mike Pence started the hashtag #BoycottHamilton to defend the vice president-elect who was booed while attending the Broadway show “Hamilton” Frida…
President-elect Donald Trump demanded that the cast of “Hamilton” apologize to Mike Pence after he attended the Broadway show Friday night. The vice president-elect was booed by …
Vice-president elect Mike Pence went to see the hip-hop musical “Hamilton” on Broadway Friday night, and the performance was disrupted when the audience wouldn’t stop booin…
MGM has tapped Rachel Lee Goldenberg (“A Deadly Adoption”) to direct MGM's musical adaptation of the 1983 comedy “Valley Girl.” The new “Valley Girl” is p…
Marc Forster will direct “Christopher Robin,” the live-action adaptation of Disney’s classic cartoon “Winnie the Pooh” which centers on boy who befriends …
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has selected Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling for its 2017 outstanding performers of the year award for their work in “La La Land.” The a…
ROME – Disney's "Moana" will soon roll out across Italy – but under a new name, "Oceania," a change widely believed to be prompted by the fact that the name of the film's titular…
Romantics will find much to embrace in writer Thomas Schulman's stage adaptation of the 1989 film he wrote, "Dead Poets Society," receiving its world premiere production at Off Broadway̵…
Kristin Chenoweth, who's been performing since childhood, has made her mark on the stage, screen and television, with memorable roles on "Wicked" and "The West Wing." Never one to sit still,…