Celebrating 100 years of setting technical standards for film and TV, the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers gave itself a rousing birthday bash Friday night at the Dolby Ba…
Bette Midler arrived at the New York Restoration Project’s Hulaween fundraiser on Friday dressed as her character Winnie Sanderson from “Hocus Pocus,” effectively raising t…
The countdown has begun: "Hamilton" will touch down at the Victoria Palace Theatre in the West End in November 2017. The question is, will Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash succeed in Britain " its…
William Finn and James Lapine were ahead of the curve when they wrote a trilogy of plays about a married man, his family, and his gay lover in the age of AIDS. “In Trousers” debu…
Another host is set to depart “The View.” Raven-Symoné is leaving the ABC daytime talkshow by year’s end to develop a spinoff of her comedy series “That’s S…
If only we could see the world through each other's eyes, we could finally achieve true understanding. That eternal quest, exploited so inventively in Mary Rodgers' 1972 book "Freaky Friday"…
Kevin Hart is in talks to play Santa Claus in Disney’s “Dashing Through the Snow”, Variety has confirmed. The film is based on an original idea by Scott Rosenberg wit…
Maker Studios has unveiled a slate of 15 original series rolling out this fall and winter on its game channel Polaris and newly relaunched comedy channel The Station. And the Disney-owned mu…
“The Incredibles 2” will hit theaters a year before it was originally slated, while “Toy Story 4” will move from 2018 to 2019, Pixar said Wednesday. The two animated …
Disney Junior is rebooting the 1980s children’s cartoon series “Muppet Babies.” Production on the new show, slated to premiere on the cable channel in 2018, has already beg…
Lady Gaga got her driver’s license just a few months ago… so it’s only natural that James Corden would take her out for a driving test. The superstar appeared on CordenR…
Qui Nguyen’s biographical play, “Vietgone,” is a smart variation on what a colleague used to refer to as the “My Life So Far” play.  Instead of being a sa…
Ice Cube, Marc Platt, and “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail are developing a contemporary movie musical based on Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist.” Cube will produc…
Fathom Events, the alternative-content distributor for bigscreen fare, has teamed up with streaming service BroadwayHD to present U.S. cinema screenings of select U.S. and international titl…
The AFI Fest will host the world premiere of Disney’s animated “Moana” on Nov. 14 — nine days ahead of its theatrical release. Auli'i Cravalho is voicing the title ch…
Glenn Close has locked in her Broadway return in “Sunset Boulevard,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in which she reprises the role that won her a 1995 Tony Award. Close, last on…
MUMBAI — The Walt Disney Company India has reappointed Mahesh Samat as Managing Director. Samat had left Disney four years ago to establish Epic Television Networks and was founder and…
David Hyde Pierce is giving a quietly devastating performance at Playwrights Horizons in “A Life,” Adam Bock’s meditative one-act play about the meaning and implicit value …
James Corden is having a “Bad Romance” — with none other than Lady Gaga. She’s the latest superstar to go for a ride in his passenger seat, and judging from this new …
Does Josh Groban sell tickets on Broadway? The answer is looking like a yes, based on the boffo first-week sales at the musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.̶…
Chris Pine is in talks to join the cast of Disney’s adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time.” He joins newcomer Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling in th…
"Hamilton's America" is a product of one of those weird cultural moments where multiple different mediums attempt to be the same thing " a documentary film about a work of musical theater, p…
The crowd at the Oct. 20 performance of Broadway’s “The Front Page” included some faces you don’t see every day at a Broadway opening: Critics, hunched in aisle seats…
Ah, those were the golden days of journalism, when big cities like Chicago were infested with cheesy tabloids, and cynical reporters crammed themselves into squalid press rooms to write (or …
The death of idealism usually signals the end of an era, a brutal message lyrically delivered by David Hare in his 1982 drama, “Plenty,” now in a rare revival at the Public Theat…