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“La La Land,” Damien Chazelle’s musical ode to Los Angeles, captured the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival after screening to standing ovations a…
Edward Albee, who shocked Broadway audiences with his play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1962, died Friday at his home in Montauk, Long Island in New York. He was 88…
Ben Sherwood and Bruce Rosenblum bonded over a burger lunch this summer as Sherwood was searching for a seasoned executive to help run the business side of the Disney/ABC Television Group. R…
Bruce Rosenblum, the former head of Warner Bros. TV Group and chairman of the Television Academy, has joined Disney/ABC Television Group as president of business operations. The newly create…
Opera is often pigeonholed with imagery of powdered wigs and Valkyrie helmets, not to mention the legendary "fat lady." With classical music on the decline, it's easy to become pessimistic f…
Gavin Creel and Kate Baldwin are among the actors set to join Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce in the highly anticipated Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” this spring. Creel,…
The Middleburg Film Festival has booked “La La Land” as its Centerpiece selection on Oct. 22 and a keynote conversation with Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Moti…
Broadway’s “Something Rotten!,” a raucous Renaissance musical comedy, will close in January after a run of a bit less than two years. The show, the tale of two brothers who…
Mark Waters has closed a deal to direct “Magic Camp” for Disney with Suzanne Todd attached to produce. The story follows an aspiring young magician who heads to Magic Camp for…
The new trailer for Disney’s Polynesian princess film “Moana” begins with a voiceover that lays out the grounds for an epic adventure story: “For generations this pea…
The movies, in case you didn’t notice, are having an LBJ moment. It began two years ago, when Tom Wilkinson played President Lyndon B. Johnson in “Selma” as a cagey but cou…
Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s producing and licensing company, the Really Useful Group, has partnered with U.S.-based recorded music and publishing company Concord Bicycle Music to launch The …
The sound of gospel soars through the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, a re-commissioned church with excellent acoustics (if no organ.) The occasion is the limited engag…
Walt Disney Co. has cut 250 jobs, or about 5% of its 5,000 employees in its consumer products and digital media staff, a spokesman said Wednesday. About half of the layoffs were among vid…
Longtime Sony executive Lia Vollack has been named president of Columbia Live Stage, the new live theatrical productions division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In her new post, Vollack,Â�…
Turner has made a massive commitment to harness the power of the Force. The Time Warner division has struck a nine-figure deal with Disney for basic cable rights to 10 "Star Wars" movies, an…
Putting an end to a painful legal episode, Cinemark today dropped a claim of $700,000 in legal costs against victims of the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting. The victims sued the theater chai…
Thomas Mann has come on board to play the role of Neil Perry in the new stage adaptation of “Dead Poets Society,” based on the movie starring Robin Williams. Perry was played by …
The new musical adaptation of “Groundhog Day,” currently wrapping up its critically adored premiere at the Old Vic in London, has set plans for Broadway, lining up an April op…
The Chicago International Film Festival will open with the Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling musical “La La Land” on Oct. 13 and close with Amy Adams’ sci-fi thriller “Arrival&…
“Aubergine,” a new play by Julia Cho (a winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and multiple other honors), poses a unique challenge. The language is lovely, the dramatic st…
The opening-night crowd at the Mark Taper Forum's opening of “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” showed the esteem with which director Phylicia Rashad is held in Los Angeles. The guest li…
The annual comedy fundraiser for veterans Stand Up For Heroes will celebrate its 10th anniversary Nov. 1 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, with performances by Louis C.K.,Â�…
The annual slump that hits the Broadway box office immediately after Labor Day amounted to a decline of $3.2 million this year, or nearly 14%, compared to the previous frame, slimming the…
Apple has teamed with five Hollywood studios for six different ten-movie bundles — priced at $9.99, or a buck per movie — in a one-day promotion celebrating the 10th anniversary …
