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“Divergent” director Neil Burger has been tapped to direct The Weinstein Company’s remake of “The Intouchables,” starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston. TWC pla…
“Queen of Katwe,” the Disney film directed by Mira Nair and starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo, is among the films lined up to screen at the 20th Urbanworld Film …
No theater producer or creator likes to face the critics. Even worse? Seeing their Broadway baby, the show they've slaved over for years, rated with a number. Which means that Show-Score, th…
Steven Hill, who starred for years as District Attorney Adam Schiff on “Law & Order” and decades earlier played the leader of the Impossible Missions Force before Peter…
Patrick Wilson is coming aboard the Liam Neeson thriller "The Commuter," joining his “The Conjuring 2” star Vera Farmiga. Jaume Collet-Serra is directing the film, marking�…
The world premieres of two theater documentaries — Alex Horwitz’s “Hamilton’s America,” a behind-the-scenes look at the history of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Br…
The Broadway box office continued its late-August deflation last week as nearly every show on the boards saw sales decline — except for a few productions including “Finding Never…
Dancer Marcus Bellamy, who worked as dance captain for the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark,” has been charged with the murder of his boyfriend, 27-year-old Ber…
Italian soprano Daniela Dessì, known for her performances at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, died on Saturday evening in Brescia, Italy, after a sho…
Annie Golden, the theater veteran and regular on TV's "Orange Is the New Black" (playing inmate Norma), isn't precisely "Annie Golden," protagonist of Joe Iconis's new musical "Broadway B…
The Manhattan District Attorney has indicted a former theater agent, Roland Scahill, for stealing $165,000 from investors in a phony Broadway play that would have starred Lupita N’yong…
“Hairspray Live!” doesn’t debut until this December, but the first footage is already here. “Hairspray Live!” features newcomer Maddie Baillio in the star-makin…
Most theatrical road movies take a trip through the landscape; this one goes on a journey through time. Directed by Rachel Chavkin, “Anything That Gives Off Light,” part of the E…
Even war has its blue-sky days. Opening with Brecht's question — "In the dark times, will there also be singing?" — Kneehigh, the company behind Broadway's "Brief Encounter," res…
“Jessica Jones” star Wil Traval is joining “Arrow” as Human Target for the upcoming season on the CW, plus Andrea Martin will be joining NBC’s “Hair…
Leslie Odom Jr. is in talks to join the cast of Kenneth Branagh’s remake of “Murder on the Orient Express” at Fox, Variety has learned exclusively Branagh will star as dete…
This one will run and run. And run. And run… Reuniting the Tony Award-winning team behind "Matilda," "Groundhog Day" cracks open Danny Rubin's story for the 1993 Harold Ramis film to…
“Come From Away,” inbound for Broadway this spring, has locked in its New York dates, setting a March opening night after pre-Broadway runs in Washington, D.C. and Toronto. The c…
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken have come on to pen the songs for Disney’s live-action reboot of “The Little Mermaid.” Miranda will also produce the film along with Marc…
Jason Sudeikis will take on the Robin Williams role in “Dead Poets Society,” a new stage adaptation of the 1989 movie opening in November at Off Broadway’s Classic Stage Co…
Show the magic — that was a guiding principle for the "Grease Live" team as they tackled the challenge of mounting Fox's live staging of the beloved musical. The end result of the Jan.…
The play that won the crown at the 2016 Tony Awards, “The Humans,” played its first week in its new home at the Schoenfeld Theater last week, and the bigger venue helped the prod…
John Turturro, Tony Shalhoub and Jessica Hecht will star in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Price,” cued up for spring at the Roundabout Theater Company. Tu…
Amazon is furthering the relationship with one of their most proven hit-makers, “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway. Soloway, along with former “Transparent” scribeÂ�…
Ben Whishaw is in talks to join Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda in Disney’s sequel “Mary Poppins Returns.” The movie, directed by Rob Marshall, is set 20 years after the…
