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Jake Gyllenhaal will star in a revival of the 1987 play “Burn This,” leading a production that will re-open midtown’s Hudson Theater as a Broadway venue. Michael Mayer, the…
Wait! Do you really want to click on that Baby Pandas / Neo-Nazi / S&M website? British scribe James Graham and Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke, who co-created the min…
The new revival of “Cats” pounced on Broadway last week, launching to healthy sales in a window that saw a few titles dial up to nine-show weeks in order to take advantage of …
Paramount has given an awards-season December release to Denzel Washington’s “Fences” with a limited opening in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 16 and a wide release on De…
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, were on hand Thursday night in Las Vegas to officially mark the ten year anniversary of Cirque du Sol…
“Hamilton” co-star Daveed Diggs is in talks to join Julia Roberts, Jacob Tremblay and Owen Wilson in Lionsgate's drama "Wonder." Diggs, who departed the Broadway production of &#…
It's easy for the musical theater staple "West Side Story" to take on a been-there, done-that quality, but the Los Angeles Philharmonic's concert rendition, now playing at the Hollywood Bowl…
The 68th Emmy Award nominations will be announced on Thursday, July 14 at 8:30 a.m. PT. Anthony Anderson and Lauren Graham will do the honors from the Wolf Theatre at the Television Ac…
HBO’s epic fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” once again leads the pack of contenders for the Primetime Emmy Awards, grabbing 23 nominations for its sixth season. “Thron…
The nominations for the 2016 Emmy Awards were announced on July 14; check out the nominees who will be vying for Emmys on September 18, with the full list to come. Lead Actor in a Drama Seri…
Horribly misogynistic or fatally misjudged? Turns out “The Stripper,” the pulp fiction pastiche by “The Rocky Horror Show” creator Richard O’Brien, is both. …
"Love" " as the Beatles told us in 1967, it's pretty much all you need. And over the past 10 years, through more than 4,500 performances of Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas show of the same name…
The upcoming Chicago production of “Hamilton” has cast its major roles, with Karen Olivo — a Tony Award winner whose breakout came in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “I…
Misty Copeland is joining Disney’s “Nutcracker” movie project and will play the lead ballerina role in the sole dance sequence in the film. She made the announcement via he…
Mira Nair's "Queen of Katwe," which stars David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o and newcomer Madina Nalwanga, will receive its European premiere Oct. 9 in the Gala section of the 60th BFI London Fil…
Hillary Clinton spoke to an audience of donors who had paid at least $2,700-per-person to see the hottest show on Broadway, “Hamilton,” but she did her best to prove that she is …
Disney has officially inducted its first-ever Latina princess. On Tuesday afternoon, Disney Channel released the first trailer for “Elena of Avalor,” set to debut July 22 at 7…
Now that creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with actors Leslie Odom Jr. and Phillipa Soo, have left the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” the show's producers get to find out i…
Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger will serve as vice chair of the board of directors of Los Angeles 2024, the bid committee waging an effort to bring the Summer Olympic Games to the …
I've seen "Hamilton" four times. Well, maybe more like 3.33 times. (More on that later.) But with all the media hype, the 11 Tony Awards, the tickets selling for thousands of dollars on the …
What would it take to get you to Lincoln Center Theater to see a three-hour political drama about the 1993 peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization known as the …
The Broadway box office continued a summer slowdown last week — but “Hamilton” held strong in its last week with three of its original stars, while a couple of shows were u…
"Big Sky," the new play by Pulitzer finalist Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros ("Omnium Gatherum") making its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, begins in a well-grounded place, focusing on …
A musical adaptation of the 1993 Johnny Depp movie "Benny & Joon" is among the projects on tap for the National Alliance for Musical Theater's 2016 Festival of New Musicals, the annual i…
