Michelle Williams is in talks to join Hugh Jackman in the P.T. Barnum biopic "The Greatest Showman on Earth." The project has been in development since 2009 with Jackman attached. The contem…
Live.ly, the live-streaming video app from Musical.ly that burst onto the scene last month, has now been downloaded more than 2 million times " helped by early adopters like singer�…
Ariana Grande has joined the cast of NBC’s upcoming musical “Hairspray Live.” The pop star will play Penny Pringleton, protagonist Tracy Turnblad's incorrigible best friend…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s final performance as the titular Alexander Hamilton in his uber-popular “Hamilton” is here. After this Saturday, Miranda will be handing over the reins…
The mob had clogged the sidewalk outside the Richard Rodgers Theater an hour and a half before the show had even started: Ticketholders eager to get in, fans across the street or outside the…
“Hamilton” stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Phillipa Soo are taking their final curtain call Saturday night. To celebrate and commemorate their last performanc…
Earlier this year, David Bowie left Earth — albeit too soon. But he’ll be momentarily alive on screen when movie theaters across England screen his first starring film, “…
John McMartin, the Broadway veteran who created roles in landmark musicals including “Sweet Charity” and “Follies,” had died. He was 86. The death of the longtime act…
Brandon Victor Dixon, the Broadway regular who was nominated for a Tony earlier this year for his performance in “Shuffle Along,” will step into “Hamilton” in August …
Long weekends can sometimes be a boon for the Broadway box office — but not when the long weekend is part of the July 4 holiday, which is so full of barbecues and fireworks and other o…
Apple is in negotiations to acquire Tidal, the struggling streaming service owned by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, reported Wall Street Journal on Thursday. While talks may not result in a deal, inte…
Paramount Pictures is developing a movie adaptation of “Clifford the Big Red Dog” — a live-action/CG hybrid. Paramount has tapped Justin Malen to write the screenplay…
Disney has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to acquire a one-third stake in the league’s MLB Advanced Media technology arm for about $3.5 billion, Bloomberg reported. Under the…
Debbie Alsebai has spent 55 hours of her life waiting for a ticket to “Hamilton.” The first time she tried to snag one of the very few seats released to the cancellations line…
Disney has created a secure sandbox for preteens to get a taste of social media " without the risk that they’ll run into something age-inappropriate, scary or offensive. More important…
New York Public Radio, the backer of two New York public-radio stations as well as podcasts featuring hosts such as Alec Baldwin and Jessica Williams, said it added drummer and “Tonigh…
LONDON — Brit comedian James Corden's U.S. hit series "The Late Late Show" is set to be made available on his home turf for the first time. CBS Studios International and pan-European p…
Gravitas Ventures has secured all worldwide rights to Aaron Tveit’s dating comedy “Better Off Single,” Variety has learned exclusively. Gravitas has set an Oct. 7 date f…
Live.ly, the live-streaming app from Musical.ly that officially launched four days ago, has zoomed to the top of Apple’s free apps chart " with almost 500,000 downloads so far " and…
Playwright David Henry Hwang will success costume designer William Ivey Long as the chair of the American Theater Wing, the not-for-profit theater development organization that founded the T…
One of Broadway’s prime musical houses, the St. James Theater, will soon begin an expansion of its stage that will push the back wall of the theater out into the alley behind it. Work …
“Anastasia,” the stage musical inspired in part by the 1997 animated film, has claimed a Broadway home, targeting an April 24, 2017 opening at the Broadhurst Theater. The show, w…
Spurred by its victories at the Tony Awards and by the return of its Tony-winning star, the musical revival of “The Color Purple” took a mighty leap upward at the Broadway box…
The new docu-solo from Anna Deavere Smith and older titles from Tracy Letts and Bruce Norris are on the 2016-17 season slate at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater. The latest from …
Long-gestating a capella musical “In Transit” is commuting to Broadway at last, with the show claiming Circle in the Square for a run that will begin this fall. The musical, whic…