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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has revealed it has taken a stake in Apple valued at more than $1 billion. Berkshire Hathaway said in a regulatory filing Monday that it has held 9.81 mil…
CANNES — Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men”) and Claes Bang (“The Bridge”) are set to topline Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square,” the Danish helmer’s f…
The brush strokes are broad in "My Paris," the predictable bio-tuner of Belle Epoque artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, now premiering at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. The chansons f…
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Lupita Nyong’o is in talks to play the love interest of Chadwick Boseman’s superhero in Marvel’s “The Black Panther,” sources confirmed to Variety. “Creed…
Donald Sutherland might win the award for most complaints at a Cannes press conference. "I can tell you I'm freezing up here," he said on Wednesday afternoon, teeth chattering in the air-con…
Bryan Cranston detailed the intensive process he went through in order to reprise his role as president Lyndon B. Johnson at the premiere of HBO’s telepic “All the Way…
Disney's second quarter earnings call this week had a different kind of vibe, and not just because the company's long streak of beating Wall Street expectations came to an abrupt end. There …
Brenda Chapman, who directed the Academy Award-winning animated film “Brave,” will make her live-action directing debut in “Come Away,” a prequel to “Alice in W…
NBC is bringing back the original cast of last year’s holiday ratings winner “Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors” for a sequel slated to air later this year. “D…
The producer of a new Sherlock Holmes play is investigating a path to the West End and Broadway, enlisting a creative team led by director Daniel Evans to stage an original tale of the…
The vivid first trailer for Disney’s true-life story “Queen of Katwe” is here, hitting the web on Tuesday. Aside from featuring the familiar faces of Golden Globe nominee D…
With Tony Awards season in full swing, the New York theater industry probably hasn’t taken much notice yet of “Josephine,” the new musical about Josephine Baker that …
There’s been some shuffling of the schedule at Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” which has set new dates for the hiatus of star Audra McDonald — and ad…
DanceOn, the YouTube network focused on dance culture, has adopted a new name " Izo " as the company looks to stretch its legs more broadly into music content. "We really needed to create an…
Darren Criss will kick off the national tour of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” taking on the lead role during the production’s first two stops in San Francisco and L.A. Criss…
The Broadway box office got a leg up last week from the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, with musical contenders “Waitress” and “Shuffle Along” hitting new highs alongsi…
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the large-scale musical from Warner Bros. Theater Ventures, has locked in its Broadway details, with Christian Borle starring in a production…
The Roundabout Theater Company's Broadway revival of "She Loves Me" led the 2015-16 Outer Critics Circle Awards, scoring four trophies, while the company's starry revival of "Long Day's Jour…
Television turned Technicolor. Dylan went electric. Now, the Kneehigh theater company's Emma Rice ("Brief Encounter") has taken over the leadership of Shakespeare's Globe, and "cultural shif…
“Finding Neverland,” the Broadway musical produced by Harvey Weinstein’s Weinstein Live Entertainment, will close in August, prior to the launch of a U.S. national tour thi…
Tom Hooper will direct and produce a movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats” for Universal and Working Title. Producers are Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for …
The New York Drama Critics Circle has named family drama “The Humans” the best play of the season, with “Shuffle Along” taking the award for musical. That’s a b…
The hasty closing notice put up by Broadway musical “Disaster!” in the wake of the 2016 Tony Awards nominations underscores the downside of awards-season hype: The hoopla of it a…
Call it the "Hamilton" effect. As Broadway's newest megahit dominates the Tony Awards conversation, the theater industry is buzzing about all the ways in which the ultrahot musical's success…