When you've got big names like Jessica Lange, Michael Shannon, Gabriel Byrne and John Gallagher Jr. starring in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on Broadway, some equally big names will show …
ROME —Â British film and stage director Sam Mendes will head the jury of the 73rd Venice Film Festival. Mendes' rapport with the Lido dates back to 2002 when he was in the Venice com…
The tenderness between Gabriel Byrne, in the towering role of the fading Broadway actor James Tyrone, and Jessica Lange, as his beloved but tormented wife Mary, brings welcome relief from th…
Lionsgate has moved its “My Little Pony” movie forward from November 3, 2017, to Oct. 6, 2017, and dated Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society” for a July 15 limited laun…
Comedian Martin Short and “Dancing With the Stars” veteran Derek Hough have been cast in NBC’s live version of the musical “Hairspray.” More to come …
With "Matilda" exiting Broadway in January, there's a new singing pre-teen hoping to generate the same family-audience appeal. But whether Winnie Foster, the main character in the new musica…
Andrew Keenan-Bolger wears a lot of hats. At 30, the fan-favorite stage actor ("Newsies") and star of the Broadway musical "Tuck Everlasting" is also an early digital-media adopter, a childr…
Tina Fey took time out from the opening of her husband’s latest Broadway effort on Monday night to shower praise on NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt as he received the Actors …
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the star of ABC’s “Modern Family,” takes his shot at “Fully Committed,” Becky Mode’s tour-de-force-for-solo-actor about the travails…
The theater industry may be in the final throes of activity before the Tony Awards nominations are announced May 3 — but right now, the brand-new big-earner at the Broadway box offi…
Must theater sell its soul for new audiences? Director Jamie Lloyd has made it his mission to bring a new generation into theater, but at what price? Canny casting pulls in a young crowd; fl…
Hot off the blockbuster success of “The Jungle Book,” Disney has been staking out several years worth of live action fairy tales. The studio confirmed that it is making “Cr…
Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein have signed on to NBC's "Hairspray Live!," the network's next live Broadway musical. Hudson will play Motormouth Maybelle, while Fierstein will sta…
When “Saturday Night Live” starts its 42nd season next fall, it will presumably still have “Weekend Update,” musical guests and lots of celebrity impressions. What it…
The Broadway musical “Waitress,” earning a heaping helping of positive reviews in the wake of its April 24 opening, is so fresh out of the oven that it’ll have theatergoers…
“Waitress” owes its sweetness to the mouth-watering goodness of Jessie Mueller. As a diner waitress named Jenna, Mueller is such a honey bun, she melts us like the mounds of butt…
Baz Luhrmann took part in an enlightening Q&A during the Tribeca Film Festival with Nelson George, a historian who helped write and produce the Luhrmann-directed Netflix series “Th…
If Ivo van Hove's "Roman Tragedies" was a surprising medley of Shakespeare plays, his "Kings of War" history cycle, now running at London’s Barbican Center, is altogether more familiar…
Rachel Leigh Cook, Paz De La Huerta, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe and Finn Whitrock are starring in a modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night’s Dre…
Writer Jen Silverman is the recipient of the 2016-17 PoNY Fellowship, the annual playwrighting grant endowed with notably robust support (including a rent-free year in a Manhattan apartment)…
Broadway mourned Prince last night, as musicals “Hamilton” and “The Color Purple” took a moment during their curtain calls to honor the late musician with performance…
There’s no heart but lots of blood in "American Psycho," Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s witty musical treatment of the scandalous 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis (and …
If you’re making a stage musical of “American Psycho,” one thing’s for sure: There will be blood. But that raises a whole host of questions: How do you make stage blo…
It's fitting that "Remember Me" is the name of Rita Moreno's new road-trip comedy. Since her 1950 film debut (as Rosita Moreno) in "So Young, So Bad," the Emmy-, Tony-, Grammy- and Oscar-win…
The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) is launching a script competition offering aspiring comedy writers the chance to grab the spotlight at this year’s festival. The initiative&…