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Disney's strategy of localization has helped propel 'Jungle Book' to hit status in its Indian home market.
LOS ANGELES — Variety.com has topped HollywoodReporter.com as the industry's most-read entertainment business news website for the first time since Penske Media Corporation bought t…
"Hamilton," "School of Rock," "American Psycho" and "Waitress" are among the Broadway nominees vying for the new musical trophy at the 2016 Drama League Awards, with plays "The Humans," "Ecl…
Actors, comedians and colleagues have taken to social media to commemorate Doris Roberts, the “Everybody Loves Raymond” star who died Sunday at the age of 90. Roberts’ co-s…
Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Broadway musicals including “Fiddler on the Roof,” and Circle Repertory Company founder Marshall W. Mason will be the recipients of the 2016 T…
“American Psycho,” the Broadway musical that opens Thursday, and the well-received revival of “She Loves Me” topped the list of 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards nomin…
Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer will lead the cast of “Les Liaison Dangereuses” on Broadway this fall, with Schreiber cast as the Machiavellian seducer Valmont. The actor steps i…
Doris Roberts, a character actress who labored honorably both on stage and screen for years before finding the perfect vehicle for her talents, the hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,…
Can Cirque du Soleil sell on Broadway? Looks like it, at least judging from the one preview that new Cirque show “Paramour” has performed so far. “Paramour” —…
“Hamilton,” the Broadway smash that’s looked like an awards-season favorite from the moment it opened, has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Although it’…
“The Jungle Book” dominated the weekend box office, grossing a massive $103.6 million, and extending the Walt Disney Company’s success in making live action versions of its…
It may have earned her a best actress Oscar nomination, but Meryl Streep wasn’t entirely pleased with one particular movie role. “You won’t guess because I’ve just co…
“Anastasia,” the new musical inspired by 20th Century Fox’s 1997 animated film, has made its Broadway intentions plain, with producers announcing a plan to arrive in New Yo…
Cirque du Soleil has joined the raft of entertainment-industry companies and individuals pressuring South Carolina to repeal recent legislation that is seen by many to be anti-LGBT, with the…
Original cast members of the Broadway megasmash “Hamilton” have reached a deal with the show’s producers, led by Jeffrey Seller, to share in profits of the production, whic…
April 15 marks the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which ended its maiden voyage disastrously in 1912. There have been many depictions of the sinking, including the 1953 Fox fi…
The president of Lincoln Center, Jed Bernstein, has suddenly stepped down from the post after about three years in the job. The former head of the Broadway League and a Broadway producer, Be…
Frank Langella has made a brilliant stage career of playing monumental heroes and villains, from King Lear to Count Dracula. So it makes sense that he would tackle the greatest hero-villain …
Broadway musical “Matilda” will close in January, following a run that saw the show become a popular destination for family audiences and city visitors seeking something quirkier…
Attorney Seth Gelblum, vocal coach Joan Lader and costume shop proprietor Sally Ann Parsons have been named the 2016 recipients of the Tony Honors for Excellence, the special annual awards h…
Anne Jackson, who collaborated extensively with husband Eli Wallach, together comprising one of the best-known acting couples of the American theater, died Tuesday at her home in Manha…
David Lowery, who has already directed a remake of Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon,” has come on to helm a live-action adaptation of “Peter Pan.” Toby Hallb…
When Oscar nominations were announced Jan. 14, protests about Hollywood's lack of diversity centered on actors and, occasionally, writers and directors. But Dorothy Thompson, founder of the …
LONDON — Playwright Arnold Wesker, known as one of the “angry young men” of the British literary scene in the 1950s, has died at the age of 83. Wesker wrote more than 40 pl…
Movie fans will be seeing a bunch of bad ass cowboys coming together to help a woman wronged when "Magnificent Seven" debuts for Sony in September. Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distrib…
