Dame Judi Dench is now the winningest performer in the history of the Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of the Tony Awards. The actress picked up her eighth Olivier during an April 3 cer…
Oscar Isaac, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actor who will next be seen on the bigscreen as the titular baddie in “X-Men: Apocalypse,” will play Hamlet in a 2017 …
Any faithful “Gilmore Girls” fan knows the legend of the Final Four Words — the last line that series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino wanted to end the show with during the d…
LONDON — WestEnd Films has closed a raft of deals on the documentary about ballet star Sergei Polunin "Dancer," directed by Academy Award nominee Steven Cantor and produced by another …
There’s bound to be head-scratching over Ivo van Hove’s peculiar Broadway production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s towering 1953 drama about the infamous 1…
Justin Timberlake has run into some legal trouble. Cirque du Soleil has sued the Grammy-winning singer, accusing him of sampling a part of one of the performance company’s ori…
A trio of Broadway veterans will head up the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells and Stephanie J. Block on board to pla…
Mobile gaming and musical theater: Two great tastes that taste great together? That's the premise of "Peter Panic!," a new videogame in which let's-put-on-a-show dreams are achieved with …
“An Act of God,” the stage comedy that had a successful limited run on Broadway last year with Jim Parsons, will be back in New York come May, with Sean Hayes now filling t…
Nathan Lane and John Slattery will lead the starry cast of an upcoming Broadway revival of “The Front Page,” opening in New York in the fall with Scott Rudin producing. John Good…
Actress and singer Shannon Bolin Kaye died Friday, March 25, in New York City at the age of 99. Bolin played the middle-aged, Midwestern wife in the original Broadway production and subse…
With the Easter holiday prodding the overall Broadway box office to rise again, the new musical “Waitress” had a hearty debut, averaging a whopping $140,000 per performance in…
BroadwayHD, the stage-centric subscription and on-demand service that launched last year, will take its latest step on the challenging path toward establishing itself as a Netflix for Broadw…
The Broadway musical “Bright Star” had a couple of unannounced cast members for its opening night performance March 24: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, who wrote the show, and jo…
A little bit of bluegrass music is quite enough of a good thing, so it’s just bad luck that “Bright Star,” a new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell based on their 20…
As studios and media companies were lining up to condemn a pending Georgia religious liberty bill, North Carolina’s governor signed legislation that overturns local LGBT anti-discrimin…
A cascade of major media companies has been releasing statements condemning a pending Georgia religious liberty bill, in some cases vowing to withhold production just as the state is success…
 David Hasselhoff is eager to be welcomed on American shores. The actor has found much success overseas over the years, most recently exec producing and starring in the U.K. stage musical…
John Legend has signed on to co-produce an Off Broadway production of “Turn Me Loose,” a new play about comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, in a staging that will st…
The slate for Geffen Playhouse’s 2016-17 season will include the world premiere of “Icebergs,” a stage production written by Alena Smith and directed by Geffen …
Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge,” directed by Ivo van Hove, will kick off the Ahmanson’s 50th season in production on Sept. 7. It will be followed by “A…
Producers of of the Carole King musical “Beautiful” are targeting Broadway with a new musical adaptation of Audrey Hepburn film “Roman Holiday,” featuring Cole Porter…
What language are these people speaking, anyway? The equity traders in Sarah Burgess’ frighteningly funny play, “Dry Powder,” converse in the private jargon of the finan…
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” the Tony-winning play that has carved out an unusually long run for itself on Broadway, has posted its closing notice, with p…
Elisabeth Moss is returning for a second season of “Top of the Lake” for SundanceTV and BBC Two. The “Mad Men” alum will be joined in Season 2 by new cast member Gwen…