Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in an untitled musical comedy for Universal. The studio outbid rivals in acquiring an untitled pitch for the project, based on an original i…
The cast of “Hamilton” will be performing at the Grammys this year. The members of the hit Broadway show will perform the opening number of the show, though not on-stage, Lin-Man…
Ralph Fiennes likes a challenge. He picks his parts like a pole-vaulter pushing himself higher. Last year, it was Jack Tanner in the moral maze of Shaw's “Man and Superman,” a fo…
The Williamstown Theater Festival, the Massachusetts summer theater festival that regularly attracts stars and yields New York transfers, has tapped actors including Marisa Tomei, Alfr…
After limited runs at Ars Nova and 59E59 Theaters, Strangemen & Co.’s production of “The Woodsman” is back on the boards. There’s a haunting beauty about this dar…
It might seem like the Super Bowl appeals to an entirely different demographic than Broadway, but that never stops the NFL’s big night from raining on Broadway’s parade. Th…
Fox took its big bow into the live TV musical space on Jan. 31 with "Grease Live," and it hit a home run. The three-hour production drew the best ratings for a musical since NBC's "Sound …
Mary-Louise Parker will star in a Broadway transfer of the well-received Off Broadway play “Heisenberg,” which will open at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Thea…
The allure of live event programming was on display again Sunday night, as Fox’s live three-hour production of “Grease Live!” drew the best ratings for a musical since NBC&…
“Hamilton” was the heavy at the Broadway box office last week — by a lot, as the Street recovered from the knockout blow it got dealt by the blizzard the previous frame. Ea…
Director and writer Edward Parone, who was a mentor to many of the promising young playwrights in 1960s New York, including Edward Albee and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), died at his home in N…
James Corden, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway turn in “One Man, Two Guvnors” before CBS tapped him for “The Late Late Show,” will host the 70th annual Tony Awar…
Sunday night’s live musical performance “Grease Live” on Fox was a resounding success, winning raves from fans and critics alike. The three-hour production, from Paramou…
LONDON — Keira Knightley is in talks to star in biopic “Colette,” which reunites the producers behind "Carol," Number 9 Films and Killer Films. "Still Alice's" Wash Westmor…
"Grease Live!" won't make anyone forget the original film any time soon, but that wasn't the point. The idea was to cook up a must-see event that got attention on social media and delivered …
Producers of “Grease Live” are scrambling to fix a sound snafu that crept up during Julianne Hough’s performance of “Hopelessly Devoted to You” during the live …
On Saturday afternoon, “Grease Live” star Vanessa Hudgens was belting out “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” as Pink Lady Rizzo in the final dress rehearsal of Fox&#…
Fox takes its first bow into the live television musical arena with “Grease Live” tonight, and though the musical is a one-night-only event, the TV special has been a hefty…
“Let’s just hope it doesn’t rain.” No, that’s not a quote from one of “Grease Live’s” executive producers " though it might well have been, ea…
Step into William Ivey Long’s “Grease Live” lair on the Warner Bros. lot in L.A., and you’ll feel like you were transported back to Broadway. The costume designer …
What better way to counter the invisibility of older women than by putting them on stage? Caryl Churchill's new play at the Royal Court, coming soon after last fall’s “Here We Go…
Julianne Hough is a live-TV pro, thanks to "Dancing With the Stars," but nothing could prepare her for the pressure of playing Sandy to Aaron Tveit's Danny in Fox's "Grease Live" musical eve…
French playwright Florian Zeller is fast becoming London's cheri. Just as his well-received play "The Father," due on Broadway in March with Frank Langella, let us into the mind of an Alz…
Cate Blanchett will be eligible for a Tony Award for the first time later this year, when she makes her Broadway debut in Chekhov adaptation “The Present.” Blanchett, the t…
Before there was Tessio, before there was Fish, Abe Vigoda made his name on the stage. In the 1950s and '60s, the actor who died Tuesday at 94 did everything from Shakespeare to musical c…