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The New York theater industry already knew the weekend’s blizzard — and the two-performance shutdown it prompted — was going to be rough at the Broadway box office. Now we …
The 43rd Annie Awards are turning to pairs of presenters rather than a traditional host for its awards ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 6, at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA. Comedy duo Garfun…
Actor Abe Vigoda, best known for his roles as mobster Tessio in "The Godfather" and as Detective Sgt. Fish in TV's "Barney Miller" and a spinoff series in which he starred, has died. He was …
Timothy Olyphant, the actor who headlined six season in FX series “Justified,” will star Off Broadway in the world premiere of “Hold On To Me Darling,” the new play b…
A loving tribute presented largely in his own words, the "American Masters" documentary "Mike Nichols" is directed by his one-time collaborator Elaine May, and drawn extensively from produce…
“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Mirada’s smash hip-hop tuner about America’s founding fathers, will anchor the Pantages’ 2016-17 season, running there Aug. 11-Dec. 30, 2…
“It’s a treat to be here tonight,” New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo said from the stage of Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. “I’ve been shoveling snow for two d…
"Newtown," Kim A. Snyder's documentary on the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, is not an explicitly political film.
The stunningly appointed "Empire The Musical," world premiering at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (and no relation to the hit Fox series), gains strength from the entire company's…
The winter storm pounding the east coast this weekend has prompted Broadway to darken across the board, with the Broadway League declaring all Saturday shows cancelled due to a government ba…
Controversy magnet Shia LaBeouf earned big laughs Thursday playing a demented military General whose fear of fluoride leads to armageddon in a raucous Live Read of the 1964 classic "Dr. Stra…
With a major winter storm expected to hammer the east coast this weekend, Broadway is bracing for potentially disruptive snow — but holding out hope that New York will esca…
Claire Danes and Hank Azaria have signed on to join John Krasinski in “Dry Powder,” the new play premiering this spring at Off Broadway’s Public Theater. Sanjit De Si…
It’s now and forever, all over again: “Cats,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit that helped usher in the age of the British megamusical, will return to Broadway this summer. T…
There’s little wrong with “Skeleton Crew,” the final play in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit trilogy, that August Wilson couldn’t fix. Like Wilson, whose ten-play…
Daniel Dae Kim will make his Broadway debut in “The King and I” later this spring, after return engagements from Ken Watanabe, who originated the titular king in the Lincoln Cent…
Not even the sainted Linda Lavin can save the deeply unpleasant character she plays in “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,” a lazy play by Richard Greenberg commissioned and first …
Homosexuality is "a bad habit," according to Ugandan politician Medard Bitekyerezo — a statement that reflects the homophobia enshrined in his country's law. Chris Urch's bullish drama…
The long weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day helped “Hamilton” hit the number one spot at the Broadway box office in a week that saw overall sales hold steady following the …
Bette Midler will star in a 2017 Broadway revival of the musical “Hello, Dolly!,” directed by Jerry Zaks and produced by Scott Rudin. Midler, who showed off her power at the B…
“We’re very happy today,” PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger told reporters Monday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena, Calif., basking in early ratin…
PBS is set to air a documentary giving a behind-the-scenes look at the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” The doc, titled “Hamilton’s America,” will be part “Gr…
The stars of “High School Musical” recently got back together. Well, most of them at least. In honor of the Disney Channel movie’s 10th Anniversary, stars Vanessa Hudgen…
Joy is the word for the producer and cast of Fox’s “Grease Live.” Cast members and producer Marc Platt were bubbly and as they discussed the ambitious live staging of the b…
Rainn Wilson brings Will Eno's one-man show "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" to the Geffen Playhouse 10 years after it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. First playing at the Edi…
