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Once is not enough. Even twice seems inadequate. Still, no matter how many times you see “Noises Off,” you won’t get all the jokes or catch every sight gag in Michael Frayn…
Greenleaf Prods. has announced a musical comedy chronicling the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs called “Nerds” to open this spring at NYC’s Longacre Theater. D…
British actor Brian Bedford died on Wednesday, after a two-year battle with cancer, in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 80. Bedford, known most recently for his stint as Lady Bracknell in …
LONDON — Actor Alan Rickman, whose films include the Harry Potter franchise, “Die Hard” and “Truly Madly Deeply,” has died at the age of 69. More to follow.
Fox has cast Megan Mullally in the Bryan Cranston-James Franco comedy “Why Him?” to portray the wife of Cranston’s character. John Hamburg is directing from a script he co-…
Bradley Cooper, Scott Shepherd, Ron Leibman and playwright A.R. Gurney will perform at “One Night 100 Years,” a benefit event in honor of legendary playwright Arthur Miller…
The category, in its third year, is meant to shine a light on films with limited exposure.
Olaf, the optimistic snowman from Disney’s mammoth film “Frozen,” will pay a visit to the animated series “Sofia The First,” as part of new efforts to keep the …
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president of the United States. The below-the-line union, which has about 125,000 members, cited …
David Margulies, the actor who played New York City’s mayor in the “Ghostbusters” film franchise and held a recurring role as Tony Soprano’s lawyer on “The Sopr…
The Broadway box office took its traditional post-holiday tumble last week, but seven musicals " four long-running favorites and relative newcomers “Hamilton,” “On Your Fee…
Pop has renewed a cappella competition series “Sing It On” for a second season with an eight-episode order. Pop announced the pickup on Monday. Hailing from exec producer John Le…
Legendary musician David Bowie died Sunday, and it took only minutes for the music community, Hollywood and even politicians to take to social media to mourn the pop icon. From U.K. Prime Mi…
David Bowie, the seminal British musician behind such era-defining hits of the 1970s as “Space Odyssey,” “Major Tom,” “Young Americans” and “Fame,&#…
“Once Upon A Time” has found Belle’s dangerous suitor, Gaston. The chiseled hunter will be played by “True Blood” alum Wes Brown who’s been cast in an …
Bryan Cranston spent six months on stage in 2014 giving a tour-de-force performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in “All the Way.” But adapting the play by Robert Schenkkan for…
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, which is currently repped on Broadway by “Misery” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” is developing a stage versio…
Like the breed of itinerant entertainers it celebrates, "Louis & Keely 'Live' at the Sahara" has been boppin' around various venues for more than a decade, trying out new things and deve…
In a move that reflects its growing reach into the visual media and stage realm, the Universal Music Group has tapped film and TV producer David Blackman and legit producer Scott Landis to h…
The current members of Boyz II Men are reviving their teen angel status. The R&B group has joined Fox’s production of “Grease: Live” for a three-part harmony version of…
Actors’ Equity Association, the union of stage actors and stage managers, has made a deal with Cirque du Soleil Theatrical for the company’s upcoming Broadway debut, “Param…
Rock opera and disco impresario Robert Stigwood, who produced “Grease” and “Saturday Night Fever” and managed the Bee Gees, died Jan. 4 at 81. Stigwood also produced …
Disney dominated the Broadway box office in 2015 just as it did in 2014, with Disney Theatrical’s “The Lion King” proving the top earner of the calendar year and the com…
Seniors dance hip hop — sort of — in this high-concept, sweet-natured but currently bland and unsurprising new musical comedy "Gotta Dance," premiering in Chicago with a planned …
Jeff Daniels is set to stop by “Inside the Actors Studio,” Variety has learned. The Emmy-winning “Newsroom” alum’s episode, which will mark his first time …
