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Nice showings by “Hamilton” and “School of Rock – The Musical” in their first Yuletide frames combined with sizable throngs for familiar faves like “The L…
Thanks to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Disney’s total domestic gross for 2015 has passed the $2 billion milestone for the first time. Disney’s previous domestic re…
In celebration of Jonathan Larson’s Tony award-winning musical “Rent’s” 20th anniversary, original cast members from the show will be reuniting next month at Br…
Christmas isn't until this week, but a few of Broadway's biggest tourist magnets, from "Aladdin" to "Wicked," started to unwrap their annual holiday sales bounty a bit early. The overall Bro…
“Grease: Live” will not only air live, but will be staged in front of a live studio audience. Fox made the announcement Monday with a cast video, along with new promo shots for t…
Tony Award winner and soap opera star Patricia Elliott died Sunday after a battle with cancer. She was 77. Elliot died in her Manhattan home Sunday, her niece Sally Fay told ABC News. She wa…
What is "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"? A delicious slice of scandalous eroticism — pure sauce and spleen — or something more intricate? Josie Rourke leans towards the former, encour…
LONDON — Kenneth Branagh is to act as the patron of Shakespeare on Screen, a year-long program that marks 400 years since William Shakespeare's death. The program, which is being spear…
Tevye is a mensch. In director Bartlett Sher’s thoughtful but uneven revival of the enduring, endearing musical "Fiddler on the Roof," Danny Burstein " a longtime Broadway veteran step…
Broadway and the live theater industry stand ready to pop champagne tomorrow over the expected passage of the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act 2015, the tax package that includes a pr…
Ambassador Theater Group, the largest owner-operator of theaters in the U.K., will expand its stake in Broadway real estate, launching a multimillion-dollar renovation of the Hudson Th…
If the first "Star Wars" (1977) hadn't already been rebranded "A New Hope," that optimistic title might have applied just as well to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," by any measure a rousing,…
“This is actually the closest Dick and I will come to this stage when it comes to the Golden Globes,” Chuck Lorre said Monday afternoon at the Beverly Hilton. Lorre's laughter-in…
“Fun Home” made itself at home in the black, “School of Rock” began to rise and the overall Broadway box office held steady in one of the final weeks leading up to th…
Who wants to be the first kid on the block to own a robot? Get in line behind writer Jordan Harrison (“Orange is the New Black”), an original thinker who’s fixated on sc…
Josh Groban will make his Broadway debut in “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” gearing up to return to New York in September 2016. An uber-successful crooner who&#…
Forget the looking glass. Blur frontman Damon Albarn and playwright Moira Buffini take us through "Black Mirror" territory in "Wonder.land," their musical reboot of "Alice in Wonderland." Re…
The opening night audience for Broadway’s “The Color Purple” didn’t wait for the curtain call to give the show a standing ovation. They rose to their feet during the …
The ladies wear the pants in John Doyle’s ravishing revival of “The Color Purple.” Jennifer Hudson is radiant as the love machine Shug Avery. Danielle Brooks shakes the hou…
Christmases past, present and future have one thing in common: Someone, somewhere will be staging Charles Dickens' seasonal favorite “A Christmas Carol.” It's that creaky over-fa…
Tonight the Off Broadway musical “Daddy Long Legs” will become the first show, on or Off Broadway, to live stream a full performance, free of charge on any computer or mobile dev…
Sam Mendes has withdrawn as the director of the incoming Broadway production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the musical that he directed in its premiere production in Lo…
Following huge ratings for its precursor TV movie, Disney’s “The Lion Guard” series will premiere Friday, Jan. 15 at 9:30 a.m., the kids’ cabler announced on Wednesda…
“The Man Who Fell to Earth,” the 1976 Nicolas Roeg movie starring an impossibly young and beautiful David Bowie, was initially a 1963 novel by Walter Tevis. Â In writing “…
Spoiler warning: The following Q&A contains major plot details from “Fargo” Season 2, Episode 9, titled “The Castle.” There’s just one episode left to go in…
