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Lucas Hnath’s soul-searching drama, “The Christians,” grabbed the eyeballs at the 2014 Humana Festival. Playwrights Horizons showed faith by opening its season with the…
Broadway saw the inklings of the coming fall rush last week, as previewing musical “Spring Awakening” (pictured above) was joined by Clive Owen in “Old Times” and Sam…
The Broadway smash "Hamilton" has been the talk of the town since it opened in August. But the rap-based musical about one of the nation's founding fathers would not exist in its current …
Producers of the Broadway musical “Amazing Grace,” which has struggled with poor sales since it began performances over the summer, have decided to throw in the towel at last, po…
The Broadway community turned out in force Monday to honor Roger Rees at a memorial for the Tony-winning Welsh actor at the New Amsterdam Theater. Actors Bebe Neuwirth, Chita Rivera, Sherie …
Triptyk Studios, the production company involved in the upcoming Broadway musical based on Archie comics, has tapped longtime industry veteran Elie Landau to fill the post of executive produ…
Broadway producer and general manager Stuart Thompson has teamed with his longtime associate David Turner to form Thompson Turner Productions, with the upcoming New York staging of London hi…
Kristen Stewart premiered her futuristic love story, “Equals,” at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday afternoon. Before the rain-soaked event, Stewart and her co-star Nicholas Ho…
For nearly a quarter century, Deaf West Theatre has been pioneering opportunities for deaf actors and audiences to share theater experiences, incorporating sign language and projected tex…
Michael Shannon and Nick Kroll have joined Joel Edgerton and Ruth Wilson in the cast of Jeff Nichols’ drama “Loving.” Nichols is writing and directing the pic, which also s…
A sharply drawn portrait of a dysfunctional artistic family that effectively speaks to the troubled legacy all parents (Plunkett & Walken) bequeath to their children (Kidman & Bateman). Bea…
Broadway producers have teamed with Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills Prods. to develop a new play about the Hollywood actor, composer and pianist Oscar Levant, with Hayes in mind to star. ItR…
YouTube and Awesomeness Films have announced “Dance Camp,” a music-and-dance teen drama, as the first feature-length film under their co-production deal. The movie, produced by J…
“Hand to God,” the gleefully dark Broadway comedy about a boy and his potentially satanic hand puppet, will close in January before opening on London’s West End in Fe…
Dennis Haysbert has joined the cast of “Undercover,” the limited series set to air next year on the BBC and BBC America. The six-part series penned by Peter Moffat revolves aroun…
STX Entertainment has titled its intergalactic love story as "The Space Between Us," starring Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino, Britt Robertson, BD Wong and Janet Montgomery. Peter…
Five plays have been announced for the Center Theatre Group’s 49th season at the Mark Taper Forum: “The Mystery of Love & Sex,” “Father Comes Home From The Wars (…
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” has mapped out its exit strategy, with producers announcing that the show will play through the fall and shutter in January. …
After 32 years, Vanessa Williams will return to the Miss America stage and will serve as head judge for this year’s competition. In 1984, Williams famously became the first African Ame…
With barbecues and back-to-school prep distracting potential audiences all weekend, Labor Day tends to be one of Broadway’s more lackluster holidays in terms of the long-weekend …
Director Terry Gilliam, the only American member of the Monty Python comedy troupe and an Oscar nominee for the screenplay to his film “Brazil,” has died. He was <<Â bo…
Broadway actress Vivien Eng, best known for her role in 1996’s “The King and I” revival, died on Thursday of injuries suffered in a fire at her New York City high-rise apar…
Before there was Ovitz or Ari, there was Sue Mengers. During the peak of her clout in the 1970s, the brash barrier-breaker helped popularize the idea of the Hollywood super-agent. The media …
Whose life is it, anyway? That’s the ethical question that bedevils “Whorl Inside a Loop,” a meta-theater piece by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott based on the experienc…
SELLER: Liza Minnelli LOCATION: New York, N.Y. PRICE: $8,372,591 SIZE: Unknown YOUR MAMA'S NOTES: Liza has left the building. No, children, the iconic entertainer, 69, didn't pass on to the …
