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Director Wang Chao announced regulators' decision on his microblog.
It was unusual back in 2001: A musical arriving on Broadway with a predominantly female leadership team, from the show's top producer to its director to its book writer. It's still pretty ra…
BUYERS: Idina Menzel and Aaron Lohr LOCATION: Encino, Calif. PRICE: $2.675 million SIZE: 4,708 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms YOUR MAMA'S NOTES: They've managed to keep their romance…
Actor Dean Jones, best known for his acting work in such Disney films as “The Love Bug” and “That Darn Cat,” died of Parkinson’s disease Tuesday in Los Angeles.…
On July 29, private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, which counts WME/IMG within its $26 billion portfolio, announced the acquisition of Hollywood payroll company Cast & Crew Entertainm…
Zachary Levi, the “Chuck” star who’ll appear in NBC’s upcoming fall series “Heroes Reborn,” will step into the Broadway musical “She Loves MeR…
Patti LuPone is back for more “Penny Dreadful.” The Broadway legend, who guest starred as Joan Clayton (aka the Cut-Wife) in the sophomore season of Showtimes’s Victorian E…
Fans of “The O.C.” were welcomed back to the dark side for a one night trip down memory lane on Aug. 30, as Sucker Love Productions and Original Penguin presented “The Unau…
“An American in Paris” will be the first Broadway show to perform on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” appearing during the second week of Colbert’s much…
Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents stage actors and stage managers, has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the Broadway League, the trade …
Castmates and classmates gathered in Manhattan’s Central Park on a sweltering August afternoon to honor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the history-making “Les Miserables” actor who di…
“On the Town,” the well-reviewed Broadway musical that has struggled to attract ticketbuyers for much of its time on boards, seems to have found its magic ingredient: Misty…
He’s ready: SpongeBob SquarePants, the massive Nickelodeon property with a fanbase that reaches well beyond its target kiddie demographic, will go from Bikini Bottom to Broadway in …
Broadway actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste has died after falling off his mother’s fire escape. He was 21. Jean-Baptiste made Broadway history as the understudy for “Les Miserables”…
CBS is readying up for the reshoot of “Doubt,” filling out the cast with a new addition in Steven Pasquale, Variety has learned. Pasquale takes the place of Teddy Sears who wa…
Nicole Scherzinger, a singer who is a staple of British TV including a regular gig on “The X Factor UK,” has signed on to NBC’s “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harr…
“Scream Queens” reunites star Lea Michele with the triumvirate that created "Glee" "Â Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. And while they all still miss Cory Monteith, th…
The highly subscribed suburban Marriott Theater outside Chicago has been making strides over the last decade in developing original musicals, but it gets a jet-propelled thrust into the pote…
A British songwriters’ agency is taking legal action against music streaming site SoundCloud, claiming that the service was not paying royalties and securing licenses from its artists.…
After seven seasons on “Glee,” Lea Michele has taken on a decidedly different role in “Scream Queens,” as the glamour-challenged, neckbrace-wearing Hester who despera…
Thought you knew "Hamlet"? Think again. Benedict Cumberbatch's prince might have triggered a media frenzy, but make no mistake, this is director Lyndsey Turner's production — and it's …
“An Act of God,” the recent Broadway hit powered by star Jim Parsons, has decreed dates for a Los Angeles run, with Sean Hayes taking on the role of the Almighty this sprin…
The U.K.’s Chichester Festival Theatre topper Jonathan Church will take over at the Sydney Theatre Company when Andrew Upton steps down in September. Artistic director Upton and his wi…
The West Coast members of the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Employees " Hollywood's key below-the-line union " have ratified a three-year successor deal to the union’s master contract w…
Bryan Cranston will join James Franco in the 21 Laps and 20th Century Fox comedy “Why Him?” John Hamburg is on board to direct, and penned the script from a previous draft by Nic…
