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Characters from the 1994 Walt Disney movie "The Lion King" have not been seen in new settings since a direct-to-video sequel appeared more than a decade ago. Now the company is preparing a s…
Ticketmaster has created a service to put tiny tickets into tiny hands. The company launched Minimaster on Tuesday, which offers content aimed at children and is meant to foster stimulati…
Robert Sean Leonard is among the actors who have signed on to the cast of “Prodigal Son,” the new play written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and set to have its world p…
Thom Yorke, the frontman for influential rock band Radiohead, has signed on to write original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of “Old Times” starring Clive Owen. Because …
Annie Baker’s new play, “John,” is all dolled up for a ghost story. A young couple arrives at a bed & breakfast in Gettysburg, Penn., run by an eccentric old dear…
“The Bandstand,” the new musical directed and choreographed by “Hamilton” choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, has locked in its casting in a trio of roles, with Laura …
Living entirely inside one’s own head isn’t a good way to sustain a romance nor, as it turns out, a romantic comedy musical. At least not based on the evidence of “Up Here,…
There’s a reason nobody does “Cymbeline” straight. The late Romance is such a dumb play, with such a derivative plot and witless characters, that scholars have earnestly su…
Benedict Cumberbatch is urging fans to stop photographing and recording videos during his performances of “Hamlet” at the Barbican theater in London — and ironically, he…
A lot of Broadway shows posted big-money sales last week, as “Aladdin” and “The Book of Mormon” took advantage of tourist demand with an extra performance each, an…
Kathy Griffin is ready to show she’s the boss of comedy. The two-time Emmy and Grammy Award-winning comedian is bringing her “Like a Boss” tour to the Mark Taper Forum f…
When Audra McDonald's Josie Hogan embraces Will Swenson's James Tyrone in the last act of Eugene O'Neill's elegiac masterwork "A Moon for the Misbegotten," it's an act — and a performa…
Judd Apatow, Billy Crystal and new “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah are among the names on the 2015 lineup of the New York Comedy Festival. The annual festival, featuring …
Leaping off from Petru Popescu's book "Amazon Beaming," an account of an American photographer's encounter with an indigenous tribe, Simon McBurney's solo show for his company Complicite is …
Add a couple more Tony winners to the cast of upcoming Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” as Brian Stokes Mitchell and Billy Porter join Audra McDonald in the show set to open thi…
The editorial staff of Vice Media’s digital operations will now be represented by the Writers Guild of America East after management agreed to a request to allow the staff to unioni…
How do you celebrate a Founding Father? With fireworks, of course. And the producers of ultrahot Broadway musical “Hamilton” obliged, capping the show’s opening night party…
“Hamilton” was a sensation in a 299-seat house at the Public Theater, where the blazing inventiveness of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical tribute to one of our illustri…
Scott Rudin will produce a revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” slated for next spring in Broadway. The play is set to run a 20-week limited engagement, which will …
Mamie Gummer stars in "Ricki and the Flash" " in theaters Aug. 7 " as the daughter of a rock star played by Meryl Streep. Which makes perfect sense, as in real life, Gummer is Streep's oldes…
If, as the cliché goes, it's an honor just to be nominated, how does it feel to be part of a very elite Emmy group " actors who've scored double nominations in the guest star and series reg…
“Orange is the New Black” star Uzo Aduba and “Glee’s” Amber Riley have joined the cast of NBC’s “The Wiz Live!” Aduba will play Glind…
The second shooting at a movie theater in three weeks —- during an afternoon screening of “Mad Max: Fury Road” in a multiplex near Nashville on Wednesday — once again…
Reddit took a first step toward more hands-on content policing Wednesday by unveiling a new content policy that bans illegal speech, harassment and bullying. The company also started to inst…
Eep! Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica are on their way to Broadway, with Adam McKay and Funny or Die teaming up with Archie Comics to bring long-running comic-book property “Arch…
