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NBC's "The Wiz Live!" has found its Dorothy in newcomer Shanice Williams. The 18-year-old, who was selected out of hundreds of applicants from a nationwide, open casting call, will join the …
David Alan Grier has the courage to explore live TV. The comedian and three-time Tony Award nominee has joined NBC’s production of “The Wiz Live!.” He’ll play the Cow…
BERLIN — British distributor Park Circus and Sony Pictures are to release a sing-a-long version of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in the U.K. to mark the movie’s 4…
Disney continued its long winning streak with its latest quarterly report Tuesday, with earnings of $1.45 a share beating analysts’ expectations for the 11th quarter running. Rev…
Three-time Tony winner Frank Langella will have a chance to add a fourth trophy to his mantle this spring, with the actor now set to star on Broadway in Florian Zeller’s play “Th…
How high can ultra-hot “Hamilton” go? To judge by last week’s box office numbers, as high as the No. 4 slot in the Broadway Top 10 — and that was only in the showR…
Playwright Ken Ludwig's work thrives at regional theaters coast to coast, despite only intermittent New York appearances since 1989's "Lend Me a Tenor" and his 1992 book for "Crazy For You."…
The Hamptons International Film Festival has elected Alec Baldwin and attorney Randy Mastro as co-chairmen, the festival announced Monday. The two will start their term after this year’…
The Michael Fassbender-Marion Cotillard starrer “Macbeth” will stream exclusively on Amazon soon after its December theatrical release. The Weinstein Co. has not set the exact…
The Hollywood Bowl has found its Holy Grail. "Spamalot," the Tony Award-winning burlesque musical treatment of Monty Python's routines and worldview, proves to be the absolute perfect choice…
TED, the brainy nonprofit that showcases notable ideas, has teamed with PBS for “TED Talks Live,” a six-night series of programming this fall at the Town Hall, the New York…
Valerie Harper was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday night before a performance of her musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It” in Ogunquit, Maine. The Emmy winner, best known for…
Rachel Dratch and Holland Taylor have signed on to star Off Broadway in “Ripcord,” the new stage comedy by David Linsday-Abaire, the playwright who won the Pulitzer for “Ra…
Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o will star at Off Broadway’s Public Theater in “Eclipsed,” the 2009 play by writer-actor Danai Gurira. Nyong’o, who took home…
Michael Shannon has signed on to the upcoming Broadway revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” joining a cast that already includes Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Joh…
Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige are the latest singers ready to make mischief in Oz for NBC’s upcoming live production of “The Wiz.” Executive producer Craig Zadan shared t…
Isaac Robert Hurwitz, the longtime New York theater impresario who co-founded the New York Musical Theater Festival, is now officially a Hollywood executive, signing on as a senior vice pres…
Matthew Broderick, the two-time Tony winner who appeared in last season’s hit “It’s Only a Play,” will round out the cast of “Sylvia,” the new production …
Playwright Fernanda Coppel has latched onto a hot topic in Second Stage Uptown’s “King Liz” — the alarming under-representation of female agents in major-league sport…
Songwriter Bret McKenzie and author Michael Chabon are joining Disney’s musical comedy “Bob the Musical.” The project, in which a man suffers a head injury and can subseque…
Chances are writer-performer James Lecesne will not leap down from the stage and slap you around for being unmoved by “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,” his earnest …
Hot ticket “Hamilton” continued to wow at the Broadway box office, but the buzzy founding-father bio wasn’t the only title showing its muscle in a strong sales week. Jim Pa…
Twenty years after Jason Robert Brown burst onto the American musical theater landscape at age 25, London gets a first-class revival of his breakout show, "Songs for a New World," with a dre…
A high school film filled with show tunes fared well for Disney Channel nine years ago. The network gives the “High School Musical” recipe another try with helmer Kenny Ortega in…
Lincoln Center Festival can always be counted on to inject some class into the soporific summer theater season by hosting avant-garde work by celebrated international companies. This y…
