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Stage, TV and film actress Kristin Chenoweth gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
No wonder Jerry Seinfeld loves this guy. Colin Quinn is the quintessential New Yorker: rude, lippy, pushy, opinionated, pugnacious, and full of attitude "Â the very qualities he celebrates…
Al Checco, actor and comedy partner of Don Knotts in entertaining U.S. troops overseas during World War II, died at his home in Studio City on July 19. He was 93. He began his acting and sin…
Veteran Broadway execs Roy Gabay and Daniel Kuney, the pair behind Roy Gabay Prods., are forming JumpStart Entertainment, a general management and exec producing services company. JumpStart …
Mamie Gummer will topline Roundabout Theatre Company’s premiere of “Ugly Lies the Bone,” part of its 50th anniversary season. Lindsey Ferrentino’s play, directed by P…
Rupert Pupkin’s delusions of latenight grandeur will soon be set to music. Stephen Trask, the composer and lyricist behind “Hedwig & The Angry Inch,” and Chris D’…
Eagle-eyed celebrity real estate snitch Polly Wannacracker first discovered, and property records confirm, that veteran stage and screen star Bebe Neuwirth shelled out $1.8 million for a one…
E.L. Doctorow, the author of historical fiction whose writing were adapted into feature films including “Billy Bathgate,” “Daniel” and “Ragtime,” has died…
Vanessa Hudgens, Misty Copeland and Rita Moreno are among the honorees at the 2015 Industry Dance awards, which will take place Aug. 19 at the Avalon nightclub in Hollywood. The awards fete …
Oscar- and Tony-nominated character actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel, who originated the role of Captain von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" on Broadway and starred in "Fiddler on the Roof…
Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. rights to Nelson George's “A Ballerina’s Tale,” centered on a critical part of dancer Misty Copeland’s career. The documentary was …
Gold Derby, a website dedicated to predicting the winners at major entertainment awards shows, has been acquired by Variety parent company Penske Media Corporation, the company announced Tue…
Dance Network, a subscription-based streaming-video service, devoted to dance programming, will launch in the fall, its backers announced Tuesday. The service will have tiered pricing: 6.99 …
High profile Australian arts administrator Michael Lynch is to be replaced by senior civil servant Duncan Pescod as CEO of the West Kowloon Cultural District, the arts mega project in Hong K…
A very promising week of previews for musical “Hamilton” contributed to a robust Broadway box office frame that saw just about every show on the board post increases. “Hami…
Ray Jessel, who had extensive TV credits on “The Love Boat” and “Head of Class,” died July 17 of natural causes at his home in Studio City, Calif. He was 85. Jessel w…
George Coe, an actor with extensive credits and a longtime activist in the Screen Actors Guild, died Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif., after battling a long illness. He was 86. Coe acted for…
President Barack Obama will make his seventh and final appearance on “The Daily Show” in advance to Jon Stewart’s departure. Stewart will host Obama on his Comedy Central t…
There’s an audience out there for “Amazing Grace,” flawed as it is, but they may not get to see this religious-uplift musical if the $16 million show’s marketing mach…
Disney is developing “Genies,” a live-action comedy prequel to its 1992 animated hit “Aladdin.” Tripp Vinson is on board to produce “Genies” through his V…
Hugh Jackman has dropped out of the drama “Collateral Beauty” a month after the project was unveiled by Palmstar Media. Producers have indicated that they hope to replace Jackman…
“An Act of God,” the Broadway comedy that stars Emmy winner Jim Parsons, has swiftly made it into the black — ensuring that much of the revenue from the show’s final …
Jane Krakowski, the “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star who won a Tony Award for her turn in the musical “Nine,” will return to Broadway in …
Actress Amanda Seyfried has spoken out against wage inequality, saying that she was once paid 10% of her male co-star’s paycheck in an interview with the Sunday Times. “A few …
The success of Tony-winning London hit "One Man, Two Guvnors" has made Richard Bean a bankable playwright: His factory-set 1999 debut "Toast" popped up on the London fringe last year and now…
