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“Gotta Dance,” the Broadway-bound new musical about a senior-citizen dance team, has lined up a cast that includes Stefanie Powers, Georgia Engel, Lillias White and Andre DeShiel…
Multiplatinum-selling and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Elton John (he's also won an Oscar and a Tony) is founder of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II …
Jesse Tyler Ferguson stars in ABC's "Modern Family." In September 2012, he and Justin Mikita started Tie the Knot, and the two married in 2013. “Modern Family" is a game-changer, isn't…
Seth, Summer, Ryan and Marissa will reunite through song and dance in a musical version of seminal mid-2000s teen drama “The O.C.” A product of the same team behind “Cru…
Actor Darren Criss apologized after audience members complained about an unsavory remark he made about Caitlyn Jenner on Tuesday while performing the notoriously volatile titular role in …
Jonathan Groff has appeared in plenty of projects onscreen and onstage "Â "Looking," "The Normal Heart," "A New Brain" "Â that seem like they've helped pave the way for the Supreme Court…
George Takei has been a leading advocate for LGBT rights since he announced to the world he was a gay man in 2005. Best known for his role playing Starship Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu in…
"What a day!" said a jubilant Harvey Fierstein, reacting to the news of the Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage. "What's great about a day like today is you have a nation standing …
LONDON — J.K. Rowling â€has confirmed that the Harry Potter play, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” will open in London next year. “It will tell a new story, …
Outfest has selected writer-director-actor John Cameron Mitchell ("Hedwig & the Angry Inch," "Rabbit Hole," "Shortbus") as the recipient of its 19th annual Outfest Achievement Award. The…
“Camp David,” the play about the peace deal brokered by Jimmy Carter at the 1978 Camp David conference, is targeting Broadway for an opening in the 2016-17 season. The play by La…
This news will have you “totally buggin'”: “Clueless” is becoming a Broadway musical. The iconic ’90s comedy, which fused Jane Austen’s “Emma”…
If Gurinder Chadha's Brit flick "Bend It Like Beckham," which gave the world one Keira Knightley, seems an odd choice for a musical adaptation, it actually works a lot better on stage than o…
MADRID " James D'Arcy ("Master and Commander," "Cloud Atlas"), Jack Davenport ("Pirates of the Caribbean") and Maria Valverde ("Exodus") star in "Gernika," a love story set against the infam…
Denzel Washington and Patti LuPone are among the names on the 2015-16 slate of artistic adviser master classes and events at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. “Th…
Michael C. Hall, the “Dexter” and “Six Feet Under” actor who recently appeared in Broadway’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” has signed on to star in &…
With ABC sitcom “Full House” surging back into the pop-culture conversation, a musical spoof of “Full House” has lined up Perez Hilton to star in the show, premier…
Laurie Metcalf will star with Bruce Willis in the Broadway play adaptation of “Misery,” which has just locked in a November opening at the Broadhurst Theater. Metcalf replaces th…
ROME – Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford, star tenor Andrea Bocelli, and Jimmy Kimmel are the latest showbiz personalities set to be feted by Italy's upcoming Ischia Global Film…
The Broadway revival of “Skylight” went out with a box office bang last week, setting a new house record in its final week on the boards, while fellow play “Wolf Hall,̶…
“Bombshell,” the musical-within-the-TV-series that originated as part of the Broadway-themed NBC series “Smash,” is on its way toward a future life on stage, with Uni…
The brewing musical adaptation of 2002 Miramax film “Amelie” has founds its lead in Samantha Barks, the actress who played fan-favorite character Eponine in the 2012 movie versio…
You know that sinking feeling when you look around and realize that all your friends are married or in serious relationships? Joshua Harmon heads for this lonesome place from the very beginn…
There is something comfortingly familiar and predictable about "On Your Feet!,” the Broadway-bound new bio-musical featuring the story of Gloria Estefan and her music-producer husband …
If Sartre were writing today, he might set one of his plays in the Manhattan offices of a national magazine with cultural pretensions, a living hell depicted in all its chic horror by playwr…