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The Disney ABC Television Group has reversed course on cutting jobs for up to 35 application developers, two weeks after informing the employees that they were being laid off. The developers…
ANNECY, France " Matthew McConaughey will voice Buster, a showman entrepreneur koala running a legit theater in Illumination Entertainment's upcoming music-driven event comedy, Illumination …
“The Tempest” and Central Park were made for each other, so it must have taken a Herculean effort on the part of director Michael Greif to drain Shakespeare’s most myste…
Sergei Rachmaninoff is a young person’s composer, full of sound and fury (dum … dum … DUM!), his music delighting listeners on its own boyishly bombastic terms. Composer Da…
“Bright Star,” the musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has mapped out its route to Broadway, setting a pre-Broadway run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. prior to …
Cirque du Soleil, the avant garde circus group, is to open an office in China and launch its first permanent show in the country by 2018.
John Leonard Colenback, an actor best known for his role as the debonair Dr. Dan Stewart on “As the World Turns” (1966-73 and 1976-79), died May 12 in West Hollywood, Calif. He w…
Any qualms about the propriety or taste of a "9/11 musical" prove unfounded in the case of "Come From Away," the superb new show premiering at La Jolla Playhouse. Out of the true story of…
Anyone doubting the value of a performance segment on the Tony Awards telecast just needs to take a look at the Broadway grosses last week. That was the week that encompassed the seven da…
"Waterfall," the new cross-cultural, lushly romantic tuner at the Pasadena Playhouse, has admirable ambition, visual splendor and patchy dramaturgy. Working from a Thai source novel, stage v…
Gil Cates Jr. has been promoted to executive director for the Geffen Playhouse board of directors, the theater announced Friday. Cates was selected to lead in an interim capacity in February…
In his strikingly original drama, “Guards at the Taj,” Rajiv Joseph (“The Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”) entrusts the romantic legend of the Taj Mahal to two lowly…
American Theatre, the national journal chronicling nonprofit theater, has named Rob Weinert-Kendt its new editor in anticipation of the imminent departure of Jim O’Quinn, who’s s…
There is some corner of a playing field that is forever England in the new play by Patrick Marber ("Closer"), his first in more than eight years, which turns a dysfunctional non-league socce…
Scott Rudin and New York’s nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater will bring over the much-lauded London revival of “A View From the Bridge” for a limited run that opens in Octob…
Aside from the omission of a frantic midnight run for pizza, Anne Washburn’s “10 Out of 12″ is an excruciatingly detailed and totally realistic rendering of an all-ni…
"I can't remember what I said, I'm sure it was a terrible speech."
The Public Theater held its annual gala Tuesday in New York, and raised $2.4 million toward its ongoing mission to both support emerging dramatic voices and to present top-flight producti…
“Prodigal Son,” a new play by John Patrick Shanley, will get its world premiere in an Off Broadway staging from Manhattan Theater Club, the New York nonprofit that originally pro…
Matt Ryan, the star of NBC series "Constantine," and Judith Light have signed on to appear in the Roundabout Theater Company's upcoming Broadway production of "Therese Raquin," headlined by …
"Gigi," the Broadway musical starring Vanessa Hudgens, will shutter June 21 after its middling sales didn't sufficiently improve following a recent Tony Awards appearance. The show earned…
Prepare to get your nostalgia on. Eight films, including “Psycho” and a “Grease” sing-a-long, are returning to theaters later this year as part of the “TCM P…
The show-within-the-show became the show on June 8, when the cast of NBC series “Smash” reunited to present a song-and-dance concert version of “Bombshell,” the music…
Larry David's Broadway comedy "Fish in the Dark" finished up the writer-director's run in the play with a new high, breaking the sales record at the Cort Theater set by the show earlier in i…
Michael J. Roth and Steve Longi have acquired feature film and TV rights to the Off-Broadway musical-comedy “Zombie Prom,” Variety has learned exclusively. Roth is producing thro…
