Anna May Wong " born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles on Jan. 3, 1905 " is widely recognized as Hollywood's first Asian American movie star. A year before she died in 1961 from a heart attac…
Rapper Nas is working on a musical stage adaptation of the classic hip-hop film Beat Street. Nas will work to expand and create new material from the film's soundtrack for the musical, a…
Beginning in 2021, the Tonys became a marathon. Not just because of the 26 categories, the same as the number of miles in a marathon. But also because what used to be 3 hours of awards is no…
Ron Simons, an actor and four-time Tony Award-winning producer, has died. He was 63. His production company SimonSays Entertainment shared that Simons died Wednesday. His cause of death wasn…
Renowned opera director Yuval Sharon returns to The Industry, the company where he began his career, for The Comet/Poppea. The new piece is quite the mashup, weaving together Monteverdi's 16…
Idina Menzel is slated to return to Broadway in 2025. Menzel will appear in the new musical Redwood, which she co-conceived with Tina Landau, who directed the production and wrote the bo…
Stereophonic is now slated to perform at the Tony Awards. The decision comes amid outcry from fans and the playwright, David Adjmi, himself, after the initial performance lineup was announce…
Ahead of the 77th Tony Awards, which will be held on June 16 at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater in New York City, The Hollywood Reporter gathered six of the 2023-24 Broadway season's …
Last year, Tony Awards producers Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner had the challenge of putting on the live ceremony without a written script, amid the writer's strike, with the aid of host Ari…
Sam Rockwell and Mark Berger of Play Hooky Productions are planning to adapt a book about middleweight boxing champion Marvin Hagler into a feature film. Play Hooky secured the rights to…
The musical & Juliet announced the recoupment of its $17 million capitalization. The show, which is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set to a score of pop hits, recouped as of April 1…
The Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People, starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, has recouped its $5.5 million capitalization. The milestone, announced by producers Seaview, Pat…
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin David Benioff and D.B. Weiss turned to the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy to help create their highly anticipated follow-up to Game of Thrones. Along…
Sufjan Stevens' Illinois had been a formative album for director and choreographer Justin Peck, and so when it came to reinterpreting it for the stage, Peck felt a responsibility to do right…
Daniel Radcliffe and Eddie Redmayne are among the nominees set to take the stage at the upcoming Tony Awards. Producers on Tuesday unveiled the musical performances planned for the June 16 c…
Dolly Parton will bring a musical about her life and career to Broadway in 2026. The musical, entitled Hello, I'm Dolly, will feature a score of Parton's well-known songs as well as new …
As if Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai weren't enough of a powerhouse duo on Suffs, Melissa McCarthy is one of the many other people behind the scenes of the three-time, Tony-nominated m…
Broadway had been making progress toward an industrywide recovery, but new data shows halted momentum in the most recent season. According to data from the industry trade group The Broad…
Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar will host the Tony Awards preshow on June 16. The preshow, entitled The Tony Awards: Act One, features a presentation of the first round of Tony Award…
The Tribeca Festival will feature five short films made using technology from OpenAI. The films will use OpenAI's Sora, which is a text-to-video model that accepts textual descriptions and g…
S&P Global has revised its outlook on Live Nation Entertainment to negative from stable following the antitrust lawsuit filed against them by the U.S. Department of Justice.  The …
At the Fox upfront on May 13, the network's free ad-supported streaming service, Tubi, got just as much stage time as its traditional broadcast channels. Those so-called FAST platforms ar…
Audra McDonald will reopen Broadway's Majestic Theatre with a new production of Gypsy. McDonald will play Rose, one of the top roles in musical theater, which has been played by the likes of…
Prosecutors in the Harvey Weinstein case say they may issue a new indictment against the former mogul, as there may be more women who come out against him. "Some people who were not read…
Tony Award winner LaChanze is launching her own multimedia production company. The company, LaChanze Productions, will seek to produce Broadway and other commercial theater projects, with an…