The Unknown, David Cale’s Off Broadway thriller starring Sean Hayes that was recently nominated for a prestigious Lucille Lortel Award, will be streamed during its final weekend on stage this month. The captured live broadcasts […]
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The Mad King, the previously announced Game of Thrones stage prequel heading to Stratford-Upon-Avon’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre, will begin performances there on July 20, with an official opening on August 8. The engagement runs through […]
Dennis Quaid will be recognized with the Patriot Ally Award at the 2nd Annual MV Awards in May, organizers said today. The MV Awards, presented by the National Entertainment Awards Academy for Military & Veterans, […]
Megan Thee Stallion was greeted by a full house when she returned to Broadway‘s Moulin Rouge! The Musical last night, two days after she took ill mid-performance and was diagnosed with, among other things, extreme […]
James Marsden is set to host a special bonus reunion episode of Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, Prime Video announced today. The reunion is one of two bonus episodes announced today that will debut on […]
Bruce Springsteen has the support of his union in the latest set-to with President Donald Trump. After Trump, in a Truth Social message, called Springsteen a “[b]ad, and very boring singer” who “looks like a […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff’s bestselling novel that was adapted for a 2015 film starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar winner Alicia Vikander, is being developed as a stage musical, producer George Strus announced today. The […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda will direct a film adaptation of playwright-composer Dave Malloy‘s Octet, a critically acclaimed musical that debuted Off Broadway in 2019. The project was revealed today by Miranda’s 5000 Broadway Productions, which also announced […]
What does it take to get Jack Black back on the SNL stage? The right outfit, turns out. In the latest Saturday Night Live promo, Black prepares for his fifth time hosting in Studio 8H […]
Sean Hayes, Dulé Hill, John Krasinski, Amber Ruffin and Sia are among the first-time nominees for Lucille Lortel Awards, announced today. They join such stage stalwarts as Kara Young, J. Harrison Ghee and Deirdre O’Connell […]
Three-time Academy Award-winner and 21-time Emmy Award-winner James L. Brooks will be honored with the Peabody Awards’ inaugural Industry Icon Award at the 86th annual Peabody ceremony this May. “James L. Brooks has shaped the […]
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Sara Bareilles, the Grammy winning and Tony- and Emmy-nominated composer, performer, producer, activist and author. Bareilles composed music and lyrics for the smash Broadway and West End musical Waitress, stepping into […]
Rattlestick Theater, one of Off Broadway‘s most prominent venues for new work since its founding in 1994, will be renamed The Terrence McNally Theater in honor of the late trailblazing and Tony Award-winning playwright. “Terrence […]
Megan Thee Stallion will not perform in either of today’s two scheduled Moulin Rouge! The Musical performances, according to the Broadway production’s website. A message reading “Important Information” pops up in response to clicking for […]
Broadway gave a warm welcome to a batch of spring arrivals last week, with newcomers The Lost Boys, The Rocky Horror Show, Beaches, Fallen Angels and Titaníque beginning previews to more-than-solid audiences. And while sell-out […]
Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie just can’t outrun his famously taut backside. In a new four-minute 30-second short film for Verizon, Storrie, directed by his Vanity Fair Oscar party companion Nia DaCosta (28 Years Later: The […]
The 30th Annual Webby Awards were announced today by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, with winners to be announced on April 21 in New York and recognized May 11 at a special anniversary awards […]
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Mark Rosenblatt, the Olivier Award-winning theater and film writer and director whose debut play Giant opened last week on Broadway in a critically acclaimed production starring John Lithgow. Giant, which features […]
Austin Furst, who founded Vestron Video, the pioneering home video company behind the Michael Jackson Thriller documentary and the film Dirty Dancing, died Wednesday, March 25, at his home in New Canaan, Connecticut, of complications […]
Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay will make her Broadway debut in the hit, acclaimed play Every Brilliant Thing, taking over for current star Daniel Radcliffe when he ends his limited engagement in May. […]
Multi-platinum singer, songwriter and actor Joanna “JoJo” Levesque (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) will return to Broadway this June to succeed the exiting Lea Michele in Broadway’s Chess musical revival. Levesque, who has often performed under […]
Marcia Ann Burrs, a veteran character actor whose many TV appearances included stints as Mrs. Claus in two Hallmark Christmas TV-movies and, in a memorable episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the long-ago high […]
Broadway‘s recent spring arrivals enjoyed robust box office last week, with Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Dog Day Afternoon selling out and Giant, Becky Shaw, Death of a Salesman and The Fear of 13 coming […]
The ferocity of John Lithgow‘s explosive performance as Roald Dahl – the children’s author as reviled by some as he was beloved by others – seems to show itself right from the start of Mark […]
Lilias Folan, sometimes described as “The First Lady Of Yoga” because of her nearly 30-year-run as host of PBS‘ weekday program Lilias, Yoga and You, died March 9 in an assisted-living facility outside Cincinnati. She […]
EXCLUSIVE: A feature length documentary on the making of the Broadway and West End musical stage adaptation of Back to the Future will premiere tomorrow, March 24, on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube and […]
Leonid “Leo” Radvinsky, the owner of adult-content digital platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer, the company confirmed Monday to Deadline. He was 43. Radvinsky’s date of death was not disclosed, but some news outlets are […]
A planned transfer of the critically acclaimed Off Broadway musical Music City to a larger, custom-redesigned venue has been put on hold just days before the planned start of performances. Music City, which features songs […]
Lea Michele will depart the Broadway revival of Chess on Sunday, June 21, finishing an engagement that began with the show’s first preview last October. Her replacement in the role of Florence Vassy has not […]
Ed Bernard, a series regular on such hit series Police Woman and The White Shadow, has died in Northridge, CA, his family has announced. He was 86. His January 23 death was announced on Facebook. […]
Megan Thee Stallion is set to make her Broadway debut next week as the impresario Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and today we’re getting a sneak peek at the singer in full Moulin regalia. […]
An American college student missing while on spring break in Spain is the nephew of CNN senior producer David Gracey, CNN has confirmed. The news network has been updating the international story with frequent reports […]
Sean Penn picked up an Oscar this week after all. Not the Oscar – the one he won Sunday for his performance in One Battle After Another – but a fairly reasonable facsimile thereof made […]
Broadway‘s Chicago, with Whitney Leavitt starring as Roxie Hart, continued its record-setting box office streak last week, with the musical revival grossing $1,457,931, the highest gross in the show’s 29-year history. Since Leavitt’s arrival in […]
Two-time Tony winner Kara Young is joining the cast of the first ever Broadway revival of David Auburn’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Proof, directed by Thomas Kail. The Purpose and Purlie Victorious actor will step […]
Wanted, the musical formerly known as Gun & Powder, is heading to Broadway this fall with Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine starring as the real-life Mary and Martha Clarke, respectively, Black twin sisters who passed […]
The Tony nominated duo behind Jaja’s African Hair Braiding – playwright Jocelyn Bioh and director Whitney White – will reunite this fall with the Broadway premiere of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Liberation, Bess Wohl‘s critically acclaimed Broadway play, will be performed in select major markets as a multi-theater co-production in 2027, including at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in January. The Geffen staging will […]
Matt Upshaw, the current CEO of Broadway ad and marketing agency Serino Coyne, announced today that he has assumed independent ownership of the company. The entity will retain its original name as it moves next […]
Whoopi Goldberg broke out in tears, Ana Navarro was disappointed in the tame tone, and everyone was impressed by what Goldberg called the best In Memoriam segment in memory. The Oscars was hot topic No. […]
Always a Bridesmaid? Well, not for Wendi McLendon-Covey last night. McLendon-Covey did not take her rightful place alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper and Maya Rudolph when the Bridesmaids cast reunited on […]
In his Oscars opening monologue tonight, host Conan O’Brien wasted no time getting to the big-stakes global controversies of the day: AI, world strife and, of course, Timothée Chalamet. “Security is extremely tight tonight,” he […]
In the superb production of the solo play Every Brilliant Thing opening tonight on Broadway, the unstoppable Daniel Radcliffe plays the troubled but tenacious son of a woman whose long stretches of bedridden depression are […]
Jane Lapotaire, the British stage actor whose only Broadway performance – in the title role of Pam Gems’ Edith Piaf musical Piaf – won her a 1981 Tony Award, died Thursday, March 5, in the […]
UPDATE: John Legend and producer Mike Jackson have joined the producing team of Broadway‘s upcoming Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the production announced today, through their Get Lifted Film Co. banner. With the announcement, Legend becomes […]
Nathan Lane, who famously played an obsessive Maria Callas fan in Terrence McNally’s play The Lisbon Traviata, had some harsh words for the opera- and ballet-bashing Timothée Chalamet on today’s The View. “Oh, what a schmuck,” […]
Six-time Emmy winner Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut this spring in Cole Escola’s hit comedy Oh, Mary! She’ll play the title character, Mary Todd Lincoln. Rudolph (Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids) will begin a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca De Mornay will star in the world premiere Off Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley’s The Pushover, with performances beginning next month. Directed by Kirk Gostkowski, The Pushover begins a limited four-week engagement […]