The Walt Disney Co. turned a profit in its streaming business a quarter earlier than anticipated, and beat Wall Street expectations as its entertainment business soared in the company's fisc…
The Outsiders musical continued its post-Tony run, breaking the box office record at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre for the seventh week in a row. The show, which won the Tony Award for be…
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is coming to Broadway in the spring. The play, which is set up as a prequel to the events of the Netflix series, will start previews at the Marquis Thea…
Cathy Repola will retire as the national executive director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild at the end of January 2025. Repola has worked at the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, for 3…
Members of the Crooked Media Workers Union are conducting a one-day walkout Monday after more than a year of contract negotiations with the progressive podcasting and media network. The …
Snap hit 432 million daily active users in the second quarter of 2024, an increase of 36 million, or 9 percent year-over-year. Revenue hit $1.24 billion, up from $1.07 billion a year ago, bu…
Keanu Reeves will make his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot this winter. The play, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will come to Broadway in fall 2025. Reeves will play Estragon and Alex Wint…
Adam Driver will star as a fictional country music icon in Kenneth Lonergan's play Hold On to Me Darling this fall. The play, directed by Neil Pepe, is slated to begin performances at Off-Br…
Lin-Manuel Miranda and co-writer Eisa Davis are set to release a concept album with Atlantic Records on Oct. 18, inspired by the 1979 film The Warriors.  The 26-track concept album wa…
SiriusXM is launching a subscription service for some of its biggest podcasts through Apple Podcasts. Launching Aug. 5, SiriusXM Podcasts+ will give subscribers an ad-free listeners …
What's next for Shari Redstone after the deal to sell her stake in Paramount? Producing a Broadway play. Redstone is a co-producer on the Broadway play Job, written by Max Wolf Fri…
The Outsiders continued to break box office records for the sixth week in the row. The musical brought in $1.46 million for the week ended July 28, with capacity over 100 percent. The sh…
Live Nation reported second quarter earnings Tuesday, reporting continued demand globally for concerts amid the overhang of the Justice Department lawsuit. The company, which owns Ticketmast…
Politician and author Stacey Abrams is launching a weekly podcast with Crooked Media. The podcast, entitled Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams, will see the former Georgia gubernatoria…
Disneyland workers voted to approve their new three-year contract about a week after voting to authorize a strike if an agreement could not be reached. The workers, representing 14,000 c…
Meta is bringing its AI Studio to the U.S., allowing creators and Instagram users to build their own AI characters. With the tool, users with the creator account on Instagram can create …
Andrea Martin, Melora Hardin and Ruthie Ann Miles have joined the Broadway cast of McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr.  On Monday, the production also announced that "a highly realisti…
The Queen of Versailles, a new musical based on TV personality Jacqueline "Jackie" Siegel, is scheduled to come to Broadway in the 2025-2026 season. The musical, which features a score b…
Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh and Jesse Tyler Ferguson will be part of the cast of Twelfth Night, which is set to reopen the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The production…
Vince Vaughn is set to become a majority stakeholder of the pickleball team the Coachella Valley Scorpions. The team, which was co-owned by Kim Jagd, launched in May, and is one of 12 teams …
Podcasting company Lemonada Media is launching a publishing imprint with Simon & Schuster. Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, is partnering with the podcasting network to…
Hasbro swung to a profit in the second quarter as revenue fell 18 percent due to the divestiture of eOne. The gaming company reported a profit of $138.5 million, after posting a loss of …
Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho will take over the lead roles in Cabaret this fall from Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. The two will begin performances, as the Emcee and Sally Bowles, …
Workers at Disneyland reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday, averting the immediate possibility of a strike for 14,000 workers. The workers, which are part of the Master Service…
Ike Perlmutter has sold his entire stake in Disney after he and activist Nelson Peltz lost a proxy fight. Perlmutter, the former Marvel chairman, had banded with Peltz to try to win two …