Vendôme Pictures and Pathé are partnering with Tony Award-winning Deaf West Theatre to develop a stage musical adaptation of Oscar nominated and BAFTA-winning film "CODA." PGA award-winn…
The post-COVID U.K. theater scene is getting a boost with the revival of "Kinky Boots" and "John Gabriel Borkman." The Tony and Olivier award-winning musical "Kinky Boots," based on the 2005…
Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy winning composer A.R. Rahman ("Slumdog Millionaire") and revered "Elizabeth" and "Bandit Queen" filmmaker Shekhar Kapur have teamed to create Expo 2020 Dubai commissi…
THEATER The ongoing omicron wave in the U.K. has claimed another victim, with the producers of acclaimed play "Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)" at the Criterion Theatre on London's West End …
Super-producer and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has halted performances of hit West End musical "Cinderella" until Feb. 2022 as the Omicron variant of coronavirus surges across the U.K. "I a…
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £1 billion ($1.3 billion) plan designed to help businesses impacted by the Omicron variant of coronavirus that is sweeping acro…
"Spitting Image," the iconic British satirical puppet show rebooted for streamer BritBox U.K., is set to make its stage debut at London's West End in 2022. The target of the show will be bel…
Hope Dickson Leach, BAFTA-winning director of acclaimed Toronto, Rotterdam and London festival selection "The Levelling," has embarked upon a hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's ic…
Equity, the U.K. trade union for performing arts workers, has called on theater venues and producers to enforce mask-wearing among audience members. The request is in light of a surge in the…
Antony Sher, the South Africa born theater actor known for his Shakespearean roles, has died of cancer. He was 72. The news was revealed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) on Friday. She…
Theaters in London's West End are getting ready to honor the memory of the late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. The theaters will dim thei…
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has said that playing a trans character in "The Danish Girl" was a "mistake." Based on true events, Redmayne played one of the first people in the world wh…
The 2022 U.K. theater season promises to be a bumper one with new works from Stephen Beresford, Anupama Chandrasekhar, David Eldridge and Alecky Blythe among the highlights. Three-time Olivi…
Adam Kane ("Prodigal Son", "American Gods") will direct action thriller "Rain Who Kills Alone" from a screenplay by William Josef Schneider ("Corto Maltese"). The film will tell the story of…
Indian filmmaker Aditya Chopra's immensely popular 1995 Bollywood film "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge," commonly abbreviated to DDLJ, is being adapted as a Broadway stage musical titled "Comeâ…
Ralph Fiennes will lead the cast in the world premiere of David Hare's "Straight Line Crazy," to be directed by Nicholas Hytner at London's The Bridge theater. Fiennes stars as Robert Moses,…
Songwriter and producer Robert J. Sherman is continuing his family's rich musical legacy by teaming with finance professionals Bret Goldin and Andrew Kaplan to form Sherman Theatrical Entert…
Composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber has decided not to open his £6 million ($8.2 million) musical "Cinderella," one day before it was due to open at London's West End after a cast m…
Acclaimed dramatist and playwright Jack Thorne will deliver this year's James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Thorne's credits include the West End play "Harry Pott…
RESUMPTION The producers of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, have confirmed that the two-part multi a…
Super-producer and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has joined his fellow artists working in the beleaguered theater and music industries in taking legal steps to get the U.K. government to rele…
THEATER Smash hit musical "Mamma Mia!" will return to London's West End at the Novello Theatre from Aug. 25. The beleaguered U.K. theater sector is operating at a vastly reduced capacity for…
"The Two Popes" actor Jonathan Pryce, "The Great British Bake Off" judge Prue Leith and "Strictly Come Dancing" judge Arlene Phillips are among those in the arts named to Britain's Queen's B…
Super-producer and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is prepared to defy the U.K. government if there is any delay in theaters expanding to 100% seating capacity on June 21. While the date is the…
Leading cinema chain AMC is raising $230.5 million to purchase additional cinema leases and grow the consumer appeal of its existing properties. AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. revealed on …