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Tony nominee Ken Watanabe has postponed his return to the role of the King of Siam in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-winning Broadway revival of the King and I after undergoing laparo…
Academy Award winner Christopher Walken and Emmy nominee Giancarlo Esposito are among voice actors who will be heard in Disney's live-action adaptation of "The Jungle Book,"…
Composer Marvin Hamlisch's final complete stage score will be performed in New York City for the first time Feb. 15 when the cast of the 2012 world-premiere production reunites for a…
Rocker Elton John, composer of The Lion King, Billy Elliot and other Broadway musicals, hitched a ride with "The Late Late Show" host James Corden FEb. 7 in the latest round of Cor…
The Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, featuring Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, starts previews Feb. 8 at the Booth Th…
Tony Award winner Lena Hall fronts the young prodigies from the cast of School of Rock for the latest Ham4Ham, part of the series of impromptu concerts hosted by Hamilton creator and star Li…
The rock group We The Kings has released a music video for their cover of the song "The Story of Tonight" from the Broadway musical Hamilton.
Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs' 30th annual awards gala will be held March 29 at BB King’s Blues Club in Times Square.
Tony Award winner Ben Vereen has joined the cast of Fox's fall remake of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The production will be shot this March in Toronto and shown at a date …
Tony Kushner, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America speaks on Hollywood and the presidential race Feb. 5 at 9 PM in an interview with Laura Flanders on Li…
Film stars Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in an original film musical whose producers include Marc Platt, one of the producers of Broadway's Wicked, according to t…
The full cast and creative team have been announced for the world-premiere production of Michael John LaChiusa's musical adaptation of the 1921 W. Somerset Maugham short story "…
The Wiz Live!, NBC-TV's Dec. 3 television event based on the 1975 Tony-winning Broadway musical The Wiz, earned two NAACP Image Awards Feb. 5.
Remember the ice bucket challenge? The 2013-14 viral campaign to raise awareness (and money) for the disease ALS. Well, the Educational Theatre Association has a plan for what it hopes w…
The Italian actor who was accidentally strangled when a hanging scene went wrong in a stage play, has been declared brain dead, according to the BBC.
Harry Melling, who appeared in the Harry Potter film franchise as Harry's viciously spoiled cousin Dudley, takes his bow today as both Jason and his possessed puppet Tyrone in the London…
Alan Cumming has bared almost all for the cover of his new CD, "Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Cafe Carlyle," which gets its official release Feb. 5.
The Broadway debut of David Harrower's Blackbird, the Olivier Award-winning drama with a cast headed by Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, arrives on Broadway Feb. 5 at the Belasco …
Joel and Ethan Coen, creators of the idiosyncratic cult hits "The Big Lebowski" and "Fargo," are sending up Hollywood itself in their latest film with music, "Hail, …
Arthur Miller's Salem-set witch-hunt drama, The Crucible has postponed its first Broadway preview by a day so that its co-star, Saoirse Ronan, can attend the Academy Awards, …
Tony winner Alan Cumming appeared on Seth Meyers' "Late Night" Feb. 3 to perform a sneak preview of the big soliloquy from what he claimed was a new musical, Hoover Dam. The so…
Grease: Live just aired, but Fox-TV already is already gearing up for its next live musical special. The Passion, a two-hour original musical pageant about the final hours of Jesus C…
An all-star lineup of "Disney on Broadway" stars is being promised for the Theatre Development Fund's (TDF) 2016 gala, saluting Disney Theatrical Productions and its presid…
The Educational Theatre Association released its annual survey of most-produced musicals and plays at America's high schools in 2014-2015. The top-produced show depicts the g…
Famed comedic actress Carol Burnett, whose Evening of Laughter and Reflection played an extended sold-out engagement at the Chicago Theatre last year, will bring the show to New York'…
