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Ahead of the season five premiere of "Stranger Things" on Netflix, the successful West End production of the stage play adaptation makes its way across the pond with "Stranger Things: The Fi…
Robert Icke's contemporary adaptation of "Oedipus" dominated the U.K. Critics' Circle theater awards 2025, taking home three top prizes during Wednesday's ceremony at London's National Theat…
One of the most coveted jobs in television is quickly becoming one of the hardest to keep filled. Taylor Tomlinson is the latest participant in a lengthening parade of comics and talk-show h…
It's time for moviegoing to get a makeover. From selling pot along with popcorn to offering cellphone-friendly screenings, cinema owners could soon overhaul the way their customers watch fil…
Oscar Wilde's infamous antihero Dorian Gray probably would've loved to have a barrage of cameras pointed at him, reflecting his gorgeous visage. This is exactly what Kip Williams' tech-heavy…
For more than a century, B&B Theatres has brought movies " from "Casablanca" and "Psycho" to "The Dark Knight" and "Barbie" " to audiences across the South and the Midwest. The family-ow…
ReFrame and IMDbPro 2024 ReFrame Report on Gender and Hiring in Film shows that 30 out of the 100 most popular films of 2024 received the ReFrame "stamp" for gender-balanced product…
Ever since the theater industry's post-lockdown return, one question has loomed large: When will Broadway return to the heights of the last full season before the pandemic, when both sales a…
Nathan Lane said in an interview with Vanity Fair that he lost out on a role in 1996's "Space Jam" and was told it was because he was just "too gay." While Lane said he never knows "what goe…
George Clooney is putting his romance movie days behind him. Speaking to "60 Minutes" to promote his starring role in the Broadway production of "Good Night, and Good Luck," Clooney told his…
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal's "Othello" premiere, one of the hottest tickets on Broadway, had Oscar-winning actors, Grammy recipients and legendary directors in the audience on Sun…
George Clooney appeared on the March 23 episode of CBS' "60 Minutes" to promote the Broadway production of "Good Night, and Good Luck," based on his Oscar-nominated 2005 film. Clooney direct…
BAFTA has tapped multi-hyphenate talent Alan Cumming to host the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards. Cumming's decorated career spans stage and screen, from his Tony and Olivier award-winning turn…
If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can't think of him. Well, "the masses" may be a stretch " the new production …
"Kiss of the Spider Woman," a musical remake from director Bill Condon and star Jennifer Lopez, is finally close to finding a buyer after its buzzy Sundance Film Festival premiere in January…
Disney executives might feel more aligned with the dwarves known as Grumpy or Bashful rather than one called Happy after a Sleepy box office start for "Snow White." The studio's live-action …
Disney's live-action "Snow White" remake begins with a storybook opening up to tell the tale of the kindhearted princess. It's exactly how Disney's 1937 animated classic "Snow White and the …
Even Amanda Seyfried agrees "Jennifer's Body" deserved better marketing. Seyfried, who starred as Needy Lesnicki in Karyn Kusama's 2009 cult horror film opposite Megan Fox, looked back on th…
David Blaine has made a habit of blowing people's minds. The magician and mentalist is known for such feats of endurance as burying himself alive for seven days and holding his breath for mo…
"Gilmore Girls" has proven to be one of the prime broadcast sitcoms to have achieved extended life on streaming, even receiving a Netflix revival season "A Year in the Life" in 2016. However…
An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies …
Disney investors on Thursday voted down a proposal that the entertainment giant cease its participation in a prominent LGBTQ rights organization's equality ratings program. The proposal " re…
At first, Peter Wolf "Â best known as the limber-limbed solo artist and former lead singer of the J. Geils Band "Â may not seem like a day-one Bob Dylan fan who saw some of the legendary…
Disney's popular Polynesian heroine is back on the big screen with "Moana 2," and the Mouse House celebrated big box office numbers when the film hit theaters over Thanksgiving. As the anima…
The circumstances of the long-distance relationship between Erin (Katie Aselton) and Charlie (Daveed Diggs) are a little atypical in "Magic Hour," but director-star Aselton and co-writer Mar…