The 30th anniversary of the original animated film version of "The Lion King" will be celebrated at the Hollywood Bowl next month with a live-to-film concert/screening that will include cast…
To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka " but with an asterisk. The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be fa…
According to theater lore, it was Elizabeth I who demanded Shakespeare write another play about Falstaff, which, allegedly, is why he wrote "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The Queen might have…
Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination. S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," about a cadre of down-and-out boys, has been read by millions of rest…
Leading Chinese film director Zhang Yimou has been announced as chief director of "MGM 2049," pitched as "an unprecedented residency show" in Macau. Zhang, who is known for films including "…
Actor, producer and director Schele Williams was a young girl when she saw a touring production of "The Wiz." It was 1978 and she was living in Dayton, Ohio. "It was my introduction to theat…
Goldcrest Post, an independently-owned feature and episodic postproduction facility that currently maintains bases in New York and London, plans to open a third location at Lionsgate Studios…
How do you play someone as notorious as Vladimir Putin? It would be easy to telegraph his cruelty, to turn him into a mustache-twirling villain. Or to give over entirely to caricature, w…
Maia Novi's "Invasive Species" has announced an Off-Broadway limited engagement at The Vineyard's Dimson Theater. The production will reunite the cast and creative team from the dark comedy'…
No one, wisely, has turned "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" into an opera " not least because, arguably, Eugene O'Neill's most famous play already is one. It features extended solo arias mi…
Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright who specialized in a particular form of brainy and absurdist comedy, has died. He was 75. The cause was complications from a form of demen…
The Tony-winning Broadway icon Bernadette Peters has long been considered one of the foremost performers of composer Stephen Sondheim's work. But as Peters revealed in the latest episode of …
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that love bone-shaking, ear-splitting spectacles, like fireworks and arena-sized heavy metal concerts, and those who want nothing more than…
Hankyu Hanshin, parent company of all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, has apologized to the family of an actor who died in September last year. The 25-year-old woman died af…
Ariana DeBose will host the Tony Awards for the third consecutive year. Broadway's biggest night will take place on June 16 in New York City at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. I…
At the start of the second half of Ivo Van Hove's production of his own musical version of John Cassavetes' ultra-Seventies backstager "Opening Night" " with music and lyrics by Rufus Wainwr…
Theatre Week, the Los Angeles-area celebration of the performing arts spotlighting musicals, plays and theatrical events throughout Los Angeles and Orange County, is running through from Mar…
With his victory on Monday at the Critics' Circle Theatre awards, Andrew Scott has made history. The British performer, recognized as best actor for his one-man West End show, "Vanya," previ…
Andrew Scott, David Tennant and Sophie Okonedo took home the acting prizes at the 33rd U.K. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards. Scott won best actor for "Vanya," a one-man Chekov adaptation whic…
Though the Human Rights Campaign gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles contended with a brief interruption by protestors calling for a Gaza ceasefire, the annual stayed largely on course, se…
Does "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" count as a genre unto itself, given how many plotlines in the last half-century have relied on the suitor-out-of-water supper guest as a linchpin? That tr…
Ever feel like running away from home to join a musical? Then "Water for Elephants" would be the show of choice that offers escapism, enchantment and heart " and thrills, too. Based on Sa…
"Wicked" director Jon M. Chu confirmed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that his leading ladies Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo sang live on set, similar to how other movie musicals such …
Juliana Canfield didn't mean to lie when she was auditioning for the play "Stereophonic" " it just accidentally happened. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: The actor, w…
A star-studded revival of "Merrily We Roll Along" has managed to accomplish something that eluded the ill-fated original production of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Turn a profit. The show's…