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…
For the first time in a long time, people are actually going to the movies. After a delayed start to summer, Universal's action franchise "F9: The Fast Saga," Paramount's thriller "A Quiet P…
With films from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bill Murray, Todd Haynes, Leos Carax and others, the Cannes Film Festival, movie theaters and streamers are alive with the sound of music. "It might just …
Your inclination towards "Schmigadoon!," at least in its early going, will likely be determined by your reaction to its title. If you think it's a clever, charming wink to "Brigadoon" " the …
The powerful appeal of K-pop is a major contributor to YouTube taking up position as the dominant streaming video platform in South Korea, a new study has found. Netflix, which has also inve…
The stars of Cannes Film Festival opener "Annette" opened up on Wednesday about the demands of making Leos Carax's rock opera and the film's parallels with the real-life demands of fame. Lau…
SPOILER ALERT:Â Do not read if you have not yet watched "We the People," streaming now on Netflix. "We the People," doesn't just teach civics, it also mixes music and animation as storytel…
Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, per the Associated Press. Adams, a former police captain, ran a centrist campaign and would be New York City's second Black…
Tencent's WeChat social media platform on Tuesday evening blocked and wiped all past content of the accounts for the campus LGBTQ groups of China's top universities, striking a major blow ag…
Debuting on opening night of the Cannes Film Festival a full year after it was originally expected to appear, "Annette" arrives on a pedestal from which it's too easily toppled. This latest …
The musical groove of Amazon Studios' "Annette" has landed within the confines of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. While the terms "strange" and "quirky" will be understatements used to…
"The Undoing" and "The Underground Railroad" regular Lily Rabe has been cast opposite "Fargo" and "Black Mirror" star Jesse Plemons in the HBO Max original limited series "Love and Death." T…
An ecstatic Adam Driver, a French-speaking Jodie Foster, a pink-suited Spike Lee and surprise guest Pedro Almodovar all marked the return of the Cannes Film Festival at a glamorous, emotiona…
As very early Oscar prospects start to emerge, a few pundits are placing bets on how many nods Jon M. Chu's "In the Heights" could garner. Possible contenders include the original song "Home…
Aleshea Harris' "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" isn't a traditional play, but audiences shouldn't come away with the mistaken impression that the show " a play, a ritual, a pageant and a…
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…
As the New York Theater industry pulls itself out of the COVID era, every baby step feels like a milestone. But perhaps no other reopening will carry the same symbolic weight as the return o…
Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Jennifer Hudson are among the first batch of artists announced to headline the New York City "homecoming concert" in New York's Central Park this summer. Wh…
Kelsey Grammer and Julia Stiles do not make a natural romantic couple, and their awkward pairing is the largest misstep made by "The God Committee," writer-director Austin Stark's adaptation…
"The whole point is to combine two complementary or contrasting thoughts in the same moment. Two feelings in the same moment." Johann Sebastian Bach, the 18th century's uncontested genius of…
As an increasingly vaccinated New York lifts virtually all of its COVID-19 restrictions, there's a turf war brewing between New York City productions and restaurants, with the Mayor's OfÂ…
James Franco has signed off on paying $2,235,000 to settle an Oct. 2020 lawsuit alleging he and his associates coerced students into performing explicit sex scenes on camera. The proposed fi…
Who knew iniquity could feel so pulsating and immensely purifying? "Seven Deadly Sins," New York City theater's newest unholy outdoor experience, tests the limits of how far live theater can…
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Many people were surprised that, after an initial 14-ish-month-long run and 236 performances, Bruce Springsteen is bringing his "Springsteen on Broadway" autobiographical show back for a sum…