Bollywood superstar, Salman Khan was jailed on Thursday after being found guilty of poaching rare blackbuck antelopes. The case has been in and out of court for nearly 20 years. A court in J…
Off Broadway Korean-pop musical “KPOP” topped the nominations for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging nine nominations for the annual awards for Off Broadway fare. “KP…
Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo will headline the new musical adaptation of “Moulin Rouge,” the stage adaptation of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film. Tveit, a Broadway fan-favorite whose s…
Much of the analysis that followed focused on the show's politics: Star Roseanne Barr is an eager champion of debunked right-wing conspiracies, and the premiere's storyline hinged on her cha…
“I didn't want to be weaving baskets and lamenting about the oxen.” That’s the actress Billie Piper talking about “Yerma” on the latest episode of Stagecraft, V…
Big Broadway and TV names will come together later this month for “Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Parkland, USA,” produced to raise funds in the aftermath of the Parkl…
In the theater industry, "secondary market" used to be dirty words, conjuring images of price-gouging brokers and risky, potentially fraudulent transactions on a street corner. But not anymo…
Damon J. Gillespie is no stranger to the theater versus football conundrum his character Robbie Thorne faces on “Rise,” NBC’s new drama from Jason Katims. “I grew up …
Passover and Easter week gave the Broadway box office plenty to celebrate, with the holidays — and the academic spring breaks that are often timed to them — driving up sales by a…
NBC’s live staging of “Jesus Christ Superstar” is among the top shows of Sunday night in the early Nielsen numbers. The live musical, which starred John Legend in the title…
Not everyone watched NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” on TV: More than 1,300 people made up the live audience that cheered on the show from the bleachers. Here’s w…
NBC's Easter Sunday production of "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert" was, as the young people say, doing the most. This musical threw together glitter, sequins, leather, writhing hotti…
NBC’s Easter night telecast of “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” sparked more than a few hosannas on social media. Reaction to the live staging of the 1970-vintage r…
Fans of “The Room” and “Hamilton” unite! Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced that he will be adapting Tommy Wiseau’s infamous film for Broadway. Just kidding. The …
In today’s film news roundup, Margo Martindale becomes a mob boss, Kevin Tsujihara is selected as a commencement speaker and the homeless woman project “Landing Up” gets di…
Watching Glenda Jackson in theatrical flight is like looking straight into the sun. Her expressive face registers her thoughts while guarding her feelings. But it's the voice that really thr…
Is Auli’i Cravalho sending in her audition for Steven Spielberg’s reboot of “West Side Story?” The 17-year-old star of “Moana” and NBC’s “Rise…
"Angels in America" has cast a long shadow: Tony Kushner's fantastical dramatization of the AIDS crisis has long seemed near definitive. But over six acts and seven hours at London’s Y…
The moment Samantha Barks smiles and sings near the beginning of this musical adaptation of the film "Pretty Woman," we know things are going to be OK. The sense that this show — n…
Hugh Jackman looks to have found his next project as the A-list star is in talks to star in the Automatik pic “Bad Education.” “I Think We’re Alone Now” scribe …
If NBC were looking for a higher-stakes musical to broadcast live on TV, it's hard to imagine the Peacock landing a bigger fish than "Jesus Christ Superstar." The rock opera musical by Andre…
Few public figures have fallen as far and as fast as Joe Paterno did in 2011. A college-football titan, he led Penn State's team for 45 years, transforming a nascent athletic program into a …
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ brewing musical adaptation of “Beetlejuice” has mapped out its road to Broadway, locking in a world premiere run at the National Theatre in W…
The move is likely to interpreted as a further tightening of regulatory control of the film and TV sectors, and increased involvement of the Communist Party in media matters. That would be i…
There are lots of characters in the Off Broadway thriller “Harry Clarke.” But they’re all played by Billy Crudup — who gets lonely up there sometimes. “It gets …