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The talent highlighted in Variety's Young Hollywood Impact Report all made a splash in the last year in the worlds of film, television, music, theater and digital, and will be celebrated …
If you were cataloging the signs of a stage musical that has had a robust life over a period of not just years but decades, here are two things that might be included on that list: A) The sh…
Patti Yasutake, who was a regular on "Beef" and played Nurse Alyssa Ogawa on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," died Aug. 5 in Santa Monica of cancer. She was 70. Her manager Kyle Fritz said …
Optimistic, curious, adventurous. Also: Zero complexity. That's how Sutton Foster describes Princess Fred, the character she plays in the Broadway revival of "Once Upon a Mattress." Listen t…
"Stranger Things: The First Shadow," a stage play based on the hugely popular Netflix series, is heading to Broadway in 2025. The show will run at the Marquis Theatre with preview performanc…
August kicked off with music superstar Maluma celebrating the opening of his new restaurant Casa Eterna in Medellin, Colombia. At the same time, celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Martha St…
A frosty start to the summer movie season was devastating for AMC Theatres, the world's biggest exhibitor. The theater chain's quarterly earnings were severely impacted by a lack of blockbus…
"The Queen of Versailles," the much-anticipated reunion of "Wicked" collaborators Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz, offers the diva her richest opportunity to date to flex her dramatic…
Elizabeth Lail, Zane Phillips and Nic Ashe are set to star in the off Broadway premiere of "Pretty Perfect Lives," a look at sexual exploration, internet addiction and the danger…
The fifth-anniversary Broadway performance of "Moulin Rouge!" didn't exactly go as planned. A technical issue with the set delayed the July 25 curtain by some 45 minutes and required certain…
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are reuniting for a new Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," directed by Jamie Lloyd. Reeves will play Estragon and Winter will play Vlad…
Adam Driver will lead the off-Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play "Hold on to Me Darling." The show will run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre for a limited 13-week engagement. Preview p…
Jen Namoff, a prominent talent manager and Tony Award-winning producer, will join the New York office of Artists First. She is known for managing a deep roster of entertainment talent at her…
Animation veterans Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde have teamed to launch a podcast studio, Bellport Theater on the Air, focusing on scripted, episodic content revolving around supernatural thri…
It's no spoiler to say "JOB", Max Wolf Friedlich's electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That's how the play begin…
POTTER PLAY PERSISTS "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" celebrates its eighth anniversary at London's Palace Theatre on July 30. The production, currently booking until Apr. 6, 2025, has dr…
Peter Friedman, the star of "Job," takes his time getting to the theater each day. Sometimes he'll board a local train from his home on the Upper West Side instead of the express that gets h…
Betty Buckley, the Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated actor and singer, has signed with Sugar23. Best known for her performances in on stage, particularly for her soaring rendition of "Memory…
Willkommen, bienvenue Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho. There's a new act at the Kit Kat Club. Lambert, a Grammy nominee and "American Idol" breakout, and Cravalho, the star of the movie ada…
The creators of "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" are certain their hit show will have a future life " they just don't yet know what that future life looks like. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft…
AMCÂ Theatres, the world's largest cinema chain, reached an agreement to restructure a portion of its debt to extend maturity dates by at least three years, the company said Monday. AMC Th…
Westwood Village's Bruin Theatre and Fox Village Theatre will screen their last films " for now " on Thursday as Regency Theatres' lease comes to an end at the two historic Los Angeles venue…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for "Twisters," now playing in theaters. In "Twisters," Glen Powell's Tyler Owens " a YouTube superstar who chases tornadoes for clicks and notori…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This articles contains spoilers for "Twisters," now playing in theaters. If you're heading to your local theater to see "Twisters" and wondering "Do I need to see the origi…
Famous for many things, not least Carol Channing playing the title role more than 5,000 times, "Hello, Dolly!" is, happily, one of Broadway's brashest, splashiest star vehicles whose relativ…