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The rationale for casting an ensemble of actresses to enact Major John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Colorado River expedition eludes me. But as penned by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed …
Memories could be fatal to this revival of “Cats” — specifically, the memory of Betty Buckley as Grizabella, singing “Memory” as it’s meant to be sung, wi…
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Is Meryl Streep ready for a spoonful of sugar? Sources tell Variety, the Oscar-winning actress is in talks to join Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel-Miranda in Disney’s “Mary Poppins Re…
Masterpiece will co-produce an adaptation of “King Charles III,” the play by Mike Bartlett that imagines the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ascension of her oldest son to th…
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will host the PBS Arts Fall Festival this year, beginning on October 21. The annual festival will kick off with Great Performances doc…
Sony is in talks with Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn to write the screenplay for the movie reboot of "Charlie's Angels." Auburn’s play “Proof” won the 2001 Pulitzer …
Comedic actor Josh Gad"best known for playing the voice of Olaf in Disney's "Frozen""is among the Hollywood stars at this week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. He spoke to V…
James M. Nederlander, the impresario who was the chairman of Broadway’s Nederlander Organization, died July 25 at 94, it was announced by his son, James L. Nederlander. As the he…
The two-part stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" opens officially on Saturday at the Palace Theater in London’s West End, but previews have been running since June 7, and pr…
One of Disney’s classic films, “Beauty of the Beast,” waltzed the floor of Comic-Con this past weekend, where the “tale as old as time” celebrated its 25th anni…
"You are the writer, but I am the author!" When famed ghost-singer Marni Nixon said those words to me, her ghostwriter, I didn't quite understand how any of it would work. I had written prev…
It’s been a stage megasmash since tickets first went on sale — and were snapped up instantly. It’s got a huge, rabid fanbase. And theater critics are going gaga for it. It&…
It is, quite simply, spellbinding: The Show That Lived Up to Expectations — and Then Some. Three years after J. K. Rowling announced her boy wizard would hit the stage, "Harry Potter a…
Broadway box office took a dip last week in what could be the first of several weeks of gradually tapering sales on the way down to Labor Day — especially now that some productio…
Marni Nixon, who gained fame as a “ghost singer” for Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” Natalie Wood in “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in “My F…
Jonathan Pryce makes a strong case for Shylock’s infamous demand for a pound of flesh in Shakespeare’s Globe‘s gorgeously stylized production of “The Merchant of Veni…
It’s a “Pushing Daisies” reunion: Kristin Chenoweth has joined executive producer Bryan Fuller in his upcoming Starz series “American Gods.” The announcement wa…
Broadway ticketbuyers expect seating charts to look a certain way: The stage is here; the audience is there. So when tickets went on sale for the $14 million Broadway production of …
Comedy Central’s “Drunk History” will return for its fourth season on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 10:30 p.m., and the ten-episode season will bring a slew of guest stars. The seas…
"I'll be the sixth lead in the indie film and that's ok," joked comedian Chris Gethard Wednesday night at the Sunshine Landmark Cinema for the New York premiere of "Don't Think Twice." "It's…
When the third season of "Black-ish" arrives, the Johnson family will expand. Fresh from the Broadway smash "Hamilton," Daveed Diggs will have a major Season 3 arc as Rainbow Johnson’s…
The well-reviewed Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” will close at the end of the year, with its producer, Jeffrey Richards, announcing the end date well in advance in hop…
After the success of USA's "Mr. Robot" and Syfy's "The Magicians," Universal Cable Productions is leaning hard into genre development. Most notably, UCP will adapt Neil Gaiman and Michael Re…
The world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke” will help celebrate the 50th anniversary of Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2017-18. Joseph&…
