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The musical “Motown” has set a theater and a timeframe for its Broadway return, mapping out an 18-week run that starts in July 2016 at the Nederlander Theater. When the musica…
Theatre du Chatelet, the Paris opera house where Broadway’s “An American in Paris” premiered, has teamed with Harvey Weinstein’s Weinstein Live Entertainment to br…
Producers of the Broadway musical “Dames at Sea” are abandoning ship, posting a closing notice for early January following several weeks of struggle at the box office. There̵…
Edward Albee seemed to have shattered the last social taboo with “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?”, his absurdist drama about a happily married man who discovers an even greater happ…
LONDON — Nicole Kidman took the award for best actress and James McAvoy was named best actor at the 61st London Evening Standard Theater Awards Sunday at a ceremony at London's Old Vic…
James Prideaux, a prolific playwright and television writer, died on Wednesday, November 18, in West Hills, California, as a result of a major stroke. He was 87. Early in his career, Prideau…
Sony's Tom Rothman threw a few punches of behalf of the studio's upcoming release "Concussion" and zeroed in on the issues in the movie business that keep him tossing and turning at night, s…
John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar” makes its way to Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse without the starry presence of Debra Messing, who played one of the leads on…
The world premiere stage adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s picaresque, posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" is very much like its lead charac…
“Miss Saigon,” one of the wave of Brit-produced megamusicals that swept Broadway in the 1980s and early 90s, has set its sights on a Broadway return in spring 2017. The show, whi…
New York’s Roundabout Theater Company has scheduled a Broadway run of “Holiday Inn,” the stage musical developed from the 1942 movie under the auspices of Universal Stage P…
Theatrical producer Don Gregory died of a stroke at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, on November 5. He was 80. Gregory most recently produced the 2014 Broadway revival of "Harvey" starri…
Terry Gilliam, despite turning 75 this month and recently publishing "Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir," has no intention of seeing the curtain fall on his career. He fizzes with ideas …
The Roundabout Theater Company has lined up two plays for its 2016-17 season from a couple of playwrights currently attracting buzz for work running in New York this season — Stephen K…
Broadway’s “The Lion King” will release a virtual reality video of the show’s opening number, “Circle of Life,” on a handful of digital platforms tomor…
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jennifer Hudson and two familiar properties added up to strong initial showings at the Broadway box office for musicals “School of Rock” and “The…
La Jolla Playhouse will debut four world premiere productions during its 2016-17 season, including works from Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro (“Memphis”), Pulitzer Prize winner…
"Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will return to Broadway this spring in a new production of "Fully Committed," the restaurant-world comedy by Becky Mode. Ferguson, who got his start…
The London Film Critics' Circle, the U.K.'s largest and most established critics' body, has named Kenneth Branagh the latest recipient of the annual Dilys Powell Award for excellence in film.
For a thriller, the Broadway production of “Misery” sure gets a lot of laughs. And that’s just how the creative team of the show, which stars Bruce Willis in his Broadway d…
The eek! factor is largely missing from “Misery,” starring a laid-back Bruce Willis as the bed-bound author held hostage by his “greatest fan,” played here by Laurie …
BYDGOSZCZ, Poland — Cinematographer Danny Cohen has an enviable pedigree: "Room," "The Danish Girl," "Les Miserable" and "The King's Speech," among other films. At the Camerimage festi…
Blythe Danner, who's receiving accolades for her performance in comedy-drama "I'll See You in My Dreams" and will play the wife of the corrupt financier in the TV miniseries "Madoff," is per…
If you’re going to have an opening night party for the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge,” it doesn’t hurt to throw it under an actual…
Breathe, everybody, breathe! Audiences really need to be reminded of that at the end of Ivo Van Hove’s magnificent production for the Young Vic of “A View From the Bridge,”…
