427 stories by "Brent Lang"
"I probably should try to eat a little more," David Hyde Pierce tells the waiter who just tried to clear his plate of scrambled eggs. We're having breakfast in a diner on the Upper West Side…
Lily Rabe has been doing something she rarely does when she acts in a play or a film. She's reaching out to urge her friends and family to head to Lincoln Center, where she's delivering a ma…
David Mamet will release "Henry Johnson," a prison drama that marks his first film in over a decade, this spring. Production wrapped recently on the film, which stars Shia LaBeouf and is an …
"Ava: The Secret Conversations" will have its New York premiere this summer at New York City Center, Stage I, following an acclaimed run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The show was …
For more than a century, B&B Theatres has brought movies " from "Casablanca" and "Psycho" to "The Dark Knight" and "Barbie" " to audiences across the South and the Midwest. The family-ow…
James Taylor's hits are inspiring a new stage musical called "Fire and Rain." The singer and songwriter has lined up some major talent in the effort. Tracy Letts, the Tony Award and Pulitzer…
Growing up, Dana Ledoux Miller's mother would take her and her brother to matinees of films like "The Little Mermaid," "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast." After, she'd wear out her tapepla…
It was only supposed to run for a few weeks at a small experimental space upstairs at London's Royal Court Theatre. But somehow, 50 years after "The Rocky Horror Show" first debuted, it i…
"Wicked," "Moana 2" and holiday hits like "Mufasa: The Lion King" lifted quarterly earnings at AMC Entertainment. Revenues at the world's largest movie chain hit $1.3 billion, up more than 1…
After five months on tour, "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical" has recouped its investment. The national tour kicked off last year in Providence, where it had the most successful t…
"Heathers the Musical" is returning to New York after an extended run in London and throughout the United Kingdom. The show will play a limited engagement through Sept. 28 at New World Stage…
Holiday blockbusters like "Mufasa: The Lion King" and "Gladiator II" and a re-release of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" helped lift profits and revenues at Imax during its fourth quarter…
Cynthia Erivo, fresh off the box office success of "Wicked," will command center stage on Broadway's biggest night as host of the 78th Tony Awards. She takes over as emcee from Ariana DeBose…
President Trump said Wednesday that he'd been "unanimously" elected to lead the board of the Kennedy Center, completing his takeover of the Washington, D.C. cultural center. The move, which …
When Jeremy O. Harris was tapped to help reinvigorate the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he didn't just think about traditional showcases for plays and musicals. "The American festivals that…
Tituss Burgess is about to don Mary Todd Lincoln's bouncy curls and voluminous gowns. The "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" star will take over the lead role in Broadway's "Oh, Mary!" after Betty …
"44," a humorous musical about Barack Obama's presidency, has announced its complete casting ahead of its production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. The show, which is produced by Monica Saunde…
Tommy Dorfman will star in New York Theatre Workshop's upcoming production of "Becoming Eve." The show was written by Emil Weinstein ("A League of Their Own") and is based on the memoir by A…
From thrillers like "Babygirl" and "Love Lies Bleeding" to genre-bending horror flicks like "The Substance" to inspirational sports dramas like "The Fire Inside," women directed some of last…
Jennifer Lopez keeps having to remind Judy Robles that she deserves all the attention she's been getting as the pair promote "Unstoppable." The inspirational sports drama has been earning aw…
Disney's "Mufasa: The Lion King" is reigning over the holiday box office. The family film, which is a prequel to "The Lion King" (both the 1994 animated classic and the less canonical 2019 p…
Mark O'Meara, a Virginia-based movie theater owner, wonders and worries constantly about what exactly his customers will buy tickets to see on any given weekend. It's not that people have fa…
The Southampton Playhouse, a historic cinema that is being revitalized into a state-of-the-art movie theater, announced its leadership team on Tuesday. Maria A. Ruiz Botsacos, a top executiv…
"Swept Away," a musical that mixed together a shipwreck, cannibalism and the music of the Avett Brothers, hoped to defy conventional wisdom about what constitutes a Broadway hit. Instead …
Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of "Hello Dolly!" and "Hair" who died in September at the age of 48, was celebrated Monday as a passionate artist and activist in an emotional memori…