As with so many western films, Bollywood has taken a beloved smash and turned it into a stage musical. Aditya Chopra's "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge" opened in 1995 and is still playing in a…
The Circle in the Square Theatre " a Broadway house that last opened a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" " transformed on Sunday in the ebullient and nourishing setting of a B…
On Sunday in New York City, "Six," the pop-musical phenomenon about the not-so merry wives of Henry VIII, became the first new musical to open on Broadway, 17 months after the show's origina…
When we look back on 2020, Hollywood will probably think of it as a pivotal time for the data produced by such things as stream-ing entertainment and social media but data analysts and strat…
It's been a banner year for Latin American cinema where 18 countries, including newcomer Suriname, have submitted films to vie for the international feature Oscar. Half of this year's crop a…
“Frozen,” “Mean Girls,” a Donna Summer musical and a “SpongeBob SquarePants” tuner are among the shows lined up for Hollywood in the 2019-20 season. And f…
Since Bill Duke the Sundance Special Jury-prize winning film "The Killing Floor" (1984), the multi-hyphenate talent has rarely been out of sight on screens big and small. In the '90s, Duke d…
You've got to believe Quincy Jones was willing to die for his music. His biggest health scare came in in 1974 when he suffered a brain aneurysm. The blame fell to his workload " scoring a ha…
" 'Baby Driver,' is not just an action film. It's more like an action musical," says its writer-director Edgar Wright. "The key is actually not that it is edited to the music, but more cruci…
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell were excited to bring their musical, "Bright Star," back to the West Coast years after it opened at San Diego's Old Globe Playhouse. At Friday's opening at …
Pegged as a conversation about the scenery behind hit musical "Hamilton," talk really turned to the show’s birth Wednesday at NeueHouse in Hollywood. Opening night is Aug. 16 at the Pa…
A host of marquee actors, singers, Hollywood execs, and Los Angeles dignitaries turned out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Center Theatre Group on Saturday in downtown L.A. The event st…
While Hollywood hosts any number of film premieres, legit world premieres are more rare. On Sunday, Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum hosted the opening of Rajiv Joseph‘s &…
John Legend’s electric performance capped Saturday evening’s Moca Gala at the Geffen Contemporary in downtown Los Angeles. Guests rushed the stage to have a front row spot, takin…
The rap on musicals used to be "audiences don't want to see people breaking into song." Now that "La La Land" has charmed audiences by doing just that, what does it mean for the future of li…
At the Center Theatre Group's celebration of Gordon Davidson's life Monday at the Ahmanson there were testimonials, poems and songs sung to honor the man who built up regional theater on the…
Set in hip Silverlake, "Icebergs," now making its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, offers plenty of laughs with witty dialogue and a knowing scenario about a showbiz couple, an indie …
In keeping with the playful George Gershwin tunes performed at the LA Philharmonic's opening night gala on Tuesday, Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell sang, danced, and got the audience to …
The opening-night crowd at the Mark Taper Forum's opening of “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” showed the esteem with which director Phylicia Rashad is held in Los Angeles. The guest li…
“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Mirada’s smash hip-hop tuner about America’s founding fathers, will anchor the Pantages’ 2016-17 season, running there Aug. 11-Dec. 30, 2…
Rainn Wilson brings Will Eno's one-man show "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" to the Geffen Playhouse 10 years after it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. First playing at the Edi…
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, which is currently repped on Broadway by “Misery” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” is developing a stage versio…
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 U.K.'s Chichester Festival Theatre topper Jonathan Church will take over at the Sydney Theatre Company when Andrew Upton steps down in September.
Variety feted Steve Carell, Chris Rock and Rob Marshall along with its 2015 class of 10 Directors to Watch at a brunch Sunday at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Coming the day after the dese…