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Awkward Productions are bringing their viral shows, "Gwyneth Goes Skiing" and "Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story," to select U.S. cities in 2026. "Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story," which…
After seven movies, the "Paranormal Activity" franchise doesn't frighten audiences the way it once did " that is, through the power of suggestion, using home security cameras, smartphones an…
How do you solve a problem like "Chess"? With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, and now with a new version of Rice's book by Danny Strong, "Chess…
In "Working Girl," an upwardly mobile Melanie Griffith embodied Tess McGill, a secretary from Staten Island with big hair and even bigger dreams. She thought her new boss (played by Sigourne…
Alan Cumming has unveiled Pitlochry Festival Theatre's programming for 2026. This will mark Cumming's inaugural year as the theater's artistic Ddirector for the theater and coincide with the…
"Slam Frank," a provocative new musical that reimagines Anne Frank's story to satirize progressive politics and media, is extending through the end of 2025. The off-Broadway show, which has …
In 2012, award-winning documentarian Lauren Greenfield's film, "The Queen of Versailles," became a Sundance darling. The documentary followed Jackie and David Siegel, billionaires and owners…
Jane Krakowski felt a pang of jealousy the first time she saw "Oh, Mary!," the hit comedy that imagines former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as a deranged wannabe cabaret star. The Tony-winni…
"Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Musical," an adaptation of Joan Lindsay's eerie novel, will begin performances on Dec. 16 at the Greenwich House Theatre (27 Barrow Street) for a strictly limite…
Paramount didn't want to keep Stephen Colbert at CBS, but the company has signed Jon Stewart for another year of hosting "The Daily Show" once per week on Comedy Central. Stewart will contin…
If only we could hear Norma Desmond rise up and sing: Don't cha wish your girflriend, that little tart Betty Schaefer, was hot like me? That does not happen in Nicole Scherzinger's current r…
The script for Samuel D. Hunter's "Little Bear Ridge Road" indicates that the play takes place at "a couch in a void." As the lights come up, we see it " a white leather monstrosity with sep…
Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway this spring in the solo play "Every Brilliant Thing." The actor, who became famous for playing the Boy Who Lived in eight wildly popular "Harry Pott…
It can be challenging to deliver something fresh and unique to the memory play genre. However, in writer Bess Wohl's new Broadway show, "Liberation," she manages to do just that. Directed by…
Jamie Lloyd had tried once before to lure Nicole Scherzinger to the stage. Several years ago, the renegade British theater director pursued the former Pussycat Dolls frontwoman to star in "E…
The marquees on Broadway will remain illuminated after the musicians union announced it had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, averting a strike that would have severely impact…
A Broadway opening often marks the culmination of a years-long journey for the collaborators who have created a show, whether they're working on a new musical or a revival of a familiar play…
Stacey Gross, a perky meteorologist who uses a thermos of Prosecco and a stream of peppy banalities as crutches, has been taking audiences on an emotional roller coaster ever since "Weather …
MARI, Ari Emanuel's global events and experiences company, has acquired TodayTix Group, which operates an online platform selling tickets to Broadway shows and other live events. Emanuel, th…
Whether "Ragtime" is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow's kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates…
If ever a play seemed tailor-made " tailor-braided? " for the Mark Taper Forum stage, at least in the 2020s, it's "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." The most intimate of the three Music Center …
"How do you have sex onstage?" That's the central question of "Good Sex," an unconventional play that spotlights intimacy coordinators. Here's the unorthodox part: The show pairs together tw…
Huntr/x is returning to movie theaters near you. Netflix is bringing "Kpop Demon Hunters," an animated fantasy adventure about a fictional Kpop girl group who protect the world from demons w…
Laurie Metcalf's four decades-long acting career spans comedy and drama across television, film and stage. However there's one dream she has yet to fulfill. "I've always wanted to do a music…
"The Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Kandi Burruss is returning to Broadway in the musical "& Juliet." She'll join the cast as Angélique for a limited run starting on Dec. 11 and concl…