Ian McKellen will not appear on the U.K. tour of his Shakespearean theater production after he fell off the stage during a performance in London. The 85-year-old Lord of the Rings actor was starring as John Falstaff in a production of…
The Hotel Thermal in the legendary Czech spa town Karlovy Vary is not only a crown jewel of brutalist architecture but also the home and headquarters of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). After all, the luxury hotel with…
Evan Cabnet will take over as artistic director of Second Stage Theater, one of Broadway’s major nonprofit theater companies. Cabnet, currently artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, will join the organization in September…
A musical about Betty Boop is the latest to join Broadway’s 2024-2025 season. Helmed by director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical will open on Broadway in April 2025. The show is slated to open at a Shubert…
Christian Borle will star in the Tammy Faye musical on Broadway, replacing the previously announced Andrew Rannells. Borle, a two-time Tony Award winner for playing Shakespeare in Something Rotten and Black Stache in Peter and the…
Hollywood is a haven for hybrids — from film genres and cuisines to actor/singer/content creators — but what about an art space/boutique/newsstand mashup? Wait, didn’t newsstands go the way of the dodo? Not completely. A decades-old…
Hillary Clinton has unveiled plans for a five-city book tour in September and October for her new memoir, coming just before the U.S. Presidential election. The former First Lady and U.S. Senator’s latest book, Something Lost, Something…
Leslye Headland, the creator of Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall. Her play, Cult of Love, follows four adult children returning to their childhood home with their partners for the holidays. The harmony is…
Taylor Swift may have played her second Eras Tour concert at Wembley Stadum on Saturday night, but she wasn’t the only game in town. British stars, from Keeley Hawes (Netflix’s Prince Andrew film Scoop), Yasmin Finney (Doctor Who),…
The Sally Rooney cinematic universe is coming to her next book. The author will release Intermezzo, her fourth novel, on Sept. 24 and The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively announce that Normal People actor Éanna Hardwicke will narrate the…
Jenny Slate has had a prolific year. Last January, her film Marcel the Shell With Shoes On was nominated for the best animated feature film Oscar. In February, she premiered her second stand-up special Seasoned Professional on Amazon Prime…
“Tuition-free” is becoming the new buzzword, as several of the world’s top drama schools plan to adopt that policy starting this fall, including the graduate programs at Juilliard and USC. These join a number of existing free programs on…
The off-Broadway comedic hit Oh, Mary! is moving to Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre starting June 26, and, while it’s gaining a bigger platform, Cole Escola, the show’s star and creator, wants to keep the zany hit show pretty much as is. “It’s…
Ian McKellen will not return for a final three Players Kings performances in London’s West End after falling off the theatrical stage on June 17. The Noel Coward Theatre in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, said David Semark would take…
Swept Away, a musical with a score by the Avett Brothers, will come to Broadway’s Longacre Theatre this fall. The musical, which follows four survivors of a shipwreck in 1888 trying to stay alive, including a young man and his older…
The Heart of Rock and Roll, a musical featuring a score by Huey Lewis, will abruptly end its run this Sunday. The musical includes pre-existing songs from Huey Lewis and the News but tells an original story about a factory worker having to…
While Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ performance of “Empire State of Mind” at the Tony Awards Sunday was one of the ceremony’s buzzy moments, it also sparked rumblings that their performance was pretaped. According to sources, and reporting by The…
Paul Scheer would absolutely call himself a go-getter. After attending NYU, he forged his way through the New York improv scene, eventually ending up as a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade. Now decades into his comedy career, he acts,…
Andrew Rannells will no longer star in Tammy Faye on Broadway. Speaking on the red carpet ahead of the Tony Awards, Rannells told CBS that he would no longer be involved in the musical, which is due to open on Broadway this fall, due to a…
Hell’s Kitchen was the first of the nominated musicals to get a performance at the 2024 Tony Awards, and the number featured Alicia Keys and Jay-Z reuniting to perform their hit “Empire State of Mind.” But the semi-autobiographical show,…
There were a ton of “Hollywood names” at the 77th Tony Awards on Sunday night, which undoubtedly helped to elevate interest in a nationwide telecast that is always a bit of a tough sell, given that it celebrates shows that relatively few…
Angelina Jolie and Debra Martin Chase took home the Tony Award for best musical for The Outsiders. The show takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2967, when Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend, Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of “outsiders”…
The 77th Annual Tony Awards took place Sunday night and featured several firsts, standout performances and fashion moments. Ariana DeBose hosted the ceremony, which aired live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on CBS and…
Stereophonic won the Tony for best play Sunday, one of the five Tony Awards the most nominated play in Tonys history earned during the 2024 edition of the Broadway ceremony. The play, written by David Adjmi, follows a band trying to record…
You’re a Tony winner, Daniel Radcliffe. The actor took home the Tony Award for best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical for Merrily We Roll Along. Radcliffe portrays lyricist and playwright Charley Kringas in the…
The Tony Awards were handed out Sunday night. The Outsiders was named best musical, while Merrily We Roll Along won the Tony for best revival of a musical. Stereophonic was named best play, while Appropriate won the award for best revival…
The Outsiders and Stereophonic took home the top prizes of best musical and best play at the 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday. The best musical race had been one of the closest categories heading into Sunday’s ceremony, with The Outsiders…
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performed their hit “Empire State of Mind” at the 2024 Tony Awards as part of a colorful and energetic number showcasing Keys’ best musical contender, Hell’s Kitchen. Keys was wheeled out on stage playing piano and…
Ariana DeBose kicked off the 2024 Tony Awards with a dance-heavy opening number in which she celebrated this year’s nominees and the struggles and “journey” that led them to the Broadway awards. “This party’s for you,” DeBose sang,…
Jeremy Strong won his first Tony Award on Sunday night. The Succession star took home the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play for An Enemy of the People. He seemed visibly surprised when accepting the award…