Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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 the…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:10AMMonday, June 24, 2024
The Motion Picture Association has hired former FBI official Larissa Knapp to lead its content protection services. Knapp, who was the fourth highest ranking FBI official, will serve as ex…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:40PMThe Paramount+ essential plan and the Paramount+ with Showtime plan will both increase their prices in the coming months. The Paramount+ essential plan will increase by $2 per month to $7.…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:30PMSunday, June 23, 2024
Popular YouTuber and podcaster MrBallen will embark on his first live tour this fall. The tour, which kicks off Sept. 26 in Dallas, will see John Allen, aka MrBallen, share some of the true …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:30PMSaturday, June 22, 2024
“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 …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:30PMThursday, June 20, 2024
MoviePass, the movie subscription service, has received a new equity investment from Comcast’s Forecast Labs. The investment from Forecast Labs, which is the consumer venture group withi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:09PMWednesday, June 19, 2024
Former pro athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are relaunching their sports and pop culture podcast A Touch More Live with Vox Media. The podcast was originally launched on Instagram by th…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:30AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
CAA has hired Elizabeth A. Morrison as its new global head of inclusion, recruiting and development. Morrison was previously chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer and vice presiden…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:30PMSwept 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 s…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:20AMThe 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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:06AMMonday, June 17, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:29PMActors’ Equity will stop issuing contracts for work on projects in development, effective immediately, as negotiations for a new contract have stalled. The union of actors and stage mana…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:54PMPhylicia Rashad is joining the cast of HBO’s The Gilded Age for season three, alongside several other Broadway stars. Rashad, a two-time Tony Award winner and Emmy winner for her role on…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:00PMAndrew 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, whic…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:05PMSunday, June 16, 2024
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, writte…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:41PMJeremy Strong and Daniel Radcliffe both took home their first Tony Awards on Sunday, as two of many Hollywood contenders up for awards at the 77th Annual Tonys. Strong took home the Tony A…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:10PMJay-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 Ki…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:56PMNick Jonas and Adrienne Warren will star in The Last Five Years on Broadway in spring 2025. The revival of the musical, which features a score and book by Jason Robert Brown, will be direc…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00AMFriday, June 14, 2024
Rapper Nas is working on a musical stage adaptation of the classic hip-hop film Beat Street. Nas will work to expand and create new material from the film’s soundtrack for the musical, a…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:15PMThursday, June 13, 2024
Idina Menzel is slated to return to Broadway in 2025. Menzel will appear in the new musical Redwood, which she co-conceived with Tina Landau, who directed the production and wrote the book…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Last year, Tony Awards producers Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner had the challenge of putting on the live ceremony without a written script, amid the writer’s strike, with the aid of host A…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:29PMSam Rockwell and Mark Berger of Play Hooky Productions are planning to adapt a book about middleweight boxing champion Marvin Hagler into a feature film. Play Hooky secured the rights to D…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMThe musical & Juliet announced the recoupment of its $17 million capitalization. The show, which is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set to a score of pop hits, recouped as of April 14,…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:38AMMonday, June 10, 2024
The Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People, starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, has recouped its $5.5 million capitalization. The milestone, announced by producers Seaview, Pat…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:37PMSaturday, June 8, 2024
Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois had been a formative album for director and choreographer Justin Peck, and so when it came to reinterpreting it for the stage, Peck felt a responsibility to do rig…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:25AMThursday, June 6, 2024
Dolly Parton will bring a musical about her life and career to Broadway in 2026. The musical, entitled Hello, I’m Dolly, will feature a score of Parton’s well-known songs as well as ne…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Broadway had been making progress toward an industrywide recovery, but new data shows halted momentum in the most recent season. According to data from the industry trade group The Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:05AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar will host the Tony Awards preshow on June 16. The preshow, entitled The Tony Awards: Act One, features a presentation of the first round of Tony Awards …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:00PMFriday, May 31, 2024
The Tribeca Festival will feature five short films made using technology from OpenAI. The films will use OpenAI’s Sora, which is a text-to-video model that accepts textual descriptions and…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMThursday, May 30, 2024
S&P Global has revised its outlook on Live Nation Entertainment to negative from stable following the antitrust lawsuit filed against them by the U.S. Department of Justice. The rati…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:39AMAt the Fox upfront on May 13, the network’s free ad-supported streaming service, Tubi, got just as much stage time as its traditional broadcast channels. Those so-called FAST platforms ar…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:05AM 
