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Editor’s note: This story was originally published during the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. “Emilia Pérez” is now in theaters and starts streaming on Netflix November 13.

French auteur Jacques Audiard has been flirting with musical moviemaking ever since “Self-Made Hero” in 1996, when he and composer Alexandre Desplat discussed adapting that film into an opera. But it wasn’t until Audiard read a friend’s novel, “Écoute,” that he responded to the idea of a Mexican drug kingpin transitioning to become a woman. In that case the cartel boss was trying to escape from his life, not his gender.

“So the novelist actually introduces this character, but then doesn’t fully develop it,” said Audiard at the Telluride Film Festival, where the Cannes prize-winner “Emilia Pérez” played well at multiple screenings and generated serious Oscar talk going into its September 9 presentation at the Toronto International Festival. “I’m fascinated by the paradox...

Adam Lambert is looking stylish in his blue suit!

The 42-year-old singer, who is currently starring on Broadway in Cabaret, was seen exiting the Today studio after an interview on Tuesday morning (November 5) in New York City.

Earlier this year, Adam opened up to fans about his 60 pound weight loss.

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“I’m dropping some tea on you guys right now. I’ve been on Mounjaro for the last I think, what, eight months?” Adam said in a video shared back in March.

“And I’ve lost almost 60 pounds. I feel amazing. I still eat, but I eat lighter, and I eat less,” Adam continued. “And I know that there’s a lot of chatter about, ‘Oh, you’re taking it away from diabetes patients.’ I mean, quite frankly, that’s the pharmaceutical industry’s issue, not mine. They need to keep up with production.

Pete Davidson returned to “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 2 to appear in a rollicking sketch with his good friend and host, John Mulaney.

The sketch zeroed in on a person asking to buy milk from the cashier at the Port Authority Duane Reade, which locals would consider something to avoid. The bit then erupted into a full-cast celebration parodying several showtunes and New York City-centric topics.

The musical numbers began with a “Lion King” parody about the milk from Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim; the shampoo being locked up in a “Sound of Music” spoof from Marcello Hernandez and Mulaney; Bowen Yang as a twisted Greyhound bus driver to the tune of “Master of the House” from “Les Miserables”; “All the twinks arriving for the Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest,” fronted by Chloe Fineman’s impression of the actor, singing a version of “Willkommen” from “Cabaret”; mayor Eric Adams’ potentially illegal associations with Turkey,...

Pete Davidson made a return to “SNL” this weekend for a special occasion: another John Mulaney musical sketch. After the seminal “Diner Lobster,” “Bodega Bathroom” and “Airport Sushi” in previous episodes, this Sunday saw the debut of “Port Authority Duane Reade” which focused not on a single odd item being purchased at the location but a bevy of them.

Davidson and Andrew Dismukes played two men who walked into the Duane Reade at Port Authority, manned by a worker played by Mulaney. But when Davidson asked for a gallon of milk, Mulaney was taken aback.

“You mean the gallon of milk surrounded by cans of Twisted iced tea in the fridge that’s hotter than the store?”

Davidson countered that it said “organic” on the milk jug, but Dismukes corrected him, “No it says organ.”

Davidson was undeterred, so Mulaney acquiesced and opened up the first musical portion of the sketch.

Get the latest scoop on everything you need to know about today’s Jeopardy! episode airing on Monday, 28 October 2024 including the Final Jeopardy, contestants and today’s winner!

Today’s Final Jeopardy 10/28/2024 (Stage Musical Settings) – Monday, 28 October 2024

Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place

Today’s Final Jeopardy Answer – Monday, 28 October 2024

The Final Jeopardy Answer is: Kit Kat Club

Final Jeopardy Explanation – Monday, 28 October 2024

The nightspot Eldorado, which was turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, is said to have inspired the fictional Kit Kat Klub in the musical “Cabaret.” “Cabaret” is set in Berlin during the early 1930s and revolves around the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, portraying the tumultuous atmosphere of pre-World War II Germany under the rising influence of the Nazi regime. The Kit Kat Klub, like the Eldorado, serves as a backdrop for exploring themes of political unrest,...

It’s a unique year for sequels and prequels at the Oscars. There are three films whose preceding installments won five or more trophies from the academy: “Dune: Part II,” “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” and “Gladiator II.” That opens the door for history to be made. If one or more of those films wins five times, it will be the first time in history that two films in the same franchise have won that many competitive prizes. For which film is that likeliest to happen? Scroll down to vote in our poll at the bottom of this post.

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Even when you consider some of the most successful franchises of all time, none have accomplished the feat. “The Godfather” and “The Godfather: Part II” are the only film and sequel to both win Best Picture, but...

The Broadway stage musical adaptation of Back To The Future will play its final performance on Sunday, January 5, producers announced today, bringing an end to its 18-month run at the Winter Garden Theatre.

When it closes, the musical will have performed more than 500 shows at the Winter Garden and, according to producers, sold $80 million in ticket sales. Producers have not announced a recoupment.

In recent months, attendance and sales have been slipping. Last week, the show took in $896,423 in weekly grosses, down considerably from the $1 million-plus figures from as recently as this past summer. Attendance last week was 86% of the venue’s capacity, while more recent Broadway arrivals – Cabaret, Sunset Blvd., Tammy Faye, The Outsiders – and even some longer-running shows like & Juliet, Aladdin, Hadestown and others – were in the 90% or more territory.

Directed by John Rando, the Broadway production, which opened on August 3, 2023, stars Casey Likes, Roger Bart, Evan Alexander Smith,...

Sunset Blvd brought in $1.2 million last week, despite having five performances that included many comped tickets for press leading up to opening night on Oct. 20, as well as an entirely comped opening night.

The revival, which received raves for Nicole Scherzinger’s performance but varying reviews for its take on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, played to close to 100 percent capacity at the St. James Theatre.

Romeo + Juliet also welcomed press last week, and still brought in a strong $1.06 million for its first full week of eight performances and played to more than 100 percent capacity at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The play, starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, opens Oct. 24.

After the highs of last week, around the holiday weekend, several shows fell back to more standard grosses. Making up the top three in the industry, Wicked grossed $2.2 million, about $250,000 less than last week, The Lion King made $2 million,...

From the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, many lavish Broadway musicals were successfully adapted to film, from “The King and I” to “West Side Story” to “Cabaret.” One of the most successful and enduring of all time premiered on October 21, 1964, when “My Fair Lady” hit the theaters after much anticipation, drawing people to the box office in droves despite its lengthy near-three-hour run time. Read on for more about the “My Fair Lady” 60th anniversary.

The origin of “My Fair Lady” dates back farther than the 1956 Tony-winning play. Music collaborators Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe were inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play “Pygmalion,” the tale of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle who takes speech lessons from Professor Henry Higgins in order to pass as a “proper lady.” The two men thought it would be “loverly” to turn the story into a musical, and wrote the book for “My Fair Lady,...

Katherine Langford is officially a musical theatre star!

The 28-year-old actress, best known for 13 Reasons Why and Knives Out, celebrated the press night for her run in the musical Cabaret in the West End on Thursday (October 17) in London, England.

Katherine is playing the role of Sally Bowles opposite Adam Gillen as the Emcee for a limited engagement through January 25, 2025.

The West End revival of Cabaret picked up seven Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival. The same production is now running on Broadway with Auli’i Cravalho and Adam Lambert leading the show.

Katherine recently opened up about a mishap that happened on her opening night in Cabaret.

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“Basically, I come up in a tube, like Taylor Swift, from the bottom of the stage. Before I come up, there’s a glass that gets smashed onstage. On the first night that I ever do this,...

Is there room at the best picture table for more than one “part two?”

This year, several installments in established franchises are banging on the Academy’s door, hoping for a coveted slot in the category. With no clear frontrunner, this could be the season that more than one sequel secures a place in the race. That has happened only once, in 2022 (“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick”).

The Oscars have long hesitated to embrace anything with a Roman numeral affixed to it. Historically, only nine sequels have been nominated for best picture: “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945), “The Godfather Part II” (1974), “The Godfather Part III” (1990), “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (2002), “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003), “Toy Story 3” (2010), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), “Avatar: The Way of Water” (2022) and “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022). Just two — “Godfather 2” and “Return of the King” — won.

Peter E. Strauss, a longtime leader in the independent film industry, died on Oct. 6 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 83. Strauss spent over 50 years working in movies and left his mark on both mainstream and indie films.

Strauss got his start in the early 1970s at Allied Artists, where he helped produce popular movies like “Cabaret” and “Papillon.” Later, as head of Rastar Films, he oversaw productions such as “The Electric Horseman.” In the 1980s, Strauss founded his own company called Panache Productions.

He is best known for pioneering new methods of financing independent movies. Strauss created innovative deals that let smaller films get funding from sales to foreign markets. This approach helped the independent film scene in America grow substantially.

In 1997, Strauss partnered with Frank Giustra to launch Lionsgate Entertainment. As the company’s first president, he led Lionsgate’s early success in Independent film production and distribution.

Peter E. Strauss, a veteran film executive, movie producer and pioneering entrepreneur, died October 6 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 83. He was surrounded by his beloved wife of 46 years, Susan, and his son, Jonathan.

Over a remarkable five-decade career, Strauss left an indelible mark on the film industry. As Executive Vice President of Mandalay Pictures for the past 25 years, he oversaw the financing and distribution of numerous film and television projects including The Jacket and Air. He was instrumental in the growth of independent cinema, pioneering foreign sales and off-balance-sheet financing for independent films.

In 1998, Strauss was appointed president of Lions Gate Entertainment, a company he helped establish alongside Frank Giustra in 1997​, overseeing its U.S. operations. During his tenure, Lionsgate rose to become a prominent force in independent film production and distribution. Previously, Strauss served as president, CEO and chairman of the International Movie Group, where he...

Peter E. Strauss, the film executive behind projects such as “The Jacket” and “Air,” died Oct. 6 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 83.

Strauss held a number of roles over the course of his five-decade career, including most recently, executive vice president of Mandalay Pictures and previously president of Lions Gate Entertainment. At Mandalay, he oversaw the financing and distribution for film and television titles. Strauss is credited with contributing to the growth of independent cinema through his involvement in foreign sales and off-balance-sheet financing for independent films.

Strauss joined Lionsgate in 1998, overseeing U.S. operations for the company. During his time there, Lionsgate evolved its independent film production and distribution. Prior to this role, Strauss had worked at International Movie Group, where he produced and executive produced over 30 films as president, CEO and chairman, including the “Best of the Best” series, “Buster” with Phil Collins, and “Cadence” starring...

Peter E. Strauss, a producer behind recent films like The Jacket and Air who served as an executive at Lionsgate, Mandalay Pictures, Img and Allied Artists, has died. He was 83.

Strauss died on Oct. 6 at his home in Beverly Hills. At his side were his wife of 46 years, Susan, and his son, Jonathan.

Strauss most recently served as executive vice president at Mandalay for 25 years. He well-known for his work in expanding independent cinema, pioneering foreign sales and off-balance-sheet financing for independent films.

Prior to Mandalay, Strauss worked as president of Lionsgate Entertainment, which he helped establish with founder Frank Giustra in 1997. He also oversaw the production of over 30 films, including Phil Collins’ Buster, Charlie and Martin Sheen’s Cadence and the Best of the Best series, while president, CEO and chairman of the International Movie Group.

Strauss also worked as executive vice president of Rastar Films, Ray Stark’s production company,...

Eddie Redmayne has played a doctor-slash-serial killer, a scientist, and now, an infamous assassin.

Redmayne leads the latest “The Day of the Jackal” adaptation, with the Peacock series centering on his eponymous hit man. The official synopsis reads: “‘The Day of the Jackal’ follows an unrivaled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal (Redmayne), who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.”

Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Nick Blood, Sule Rimi, and Florisa Kamara also star.

The original “The Day of the Jackal” book centered on assassination attempts on French president Charles de Gaulle in 1963 amid the Algerian war of independence,...

When it comes to predicting the Oscar winner for Best Film Editing, you can’t go wrong by looking for the movie with the most cuts. Past winners “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2008), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2016), “Ford v Ferrari” (2020), “Dune” (2022) and 2023’s champ “Everything Everywhere All at Once” included high-octane action sequences with frenetic cutting. A slew of winners — including “Saving Private Ryan” in 1999, “Black Hawk Down” (2002), “The Hurt Locker” (2010), “Hacksaw Ridge” (2017), “Dunkirk” (2018) and, to some extent, “Oppenheimer” (2024) — have been war pictures. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Film Editing.)

Oscar voters also embrace film editors who skillfully juggle multiple storylines, as was the case with “Traffic” (2001) and “Crash” (2006). And they like films that expertly inter-cut music with images, such as “Cabaret” (1973), “Chicago” (2003), “Whiplash” (2015), “Bohemian Rhapsody” (2019) and 2021 winner “Sound of Metal.” Special effects extravaganzas like “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2004) and “Gravity...

Water For Elephants, the Jessica Stone-directed musical adaptation of the bestselling Sara Gruen romantic novel, will play its final performance at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre on Sunday, December 8, having played 301 regular performances and 25 previews since February.

Though one of the better reviewed musicals of the spring 2024 season, the show didn’t quite attain the must-see status of some other spring arrivals like The Outsiders, Stereophonic, Hell’s Kitchen, The Great Gatsby or Cabaret. Still, the musical, which originally starred Grant Gustin, held its own, sometimes topping $1 million in weekly grosses, or coming close.

The figures have been slipping in recent weeks through, with Gustin ending his limited run to be replaced by Kyle Selig.

The most recent box office figures – for the week ending September 29 – were at the lower end of the Broadway roster, with just 62% of seats filled at the Imperial.

Gavin Creel is being mourned by the Broadway community, including ex-boyfriend Henry Gottfried.

The actors dated for several years and were both members of the Broadway cast of Waitress.

Henry, who currently stars in the Broadway revival of Cabaret, took to his Instagram Stories on Monday (September 30) to share a beautiful tribute in memory of Gavin.

Gavin, a Tony winner and beloved musical theatre actor, passed away at his New York City home that day following a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer.

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“I was so lucky to be held by Gavin for a few years, and to get to hold him, and to see how he held so many other people,” Henry wrote. He added one of Gavin‘s favorite phrases, “Lucky life.”

Henry shared photos of him and Gavin holding each other close, which you can see in the gallery.

“Megalopolis” is now playing in theaters, and director Francis Ford Coppola is in the Oscar hunt yet again after already winning multiple Academy Awards throughout his esteemed career. Let’s look back at his many Oscar races.

After building his credits as a screenwriter and director in the 1960s, Coppola’s breakthroughs arrived in the early 1970s with “Patton” and “The Godfather.” He wrote the screenplay to the beloved epic drama “Patton,” directed Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott, both of whom won Oscars for the film. Coppola also received his first Academy Award for his original screenplay, which he shared with co-writer Edmund H. North. His only threat in the category that year was “Five Easy Pieces,” which got into Best Picture, but with “Patton” dominating in a bunch of categories that year, winning the Screenplay prize was all but inevitable.

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There’s a new housewife in town, and she’s not afraid to make a statement. Bronwyn Newport made her Bravo debut in the season 5 premiere of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. But who is Bronwyn? Let’s get to know the newest Rhoslc cast member.

Bronwyn Newport is a friend of Lisa Barlow

Bronwyn’s connection to Rhoslc comes courtesy of Lisa Barlow. She a fan of “over-the-top fashion” and has “sense of humor as sharp as the diamonds she wears,” according to a Bravo press release. She “makes a splash with the ladies with her outrageous, fabulous and confrontational style.”

Bronwyn’s Instagram account (200K+ followers), offers more insight into this Salt Lake City housewife. In her bio, she describes herself as a “Mom, doggie mom, lover of fashion, pandas, drag, Dr. Pepper and the NBA. Champion for inclusion and acceptance for all.” She’s also an “aspiring surfer.

Christopher Ashley, the longtime artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse, will take over as artistic director of Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway.

He will begin his tenure in July 2026 for the 2027-2028 season. Scott Ellis, current interim artistic director, will continue in the role for the 2025-2026 season, and Ellis will work with Ashley on the 2026-2027 season, as Ashley fulfills prior commitments at La Jolla.

Ellis was named interim artistic director of the nonprofit theater company after Todd Haimes died in April 2023, after holding the position for close to 40 years and growing the theater company into one of the largest not-for-profit theaters in the U.S., with three Broadway theaters and two Off-Broadway.

Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater, its main Broadway house, was renamed after Haimes in 2024.

Ashley comes to the role after leading La Jolla Playhouse, another nonprofit giant based in San Diego, since 2007. While there, Ashley directed Come From Away,...

Joker: Folie à Deux is the upcoming sequel to 2019's Joker, a smash hit Batman spinoff starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill wretch who becomes Gotham City's clown prince of crime. In Folie à Deux, he'll meet Harley Quinn, the love of his life, and together they will make beautiful, demented music.

Although director Todd Phillips has gone back and forth on whether Folie à Deux is actually a musical or not, there will definitely be singing in it. Pop star Lady Gaga is playing Harley Quinn, after all, and you don't let a set of pipes like those go to waste. Gaga is even releasing a companion album for the movie called Harlequin, to come out on September 27. She dropped a snippet of one song, "The Joker," on social media:

There’s always a Joker. #FiguresDuFou #Louvre #JokerMovie pic.twitter.com/bEYHE59p40

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga...

Oh Mary! broke the box office record at the Lyceum Theatre for the sixth time last week, with a gross of $1.16 million.

The show, written by and starring Cole Escola as a reimagined Mary Todd Lincoln, has played to 100 percent capacity almost every week of its run, which began at the end of June. The play also had the highest average paid admission in the industry last week, with an average ticket price of $162.25, edging out shows such as Hamilton, best musical winner The Outsiders and the new play McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr.

McNeal, which is still in previews at the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, stands out among the crop of new shows coming this fall, having pulled in a strong $1.2 million across seven performances last week (the theater has a larger seating capacity than Oh Mary!). The play, which depicts Downey as an author obsessed with artificial intelligence,...

With only three Broadway productions selling out last week, total grosses for the 29 shows was down about 7% from the previous week, settling in at $25,296,948. Total attendance was 226,267 for the week ending September 22, a slip of about 4% from the previous week.

The sell-outs, as usual, were Oh, Mary!; The Outsiders; and McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut. Stereophonic came close with attendance at 99% of capacity.

Mia Farrow was back at the Booth after a week out due to Covid, resuming her place opposite Patti LuPone in The Roommate. Attendance was at 85% of capacity.

Also of note: Adam Lambert and Auli’I Cravalho began their star turns in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, taking over from original cast members Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. A $640,719 drop in grosses can be at least partially attributed to significant press tickets and other comps for the week.

Fresh from winning an Emmy for hosting Peacock’s The Traitors, Alan Cumming has lined up a new gig.

The multi-hyphenate talent, a veteran and Tony Award-winning star of the stage, has been named artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre, known as “Scotland’s theater in the hills.” Cumming replaces Elizabeth Newman who is departing in November after serving Pitlochry since September 2018. Her last production, The Sound of Music, runs Nov. 15 – Dec. 22. It was announced in July that Newman would be exiting as artistic director in favor of a leadership role, a move that launched a three month recruitment period and selection process.

Cumming assumes the artistic director post beginning in January 2025, and has sights set on programming the 2026 season. Up first, Pitlochry will stage previously announced productions The Great Gatsby, Grease, The 39 Steps and four new plays in the venue’s studio.

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Renee Rapp got her start on Broadway and she’s open to returning to the stage!

The 24-year-old entertainer opened up about her aspirations in InStyle‘s new issue and she celebrated the magazine’s 30th anniversary at a special event on Thursday (September 13) at Boom at The Standard Hotel in New York City.

Before she ever released her own music or appeared on the HBO Max series The Sex Lives of College Girls, Renee had her big break while playing Regina George in the Broadway musical Mean Girls.

Renee told InStyle about her future Broadway dreams and the musical she wants to do next!

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The actress “dream of being in Cabaret,” according to the magazine. The musical is currently running on Broadway and we’d love to see Renee as Sally Bowles!

“I’m gonna take my girlfriend to see Wicked ’cause she’s never seen it,...

The new Broadway play McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., started off with a bang, with $746,230 brought in across just four performances last week.

If the production, which is playing at the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, had played the typical eight performances at that cadence, it would have brought in close to $1.5 million – a big number for a play, putting it in league with the top-grossing musicals. The production played to full houses for every performance, with an average ticket price of $170.37, the second highest in the industry for the week, behind Cabaret, and unusual for a nonprofit house with a large subscription audience.

The play, written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher, marks Downey’s Broadway debut and sees him portray a gifted author, but one who always finds himself as runner up for the Pulitzer, as he develops an intense fascination with artificial intelligence. McNeal began previews Sept.

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin are getting ready to say goodbye to the Broadway musical Cabaret.

The Tony-nominated co-stars were honored with portraits at the iconic restaurant Sardi’s on Thursday (September 5) in New York City.

The walls of Sardi’s is covered with caricature drawings of Broadway’s biggest stars and receiving one is often considered one of the biggest honors for theater actors.

Eddie and Gayle will be wrapping their runs in Cabaret on September 14 and they’ll be succeeded by Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho beginning on September 16.

The Sardi’s event was also attended by Cabaret‘s original Emcee actor Joel Grey and the 2014 revival’s Herr Schulz actor Danny Burstein, who performed alongside Gayle when she played Fraulein Kost in the previous production. Their dressing rooms were next door to each other at Studio 54!

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Liza Minnelli has packed so much into her life already. The daughter of Hollywood icons Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, she was surrounded by show business from the very beginning. With a talent like her mother’s, it was surely destined that Liza would find her way to the spotlight too. But her path was not easy, facing high expectations and private struggles along the way.

Now, audiences can get an inside look at Liza’s journey with the new documentary Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, directed by Bruce David Klein. Through interviews with Liza herself, as well as those who know her best, we learn how she navigated losing her mother at a young age and then battled to make her own name.

We also see rare archival footage of the early years. It’s clear Klein wanted to craft a fitting tribute to this legendary performer...

Cole Escola’s Oh Mary! broke the house record at the Lyceum Theatre last week, bringing in $1.057 million and besting its own record from July 21.

The production, written and starring Escola as a reimagined Mary Todd Lincoln, played to 100 percent capacity last week, as it has for the majority of its run. The show previously broke the record with a gross of $1.054 million and has extended its previously limited run through Nov. 10.

The revival of The Wiz went out on a high on its final week on Broadway, bringing in $1.94 million, the highest total of its run, and playing to just over 100 percent capacity. The show, which features a revised book by Amber Ruffin, came to Broadway on March 29 after touring across America and will now re-embark on a North American tour in February.

Cumulative grosses for the industry were down 8.6 percent compared to the prior week, as the summer...

Broadway seemed to take a breath last week before as it eyes the fall season, with box office for the second full week of August dipping about 9% from the previous week.

In all, the 25 shows grossed $28,132,262 for the week ending August 18. Though down from the previous week, when Illinoise was still on the chart and grossed a big $1,167,159 in its final week. Even with the slightly slimmer roster, the attendance figure for last week was a full 9% greater than the same week last season.

All but five of the 25 productions on the roster reported box office drops, the five trend-buckers being the ever-popular Moulin Rouge!, the summer’s hot tickets Oh, Mary! and Cabaret, the steady-marching Suffs up $6,523 to $713,408), and, with the biggest increase in receipts, The Wiz, closing its hugely popular limited run with a jump of $261,849 to $1,945,288.

The week’s sell-outs were Hadestown,...

It’s a packed fall for NYC theater fans, with highly anticipated musical adaptations of beloved movies “Death Becomes Her” and “Teeth,” among others, set to premiere.

As is customary, there are also plenty of marquee names ready to tackle Broadway, from debuts such as Robert Downey Jr. in “McNeal,” to thrilling returns, like Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone in “The Roommate.” And — though technically beyond Broadway — favorites like Adam Driver and Kenneth Branagh will also be appearing this fall on the NYC stage.

The weather hasn’t even changed yet, but it’s safe to say the biggest success of the season has already happened, with the brilliant Cole Escola in “Oh Mary.” The play was a downtown smash last spring, but the comedy — written by and starring Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln at the end of the Civil War — has now become a somewhat surprising breakout mainstream hit,...

Scottish actor Alan Cumming has played lots of notable roles in his career: the nerdy computer programmer in the James Bond film “GoldenEye”; the Master of Ceremonies in Sam Mendes’ 1990s revival of “Cabaret” on London’s West End and on Broadway; the flirty desk clerk in Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”; all the parts in a 2012 theater production of “Macbeth”; King James in “Doctor Who”; campaign manager Eli Gold in “The Good Wife”; and a 32-year-old man who goes back to secondary school in the documentary “My Old School,” in which Cumming does an uncanny job of lip-syncing a recording of the real subject, who declined to appear on camera.

None of this was preparation for “The Traitors,” the Peacock reality show in which Cumming struts through a Scottish castle in fabulous outfits and presides over a game in which contestants, many of them veterans of other reality shows,...

For Alan Cumming, hosting The Traitors is already the reward; his Emmy nomination for reality or reality/competition host is just a bonus — one almost as coveted as immunity from elimination.

“I really love doing it,” says Cumming of the hit Peacock series (which also scored a nom for best reality competition program) that has become the streamer’s most watched unscripted title. “I love the fact it’s connected with everyone in this way. Everyone’s really obsessed by it.”

The Traitors, an Americanized version of the Dutch series De Verraders (which takes inspiration from party games like Mafia), sees a cast of characters holed up in a grand Scottish castle, tasked with uncovering which of the guests are in fact traitors plotting to murder their fellow contestants (dubbed “faithfuls”) in order to win a six-figure cash prize. In each episode — after a grueling physical challenge to add money...

Attention, directors: If Alan Cumming has been in your movie at any time in the 21st century, you can thank Stanley Kubrick. And if at any point Cumming seemed annoyed at you, you can blame Kubrick.

At least that’s what Cumming said. In an interview with TheWrap about “The Traitors,” the Peacock reality show for which he’s been nominated for an Emmy for hosting, Cumming enthusiastically detoured into a discussion about his appearance in “Eyes Wide Shut,” Kubrick’s final film, which was released in July 1999, 25 years ago this summer.

“It was very memorable,” Cumming said of the experience, which both restored his interest in acting in films at a time when he was losing it and made him question the way other filmmakers have directed him since.

Mind you, Cumming didn’t have much of a role in the film, a dreamy and kinky reverie in which...

Iconic entertainer Liza Minnelli has signed a deal to write a memoir with longtime friend and collaborator Michael Feinstein.

Grand Central Publishing unveiled the book deal with Minnelli and announced hardcover print, e-book and audio editions would be published in spring 2026. The showbiz survivor, who was the daughter of Judy Garland and An American in Paris director Vincent Minnelli went on to earn Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards and has apparently decided at long last to tell her own story by putting pen to paper.

“‘Tell it when I’m gone!’ was my philosophy. So, why did I change my mind? A sabotaged appearance at the Oscars, in front of billions of people … a film with twisted half-truths … a recent miniseries that just didn’t get it right. All made by people who didn’t know my family and don’t really know me. Finally, I was mad as hell!

The 2024 Tony Awards were a huge celebration of Broadway’s best of the 2023-2024 Broadway season. This year, 21 musicals and 16 plays joined the great white way, but only a few were able to take home the coveted Tony Awards. Hosted by Ariana DeBose, of ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Wish’, here is a recap of the 2024 Tony Awards. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment, against gossip and scandal, by combining entertainment, education, and philanthropy. ‘The Outsiders’ Sweep Sweeps are incredibly common within the Tony Awards, and this year was no exception. ‘The Outsiders’ musical was a hot topic at this...

Exclusive: Actress Maude Apatow (Euphoria) has signed with WME for representation in all areas.

Apatow is making the agency change as she is embarking on a new stage of her career, having recently launched with creative partner Olivia Rosenbloom Jewelbox Pictures, a film and television production company, which has three films in development.

They include Poetic License, written by Raffi Donatich, which would mark Maude Apatow’s feature directorial debut; How to Murder Your Life, written by Cat Marnell, who is also attached to executive produce; and Female Friendship, written and to be directed by Emily Rappaport with an eye toward Apatow starring. Michael P. Cohen and Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going is also aboard to produce the last one in a reunion of the Girls co-stars.

According to sources, Apatow left UTA, where she had been for years, last week. She has a parent at each of the...

Broadway business held steady last week as New York City heads into the hottest dog days of summer. For the week ending July 28, a full 23 of the 25 Broadway productions filled at least 90% of their seats, with eight of those selling out completely.

In all, the 25 shows last week grossed $31,287,760, about even with both the previous week and the same period last year. Attendance of 240,301 was down a small 4% from the previous week and 3% year-over-year. About 96% of all available seats were filled last week, with an average ticket price of $130.20.

The productions exceeding the 90% capacity mark (some considerably) were & Juliet, Aladdin, Back to the Future, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Illinoise, Job, Mj, Six, Suffs, The Book of Mormon, The Great Gatsby, The Lion King, The Notebook, The Wiz, and, hitting the 100% mark, Hadestown, Hamilton, Hell’s Kitchen, Moulin Rouge, Oh, Mary!, Stereophonic, The Outsiders,...

Eddie Redmayne is getting his James Bond on for another literary adaptation of an iconic assassin tale.

The Academy Award winner leads the Peacock and Sky adaptation of “The Day of the Jackal,” based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel. The “contemporary reimagining” was announced as a series in November 2022.

Redmayne stars as lone assassin, the Jackal, who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who is tracking down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe.

Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Nick Blood, Sule Rimi, and Florisa Kamara co-star. The teaser debuted during the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony on NBC and Peacock.

The original “The Day of the Jackal” novel centered on assassination attempts on French president Charles de Gaulle in 1963 amid the Algerian independence,...

The Kit-Kat Club is getting some new blood.

Queen singer and American Idol alum Adam Lambert and Moana and The Power star Auli’i Cravalho will step in the respective roles of Emcee and Sally Bowles in Broadway’s Cabaret revival on September 16. Their limited engagement runs through March 30.

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin will give their final performances as Emcee and Bowles in the Tony-nominated Kander-and-Ebb musical two nights earlier.

“Growing up on the musical theater stage, it was always a childhood dream to perform on Broadway,” Lambert said in a statement. “With this production of Cabaret, it finally felt like the right time to accept an invitation to make my debut. The themes of this show have always resonated with me and given the current sociopolitical climate the world is in, feel eerily timely.”

Added Cravalho in a statement: “I’m thrilled to join the long line of talented...

Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho will take over the lead roles in Cabaret this fall from Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin.

The two will begin performances, as the Emcee and Sally Bowles, respectively, at the August Wilson Theatre starting Sept. 16 for a run through March 30, 2025. This will mark the Broadway debuts for Lambert, known for his American Idol run and music career, and for Cravalho, who rose to fame as the voice of Moana and recently starred in the film adaptation of Mean Girls: The Musical.

As previously announced, Redmayne and Rankin, who were both Tony nominated for their roles, will play their final performances on Sept. 14.

Lambert performed in the North American touring production of Wicked before appearing on American Idol, and his film credits include Bohemian Rhapsody and Fairyland.

Cravalho has also starred in The Power on Amazon, Hulu’s Crush, and the NBC drama Rise. She is...

In a way, you can thank Orson Welles for "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music." Over 20 years before he directed either of those pictures, Robert Wise got his start as a film music and sound editor at Rko Pictures. He gradually moved on to editing films themselves, which led to his collaborations with Welles on "Citizen Kane" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." You can see a lot of Welles' influence in Wise's later output as a director, particularly his inclination to shoot with long depth of field and precise use of sound. Both of these were essential to Wise's musicals, which snagged Oscars for both Best Director and Best Picture upon their release in 1961 and 1965, respectively.

Beyond that, though, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music" couldn't be less alike. "West Side Story" is an impassioned tale of warring New York street gangs and star-crossed lovers fueled...

The nominations for the 76th annual Emmys have dropped. There were some records broken, a lot of surprises including 36 first-time nominees and some major snubs. And a lot of fun facts and trivia about this year’s nominees. FX’s period drama series “Shogun” earning 25 Emmy nominations this year, the most of any dramatic series this year. The original NBC miniseries adaptation of the James Clavell best-seller which starred Richard Chamberlain and the legendary Toshiro Mifune received 14 nominations and won for limited series, costume design, graphic design and title sequences. Hulu’s “The Bear” broke the record for most nominations for a comedy series earning 23 nominations. NBC’s “30 Rock” had held the record with 22 nominations since 2009. Native Americans finally have some representation in this year’s nomination with Lily Gladstone and Kali Reis earning outstanding supporting actress nominations for Hulu’s “Under the Bridge” and HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country.

The Outsiders box office continued to climb in the aftermath of Tony Awards, with the musical bringing in $1.4 million for the week ended July 14. 

This is the fourth week in a row that the musical, which won the Tony for best musical on June 16, has broken the house record at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Capacity for the show, which is based on the young adult novel by S.E. Hinton, has remained around 100 percent or above since the start of previews in March.

With the July 7 closing of Merrily We Roll Along, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, total Broadway grosses across the industry dropped by 7 percent. The musical had been one of the top grossing in the industry, particularly toward the end of its run, with $2.77 million brought in during its final week. 

However, several shows saw a boost in their grosses week-over-week, as they emerged from...

With all the problems going on throughout the world right now and even on our front door step, it feels at times indulgent or perhaps gauche to place the peril of Hollywood and the American entertainment industry on that list. It’s hard for people outside of the world of making film and television (or content as many would tell us to call it) to understand that the majority of the workforce behind this industry is not the uber-wealthy, but upper middle to working class like most others around the country. They’re technicians and craftspeople. Drivers and caterers. Even writers and actors, who took to the picket line last year to fight not for some exorbitant, unreasonable ask, but a livable wage, often surviving paycheck-to-paycheck. To understand and maybe even relate to the struggle they’re going through, the best metric to look at is one found in nearly everyone’s home nowadays: Streaming.

Merrily We Roll Along, the Tony-winning mega-hit musical revival starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, went out on a very high note last week, selling out with a $2,766,127 weekly gross that the production hails as the biggest ever for a Stephen Sondheim musical on Broadway.

Meanwhile, on its way to this Thursday’s opening night, Oh, Mary!, the hilarious new comedy from Cole Escola, sold out its six previews at the Lyceum, grossing $676,213. With Broadway critics yet to weigh in, the play filled every seat by word of mouth and Off Broadway reputation, and with a healthy $125.92 average ticket to boot.

First, Merrily. Closing its limited run on July 7, the revival was up $444,320 over the previous week. The $2,766,127 for the week ending July 7 was the musical’s 10th weekly box office record at the Hudson Theatre, with the final night’s gross of $509,894 a record-breaker for a single performance at the venue.

France’s Deauville American Film Festival has announced a retrospective gathering 50 U.S. features that have challenged perceptions of the world to mark its 50th anniversary.

The selection ranges from D. W. Griffith’s 1916 silent epic Intolerance to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and also includes Ida Lupino’s groundbreaking 1950 rape drama Outrage as well as Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. (see full list below)

“Cinema has always made us dream, travel, desire, fantasize, laugh, cry. But how many films have been able to shake up our certainties, question our beliefs, question our prejudices and put our own views into perspective?,” said the festival.

“The Deauville American Film Festival wanted to highlight a selection of 50 films that have changed the way we look at the world,” it continued.

Launched in 1975, the festival unfolding in the swanky Normandy beach resort of Deauville, annually fetes Hollywood...

Exclusive: Bartlett Sher, nine-time Tony Award directing nominee and winner for 2008’s South Pacific, will direct the recently announced Dolly Parton musical Hello, I’m Dolly, set for Broadway in 2026.

“How lucky I am to have the great Bartlett Sher direct my Hello, I’m Dolly musical,” Parton said in a statement. “When you decide to put your whole life up on stage, you hope and pray to find the right director with the right creativity and sensitivity to present all the blood, sweat, tears, light, love, and laughter that I’ve experienced over seven decades of living. My heart tells me that Bartlett is the man and the director for the job.”

Said Sher, “Dolly is one of the great songwriters in the American canon, and being entrusted with the opportunity to help her translate that glorious talent into the American musical theater is not only an honor, but absolutely a thrill.