Film & TV News
Read about musicals and plays broadcast on TV and in movie theatres as well as stage adaptations for the screen. Also covered: TV and movie projects featuring theatre stars, writers and directors and videos of TV interviews and performances.
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New Recordings
By Andrew Gans, Ryan McPhee, Dan Meyer | 10/19/2021Plus: Mauricio Martinez and Claybourne Elder will be featured in PBS' One Voice concert series. -
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By Dan Meyer | 10/19/2021Frankie Avalon and Didi Conn also made cameo appearances this week.
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Film & TV News
By Andrew Gans | 10/19/2021The Hulu series is a follow-up to the EGOT winner's 1981 film, History of the World, Part I.
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Film & TV News
By Talaura Harms, Hayley Levitt | 10/18/2021Plus: Producers Isaac Robert Hurwitz and Seth A. Goldstein launch Hugo Six, a new multimedia production company.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer | 10/18/2021See who else is joining Colman Domingo and Audra McDonald in the upcoming Netflx film.
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Film & TV News
Watch the Cast of Ain't Too Proud Perform a Medley of The Temptations' Tunes on Good Morning AmericaBy Talaura Harms | 10/18/2021The October 18 morning show appearance featured "Get Ready," "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," and "I Can't Get Next to You."
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Industry News
By Hayley Levitt | 10/18/2021Film and TV workers averted a strike that could have begun Monday, but some union members are less than satisfied.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 10/18/2021The Tony and Oscar winners hear a knock in the castle.
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Off-Broadway News
By Dan Meyer | 10/15/2021The play was filmed at the Lucille Lortel Theatre this fall.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 10/14/2021The movie arrives in theatres and on demand October 15.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 10/14/2021The new comedy series arrives on HBO Max November 18.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer | 10/12/2021The limited series will expand the scope of the play.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 10/12/2021The Tony-winning star had a cute moment seeing her book cover for the first time on Good Morning America.
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Film & TV News
By Ryan McPhee, Dan Meyer | 10/11/2021Plus: Mark your calendars for the 2022 Outer Critics Circle Awards.
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Industry News
By Ryan McPhee | 10/11/2021The arts and anti-racism advocate, Broadway alum, director, and children’s book author is also attached to the upcoming revival of Aida.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 10/11/2021The improv group celebrated their return to Broadway with a tribute to salt rims and drunken shenanigans.
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London News
By Andrew Gans | 10/08/2021The current West End revival will sail into 450 cinemas in the U.K.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer | 10/06/2021The Broadway queens dropped by daytime talk show October 6.
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Film & TV News
By Andrew Gans | 10/06/2021The movie from Higher Ground and Netflix will star Domingo as gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer | 10/06/2021The film arrives in theatres December 31.
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Film & TV News
By Talaura Harms | 10/05/2021Plus: Victor Garber will be honored by New York Stem Cell Foundation at its Show Up for Science gala.
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Broadway News
By Talaura Harms | 10/05/2021Tony-winning producer James D. Stern has acquired the stage rights to the 2012 romance.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 10/04/2021Lin-Manuel Miranda direct the film adaptation of the musical, starring Andrew Garfield, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, and Vanessa Hudgens.
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Film & TV News
By David Gewirtzman | 10/04/2021A list of stage musicals announced to be adapted as films.
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The Verdict
By Dan Meyer | 10/01/2021The Broadway-bound show from Tony winners Joe DiPietro and David Bryan arrived on the streamer October 1.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer | 10/01/2021Casey McQuiston’s gay romantic comedy was a instant hit when it debuted in 2019.
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Film & TV Features
By Talaura Harms | 10/01/2021The Tony nominee stars as a voice teacher with some...unconventional training methods in the rom-com releasing October 1.
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Film & TV News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 10/01/2021The film will be the third entry in the Sister Act series, which centers around a nightclub singer who goes into hiding as a nun.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer, Logan Culwell-Block | 10/01/2021What’s coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, and more this month.
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Film & TV News
By Andrew Gans | 10/01/2021Tony nominee Joshua Bergasse directed and choreographed the evening featuring Kelli O'Hara, Joshua Henry, Tony Yazbeck, and more.
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By Dan Meyer | 10/01/2021Jeanna de Waal stars in the title role opposite Roe Hartrampf, Erin Davie, and Judy Kaye.
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Film & TV News
By Talaura Harms | 09/30/2021Plus, Against Women & Music, a new musical by Grace McLean and Kate Douglas, will get an industry reading as part of Rhinebeck Writers Retreat’s Triple R program.
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Broadway News
By Dan Meyer | 09/30/2021The new venture reunites Nick Jonas with Michael Urie and E. Clayton Cornelious—appearing together in the upcoming Jersey Boys—and Les Misérables co-star Norm Lewis.
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Film & TV News
By Talaura Harms | 09/29/2021Plus, see which Broadway stars you might find under the mistletoe in this season's Lifetime Christmas movies.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 09/29/2021Casts of Aladdin, The Lion King, and Frozen celebrated the return of Broadway on The View.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 09/29/2021The Tony winner was backed by the National Symphony Orchestra on the Stephen Sondheim tune.
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Film & TV News
By Talaura Harms | 09/28/2021Plus: Theatre For a New Audience announces new casting for the fall run of Will Eno's Gnit.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 09/28/2021Sharon D. Clarke introduced the September 28 performance on Good Morning America.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer | 09/28/2021The film co-stars Viola Davis, John Boyega, and more.
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Film & TV News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 09/27/2021The series will follow young Madelyn as she moves to New York to attend an elite performing arts school and follow her Broadway dreams.
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Tony Awards
By Andrew Gans | 09/27/2021CBS saw a dramatic dip in the ratings with its September 26 broadcast of the annual ceremony.
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The Verdict
By Dan Meyer | 09/27/2021What TV critics thought about the two-part ceremony.
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Tony Awards
By Andrew Gans | 09/26/2021Tony winners Audra McDonald and Leslie Odom, Jr. host the two-part celebration, broadcast on Paramount+ and CBS.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 09/24/2021Ariana DeBose leads the charge as Anita in two of the musical’s most popular tunes.
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Film & TV News
By Andrew Gans | 09/24/2021The soundtrack for the motion picture, based on the Tony-winning musical of the same name, also arrives from Interscope Records.
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Film & TV News
By Andrew Gans, Dan Meyer, Logan Culwell-Block | 09/23/2021Plus: Colin Donnell, Loretta Devine, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and more tapped for small screen gigs.
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Film & TV News
By Dan Meyer | 09/23/2021David Alan Grier, currently Tony-nominated for the 2020 revival, will star and executive produce.
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Tony Awards
By Ryan McPhee | 09/23/2021The 74th annual ceremony, presented in two parts, will take place September 26.
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Tony Awards
By Logan Culwell-Block | 09/23/2021Make sure you're all set to tune in for Broadway's biggest night.
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Video
By Dan Meyer | 09/23/2021The game show will air a special “Salute to the Tonys” episode September 24.
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