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Exclusive: Lionsgate and MRC’s Matthew Broderick-Alan Ruck comedy The Best Is Yet to Come has Emmy and 2x Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker, 2x Tony winner Sutton Foster, Thomas Mann and Michaela Wakins joining the cast of the Jon Turteltaub directed film.

The Best Is Yet to Come, written by Allan Loeb, follows two lifelong best friends who set out to make up for lost time after a massive misunderstanding convinces each that the other is dying. Deadline first told you about the movie which reps the reteam of Ferris Bueller Day Off stars Broderick and Ruck.

Amy Baer is producing the film through her Gidden Media banner. Dimitri Rassam is also producing; he previously produced the 2019 French film on which the new movie is based. Loeb will also serve as an EP.

Lauren Bixby is overseeing for Lionsgate.

Parker recently starred in the MGM+ horror series The Institute...

The original cast of Six the Musical are reuniting for special concerts at the Arts Theatre in London. Svn in Concert will play at the Arts Theatre on 1 December 2025, with an additional date of 15 December 2025 now added. The concert will star Natalie Paris, Aimie Atkinson, Maiya Quansah-Breed, Jarneia Richard-Noel, Grace Mouat, Alexia McIntosh and Millie O’Connell. Together, the original Queens of Six have appeared in countless musicals including Pretty Woman, & Juliet, Mean Girls, Lizzie, Hairspray, 13 Going on 30, In the Heights, Dirty Dancing, The Cher Show, Madagascar, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd Street, Cinderella, The...

With Aidan back in Virginia and Duncan back in London, Carrie couldn’t help but wonder if her love story had reached its final page this week on And Just Like That.

It’s Thanksgiving, and Carrie orders a bunch of pies from a salty local baker — hi, Jackie Hoffman! — before taking a nostalgic stroll down her old street. She runs into Lisette, the girl who bought her old apartment, and Lisette invites her to a pre-Thanksgiving party at her old place. Carrie isn’t sure… but from the wistful way she looks at her old stoop, we’re thinking...

Gavin Creel wasn’t just a Broadway star, he was the kind of person who lit up a room before he even hit his first note. With a voice that could melt hearts and comic timing that could bring down the house, he stole the show in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hair, She Loves Me, Hello, Dolly!, you name it.

But Creel was more than a killer voice and an awesome actor. He was a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, a co-founder of Broadway Impact, and the kind of guy who cheered hardest for everyone else. In 2024, he faced a rare cancer, and he passed away far too soon at 48, but his legacy, his laugh, and his kindness are still center stage in the hearts of everyone he touched. Here are 5 things you may not have known about him!

1. Tony Award-winning Broadway icon!

Although this is no news but, Gavin Creel...

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Francis Jue took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play' for his outstanding work in Yellow Face. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, he checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share his initial reaction! Francis Jue earned Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards for the NYC debut of Yellow Face at The Public Theater. His Broadway credits include: Pacific Overtures, Thoroughly Modern Millie, M. Butterfly. Recent theatre credits include Cambodian Rock Band (Lortel Award), Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Once Upon a Mattress, Babbitt, Good Enemy, Soft Power (Outer Critics Circle Award), Wild Goose Dreams (Obie Award). Film/TV includes “Our Son,” “White Noise,” “Joyful...

On May 11, 2024, Gavin Creel performed what would be his final solo performance at The Cabaret in Indianapolis. Nearly one year later, the venue has shared videos from the final concert, featuring songs from Hello, Dolly!, Floyd Collins, Sunset Boulevard, and more. The late Tony winner played piano and captured the hearts of the audience with his stellar vocals and charming stage presence. The cabaret came after his theatrical concert, Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice, at McC Theatre in NYC. Creel won a Tony Award winner for his performance as “Cornelius Hackl” in Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce. His other Broadway credits included Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hair, Into The Woods, Waitress, The Book Of Mormon, She Loves Me and...

The 2025 Tony Awards nominations were announced on Thursday morning and made waves with its snubs and surprises. Out of all the nominees spread across 26 categories, there are 22 fascinating facts, stats, trivia and achievements that stand out as particularly noteworthy.

1. Many noteworthy names are nominated for producing at least one Broadway show this year, including two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker J. J. Abrams (Sunset Boulevard), Tony-winning director Michael Arden (Maybe Happy Ending and Sunset Boulevard), three-time Emmy nominated producer Greg Berlanti (Sunset Boulevard), four-time Emmy-nominated actress Kerry Washington (Gypsy), three-time Oscar nominated producer Jason Blum (Death Becomes Her), Emmy-winning actor Darren Criss (Maybe Happy Ending), nine-time Tony nominated director Scott Ellis, Tony-winning actress Lachanze (Buena Vista Social Club and Purpose), Emmy-winning actor John Leguizamo (Buena Vista Social Club), Tony-winning director Kenny Leon (Our Town), three-time Tony nominated director Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Boulevard), five-time Oscar-nominated producer Frank Marshall (Buena Vista Social Club), two-time Tony...

Zachary Levi’s public image has taken a few hits lately, bouncing from beloved to questionably problematic. While not all of his co-stars have openly criticized him, some aren’t exactly rushing to his defense either.

Zachary Levi in Shazam! 2 | Credits:Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

Case in point, Broadway star Laura Benanti didn’t hold back during an interview on That’s a Gay A-s Podcast, where she admitted she “never liked” Levi when they worked together on stage, and after his remarks about the late Gavin Creel, she likes him even less.

Why Laura Benanti never liked Zachary Levi and still doesn’t!

Even before any of Zachary Levi’s more recent controversies, Laura Benanti wasn’t buying what he was selling. Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi worked together in the 2016 Broadway revival of She Loves Me.

At the time, Levi was best known for his role on NBC’s...

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn’s bestselling autobiography-turned-smash-hit movie, is heading to Broadway, with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster to play the role of the late, legendary country music icon.

Currently in development, the stage musical adaptation will be directed by Sam Gold, with music production by Jeanine Tesori. The two last worked together on the Tony-winning hit 2015 musical Fun Home.

The stage adaptation will include songs from Lynn’s career and stories from her life, some beyond the 1980 film’s ending.

Patsy Lynn, Loretta Lynn’s manager, producer, and daughter, will serve as a consulting producer on the project, along with Loretta’s longtime adviser Nancy Russell.

According to Lynn’s family, Loretta Lynn had given her stamp of approval to both the project and Sutton’s casting prior to her death at 90 in 2022.

“We are so grateful to see that our mother’s life story and...

A musical about country music star Loretta Lynn’s life is under development with Sutton Foster attached as the star.

Jeanine Tesori, a Tony Award-winning composer who worked on Fun Home, Kimberly Akimbo, Caroline, or Change, Thoroughly Modern Millie and more, is working on the show’s music production. Sam Gold, a Tony Award-winning director who worked on Fun Home with Tesori, as well as recent productions of Romeo+Juliet and An Enemy of the People, is attached as the director.

The musical, entitled Coal Miner’s Daughter, is inspired by the 1980 film and the autobiography about Lynn’s journey from rural Kentucky to becoming a country music star. The stage show will include songs from Lynn’s career, which include “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” and “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” and extend her story beyond the film.

In 2012, Lynn had announced that Zoey Deschanel would portray her in a Broadway musical about her life.

Top Theatre Actors Jena Pandya and Ashley Day will play the iconic lovers Simran and Rog (Roger) in Come Fall in Love – The Ddlj Musical, the new musical comedy based on one of the biggest blockbuster films in the history of Indian cinema, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Ddlj).

Cultures collide, and West End meets Bollywood in this joyous, globe-trotting new rom-com starring Jena Pandya and Ashley Day, and adapted from India’s longest-running blockbuster movie –Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, also known as Ddlj. Ddlj is the longest-running title in Indian cinema, and it has been playing continuously in Mumbai since its release in 1995.

Meet Simran – a young British woman whose future is all set with an arranged marriage back in India – as she sets off around Europe for one last summer of freedom. But getting stranded with laid-back, party-loving Roger isn’t in the guidebook, and now the unlikely pair...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Younger!

The TV Land comedy Younger, which stars Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff, includes numerous established actors across seven seasons, creating lovable and entertaining characters. The show follows a 40-year-old divorcee mom named Liza Miller, who lies about her age to get an assistant job at a publishing house. Younger built a large fanbase across six years, garnering numerous nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards, People's Choice Awards, and Teen Choice Awards.

Besides the wacky premise, the show thrives thanks to the incredible cast. Though Liza is the lead, many of her friends, coworkers, and love interests have the same amount of time and character development in Younger, making them just as enjoyable as the quirky aspiring editor. Luckily, the cast consists of numerous established actors and a handful of standout up-and-comers who make even the most hateable character fun to watch.

Actor

Character...

Arthur Penn's controversial "Bonnie and Clyde" was one of the first shots across the cultural bow at the outset of the New Hollywood revolution. This is when the major studios finally, if quite accidentally, realized a legion of moviegoers (i.e. Baby Boomers) were losing interest in historical epics, war films, and Westerns, and, desperate to save their industry, handed over the reins to artists and executives who understood what this upstart generation was craving. Rock-and-roll was over a decade old by this point, while beat poetry and protest music were all the rage. Audiences wanted movies that burned with the same dissatisfied fire that fueled all of the other art they were imbibing and inhaling at the time. They wanted to be challenged.

"Bonnie and Clyde" did more than challenge moviegoers. It shook them up. Many loved this. Some, like The New York Times' chief film critic Bosley Crowther,...

Whoopi Goldberg is starting a new gig while The View is on holiday break. An Egot winner, Goldberg is heading back to the stage for the Broadway play Annie. Whoopi even said she knows she isn’t a singer but loves heading back to Broadway for another major musical role.

Here is what Whoopi had to say about her return to Broadway.

Whoopi Goldberg Talks Returning To Broadway For Annie

Whoopi Goldberg is coming to the Broadway musical Annie this December. However, her role is only temporary, and she will only be in the musical during its shows from December 11 to January 5. The other shows will have a different actress playing the villain role of Miss Hannigan.

Whoopi Goldberg pretends to wake back up and rejoin the conversation. – The View

Whoopi will play Miss Hannigan during Annie‘s holiday run at Madison Square Garden. Annie is about an orphan girl...

The previously announced New York memorial for Broadway star Gravin Creel will now be livestreamed for audiences in the U.S. and the U.K.

Creel, a Tony-winning actor known for leading roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hair and the recent revival of Into the Woods, died in September after being diagnosed with metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, in July. He was 48.

Friends and family of the beloved actor announced a memorial scheduled for Dec. 2 at the St. James Theatre in New York City. The event will begin at 4 p.m. Et and is open to the public with a capacity of 1,500 attendees.

McC Theater, which is presented Creel’s original musical Walk On Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice at the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater from November 2023 to January 2024, will host live streaming access on their YouTube channel in the U.

The holiday season is here. Thanksgiving is less than a week away, and Christmas is just around the corner. This means many television shows are about to take breaks and get delayed. This also includes The View, which will have a different schedule during the holiday season.

Here is what you need to know about the daytime talk show’s schedule this upcoming week.

What Is The View‘s Holiday Schedule?

Most long-time fans of The View know that Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg take time off during the holidays. They spend time with their families and sometimes work on other projects during the season. That won’t change this year; the daytime talk show will have a different schedule over the next week.

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Whoopi Goldberg will be taking on a role this season in the Broadway musical Annie. That will take away her time from working on the talk show.

Select Broadway theaters will dim their lights for the late Gavin Creel at a date and time being coordinated with his family, the Broadway League said today.

Creel’s death from a rare and aggressive cancer at age 48 on September 30 has prompted a massive and continuing outpouring on social media of love and heartbreak from the Broadway community. The death of the immensely popular musical theater actor caught many colleagues and fans by surprise, and has left the industry reeling.

Within hours of the League’s announcement, distraught fans weighed in on social media demanding a full, rather than partial, dimming of lights. A Change.org petition started by Time Out New York theater critic Adam Feldman was gaining momentum with thousands of signees just a few hours after its posting.

Once a date for the light-dimming has been determined, one theater from every theater owner on Broadway will participate in the traditional tribute,...

Refresh For Updates: Today’s shocking news of the cancer death of stage star Gavin Creel has left Broadway reeling and in deep mourning. “We lost our prince,” wrote New York City Center, where Creel turned in a for-the-ages performance in the delightful 2022 revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into The Woods.

“I looked forward to working with him every single night,” tweeted his Hello, Dolly! star Bette Midler. “He was fantastic. I can’t believe he’s gone. What a loss.”

Sutton Foster, who co-starred with Creel in 2002’s Thoroughly Modern Millie, wrote on Instagram, “My sweet friend. I will love you forever.”

Among the more poignant remembrances pouring onto social media comes from Casey Likes, the young star of Broadway’s Almost Famous and Back to the Future.

In a heartfelt post on social media, Likes writes, “absolutely crushed. Gavin came to almost famous and that is where we met.

Gavin Creel, a staple of modern musical theater whose career included a Tony Award win for Hello, Dolly!, has passed away. He was 48.

Creel’s partner, Alex Temple Ward, confirmed his death to the New York Times on Monday via a publicist. Creel had been diagnosed with a rare type of soft tissue sarcoma, known as metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, in July.

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Gavin Creel has sadly died.

The Tony Award-winning actor has sadly passed away at the age of 48, the New York Times confirms.

He died at home on Monday (September 30) in Manhattan, as confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward, via publicist Matt Polk.

Gavin performed on Broadway for two decades, and won a Tony for Hello, Dolly!, as well as an Olivier Award for The Book of Mormon. He also wrote and performed a show Off Broadway, called Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice, about the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The cause was metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, which Gavin learned he had in July. After he was diagnosed with the rare form of cancer, he underwent treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering, via Broadway World.

He first debuted on Broadway in 2002 in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which he received his first Tony nomination.

Broadway actor Gavin Creel died Monday at the age of 48.

The Tony-winning star, known for his leading roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hair and the recent revival of Into the Woods as well as his activism and positivity in the Broadway community, died after being diagnosed with metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, in July. He underwent treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering before transitioning to hospice care at home.

His passing was confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward.

Known for his energetic and ebullient performances and his resonant voice, Creel won a Tony for his role as Cornelius Hackl opposite Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly!, directed by Jerry Zaks. Critics praised his portrayal of the enthusiastic shop clerk, with THR critic David Rooney noting that Creel’s voice had “never sounded sweeter,” adding that “Creel...

In stunning and sad news, Gavin Creel, one of Broadway’s most popular and acclaimed leading men, died in Manhattan today just two months after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma. He was 48.

His death was confirmed by his partner Alex Temple Ward. Creel had undergone treatment at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering for metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma after being diagnosed in July. After his treatment at the hospital, he transitioned to hospice care at his home.

One of Broadway’s top musical theater artists, Creel made his Broadway debut in 2002 in a lead role of Thoroughly Modern Millie, earning a Tony Award nomination, a feat he’d repeat seven years later in what would become a signature performance as Claude in the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair.

From 2012 to 2015, he starred as Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, a role he’d...

In 1959, New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson heralded the arrival of a new musical comedy star in Once Upon a Mattress, a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Princess and the Pea.” Carol Burnett, he wrote, has “a metallic voice, an ironic gleam, and an unfailing sense of the comic gesture” as she “discharges” the music “as though she were firing a field mortar.” Meanwhile, her co-star, Joe Bova, as Prince Dauntless the Drab, only received mention from Atkinson as one of several “winning young people” backing up Burnett.

Dauntless has always seemed a supporting part, inevitably overshadowed by Princess Winnifred the Woebegone, one of musical theater’s most boisterous, irrepressible heroines. But Michael Urie, playing Dauntless in the new Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, a transfer of the Encores! production that opened in January for a two-week run at New York City Center, reveals that this...

New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold and Tony Award-nominated Kevin Del Aguila will join the previously announced Daniel Dae Kim on Broadway this fall in David Henry Hwang’s much anticipated Yellow Face.

Eggold will be making his Broadway debut.

Complete casting for the production was announced today by the Roundabout Theatre Company, and also includes Francis Jue, Marinda Anderson, Greg Keller and Shannon Tyo.

Yellow Face, directed by Leigh Silverman, will begin previews on Friday, September 13, 2024, at Roundabout’s at Todd Haimes Theatre, with opening night on Friday, October 1, 2024, 227 West 42nd Street) on Broadway. The limited engagement runs through Sunday, November 24.

The synopsis: Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.

Kim,...

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 Starcatcher, will take over the role of Jim Bakker, fellow televangelist and husband to Tammy Faye, who will be played by Katie Brayben.

Rannells originated the role of Bakker, opposite Brayben, in London and was initially announced to transfer to Broadway with the production, but said on the Tony Awards red carpet that he would no longer be involved in the musical due to a contract dispute.

The production features music by Elton John and is set to play the renovated Palace Theater starting Oct. 19, with an opening night on Nov. 14.

“Christian is one of Broadway’s most exciting leading men and I am beyond thrilled that he will be joining the company of Tammy Faye,...

At this year’s Tony Awards “Suffs” managed to win prizes for Best Musical Book and Best Score, both of which went to Shaina Taub. Historically, winning those two accolades in particular would bode well for a show’s chances at Best Musical. Yet in a shocking turn of events, the top award went to “The Outsiders.” But this is not the first time something like this has happened.

SEETony Awards: Every winner (and nominee) in all 26 competitive categories

In 1978 “On the Twentieth Century” won Tonys for Best Score and Best Book (Comden and Green). It also won Best Actor in a Musical (John Cullum), Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Kevin Kline), and Best Scenic Design (Robin Wagner). Yet Best Musical that year went to Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr.‘s revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” A tribute to the music of Fats Waller, it also won Tonys for Best...

Sheryl Lee Ralph has signed with CAA for representation.

An Emmy, Critics Choice and Independent Spirit Award winner, Ralph is currently seen starring in ABC’s hit comedy series “Abbott Elementary” opposite Quinta Brunson. In 2022, she won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series, becoming the first black woman in 35 years to take home the trophy.

In 2023, she was nominated for her second Emmy Award, a Golden Globe and a Film Independent Spirit Award for her portrayal of straight-laced kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard, winning the Critics Choice Award for best supporting actor in a comedy series.

Ralph made her feature film debut at 20 years old, opposite Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier in “A Piece of the Action.” She has also appeared in “The Mighty Quinn” opposite Denzel Washington, “Mistress” with Robert De Niro, “The Distinguished Gentleman” with Eddie Murphy, “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit” opposite...

Throughout the 1950s, big-budget musicals were de rigueur for Hollywood, and there was a sudden glut of epics that sported gigantic budgets, recognizable stars, and no small amount of studio hype. Such films were exhibited as touring roadshow productions, which was a great way for films to make fistfuls of cash. Roadshow epics were also, it should be noted, a concerted ploy by studios to distract audiences from the rising threat of television. Studios felt the need to invest a lot of money into musicals and epics, hoping the massive productions could draw people into theaters and keep the industry afloat.

One might logically predict, however, that Hollywood tried to ride the trend of epics for a little longer than was healthy, and foolish overspending eventually became common. The age of the "roadshow epic" pretty much came to a close with the release of the notorious bomb "Cleopatra" in 1963. 

But then,...

When the 77th Tony Awards nominations are announced this morning, those honored with recognition will have been selected by a small group of theatre professionals who commit to seeing each and every eligible production that opened during the 2023-2024 season. They are thus able to make informed decisions on what shows, performers and creatives should earn the spotlight of New York theatre’s top honor.

This past season, 60 theatre professionals saw all 36 eligible musicals, play, and revivals and will select the nominees in 26 competitive categories.

Below, see a complete list of the 2023-2024 Tony Awards nominating committee members, including their professions plus past Tony nominations and wins. Some of these nominators may have to recuse themselves prior to voting if they have a conflict, such as if a production that they worked is eligible for a nomination this year.

Watch 2024 Tony Awards nominations slugfest: Final predictions in 17 competitive categories

Warren Adams,...

In the "Star Trek" episode "Metamorphosis", an important dignitary named Commissioner Nancy Hedford (Elinor Donohue) is being transported to the U.S.S. Enterprise to undergo a complex medical procedure that can only be performed on the ship. She is afflicted with a fast-moving condition called Sukaro's Disease which, if not treated, could prove fatal within a few days, even though Commissioner Hedford has no discernible symptoms. Unfortunately for her, Hedford's shuttle is randomly attacked by a shape-shifting blob of energy and pulled down to the surface of a nearby planet. Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) have to find a way to repair the shuttle and get the Commissioner back to the Enterprise before her condition worsens.

They are not alone on the planet. Zefram Cochrane (Glenn Corbett) is living there. This is unusual, as Zefram Cochrane -- the inventor of faster-than-light travel...

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It's been nearly 60 years since Julie Andrews first sang about how the hills of Austria were alive with the sound of music, but "The Sound of Music" remains a beloved cinematic treasure. Vividly colorful, unabashedly musical, and anchored by Andrews' performance, the story of Maria the would-be nun, and her small army of new wards — the Von Trapp children — is still rewatched and referenced often across the world.

With more than half a century of retrospect, "The Sound of Music" has also become a bit of a historical document: much of the film's cast and crew has since passed away, with the exception of Andrews herself and five of the seven actors who embodied the Von Trapp kids. Heather Menzies (Louisa) and Charmian Carr (Liesl) have both passed away in recent years, as has Christopher Plummer, who embodied family patriarch...

Peter Berkos, the Universal Pictures sound effects maestro and champion of sound editors everywhere who shared a special achievement Oscar for his work on the Robert Wise-directed disaster epic The Hindenburg, has died. He was 101.

Berkos died Tuesday in Rancho Bernardo, California, his friend Brae Wyckoff told The Hollywood Reporter.

While president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors from 1963-66, Berkos began a successful campaign for his colleagues to gain full membership into the film and television academies and to receive credit onscreen and off for their work.

Berkos himself was uncredited for the first 20 years of his career until Car Wash (1976), and the Oscars would eventually revive its dormant competitive sound effects category from 1983 onward.

Across four decades, he worked for Universal on such films as Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958), four features directed by George Roy Hill — Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), the Oscar best picture winner The Sting...

Herman “Hy” Levine, a 48-year veteran of the film industry who rose through the marketing ranks at Universal and Disney, died Dec. 27 in Rockville, Md. after suffering from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.

Levine was an executive Disney from 1986 to 1998, rising to the rank of Vice President of Co-Op Advertising at the time when the studio began stepping up its movie output under CEO Michael Eisner after a particularly fallow period in the early 1980s. In his position, Levine was responsible for print and outdoor advertising on all Disney features, including those that fell under the Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures banners.

Among the films Levine helped launch were such animated megahits as “The Lion King,” “Aladdin” and “The Little Mermaid” as well as live-action titles such as “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” and “Beaches.” Levine worked closely with then film marketing chief Bob Levin as...

According to the current combined predictions of Gold Derby users, reigning Tony champ “Kimberly Akimbo” is the frontrunner to win this year’s Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album with 10/3 odds. So far within this century 10 shows that won Tonys for both Best Musical and Best Score also came out on top at the Grammys. Among them are “The Producers,” “Hairspray,” “Spring Awakening,” “In the Heights,” “The Book of Mormon,” “Kinky Boots,” “Hamilton,” “Dear Evan Hansen,” “The Band’s Visit” and “Hadestown.” Will that trend continue this year?

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“Kimberly Akimbo” features a score by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire. Tesori has been nominated five times before but still has yet to win. Those previous bids were for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 2003 (lost to “Hairspray”), “Shrek the Musical” in 2010 (lost to “West Side Story”), “Fun Home” in 2016 (lost to “Hamilton”), “Soft Power” in...

Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster will take over the roles of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, respectively, in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway.

The two Tony Award winners take over the roles from Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, who will play their final performance on Jan. 14. Tveit and Foster will start performances on Feb. 9 and play their final performance on May 5.

Tveit comes to the role after winning a Tony Award for his performance in Moulin Rouge! The Musical and appearing on Broadway in Catch Me If You Can, Next to Normal, Wicked and Hairspray. On screen, Tveit has appeared in Apple TV’s Schmigadoon, Grease: Live, Graceland, Les Miserables and more.

Foster is a two-time Tony Award winner for her roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes and has been nominated for seven Tony Awards, including her most recent Broadway role starring in...

Tony winners Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster will take over as the stars of Broadway’s hit revival Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street for a limited engagement beginning in February, producer Jeffrey Seller confirmed today.

As previously announced, Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford will play their final performances as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Tveit and Foster will begin performances on Friday, February 9, 2024, for 12 weeks only. Their final performance will be Sunday May 5.

A first-look photo of Tveit and Foster in character was released today.

Tveit won a 2020 Tony Award for his performance in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and previously appeared on Broadway in Catch Me If You Can, Next to Normal, Wicked and Hairspray. He has been seen in both seasons of the Apple TV+ musical comedy series Schmigadoon, with additional film and TV credits including Grease: Live, One Royal Holiday, American Horror Stories,...

(Welcome to Did They Get It Right?, a series where we look at Oscars categories from yesteryear and examine whether the Academy's winners stand the test of time.)

Best Original Song is such an odd category. On the Academy Awards broadcast, it is the one that gets the most airtime, as it is typical to perform all five of the nominated tunes during the show. While this is technically meant to showcase the nominees, it is really an excuse to break up what would be a fairly monotonous, long awards show.

However, most of the songs nominated for Best Original Song aren't all that interesting. A lot of the time, these tunes aren't integral to the film itself in the slightest, and they are simply musical wallpaper to play over the end credits of a movie as you file out of the theater. This is also the category most susceptible...

Today, the success of Star Trek: The Next Generation seems like a foregone conclusion. However, in the 1980s, TV franchises never got a second act. Patrick Stewart was told it wouldn't last two seasons, and it might have if The Next Generation didn't introduce Guinan, played by Whoopi Goldberg. The mysterious bartender of Ten Forward lent credibility to a show that hadn't yet earned it. If not for her, Star Trek's second act may have ended before it began.

It may seem an overstatement to attribute the success of a brand like Star Trek to the long-serving host of The View. Invariably, dozens, possibly hundreds, of people were responsible for the successes and failures in those first seasons of The Next Generation. Series creator Gene Roddenberry was in declining health, and the people he brought in to help him only ended up alienating the creative minds who'd been with...

Unlike other major awards bodies, the Tony Awards decide their nominations via a committee of industry members who commit to seeing every single production that opens during the Broadway season. This committee can thus make informed decisions on what shows, performers and creatives should earn recognition from New York theatre’s top honor.

In 2023, 40 theatre professionals saw all 38 eligible musicals and plays and selected the nominees in 26 competitive categories.

Below, a complete list of the 2023 Tony Awards nominating committee members including their professions plus past Tony nominations and wins:

Warren Adams, choreographer, director and producer

Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (2014)

Becky Ann Baker, actor

Pun Bandhu, actor and producer

Two-time Tony winner for Best Revival of a Play for “Glengarry Glen Ross” (2005) and Best Musical for “Spring Awakening” (2007) and Tony nominee for “Beetlejuice” (2019)

Brenda Braxton, actor and author

Tony-nominee for Featured...

“We just knew we wanted it to feel contemporary,” explains Casey Nicholaw of his new musical “Some Like it Hot.” Although the show is adapted from the classic film of the same name, there are bold new choices made on stage which help today’s audiences relate to the material. Nicholaw directs and choreographs the big, brassy, song-and-dance fest now playing at the Shubert Theatre. ”I think it’s a modern take on a classic film,” says Nicholaw. Watch the exclusive video interview.

One of the main tasks with this adaptation was to reinvent the core characters. As Daphne (played by J. Harrison Ghee) begins to live as a woman to hide their true identity, the character realizes that they feel more like themself as a woman. Nicholaw describes the desire to create a “slow burn” for Daphne’s journey of self discovery, so that the audience can “see it...

Longtime “Simpsons” voice Hank Azaria, Broadway superstar Sutton Foster, Darren Criss, Danny Strong, Sean Gunn and David Paymer will be featured as guest stars on the fifth and final season of the Prime Video hit “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” an Emmy juggernaut that raises the curtain on its last act with a three-episode premiere on April 14. The show will then roll out new episodes each Friday until the series finale on May 26, airing nine episodes in total.

Azaria has supplied the voice of more than 100 characters as part of the “Simpsons” vocal cast, also starring on the series “Brockmire” and “Huff” and poised to co-star on the new limited series “Hello Tomorrow!” opposite Billy Crudup. He’s a six-time Emmy winner. Foster is a Broadway stage dynamo who won Tony Awards for lead actress in a musical for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 2002 and the revival of “Anything Goes” in 2011. She...

(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)

The Movie: "Shrek the Musical" 

Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video, YouTube 

The Pitch: Full disclosure, I don't like "Shrek." The original 2001 film just never did it for me. Maybe it was the animation, maybe it was the aggressively anti-Disney overtones, maybe both. Eventually, DreamWorks won me over with "Shrek 2," which can only be described as a masterpiece, but that's not the second chance I want to talk about right now. We're here for "Shrek the Musical," a stage production that has no right being as good as it is, and how it got me invested in a smelly ogre's origin. The musical follows Shrek (Brian D'Arcy James) as he goes on a quest with Donkey (Daniel Breaker) to...

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Noted director, Aditya Chopra, has always strongly felt that Broadway and Indian films are ‘two long lost lovers separated in time because of their intrinsic similarities. Both celebrate heart-warming stories and human emotions through music and dance’. Mr. Chopra has now made that a reality and merged Bollywood and Broadway by taking his much-loved film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Ddlj) and transposing it as a musical theatre production.

In Come Fall in Love – The Ddlj Musical, Aditya Chopra takes a fresh and exciting new look at his landmark film, renewing it for a new generation and in a new medium. With an American audience in mind, he moves the action of the early scenes to America and not England as in the film.

Austin Colby as Roger and Shoba Narayan as Simran in Come Fall in Love – The Ddlj Musical, 2022. Photo by Jim Cox.

Come Fall...

After Sheryl Lee Ralph was announced as the Emmy Award winner for her role as Barbara Howard on "Abbott Elementary," she took to the stage and immediately began singing her face off — belting out the song "Endangered Species" by Dianne Reeves. As she held out a perfect note, completely enrapturing the audience, cheers erupted from the Emmy attendees, and probably everyone watching at home from their couches too. Thanks to the success and popularity of "Abbott Elementary," a world of people are learning about Ralph's undeniable talent for the very first time, but make no mistake, Ralph is not a newcomer.

"I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like, this is what striving looks like, and don't you ever, ever give up on you," she said in her acceptance speech. It's a fitting statement from a woman who landed her breakthrough role as Deena Jones...

Veteran character actress Harriet Sansom Harris just earned her first Emmy nomination for playing retired stand-up comic Susan on HBO Max’s “Hacks.” She has a Tony win for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” under her belt and decades of memorable TV appearances, but has shockingly never scored an Emmy nomination until now. If the actress wants to turn that nomination into a win, she will have to contend with a slew of her co-stars from the popular comedy series.

Harris is one of four nominees in the Best Comedy Guest Actress category from “Hacks.” Jane Adams, Laurie Metcalf and Kaitlin Olson also contend for the award, which clearly shows ample support for the series within the TV academy (as if the 17 total nominations for “Hacks” wasn’t evidence enough). Adams returns to the category after scoring a bid last year. Olson has one previous nomination while Metcalf has snagged three wins from 12 nominations.

The Drama League Awards set themselves apart from other theater industry kudos thanks to their Distinguished Performance Award. The category generally features forty to fifty performers from both Off-Broadway and Broadway productions. Nominees encompass both lead and supporting roles from plays and musicals, and can be of any gender. When one performer rises to the top of this deep roster, they tend to be the frontrunner for one of the acting races at the Tony Awards. This year, Sutton Foster claimed the Distinguished Performance award for “The Music Man.” In the process, the Tony race for Lead Actress in a Musical was just upended.

Most Tony pundits have assumed that Lead Actress in a Musical is a two horse race up until this point. Sharon D Clarke has held a strong lead in our combined odds thanks to her formidable performance in the revival of “Caroline, or Change.” The British...

Oh, we’ve waited nearly three years, but the Duffer Brothers’ drama Stranger Things jumps right back into the horror, picking up six months after the kids of Hawkins, Indiana, won the Battle of Starcourt Mall. They’re still recovering emotionally and dealing with a quieter terror: high school. Also, cue a new monster from the Upside Down: Vecna, who victimizes people who haven’t fully processed painful past events. (So Hawkins is a supersized bag of trauma snacks!) A potential target: Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), still recovering from her stepbrother’s violent death. “Max is grieving the loss of Billy. Max never wants to feel vulnerable; she’s isolated from people that care most about her,” reveals Sink, who enjoyed the challenge of exploring “the sides of Max she doesn’t want anyone to see.” (Credit: Courtesy of Netflix) Too bad her bestie, once-telekinetic Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), is...

New Zealand drama has screened at Berlin and SXSW film festivals.

Film Movement and Signature Entertainment have taken US and UK-Ireland rights respectively to New Zealand director Michelle Savill’s debut feature Millie Lies Low from UK sales outfit Reason8.

The comedy will receive a theatrical relase in North America with a date yet to be set while Signature is planning a digital release this August.

Ana Scotney stars as a woman on track to leave Wellington having secured a prestigious architectural scholarship in New York, only to suffer a panic attack that sends her into hiding.

Produced by New...

Amanda Seyfried might've gotten her big break in "Mean Girls," but she wasn't a big fan of the attention she got for one particular scene. The actor starred in the classic film as the dimwitted Karen Smith, who claimed she had special "ESPN" powers to predict the weather with her breasts. Seyfried said she'd get recognized by fans for her character every once in a while, but the comments guys would approach her with about the scene made her very uncomfortable.

"I always felt really grossed out by that," she told Marie Claire. "I was like 18 years old. It was just gross." Seyfried went on to detail the downside to being a teenage actor in Hollywood, noting that "being really famous [young] must really f*cking suck."

She added: "It must make you feel completely unsafe in the world. I see these younger actors who think they have to have security.

Peter Francis James (Florenz Ziegfeld), Jane Lynch (Mrs. Rosie Brice), Jared Grimes (Eddie Ryan), Beanie Feldstein (Fanny Brice), Ephie Aardema (Emma), Debra Cardona (Mrs. Meeker), Martin Moran (Tom Keeney), Toni Dibuono (Mrs. Strakosh) and the cast of Funny Girl Photo: Matthew Murphy, 2022

When I spoke with Tony winner Michael Mayer in December on his Netflix holiday season hit, Single All The Way, we discussed that he was going to be directing the very first Broadway revival of Funny Girl with Beanie Feldstein in the Barbra Streisand role as Fanny Brice and Ramin Karimloo taking on Nicky Arnstein, played by Omar Sharif in the film.

Michael Mayer with Anne-Katrin Titze (in Batsheva) on Funny Girl: “It’s really the Fanny Brice story, not the Barbra Streisand story.”

The musical features music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and the book by Isobel Lennart with revisions by Harvey Fierstein and costumes by Susan Hilferty.