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Samuel Goldwyn Films has signed a worldwide catalog deal with Concord Originals for rights to three Rodgers & Hammerstein films. The distribution pact involves two classic Hollywood films, 1958’s “South Pacific” and 1955’s “Oklahoma.” It also includes a filmed Royal National Theatre production of “Oklahoma!” that was staged in 1998 and starred a pre-Wolverine Hugh Jackman. The films will be released on VOD and other home entertainment platforms in the fourth quarter of 2023. Goldwyn will also release all three films in new DVD and Blu-Ray anniversary editions.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has been actively acquiring library content, nabbing rights to Christopher Nolan’s “Memento,” as well as “The Name of the Rose” starring Sean Connery and “Wild Target” starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint and Bill Nighy.

“We are delighted to partner with Samuel Goldwyn Films to continue championing the legacy of these iconic films from the Concord library and introduce a new generation...

When eulogizing screen performers, we often look at an Academy Award as either the launchpad or the apex of an actor’s life. In the case of Cloris Leachman, who died Wednesday at the age of 94, her Oscar was just one milestone in the career of an exceedingly versatile character actress.

Leachman was honored over the years both for her dramatic intensity and for a comedy skillset that embraced neurotic tension and fearless physicality with equal grace. She not only lived to be a nonagenarian, but she also remained busy and in demand to the very end, with recent credits as a voice in “The Croods: A New Age” and on such shows as “Mad About You” and “American Gods.”

Born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1926, Leachman studied at Northwestern (where her classmates included fellow comedy legends Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae) before competing in the 1946 Miss America pageant. She...

Academy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman has died at the age of 94. The news was originally broken by TMZ who reported the actress passed away of natural causes on Tuesday night at her home in Encinitas, California. Leachman boasted nearly 300 credit in film and television, throughout her career, making memorable turns in “The Last Picture Show,” “Young Frankenstein,” “The Twilight Zone,” and “Raising Hope.”

Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa on April 30, 1926. She started acting as a teenager, and after graduating high school she enrolled at Northwestern University in its School of Education. Her classmates included fellow comics Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. In 1946, Leachman participated in the Miss America pageant where she placed in the top 16. She used the scholarship she won to attend the famed Actors Studio in New York City, learning under acclaimed director Elia Kazan.

It was quickly after working with Kazan that Leachman started working on Broadway,...

The Humane Society of the United States hosted its 2020 To the Rescue! gala earlier this evening, raising over 2 million dollars to benefit the organization’s animal rescue efforts.

Liev Schreiber Online For To The Rescue Gala

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event was held virtually.

“Saturday Night Live’s” Emmy nominated cast member Cecily Strong hosted the event. Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winning singer and actor Audra McDonald hosted the pre-show and performed “Go Back Home” (from the musical “Scottsboro Boys”) as well as a medley of “Children Will Listen” (from “Into the Woods”) and “You’ve Got to Be Taught” (from “South Pacific”) during the gala.

Other celebrity guests included Liev Schreiber, Mena Suvari, Rob and Marisol Thomas, Nathan Turner, Dylan Lauren, Katie Sturino, gala chair Georgina Bloomberg and Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.

To the Rescue! took place in...

Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott will star in the political drama “Oslo” for HBO that is currently in production in Prague, and the film is based on the award-winning stage play of the same name by Tony winner J.T. Rogers.

Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger, David Litvak and Steven Spielberg are executive producing the film that HBO hopes to make available on HBO Max and to air on HBO beginning next year.

“Oslo” is about the negotiations that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, and it stars the “His Dark Materials” star Wilson as a Norwegian foreign minister as well as “Fleabag” star Scott as a Norwegian sociologist and Wilson’s husband. The story looks at the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that led to the landmark peace treaty.

Rogers, who wrote the stage play “Oslo,...

Chicago – Sean Connery, who began a sensation when he first introduced himself as “Bond, James Bond” in his role as the spy in “Dr No” (1962) – and was able to redefine himself as a character actor after 10 years as Bond – passed away on October 31st, 2020, at his home in the Bahamas.

Born in Scotland to working class parents, Thomas Sean Connery worked his way up the show business ladder to the giddiest of heights, even winning a Best Supporting Oscar for his role in “The Untouchables” (1987). In his choice of roles, especially post-Bond, he was unpredictable and provocative, while staying humble to where he came from … Connery was a lifelong advocate for Scottish independence from England.

Sean Connery in ‘Goldfinger’

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Connery joined the Royal Navy at age 16, and worked several odd jobs after his discharge, including as an artist’s model,...

Sean Connery, one of the truly iconic actors of Hollywood, died overnight in the Bahamas at the age of 90. No cause of death was announced.

The Scottish actor’s career spanned five-decades in which he played a wide range of unforgettable characters, many of them iconic on their own. But he will always be known as the first, best and most recognizable actor to play the British Spy with the license to kill, James Bond. He played Agent 007 in seven movies, beginning with the first James Bond movie Dr. No in 1962.

But Connery was no mere espionage agent, and he certainly wasn’t secret. Connery starred opposite Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 film Marnie. He stood out in a crowded all-star cast in Murder on the Orient Express from 1974. He escaped Alcatraz in The Rock (1996), defected to the United States in The Hunt for Red October, saved the day...

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The Oscar winning superstar Sir Thomas Sean Connery has died two months after his 90th birthday. Connery's acting career began in 1953 as part of the chorus of a production of the stage musical South Pacific. Four years later his movie career began in earnest with several small roles the debut being a crime drama No Road Back. Global fame would take another five years to arrive. It happened as the original 007 in Dr. No (1962), making Connery the figurehead of an colossally successful movie franchise. It's still running to this day 37 years after Connery let his license-to-kill expire.

He's the only James Bond to win an Oscar via 1987's mobsters vs cops drama The Untouchables. He retired from the screen after 2003's would-be franchise launch League of Extraordinarily Gentlemen but he remains beloved to multiple generations. After the jump, 12 essential Connery films to track his career (if we've...

It's an incredibly sad day today with word coming in that legendary actor Sean Connery has passed away. Very well known for portraying the original James Bond along with dozens of other major movie roles, Connery was one of the most beloved and respected actors of today. No immediate cause of death was given, but according to his son, Connery died overnight in his sleep while in the Bahamas after being "unwell for some time." News of the actor's death comes just over two months after his 90th birthday.

Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland on Aug. 25, 1930. As a young man, he served for the Royal Navy and trained as a bodybuilder and footballer. His decision to pursue acting was mostly financial, as he started helping out backstage at the King's Theatre in the early '50s to supplement his income. This led to Connery picking up...

By Lee Pfeiffer

Sir Sean Connery has passed away at age 90. One of the few remaining genuine legends of the film industry, Connery's passing will seem surrealistic to his legions of international fans, as he somehow seemed immortal. Connery overcame a humble upbringing in Edinburgh, Scotland to emerge as a cinematic icon. As young man, he entered the Royal Navy but his stint was short-lived, as he was released from service due to health issues. He later dabbled in weight lifting and was Scotland's candidate in the Mr. Universe contest. Connery drifted into acting quite by chance after someone suggested he audition for a chorus role in a London stage production of "South Pacific". He got the part and the acting bug got the better of him and he became determined to make it his profession. Connery secured bit roles in low-budget British films without making much of an impact,...

Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who embodied the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s as cinema’s debut James Bond, has died at 90. In a 45-year career that covered many genres, Connery proved, as much as anyone, that entertainment value and artistic quality could go hand-in-hand. Who else could claim they’d worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Bay, John Huston and Gus Van Sant? Connery did — and he originated the most popular action hero of all time.

The list of plaudits Connery received in his lifetime span a wide spectrum. He won an Academy Award, for playing a hard-edged cop in “The Untouchables,” received the Kennedy Center Honor, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. But his acclaim went to even greater extremes: Scottish newspaper The Sunday Herald called him “The Greatest Living Scot” while People Magazine didn’t just vote him “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1989 but “Sexiest Man of the Century” a decade later.

Scottish actor Sean Connery has died at the age of 90. His son Jason Connery told the BBC his father had died peacefully in the Bahamas after a long illness.

Famous for his dashing good looks, strapping physique and abundance of charisma, Connery was the first actor to portray James Bond in film, starring in seven entries in the franchise from Dr No to Never Say Never Again. He was also an Oscar-winner for his supporting turn in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, his sole nomination from the Academy, and he received two BAFTAs including an honorary Fellowship Award. He was awarded a knighthood in 2000.

Early years

Born in Edinburgh in 1930, Connery joined the Royal Navy at the age of 16 before being discharged three years later on medical grounds. He took numerous other jobs including being a lifeguard, lorry driver and an artist’s model before his bodybuilding led him...

Today we've turned the blog over to Tom Mizer, one half of the songwriting team Mizer & Moore...

Musicals have alwasy been adapted from non-musical material

by Tom Mizer

Can I admit something and you promise not to judge me? My writing partner and I are working on adapting some movies into stage musicals. If eye-rolling made a sound, I bet I would hear a thousand violent swooshes. “Not another movie made into a musical! Why can’t there be original musicals?”...

Here’s the deal: musicals have always been built largely on the foundations of other forms, whether adapted from novels or straight plays or, yes, movies. Musicals are incredibly difficult to make work; there are so many moving parts that having the framework of a good story already in place can be an enormous advantage...

Exclusive: Producer Scott Rudin will bring actor Dustin Hoffman to Broadway in a 2021 staging of Our Town, to be directed by Bartlett Sher (To Kill A Mockingbird).

Hoffman will play the role of the Stage Manager in the classic Thornton Wilder play, sources close to the production say.

The production will be Hoffman’s first Broadway role since his Tony Award-nominated performance of Shylock in 1989’s The Merchant of Venice. He played Willy Loman in an acclaimed 1984 revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, and appeared in several productions during the 1960s, including Jimmy Shine, The Subject Was Roses and A Cook for Mr. General.

Hoffman, most recently seen on screen in Noah Baumbach’s Netflix 2017 film The Meyerowitz Stories, won an Emmy Award for Volker Schlöndorff’s 1985 television adaptation of Death of a Salesman, costarring his Broadway revival castmates Kate Reid, John Malkovich and Stephen Lang.

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Sophie Clarke wasn’t quite a legend tier “Survivor” champ heading into “Winners at War,” but that might just change by the end of this season. Starting with the fourth episode of the season, Gold Derby users have expected Sophie to be the champion of this all-winners season and our users haven’t budged since. Now, with 11 players including Sophie left in the game, the “South Pacific” winner is looking better and better to be cashing that $2 million check at the end of the game.

Sophie has a 31/10 chance of winning this 40th season of “Survivor,” according to our odds. Sophie got into a majority position on her tribe from the jump and stealthily called the shots in the shadows throughout the pre-merge. She was instrumental in last week’s merge episode, leading the charge to take out Wendell Holland. Sophie currently has more no. 1 votes than all other players on this cast combined,...

After three episodes and four tribal councils on “Survivor: Winners at War,” the 40th season in 20 years of the landmark reality TV competition series, the Dakal tribe has established itself as the dominant tribe, forcing the opposing Sele tribe to vote out three players while only having to sacrifice one of their own (Amber Mariano). In part two of the season premiere Dakal went to their only tribal council where they stuck mostly together as a tribe to eliminate Amber, leaving Kim Spradlin-Wolfe in the dark about their decision to split the votes between the two women.

Now, heading into Wednesday’s fourth episode, nine players remain at Dakal: Tyson Apostol (“Blood vs. Water”), Sophie Clarke (“South Pacific”), Sandra Diaz-Twine (“Pearl Islands” and “Heroes vs. Villains”), Wendell Holland (“Ghost Island”), Yul Kwon (“Cook Islands”), Sarah Lacina (“Game Changers”), Kim Spradlin-Wolfe (“One World”), Tony Vlachos (“Cagayan”) and Nick Wilson (“David vs.

Abingdon Theatre Company Chad Austin, Artistic Director presented a one night only benefit performance of 'Date of a Lifetime' on February 17th a new musical with book and lyrics by Carl Kissin, music by Robert Baumgartner, Jr. with musical direction by Isaac Harlan and directed by Nathan Brewer. The performance starredKatie Rose Clarke Wicked, Light in the Piazza and Noah Weisberg South Pacific, Legally Blonde.

At long last, “Survivor: Winners at War” premiered Wednesday, February 12 on CBS with a special two-hour episode that welcomed back 20 returning champions. On the line? The ultimate title of Sole Survivor and a cool $2 million check. Host Jeff Probst toasted the Season 40 players in Fiji with champagne, but after that the game was on. And what a game it was! So who was the first castaway to be voted out? And how did the new fire tokens twist play out? This is our recap of Part 1. Click here for our recap of Part 2.

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Below, check out our minute-by-minute “Survivor: Winners at War” recap of Season 40, Episode 1 (Part 1), titled “Greatest of the Greats,” to find out what happened Wednesday, February 12 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about...

“Survivor: Winners at War” officially kicks off Wednesday, February 12 on CBS, but on February 5 the network aired a retrospective special welcoming back the 20 returning champions. If you don’t know your Kims from your Dannis, or your Nicks from your Bens, then this hour-long recap special was just for you. Host Jeff Probst is back yet again for this landmark 40th season (because of course he is), with the contestants fighting for a cool $2 million instead of the paltry $1 million from years past.

See‘Survivor: Winners at War’ predictions video: Who will win? Who’ll be voted out first? [Watch]

Below, check out our minute-by-minute “Survivor: Winners at War” recap of Season 40, Episode 0, titled “Survivor at 40: Greatest Moments and Players,” to find out what happened Wednesday, February 5 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite castaways on CBS’s...

Take an exclusive look at The Lucille Lortel Theatre presentation of the new musical Solana from December 9th, 2019 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The cast was led by Thom Sesma Sweeny Todd, Superhero, Ann Harada Cinderella, Avenue Q, Judy McLane Mamma Mia, Steve Blanchard Beauty and the Beast, Jonah Platt Wicked, Kay Trinidad Hadestown, Megumi Nakamura and joined by Chad Burris, Jordan Grubb Groundhog Day, Albert Guerzon Escape to Margaritaville, Sam Hamashima, Madeline Hamlet, Kendyl Ito Soft Power, Joanne Javien, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Rebecca Larkin South Pacific, Jaygee Macapugay, Ryah Nixon, Lulu Picart, Geena Quintos Soft Power, Trevor Roderick, Kevin Schuering, Fafa Schaeffer, Lael Van Keuren Sister Act. Directed Choreographed by Josh Rhodes Bright Star, Cinderella, Music Direction by David Holcenberg Groundhog Day, Matilda, with book, music, and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid.

Sandra Diaz-Twine may be the queen of “Survivor,” but fans have their fingers crossed that the reality TV show’s princess ends up winning Season 40 instead. In our recent poll that asked which returning Female champion our readers most want to win “Survivor: Winners at War,” Parvati Shallow came in with leading 36% support. Sandra placed second with 20%, followed by a trio of women who tied at 10% apiece: Natalie Anderson, Amber Brkich Mariano and Kim Spradlin. Do you agree or disagree with these poll results? Sound off down in the comments section.

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Parvati joined the “Survivor” winners list thanks to “Micronesia” (Season 16), a “Fans vs. Favorites” edition that welcomed back 10 former players to compete against 10 superfans. In the final tribal council, Parvati beat out fellow returnee Amanda Kimmel by a narrow 5-3 vote thanks in part to her flirtatious social game.

It’s finally happening. After years of “Survivor” fans clamoring for an all-winners season, CBS made our dreams come true by announcing the cast for Season 40, dubbed “Winners at War.” From two-time champion Sandra Diaz-Twine (“Pearl Islands” and “Heroes vs. Villains”) to everyone’s favorite Bostontonian Rob Mariano (“Redemption Island”), the all-star cast is filled to the brim with the most iconic players to ever win the game. “Survivor: Winners at War” premieres Wednesday, February 12 on CBS, but you can get your first look at the 20 returning winners by clicking through our photo gallery above.

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Four of the 10 female victors hail from the first 20 seasons on the air, including Sandra, Amber Brkich Mariano of “All-Stars” (Season 8), Danni Boatwright of “Guatemala” (Season 11) and Parvati Shallow of “Micronesia” (Season 16).

Following those four returnees are a trio of...

In this episode, Ben and Daniel talk to cabaret superstar Natalie Douglas about Nina Simone's 1961 album 'Forbidden Fruit.' They also discuss The Eagles, 'South Pacific,' Mitzi Gaynor, Roberta Flack, Barbra Streisand, Karen Mason, Joe Williams, and Dolly Parton. Natalie shares stories about moving to New York and working at famous piano bars such as Brandy's and The Duplex. She now sings to audiences around the world and can be seen performing at her monthly residency at Birdland in New York City.

The North American tour of the Tony Award - nominated Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof in underway. A beloved theatrical classic from Tony-winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize-winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Fiddler on the Roof is directed by Tony-Award winner Bartlett Sher South Pacific, The King and I and choreographed by the acclaimed Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter.

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Cocktail masters pair exotic drinks with their favorite Tiki movies. Here's what to watch while you drink.

For some, summer is a time of sweet rum drinks with tiny umbrellas and exotic-sounding names. For Tiki culture enthusiasts though, the luau is year-round and liquid aloha fills glasses in a precise combination of quality booze, fresh juices, ingredients almost entirely reserved for these cocktails, and even ice specifications.

But Tiki is more than a cocktail culture populated by Zombies, Mai Tais, Painkillers, Singapore Slings, Fog Cutters, Scorpion Bowls, Blue Hawaiians, and the like—an extended family of colorful drinks fathered in 1930s California by the likes of Donn Beach and Trader Vic.

Tiki culture is an aesthetic, a state of mind, and a way of life inspired by factual (and at times culturally appropriated) visions of Polynesia and larger Oceania, as well as the Caribbean. Summed up thusly...

Lin-Manuel Miranda has three Tonys, three Grammys, an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize, so it might be easy to overlook the fact that the awards magnet has yet to win a major award for his acting. But he’s an Emmy contender this year for guest-starring on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” and one of the Expert journalists we’ve polled think that’ll finally do the trick.

Miranda appeared on “Brooklyn” in the episode “The Golden Child” as David Santiago, who needs his sister Amy (Melissa Fumero) to help clear his name. Most of our Experts predict he’ll be nominated for the role, but Kelly Lawler (USA Today) is currently the only one who thinks he’ll win. Most of the other Experts are divided between Peter MacNicol (“Veep”) and John Mulaney (“Saturday Night Live”).

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“Brooklyn” has never been fully embraced by the television academy,...

For only the third time this decade, none of the acting winners at this year’s Tony Awards did so for their Broadway debut. This is the 21st time that this has happened over the 73-year history of these top theater honors. Most of the winners were actually on the opposite end of the spectrum, winning for the first time after years of Broadway experience and several nominations to their name including André De Shields, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Stephanie J. Block. Check out the complete list of winners here.

The previous instances of Broadway debuts being shut out at the Tonys were in: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2001-2003, 2012 and 2017.

Below, you can see the names of all 96 people who have won Tonys for their debut on the Great White Way.

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Best Actor In A Play: 16 winners

Paul Scofield, “A Man for All Seasons” (1962)

Cliff Gorman,...

“Survivor” Season 39 doesn’t debut until the fall, but that’s not stopping fans from getting excited about a potential all-winners edition for Season 40. In our recent poll that asked viewers to vote for their favorite Female winner of all time, these five earned the highest support: Parvati Shallow (“Fans vs. Favorites”) at 29%, Sandra Diaz-Twine (“Pearl Islands” and “Heroes vs. Villains”) at 17%, Tina Wesson (“The Australian Outback”) at 9%, Jenna Morasca (“The Amazon”) at 7% and Natalie Anderson (“San Juan del Sur”) at 7%. Do you agree or disagree with our readers’ poll results? Sound off down in the comments section.

Many fans consider Parvati to be the most savvy castaway to ever play “Survivor,” thanks in part to the effortless way in which she convinced Erik Reichenbach to give up his immunity necklace in “Fans vs. Favorites.” Parvati and her fellow femme fatales then promptly voted him out. Parvati ultimately won the...

With an overwhelming number of “Survivor” fans voting that they’d like to see an all-winners edition for the reality TV show’s 40th season (due out in early 2020), our fingers are crossed that it’s finally going to happen. If so, which castaways do you hope return for the long-awaited battle of the champions? Over the past 38 seasons of “Survivor,” 15 were won by women while men accounted for 23 victories (see all winners in our photo gallery above). Vote in our poll below to tell us which Female champ must be a part of this potential all-winners season.

SEEThe fans have spoken: 89% want ‘Survivor’ to bring back the hour-long reunion show [Poll Results]

Of course, no discussion of “Survivor” winners can happen with mentioning Sandra Diaz-Twine, the show’s only two-time champ. Queen Sandra won the first two times she played — “Pearl Islands” and “Heroes vs. Villains” — and then returned for a...

"I think I'm reincarnated or something," chuckles Kelli O'Hara, one of the greatest leading ladies in Broadway history, as we sit down in her dressing room at Studio 54, where she is starring in Kiss Me, Kate through June 30, to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter's 'Awards Chatter' podcast. O'Hara, 43, is drawn to period pieces like Kate — as well as The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It and The King and I, which account for five of her six Tony nominations, and the last of which brought her ...

"I think I'm reincarnated or something," chuckles Kelli O'Hara, one of the greatest leading ladies in Broadway history, as we sit down in her dressing room at Studio 54, where she is starring in Kiss Me, Kate through June 30, to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter's 'Awards Chatter' podcast. O'Hara, 43, is drawn to period pieces like Kate — as well as The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It and The King and I, which account for five of her six Tony nominations, and the last of which brought her ...

After her Tony Awards coronation last season for Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” Glenda Jackson could have rested on her laurels. Instead, she returns to the Broadway stage this season in the gargantuan title role of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” in a production directed by Sam Gold that opened at the Cort Theatre on April 4.

Gold has assembled an all-star cast for Jackson’s Lear to rage against, including Tony-winner Jayne Houdyshell (“The Humans”), and Tony-nominees John Douglas Thompson (“Jitney”) and Ruth Wilson (“Constellations”), amongst over a dozen others. An original score by legendary composer Philip Glass, performed on-stage by a string quartet, accompanies the cast as they play out the machinations that characterize one of Shakespeare’s most enduring and challenging plays.

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Critical response to “King Lear” varied greatly, and although the production received a handful...

Like most long-running reality TV shows, twist and turns in the format regularly happen. On “Survivor,” which has been on CBS since 2000, the behind-the-scene masterminds often like to isolate players away from the other castaways and test their mettle. They have used the concept of “island” twists four times. The current 38th season introduces probably the most stressful option yet — “Extinction Island.” The show is intentionally hiding what is expected of players who land there. But that got us thinking about how, at least so far, you think it compares to the other “Survivor’s” other three islands — Exile, Redemption and Ghost. Below, refresh your memories about what each island involved and then vote in our poll for your favorite.

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Exile Island: The original island twist first popped up as...

The BAFTA Awards are Feb. 10, with Oscars two weeks later. All the lead actress nominees are terrific, but Glenn Close creates something unique because it’s so subtle. What she does is harder than it looks.

In Sony Classics’ “The Wife,” Close has the least showy role of the contenders, which is usually an awards disadvantage. She doesn’t have any “big scenes,” there’s no hysteria, no scenery-chewing, no calculated “This’ll get ’em!” moments. Instead, she offers a lesson in film acting.

Close told Variety that the challenge and “thrill” were in creating a woman who has so much going on internally; the character, Joan Castleman, has spent her life trying to fade into the background of her writer-husband, but both hit a crisis when he’s awarded a Nobel Prize for literature.

“There were years of her reveling in the work, but slowly seeing her husband become delusional about his creative process,...

Primary Stages announced today that its2018 Gala will take place on Monday, October 29, 2018 at 630 pm. The event, which will be held at Tribeca 360 10 Desbrosses Street, will honor Tony nominees Rebecca Luker Mary Poppins, The Music Man and Danny Burstein Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific Eleanor Holtzman, trailblazing marketing executive and Primary Stages Board Member and Jose M. Toro, Senior Director, Commercial Management, LeFrak Property Management.

It took a decade for Broadway royalty Kelli O’Hara to snag her first Tony Award win. But shortly after that success on her home turf, O’Hara may be on the way to her first Emmy Award thanks to the web series “The Accidental Wolf.”

O’Hara landed her first Tony nomination in the Musical Featured Actress category for “The Light in the Piazza” in 2005. While her co-star Victoria Clark was victorious in the lead category, O’Hara lost to Sara Ramirez from “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” O’Hara would go on to have an illustrious career on the rialto and would be recognized repeatedly in the lead category. She was nominated for her work in “The Pajama Game,” “South Pacific,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” and “The Bridges of Madison County.” Though she was competitive every year, she always wound up a Tony bridesmaid. It wasn...

This is not shaping up to be a good year for Oscar Hammerstein II, American musical theatre's most important writer, who spent the first half of the 20th Century not only making significant strides to convert the genre from loosely assembled entertainments into respected and influential pieces of dramatic art, but was also a leading voice in promoting progressive values through his books and lyrics for such musicals as Show Boat, South Pacific and The King And I.

Ari’el Stachel became the latest person to take home a Tony Award for their Broadway debut. This victory puts him in a freshman club that now has 96 members. Watch him discuss his victory in the Tonys press room in the video above.

Stachel, who won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing Haled in “The Band’s Visit,” is the ninth person to claim that particular honor for his first Broadway outing. He joins:

Harry Belafonte, “John Murray Anderson’s Almanac” (1954)

Sydney Chaplin, “Bells are Ringing” (1957)

Frankie Michaels, “Mame” (1966)

Wilson Jermaine Heredia, “Rent” (1996)

Dan Fogler, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” (2005)

Levi Kreis, “Million Dollar Quartet” (2010)

John Larroquette, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (2011)

Daveed Diggs, “Hamilton” (2016)

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Below are the Broadway debuts in the seven other acting categories that claimed Tony Awards.

Best Actor In A Play: 16 winners

Paul Scofield,...

This past Broadway season included only three musical revivals — “Carousel,” “My Fair Lady” and “Once on this Island” — and they all received multiple Tony nominations. Two of them are new mountings of classics from the golden age while the third is a new take on a contemporary classic. Here’s what each of the three nominees for Best Musical Revival have going for them.

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Lincoln Center Theater’s production of “My Fair Lady” currently sits in first place with 3/10 odds. The latest Broadway revival of Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe’s 1956 classic received 10 nominations overall. It was also nominated in all four acting categories as well as directing for Bartlett Sher and choreography for Christopher Gattelli. Sher helmed Tony-winning revivals of “South Pacific” (2008) and “The King & I” (2015) both for Lct. In the era of the #MeToo movement,...

CAA has signed Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli, Variety has learned.

News of the new representation comes at a pivotal moment for Gattelli. He is a double nominee at this year’s Tony Awards, having been recognized for his work in “SpongeBob SquarePants” and the revival of “My Fair Lady.” Gattelli already has a statue on his mantle — he earned a choreography award in 2012 for “Newsies.”

Other Broadway credits include “War Paint,” “Amazing Grace,” “Casa Valentina,” “Godspell,” “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” and “Sunday in the Park With George.” He’s previously earned Tony nominations for “The King and I” and “South Pacific.” Off-Broadway, he has choreographed the likes of “Tick Tick Boom,” “Altar Boyz,” and “Bat Boy: The Musical.”

Next up for Gattelli is the new bio-musical “The Cher Show.”

Gattelli has been a presence in the film and television world. He was the resident choreographer...

Drury Lane Theatre announces casting for the first production of its 20182019 season, the Tony Award-winning musical South Pacific, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Josh Logan, and adapted from Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener. This production is directed by Victor Malana Maog with choreography by Otis Sallid and musical direction by Roberta Duchak. South Pacific runs April 5 - June 17, 2018, at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace. The press opening is scheduled for Thursday, April 12 at 800 p.m.

Big Broadway and TV names will come together later this month for “Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Parkland, USA,” produced to raise funds in the aftermath of the Parkland shootings.

Matthew Morrison (“Glee,” “South Pacific”), Noah Galvin (“The Real O’Neals,” “Dear Evan Hansen”), Wayne Brady (“Kinky Boots,” “Hamilton”), Telly Leung (“Aladdin”), Deborah Cox (“The Bodyguard”), Laura Bell Bundy (“Anger Management,” “Legally Blonde”) and a number of the stars of CW musical series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” — Rachel Bloom, Donna Lynne Champlin, Vincent Rodriguez III and Gabrielle Ruiz — are among the performers lined up to appear on April 16 with the South Florida Symphony at the Bb&T Center in Sunrise, Fla.

Some of the tunes on the night’s songlist were written by Stoneman Douglas students with theater composers including Joe Iconic and Drew Gasparini.

Several Stoneman Douglas students will speak at the event, which will also feature a performance...

Drury Lane Theatre announces casting for the first production of its 20182019 season, the Tony Award-winning musical South Pacific, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Josh Logan, and adapted from Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener. This production is directed by Victor Malana Maog with choreography by Otis Sallid and musical direction by Roberta Duchak. South Pacific runs April 5 - June 17, 2018, at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace. The press opening is scheduled for Thursday, April 12 at 800 p.m.

In the audio categories at the Oscars, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing, typically the loudest film wins. So there’s one film this year that was almost tailor-made to sweep those prizes: Christopher Nolan’s WWII drama “Dunkirk.” Should the film sweep it would be the second Nolan film to do so and the 17th overall.

The Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing categories have gone through a lot of transformations at the Oscars over the years, at least in how they’re classified. The Oscars first started handing out one award for a film’s audio, Best Sound Recording, in 1929 with “The Big House” taking the inaugural award. Then the category became Best Sound in 1958 with the musical “South Pacific” becoming the first winner under that name. And finally it became Best Sound Mixing in 2003 with “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” taking home the first prize.