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UPDATE, 12/20: Best of Enemies, the stage play from James Graham (Quiz) currently being housed at London’s Young Vic, has cancelled performances through January 3 due to “extensive Covid disruption” among the show’s staff and production teams, according to the venue’s Twitter account. The Young Vic’s social media team…

Peg Murray, who won a 1967 Tony Award for portrayal of Fräulein Kost in Cabaret and later recurred for 13 years on ABC’s daytime drama All My Children, died Nov. 29. A resident in recent years at an assisted care community in Greenport, Long Island, Murray had been in declining health following a stroke. She was…

The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will celebrate the life and legacy of American theater producer and director Harold "Hal" Prince (Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, among many others) with the critics organization’s newly established lifetime achievement honor. The Harold Prince Award will be bestowed annually for…

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Cumming, the multihyphenate who was nominated for multiple Emmys, SAG Awards and Golden Globes for his turn on The Good Wife and won a Tony for Cabaret, has signed with ICM Partners. The move comes as he is co-starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the Old Vic production of Endgame, which wraps its run…

Joe Masteroff, the librettist for two of Broadway’s most beloved musicals – Cabaret and She Loves Me – died today at the Actors Fund Home in Engelwood, New Jersey. He was 98 years old. His death was confirmed by Howard Marren, a friend and his literary executor. Born in Philadelphia to the owners of a notions store…

EXCLUSIVE: There's a moment in American Sniper when the camera moves in scary close to Sienna Miller's face as the character she plays — the wife of a Navy SEAL who has become a famed sharpshooter in Iraq — registers how far-gone is the love of her life and father of their children. Tears are streaming down her face…

Some hit shows fade into the record books before quietly expiring. Not <a title="Broadway Says "Wilkommen" to Michelle Williams, Tony Race; Definitive Tennessee Williams; Introducing The Riedel Watch"…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s impossible to ignore Emma Stone’s eyes. At least until she begins speaking, but we’ll get to that. First, not to be reductive, but jeepers, creepers. Even, or especially, on a crummy December day, in office lighting at the taste-free conference room where we’ve met, them there eyes make me wonder: Are…

We like Alan Cumming’s explanation best, in re Shia LaBeouf’s behavior at a performance of Cabaret over the summer. Cumming gave his version of the encounter to Conan O’Brien last night on Conan’s TBS show, as he made the late night rounds to promote his new book, “Not My Father’s Son”. “Well, he was really messed up…

2ND UPDATE, 9:40 AM PT: LABEOUF FREED AFTER NIGHT IN CUSTODY: Shia LaBeouf was released by New York police this morning after charging him in the wake of behavior last night suggesting that he was in the right place — Studio 54 — but the wrong decade. Fox News reports that the actor is due in court July 24 to answer…

The last new production of the 2013-14 Broadway season opened Thursday night with the familiar visage of Alan Cumming in whiteface, peering through the slotted entrance to the Kit Kat Klub in the revived revival of Cabaret. With his eyes blacked, his lips pursed and his nipples peeking from behind braces, the Scottish…

This week the big April film festivals are tripping all over each other churning out announcements of film premieres, starry panels, schedules, events and so much more. Directly competing for attention — and against each other — on opposite coasts are, of course, the ever-growing Tribeca Film Festival in New York and…