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NBC has set the counterculture classic Hair Live! as its live musical presentation next spring. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who have executive produced all of the network's live musicals since The Sound of Music revived the genre in 2013, will do so again. Hair Live! will be produced by Universal Television, MGM…

Tony-winning actor Ben Vereen has apologized for “inappropriate conduct” toward female cast members in a 2015 Florida community theater production of Hair. His tweeted apology originally was provided to the New York Daily News for the paper’s report today that Vereen forced kisses and other physical contact on women…

It’s hard to think of an independent film during the 1990s that didn’t star John Turturro, the actor being one of the stock players for Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers. It was during the heyday of independent film that Turturro made his feature directorial debut with Mac, a drama about a family of Italian American…

The 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival has unveiled the list 57 short films in competition this year, chosen out of a whooping 4,385 submissions. Of the selected shorts, which will be presented in ten distinct programs, 40% were directed by women and 40% are international films as 18 countries are represented. The…