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Actress Doreen Montalvo, who had been a cast member of Broadway’s Mrs. Doubtfire before the musical went dark with Broadway’s March 12 COVID shutdown after a mere three preview performances, died Saturday, her manager Steve Maihack confirmed on social media. Montalvo, who had also appeared in Broadway’s productions of …

In the wake of COVID-19’s continued grip on the box office, Disney made another round of release-date changes Wednesday, the good news for exhibition being: Nothing is headed to Disney+. That includes Pixar’s Soul, which is currently sticking to its November 20 release against MGM’s James Bond movie No Time to…

EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Powell, who originated the lead role of Tony in Ivo van Howe's Broadway revival of West Side Story, has signed with CAA. For his critically acclaimed performance, which includes a production highlight in the classic musical number “Maria,” Powell received an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding…

As festivals continue to cancel and studios retreat on release dates, the movie industry is resolutely pursuing what it acknowledges to be a perilous scenario. "Even Hollywood needs love now and then," Samuel Goldwyn once proclaimed, but instead it faces stubborn exhibitors like AMC and Cineworld, who hammer studios…

Producer Scott Rudin is slashing ticket prices to $50 through March for whatever seats remain available at his five usually sold-out Broadway productions, a move designed to help keep theaters full if coronavirus concerns begin to take a significant toll on attendance. Rudin’s productions To Kill a Mockingbird, West Si…

Broadway box office was down 11% last week, but don’t jump to any coronavirus conclusions: Attendance was down a small 3%, and the slide in receipts can be chalked up at least in part to theater-going children. With more than a dozen productions participating in the annual Kids Night On Broadway – children free with…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress Talia Ryder in all areas. She broke out of this year's Sundance Film Festival as the co-lead of Eliza Hittman's critically acclaimed drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which played this week at the Berlin Film Festival and will be released by Focus Features on March 13. The pic…

A signature moment in director Ivo van Hove’s bold, gorgeous multimedia re-imagining of the great New York musical West Side Story comes when those famously brawling street gangs restrain the tale’s star-crossed lovers from kissing. Each side pulls its own, tug-of-war-style, one holding back Tony, the other Maria, and…

UPDATED with response to statement: Broadway’s West Side Story is coming to the defense of cast member Amar Ramasar, who has been at the center of continued protests outside the theater over a sexually explicit photo the actor had shared of his girlfriend in 2018 when both were members of New York City Ballet…

A group of protesters outside Broadway’s West Side Story Friday night continued to call for the dismissal of a cast member who in 2018 shared a sexually explicit photo of his girlfriend when both were members of New York City Ballet. The protest was carried out even after the woman depicted in the photo disavowed the…

EXCLUSIVE: 18-year-old Rachel Zegler, who makes her big screen debut as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming feature remake of West Side Story, has inked with ICM Partners. I understand that this was a competitive signing, with five agencies making presentations to Zegler. Word is that Spielberg and West Side Story…

A second actor in Broadway’s West Side Story has suffered an onstage injury, and this time he’ll leave the show: Ben Cook, who played the role of Riff, sustained the unspecified injury Sunday evening and will be replaced by cast member Dharon E. Jones. Jones, making his Broadway debut, currently plays the character…