Oh, what a birthday week for Dr. Seuss books

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGeorge R.R. Martin is facing something even more menacing than White Walkers: New York theater critics.

NEW YORK -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is selling HMH Books & Media, which includes titles by J.R.R.

All you little monsters out there know what today is…. It’s Lady Gaga (a.k.a.

NEW YORK -- Elton John is celebrating his 74th birthday on Thursday — and he's sending fans a very rare present.Six deep cuts have been made available on streaming and digital formats for the first time, including the tune “Scarecrow,” which began John's legendary songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin in 1967.The other songs are: “Holiday Inn,” “Keep It a Mystery,” “Smokestack Children,” “Two of a Kind” and “Conquer the Sun.”“Scarecrow” marks the first time Elton put his music to Taupin’s

NEW YORK -- Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project.Jessica Goudeau's “After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America” won the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work which demonstrates “literary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting.”The Mark Lynton History Prize, also worth $10,000, was given to William G.

Netflix has secured the rights to BRZRKR, the BOOM! Studios-published comic book created by Keanu Reeves. Reeves will produce and star in the screen adaptations which will start with the story getting the feature treatment followed by an anime spinoff series.

NEW YORK -- Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Writers Guild Awards' top honors, best adapted screenplay.At the guild's virtual, pre-recorded 73rd annual awards, the biggest winners were a pair of awards-season dark horses. Best original screenplay went to the script for the feminist revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” by writer-director Emerald Fennell.

Also Read: While the Oscars Embrace Diversity, the Golden Globes Scramble for RelevanceThis year’s show was a joint presentation of the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East, which normally conduct separate but simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Kal Penn hosted the ceremony, with presenters that included Sacha Baron Cohen, Rachel Brosnahan, Jimmy Fallon, Ava DuVernay, Leslie Odom Jr.

Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm arrested for extortion, according to the film’s producer.The former New York mayor appeared in the movie, following Maria Bakalova’s 15-year-old character into a hotel bedroom after a fake interview.In the scene, Giuliani is seen with his hands down his trousers while lying on the bed.

Broadway will reopen.But now, a year into a shutdown that began March 12, 2020, the road map to recovery has begun to take shape. The pace and scope of vaccinations continue to accelerate and expand.

The early weeks of spring 2020 and Broadway’s pandemic shutdown already seemed like a distant, bygone era by summertime. Initial hopes for a two- or three-week hiatus had morphed into talk of maybe a few months and then even that seemed like wishful thinking.

Ilana Glazer is going to be a mom! The Broad City alum shared her pregnancy news on Wednesday, March 17.

After a full year of New York musicals and plays being dark, Broadway artists commemorated the occasion by putting on a starry surprise concert for a small-but-mighty crowd in the middle of the Theater District.Its defiant message for an industry that has been pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic was made clear by the event’s title: “We Will Be Back.” “It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve lost and who we’ve lost over the past year, and recall how far we’ve come,” Tom Harris, acting president of the

Ahead of the big Grammys show this weekend, The Weeknd has said that he will never take part in the awards again.

almost exactly a year since Broadway went dark due to the coronavirus pandemic — but now there’s light on the horizon of the Great White Way. Broadway insiders are finally looking toward re-opening after months of delayed optimism.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBoosting one of the key upcoming titles coming out of Latin America, renowned Haitian-American actor-producer Jimmy Jean-Louis (“Desrances,” “Rattlesnakes,” “Heroes”), also an increasing driving force on the Latin American and African production scene, is coming on board to executive produce director José María Cabral’s historic drama “Parsley” (“Perejil”).In parallel news, New York-based Visit Films is handling world sales rights on the feature,

A select number of now-dark Broadway venues will begin opening in April for a series of live- performance pop-up events that could establish the safety protocols needed for the theater industry’s eventual return.