Oh, Mary! Stage Film Will Debut on HBO, Starring Cole Escola

Playbill: Great days are officially ahead in 2027! The live stage film of Oh, Mary! will debut on HBO and stream on HBO Max next year. The play was filmed in London's West End July 28, with writer and original Broadway star Cole Escola in the title role. Sam Pinkleton re-created his Tony-winning direction for the screen version as well. A premiere date is to be announced.

Can More Pro-Shots Help Broadway’s Money Issues? Maybe, Says the Hadestown Film Team

Playbill: The Hadestown live stage film has successfully completed its run in movie theatres, taking home a very handsome $20.7 million over four weeks and making it the highest-grossing live stage film of all time (surpassing Hamilton)—and that's before you start counting on demand sales and rentals.

SUFFS Filmed Recording Sets Spring Premiere on PBS Great Performances

www.broadwayworld.com: As previously reported, Great Performances will air a filmed recording of Suffs, the Broadway musical from Tony Award winner Shaina Taub. Now, it has been revealed that the capture will air this Spring on Friday, May 8, 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS. The recording was filmed during the show's original Broadway run, which opened in April 2024 and ran until January 2025.

Guidelines for Using Aggregate Streaming Platforms for Performing Arts Content

AMT Lab @ CMU: For arts organizations looking to reach audiences through online content, there are numerous approaches, including posting subscriber-only content to their websites and posting free videos on platforms like YouTube. In the broader entertainment landscape, streaming via services that aggregate content has become a popular way to watch film and television. This article examines the viability of sharing performing arts content on third-party streaming platforms that aggregate content as opposed to single-entity streaming channels.

‘Hamilton’ Was Just the Beginning. Hollywood Loves Broadway, Again.

The New York Times: On a sun-nuzzled February morning earlier this year, “The Prom,” Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Tony-nominated musical, prepared for a location shoot in a high school gym on the eastern edge of Hollywood. Basketball hoops kissed the ceiling. Rubber matting and webs of cables carpeted the floor. Beside the snack tables, James Corden, Kerry Washington and Meryl Streep, in a wig the red of a cocktail cherry, practiced a dance number, sashaying through the same steps at not quite the same time.

From Stage to Screen: 5 Shows That Got It Right (And 5 That Didn’t)

The New York Times: “Cabaret” and “Cats” are pretty much acknowledged as the zenith and nadir of movie musical adaptations. But “Cabaret” is so excellent, and “Cats” so execrable, that neither tells us much about what went right or wrong with the process. The same goes for play adaptations: “Chimes at Midnight” (1965) stands proudly next to any stage rendition of Shakespeare — and “Gnomeo and Juliet” (2011) doesn’t. Below, an opinionated guide from theater experts to the cinematic successes and failures that can still show Hollywood how it ought (and ought not) to be done.

Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle Blasts SAG-AFTRA For Launching “Sham Investigation” Into Equity’s Internal Affairs

Deadline: SAG-AFTRA’s national board unanimously approved a resolution Thursday night reaffirming its longstanding jurisdiction over the taping of live shows, and accused Equity of taking part in a “surreptitious campaign to encroach upon SAG-AFTRA jurisdiction.” The board’s resolution, announced on Friday, also directed SAG-AFTRA counsel “to conduct an investigation of Equity’s activities seeking to poach SAG-AFTRA’s jurisdiction, with a particular emphasis on its ‘Media Committee’ and the many agreements it has made for so-called ‘remote’ work that falls squarely within SAG-AFTRA’s jurisdiction, taking thousands of days of work from performers who should have been working under SAG-AFTRA contracts.”

SAG-AFTRA Board Reaffirms Jurisdiction Over Taping Of Live Theater For TV, Film

Deadline: The usually fractious SAG-AFTRA national board of directors unanimously has approved a resolution reaffirming the union’s jurisdiction over the taping of live theater productions, accusing Actors’ Equity Association of taking part in a “surreptitious campaign to encroach upon SAG-AFTRA jurisdiction.” The board, meeting Thursday night in special session, also directed SAG-AFTRA counsel to conduct an investigation into Equity’s “activities seeking to poach SAG-AFTRA’s jurisdiction.”

'Hamilton' movie credits explained: Visual applause for cast

Los Angeles Times: “Part of the experience of the theater is thumbing through that Playbill at intermission and looking for that person you admire, finding their headshot and learning more about them by reading their bio,” said Thomas Kail, who directed the stage show and the movie. “This felt like the most appropriate way to celebrate this onstage company: creating a visual Playbill, using a cinematic language.”