BSW Daily News

The "Arrested Development" feature has moved closer to reality, with Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard reportedly closing deals for the long-gestating project.

A marathon meeting between SAG and the AMPTP on Thursday -- the first session in five months -- gave Hollywood some hope but no relief from its labor pains.

The opening date and Broadway theater have been set for the world premiere of "Impressionism," a play by Michael Jacobs starring Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen.

Scott Eckern, who donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8, a referendum to ban same-sex marriage in California, resigned his position as artistic director at Sacramento's California Musical Theatre.

The revival of American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo, Haley Joel Osment, and Cedric the Entertainer, became the latest casualty on Broadway, when producer Ben Sprecher posted a provisional closing notice Wednesday night.

As part of Back Stage's ongoing Evening With... series, Oscar-winning actor Benicio Del Toro spoke to a packed audience following a screening of Steven Soderbergh's new epic Che.

Clive Barnes, longtime theater and dance critic for the New York Post, has died. He arrived in 1965 from London to write about dance for The New York Times.

In a potential high-profile star-writer reunion, "I Am Legend" co-scribe Mark Protosevich is in early talks to pen the remake of "Old Boy," which "Legend" star Will Smith is developing with director Steven Spielberg.

The cable network is developing "AR2," a drama from the "Prison Break" creator and "The West Wing" director Thomas Schlamme about a group of Midwestern youths who spark a second American Revolution.

Cabrillo Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks outpaced all competing Southern California companies at the Nov. 17 Ovation Awards, L.A.'s annual peer-judged theatre awards.

The Coalition of Theatres of Color, a collective of 15 African-American and Latino theatres in New York, will hold a free public hearing on Nov. 24 about the affects of the economic downturn on theatres of color.

Australian actress Nicole Kidman said she was unsure of her future as an actor as there were others things she wanted to do, such as possibly having more children.

Leonard Bernstein was as much a teacher as a conductor and composer. Now, the post boomer generation have taken the stage, and perhaps just in time for classical music.

Director Giovanna Sardelli and choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett won the 2008 Callaway Awards, which honor work done Off- and Off-Off Broadway.

Aaron Eckhart is attached to star in "Battle: Los Angeles," a sci-fi actioner that puts the actor front and center on an action movie for the first time.

Joan Cusack has lined up two TV projects, developing a comedy at NBC set in the world of psychiatry and starring opposite Mae Whitman in the Lifetime original movie "Acceptance."

Lincoln Center's revival of Gypsy, which featured the Tony Award-winning performances of Patti LuPone, Laura Benanti, and Boyd Gaines, will close March 1.

It's mayhem on the set of ABC's "Desperate Housewives."

In what is believed to be a first for "Saturday Night Live," the offspring of a former cast member has joined the lineup of the long running sketch comedy show.

For nearly seven weeks, Melora Hardin is trading the offices of Scranton's Dunder Mifflin for the bright lights of Broadway.