How to judge Kelly Clarkson’s first time hosting an awards show? Consider that the singer brought a touch of suspense — and a deep well of feeling — to an annual production whose predictable data-based prizes include one for the year’s top-selling album. Welcoming viewers to Sunday’s Billboard...

The road to Tinashe's sophomore album, "Joyride," has been a rocky one and the singer-songwriter has proven to be as much an innovator in R&B as she is a survivor of the rigors of pop stardom.

As it seeks to create mainstream blockbuster series to distinguish itself in an increasingly competitive TV market, Amazon Studios has tapped another NBC veteran for a key leadership role. Vernon Sanders has been named co-head of television, and will work alongside co-head Albert Cheng to oversee....

Part of what has made French filmmaker Olivier Assayas among the most reliably consistent on the international scene is his knack for reinvention. His work continually engages the world in fresh and exciting ways, such as his recent films, “Personal Shopper” and “Clouds of Sils Maria,” both featurin..

Perfection is not attainable in this earthly realm, but Audra McDonald came as close as humanly possible in her Los Angeles Opera concert Sunday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The six-time Tony winner, one of the marvels of the theatrical world, is on tour promoting her new live solo album,...

Warning: This story contains major plot spoilers about “Deadpool 2.” From the very beginning, the creative team behind the “Deadpool” franchise has stuck to one very simple rule that guides every decision they make: “We always say, ‘If you can’t do it in another superhero movie, you’d best be...

On the last day of every Cannes Film Festival, word begins to leak out about which filmmakers from the competition have been called back for the closing-night awards ceremony. Many of us already knew, going into Saturday night’s show, that Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War,” Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy...

John Cage said it best. Of Virgil Thomson’s opera “The Mother of Us All,” Cage wrote, “everything Americans feel about life and death, male and female, poverty and riches, war and peace, blacks and whites, activity and loitering, is shown to be real and true.” Those feelings remained real and true...

What inspires a play? For “Ripe Frenzy,” a new drama about a school shooting, the genesis included: The quintessentially American play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder; The manifestoes and other documentation that mass shooters have left behind; The memoir “A Mother’s Reckoning” by Sue Klebold, mot..