“King of the Hill” is canceled, but “American Dad” has been renewed for another season.

The son of the filmmaker Moustapha Akkad said that a forthcoming movie about the life of the Prophet Muhammad would not be a remake of his father’s 1977 film, “The Message.”

Russell Brand, the British comedianand a star of the romantic comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” has resigned from his radio show on the BBC after an on-air prank.

When you’ve trained at Juilliard and won a Pulitzer for your playwriting, there’s only one rung left for you to grab on the ladder of success: writing dialogue for a bespectacled nebbish who has been bitten by a radioactive spider. David Lindsay-Abaire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the drama “Rabbit Hole” (as well as his [...]

The Joffrey Ballet will hold a memorial service for Gerald Arpino, a founder of the company, on Nov. 17.

An attempt to reinstate a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors was met with minimal enthusiasm in a federal appeals court.

Michael Jackson has contradicted his brother Jermaine’s claim that he would be taking part in a reunion of the Jackson 5.

The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra was scheduled to give its inaugural performance on Thursday night with Lorin Maazel serving as guest conductor.

David Rockwell, whose Rockwell Group designed sets for Broadway shows like “Hairspray” and “Legally Blonde,” has signed on as set designer for the next Oscar show.

A painting by Fernand Léger has been returned to the heirs of a French art collector, whose collection was confiscated by the Nazis during World War II.

David Tennant has announced that he will not play the time-traveling Doctor Who in a new season of the series scheduled for 2010.

The creators of the music game Rock Band have entered into a partnership with the Beatles to produce an interactive game based on the Fab Four’s music and history.

Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and author of “The God Delusion,” has said that he is now writing a book for children.

The recipients of the 2008 Whiting Writers’ Awards were announced Wednesday.

Gerald Arpino, a founder and artistic director emeritus of the Joffrey Ballet, has died.