I bought into the Labubu craze a few months ago. No, I’m not personally into the little monster doll with buck teeth; neither are my wife and our two kids, though we are all, at least notionally, adults. I say that because Labubu seems to appeal more to infan…

Jamie Lloyd had tried once before to lure Nicole Scherzinger to the stage. Several years ago, the renegade British theater director pursued the former Pussycat dolls frontwoman to star in “Evita,” but the collaboration didn’t work out for scheduling reasons. …

In exchange for dropping its opposition to a trademark filing for a political podcast, Mattel insisted that the show not discuss “toys, dolls” or “fictional characters based on toys or dolls.”…