Friday, July 11, 2025
Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will reprise their roles as eccentric aunts with a deep knowledge of coven living in "Practical Magic 2." They join Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidm…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
Scott Rudin is returning to Broadway after allegations of abusive behavior derailed the producer's career. Rudin and Barry Diller will produce Samuel D. Hunter's new play "Little Bear Ridge …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
Richard Greenberg, the Tony Award-winning writer of "Take Me Out," has died. He was 67 years old. Greenberg's death was announced on social media by collaborators and colleagues such as Deni…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34AM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
Amber Heard, Brandon Flynn and LÃo Mehiel have joined the ensemble cast of the world premiere production of Jeremy O. Harris' "Spirit of the People." Directed by Katina Medina Mora, "Spir…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
"Stand back, I'm about to act," Ashlie Atkinson, who plays gossipy Mrs. Fish on HBO's "The Gilded Age," jokes as she prepares for another take of a luncheon scene that finds her giving side-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
WaterBear has signed a first-look deal with Level Forward. Â Under the agreement, Level Forward will develop and create original programming in all genres " feature and documentary, long-f…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
Cinetic Marketing has promoted three veteran strategists " Charlie Olsky, Lauren Schwartz and Emilie Spiegel " to senior vice president roles. The trio previously worked as vice presidents. …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2025
Broadway's brights stars came out in force on Sunday for the 78th Tony Awards. There was plenty to celebrate for the theater business, which seems to have recaptured its stride after a long …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11PM[SHARE]On the Tony Awards red carpet, James Monroe Iglehart, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson and other Broadway artists and stars weighed in on the fallout surrounding Patti LuPone's c…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
When Michael Arden heard the pitch for "Maybe Happy Ending," a love story about two robots who bond over being discarded by their owners, he thought " pass. But after reading the script and …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2025
Patti LuPone has apologized for comments she made about Audra McDonald and "Hell's Kitchen" star Kecia Lewis in a recent New Yorker interview. "For as long as I have worked in theatre, I …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2025
Broadway performers and theater professionals are calling on the producers of the Tony Awards to disinvite Patti LuPone from the show after the theater legend made controversial remarks abou…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:04PM[SHARE]Benjamin Norris and Zión Moreno have joined the horror-satire "Corporate Retreat." Norris is best known for his recurring role as Trent Harrison in the award-winning TV series "Never Have…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2025
The original cast of "Hamilton" will be back in the room where it happens. That's right, Lin-Manuel Miranda and his ensemble of revolutionaries will reunite for a special performance at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
Concord has acquired Broadway Licensing Global. As part of the deal, BLG's family of imprints " Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts and Stage Rights " will now become pa…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2025
"Rolling Thunder" will make its U.S. premiere for a limited engagement this summer at off-Broadway's New World Stages. Performances of the show, which is described as "part rock concert, par…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]"I probably should try to eat a little more," David Hyde Pierce tells the waiter who just tried to clear his plate of scrambled eggs. We're having breakfast in a diner on the Upper West Side…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2025
Lily Rabe has been doing something she rarely does when she acts in a play or a film. She's reaching out to urge her friends and family to head to Lincoln Center, where she's delivering a ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2025
David Mamet will release "Henry Johnson," a prison drama that marks his first film in over a decade, this spring. Production wrapped recently on the film, which stars Shia LaBeouf and is an …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2025
"Ava: The Secret Conversations" will have its New York premiere this summer at New York City Center, Stage I, following an acclaimed run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The show was …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2025
For more than a century, B&B Theatres has brought movies " from "Casablanca" and "Psycho" to "The Dark Knight" and "Barbie" " to audiences across the South and the Midwest. The family-ow…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40PM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2025
James Taylor's hits are inspiring a new stage musical called "Fire and Rain." The singer and songwriter has lined up some major talent in the effort. Tracy Letts, the Tony Award and Pulitzer…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Growing up, Dana Ledoux Miller's mother would take her and her brother to matinees of films like "The Little Mermaid," "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast." After, she'd wear out her tapepla…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2025
It was only supposed to run for a few weeks at a small experimental space upstairs at London's Royal Court Theatre. But somehow, 50 years after "The Rocky Horror Show" first debuted, it i…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2025
"Wicked," "Moana 2" and holiday hits like "Mufasa: The Lion King" lifted quarterly earnings at AMC Entertainment. Revenues at the world's largest movie chain hit $1.3 billion, up more than 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PM[SHARE]After five months on tour, "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical" has recouped its investment. The national tour kicked off last year in Providence, where it had the most successful t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2025
"Heathers the Musical" is returning to New York after an extended run in London and throughout the United Kingdom. The show will play a limited engagement through Sept. 28 at New World Stage…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
Holiday blockbusters like "Mufasa: The Lion King" and "Gladiator II" and a re-release of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" helped lift profits and revenues at Imax during its fourth quarter…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Cynthia Erivo, fresh off the box office success of "Wicked," will command center stage on Broadway's biggest night as host of the 78th Tony Awards. She takes over as emcee from Ariana DeBose…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
President Trump said Wednesday that he'd been "unanimously" elected to lead the board of the Kennedy Center, completing his takeover of the Washington, D.C. cultural center. The move, which …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:48PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
When Jeremy O. Harris was tapped to help reinvigorate the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he didn't just think about traditional showcases for plays and musicals. "The American festivals that…
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