Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Every week, James L. Nederlander performs his version of "Undercover Boss." He dons a baseball cap and sunglasses and stands in line, looking like a typical tourist as he waits to get into "…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:39PM[SHARE]They partied with Napoleon and Socrates, foiled murderous robots from the future and outwitted Death himself. Now Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who played metalhead slackers in three "Bill &…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Academy Award winner Rami Malek is set to star in Ira Sachs' forthcoming film "The Man I Love." Set in the vibrant era of late '80s New York, "The Man I Love" is a described as a "musical fa…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PM[SHARE]It's a "Thor" reunion. Sir Anthony Hopkins' upcoming memoir, "We Did Ok, Kid," will be narrated by Hopkins' friend and Marvel director Kenneth Branagh, bringing together two acting titans. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
Row K Entertainment, the newly launched theatrical distribution company, is filling out its core team. It has appointed three senior executives " Mo Rhim will join as chief revenue officer, …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
Marc Shaiman, the composer and lyricist behind "Hairspray" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," will look back on five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood in his new memoir "Never …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50AM[SHARE]"Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo" is planning a Broadway bow after opening last month at Arizona's Phoenix Theater Company. The new musical was conceived and written by Tony Awa…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
"44 " The Musical," a political satire that features music, lyrics and book by former Obama campaign staffer Eli Bauman, has announced the cast for its New York run. The show will feature T.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Wavelength has hired producer Stacey Reiss as its new head of film, scripted and unscripted. The company's credits include Daniel Minahan's narrative feature "On Swift Horses," which s…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:53AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
Cate Blanchett will star in "Sweetsick," a new film about a woman who has the ability to see what people need most in life. Alice Birch will write and direct in her feature directorial de…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2025
It was doctor's orders, but sadly Ian McKellen couldn't attend the Toronto Film Festival premiere of "The Christophers," a new Steven Soderbergh film that gives the Oscar nominee his meaties…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45PM[SHARE]SPOILER ALERT:Â This interview contains spoilers for the series premiere finale of "Task," now streaming in HBO Max. "Task," Brad Ingelsby's follow-up to "Mare of Easttown," starts out lik…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2025
Would comedy be the same without the 1972 Toronto production of "Godspell"? So many of the performers who turned "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live" into cultural phenomenons in the '70s and '8…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:43PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
"Any character that I play, I always ask, 'What's their monologue?'" Matthew McConaughey says. "Whether it's subtext or whether it's spoken, you gotta have your monologue before you can say …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
When Ralph Fiennes wasn't on stage seeing a dagger before him, while starring in a Washington, D.C. production of "MacBeth," he was furiously trying to unlock his inner Leonard Bernstein. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PM[SHARE]RuPaul will trade the runway for the big screen, starring in a new and, as yet, untitled action-comedy from "Hairspray" director Adam Shankman. Bleecker Street has teamed up with Emmy-winnin…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PM[SHARE]"Christy," a sports drama that features a transformative performance from "Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney as a female boxer, will be released by Black Bear in theaters in the thick of a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PM[SHARE]Votiv, a film and television production company, is developing a feature adaptation of the horror-comedy novel "Patricia Wants to Cuddle." The book, a satire of American media culture that b…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]On screen, John Candy was often the gregarious life of the party. He smoked and drank through a game of racquetball in "Splash," he charmed a household of unruly kids with his free-spirited …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Douglas Aibel will step down as artistic director of Vineyard Theatre, ending a forty-year run. He will continue to work as a producer and casting director, focusing on several upco…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2025
Lola Tung and Nico Parker will star in "The Young People," a new film from "Longlegs" director Osgood Perkins. The film is based on a script that Perkins wrote. Neon, which has a first-look …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2025
Austin Butler is known for his intense approach to his roles, from speaking with Elvis Presley's signature drawl during the entire production of "Elvis" to training with a Navy SEAL to becom…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" has all of the elements that made Mary Shelley's Gothic novel so chilling. There's a hulking beast, whose body is assembled from the corpses of other men.…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
"We couldn't allow things to just trundle along," Andrew Lloyd Webber says. "We had to make a big change." He's drumming his fingers on the dining room table of his Upper West Side apartment…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Grammy winner Kid Harpoon will create original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Art." The Tony Award-winning show " about three friends who debate the merits of a ridiculously exp…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PM[SHARE]Kelly O'Sullivan and Lois Smith will co-star in "The Steel Harp." The comedy is directed by O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson, the filmmakers behind "Ghostlight." It marks one of the first leadin…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2025
SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 3, Episode 7 of "The Gilded Age," "Ex-Communicated," which aired Aug. 3 on HBO. On its best days, Le Pain Quotidien's Bryant Park branch is a far cry…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2025
Jeremy Strong may soon be getting a perm and rocking a gold chain. The Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner is the top choice to play Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Network Part II,"…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
House Republicans are ready to do some rebranding. On Thursday, GOP members of the House Appropriations Committee voted to rename the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for Perform…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Cinephiles, rejoice! You can now watch Natalie Portman do bloody battle with a pesky hangnail on the widest screen imaginable. This summer, Searchlight Pictures is teaming up with Imax fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]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…
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