Saturday, March 7, 2026
Stephen Hibbert, a writer and actor who went from the Groundlings to writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" and "Mad TV" to a cult role as the Gimp in "Pulp Fiction," died March 2 in …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2026
For years now, there has been a lot of waiting, guessing and surely in-house prevaricating about who will be the next James Bond. But there is no need to dally, or shouldn't be, on the quest…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2026
TAIT, for decades a juggernaut in providing technology and equipment for concert touring and other live experiences, has acquired Silent House, one of the foremost production studios and cre…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2026
"The Kennedy Center Honors" have been presented under that longstanding, historic name for the final time. (Or at least for the last time for the next three years.) To the surprise of probab…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2026
Is the 1977 album "The Beach Boys Love You" a classic and essential part of this great American band's catalog, or a lark? It's so different from virtually every other album the group ever r…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2026
Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" is, at heart, a great love triangle. At one vortex, there's 18th century composer Antonio Salieri, wavering between piety and murderous peevishness. At another corn…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
Baz Luhrmann is about to dive back into his long-aborning Joan of Arc movie. But before he does, he had to return to the Elvis well, and the King's new and returning subjects are glad he did…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2026
Another Bruce Springsteen tour on-sale; another bout of elation among those who procured tickets. Along with, of course, another round of debate over how easy it was or wasn't to get those t…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:55PM[SHARE]Barry Manilow expected to be back on the road a week from now for the resumption of an arena tour. But life and his surgeon had other ideas. Manilow took to multiple media platforms Friday t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:18AM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2026
Fascism has arrived and settled into Los Angeles. And before you say "Tell us something we don't already know," this refers to the opening on this coast of "Here Lies Love," the David Byrne-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2026
The Hollywood Bowl has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 summer season, and a key touchstone will be a week in August celebrating Gustuvo Dudamel's 17th and last season as music and artistic …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2026
The group Young the Giant will be looking to turn North America's amphitheater circuit into its own private "Victory Garden" this summer, with a nearly three-month tour behind the forthcomin…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2026
The majesty is not just in the purple mountains: It's in the voice of Brandi Carlile, who has one of the most celebrated vocal ranges in modern American music, and was an apt pick by the NFL…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 7, 2026
No "Joke": Brandi Carlile is one of the few vocalists out there with so powerhouse of a voice, she could almost be considered overqualified to sing "America the Beautiful." That's what she'l…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2026
The evening before Music's Biggest Night, there is always Music's Smallest but Mightiest Night. That could serve as one way to describe the Americana Music Association's annual Grammy Eve co…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Bruce Springsteen brought his protest song "Streets of Minneapolis" to the actual streets of Minneapolis Friday afternoon, making an unadvertised appearance at a daytime benefit concert orga…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Lady Gaga has recorded her version of the theme song from the classic children's show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" for a Super Bowl commercial. If that sounds at all campy, you probably don't …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2026
For many of the attendees at this year's Girls Just Wanna Weekend festival in Mexico, one of the highlights of the four-day gathering came when founder Brandi Carlile stepped out to join co-…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:39PM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2026
The Kennedy Center has lost another one of the few remaining stars on its 2026 schedule, as the legendary soprano Renée Fleming has dropped out of an appearance at the embattled venue previ…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2026
"Comedy is my day job," says Eddie Izzard. "Shakespeare started with his comedies, then he moved to his dramas and tragedies, and that's what I'm doing." Even the Bard might have to step bac…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2026
When the history of great voices in 21st century pop is told, Brandi Carlile and Sam Smith will both be part of the discussion. That's before getting to the conversation about queer icons of…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PM[SHARE]Neil Young will be the artist feted at this year's Americana Pre-Grammy Salute, the Americana Music Association announced today today, with an annual tribute concert again scheduled for Gram…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]MusiCares has announced a lineup of artists set to perform the music of Mariah Carey at the org's Person of the Year gala benefit this month, with a diverse cast that runs from fellow pop-R&…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 18, 2026
In an unbilled performance Saturday night at the Light of Day festival in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen took solemn time out during an otherwise celebratory 75-minute set to dedicate "The Pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 11, 2026
Contemporary viewers may watch the 1976 film "All the President's Men" and ask: Could it happen today? No, not the Nixon administration's crimes and cover-ups " not much need to question whe…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 10, 2026
In a statement probably anyone could have seen coming, Richard Grenell, the controversial president of Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, spoke out to claim that it was the organization's le…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2026
Rock legend Nick Cave might have been a natural to ask to write a theme song for "Train Dreams," even if he didn't have any personal connections or ins with the filmmakers or cast. One of hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:28PM[SHARE]Backstage at the benefit that took place Wednesday night under the name A Concert for Altadena, star and co-organizer Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes was talking about how he came close to thinkin…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2026
A new David Byrne cover version of Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" has been released to celebrate Thursday's fifth anniversary of the release of her blockbuster debut single. It's the fir…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2026
The Resonator Awards will return in late January in what is being billed as a "kick-off" to Grammy week, with Chaka Khan, St. Vincent and Haim among the figures being honored in a program be…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04AM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2026
Stephen Schwartz, the songwriter behind classic musicals from "Godspell" and "Pippin" to "Wicked," has revealed he will not be taking part in a program spotlighting him at the Kennedy Center…
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