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…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Some pop fans might have gone into 2025 anticipating a year's worth of the shakes, suffering from Eras Tour withdrawal. But there was no need for anyone to go cold turkey on live music these…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 25, 2025
Christmas albums still have a bit of a stigma among fans of higher-cred artists. It can be difficult, first, to overcome the expectation that they're either cash grabs or sops to sentimental…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Elizabeth Chan is in her 15th consecutive year of releasing a new Christmas album every year, and going through a divorce and becoming a single mom was not about to put a stop to that person…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2025
It will be A Very Harlequin Christmas for Lady Gaga fans. The singer is announcing today that her long-awaited concert film "Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live " One Night Only" will arrive down fa…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Cheap Trick has been feeling the heat from some fans since performing at the Donald J. Trump-hosted Kennedy Center Honors, an event that has become a political flashpoint since the president…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
Hitchcock & Herrmann " the alliteration rolls off the tongue almost as agreeably as the collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann came to fruition in the 1950s and '60s…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2025
Variety won 20 first-place trophies Sunday night at the 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, up from the 14 the publication scored in last year's competition. Varie…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
"I'm so young and you're so old," Paul Anka sang in the very first line of his very first hit, "Diana," in 1958. It's the kind of lyric you could seemingly only get away with when you're 15,…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Finding the ideal artist to reopen the historic Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs might have seemed like a tall order, at least if the 89-year-old venue's new operators wanted to touch every pos…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PM[SHARE]While Dead & Company fans await word on whether that band will be returning to Sphere next year, there's some other good news for fans of improvisationally rich rock bands: Phish will be…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 27, 2025
What a long, strange bubble ride it's been. But the work of songwriter Stephen Schwartz on "Wicked" " the property he first discovered as a source novel and has led into Broadway and dual fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
Shaboozey and Stephen Wilson Jr. chose the CMA Awards telecast for the live television premiere performance of their theme for the Stephen King adaptation "The Long Walk." Titled "Took a Wal…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile have blended their voices on a few occasions in impromptu or concert settings, but not for an official recording until now. The occasion that finally brough…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:03AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2025
Fresh lettering has gone up on the marquee at Antone's nightclub in Austin: "Forever." That may err on the side of slightly wishful thinking, but the club at least has a better head start on…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
The 40th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony lasted for about five nonstop hours Saturday, at least for those watching live at L.A.'s Peacock Theatre or as a stream on Dis…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:34PM[SHARE]Before there was the self-proclaimed Midwest Princess, there was the queen of Queens in New York. They came together in a glittery cosmic convergence Saturday night at the Rock & Roll Ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:28PM[SHARE]David Letterman, who in 2002 hosted Warren Zevon's final television appearance before his death, paid tribute to his friend Saturday night with a lengthy induction speech at the Rock & R…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
For nearly the entirety of the "Wicked: One Wonderful Night"Â TV special, which aired on NBC Wednesday night, the performances were focused on Stephen Schwartz's songs from the two "Wicked…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01PM[SHARE]Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller seem like birds of an eternal feather, having played together frequently over the decades, but there is a first time for everything. And for these two, that f…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
If only we could hear Norma Desmond rise up and sing: Don't cha wish your girflriend, that little tart Betty Schaefer, was hot like me? That does not happen in Nicole Scherzinger's current r…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:20PM[SHARE]Two rarities during the musical performances on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend: actual rock 'n' roll was performed. Even rarer than that, Thomas Jefferson was quoted " prominently and at…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
Is there such a thing as… an intimate arena? That may seem like the type of oxymoron that could only belong to the show-biz hype lexicon. But plenty of southern Californians would swear th…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:53PM[SHARE]Brandi Carlile's "Returning to Myself" album, her first solo release in four years, is likely to debut in the top 10 when album chart results come in this weekend. Her appearance on "Saturda…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
As her new album opens, Brandi Carlile is having a slight argument with herself. The title track of the record, "Returning to Myself," wonders aloud about how much value there is in going de…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2025
What does it say that a Warren Zevon tribute concert Friday night featured more than 30 songs, was performed by well over 50 musicians, and stretched nearly to four hours in the end … and …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39PM[SHARE]Out of the many thousands " surely tens of thousands " of albums I've listened to in my time, I can't recall one that had me on the edge of my seat from the first moments to the last on firs…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
It's Warren Zevon season. That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that ne…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:26PM[SHARE]Brandi Carlile begins her new album with a verse raising the issue of mortality, and the question of what a godly design for these fleeting lives might be, if any at all. "Is there some free…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultane…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Two days before releasing her new "Returning to Myself" album, Brandi Carlile has announced a global tour for 2026, set to touch down in arenas in the U.S. in the early part of the year and …
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