Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Tina Fey took time out from the opening of her husband’s latest Broadway effort on Monday night to shower praise on NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt as he received the Actors …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Ashley DeSimone spent more than a dozen years on Wall Street, working as an equities analyst and in investor relations. But her heart always belonged to Broadway. After 11 years as a partner…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20PM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2016
Producers of “Grease Live” are scrambling to fix a sound snafu that crept up during Julianne Hough’s performance of “Hopelessly Devoted to You” during the live …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Before there was Tessio, before there was Fish, Abe Vigoda made his name on the stage. In the 1950s and '60s, the actor who died Tuesday at 94 did everything from Shakespeare to musical c…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04PM[SHARE]Friday, January 15, 2016
Joy is the word for the producer and cast of Fox’s “Grease Live.” Cast members and producer Marc Platt were bubbly and as they discussed the ambitious live staging of the b…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2016
Bryan Cranston spent six months on stage in 2014 giving a tour-de-force performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in “All the Way.” But adapting the play by Robert Schenkkan for…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04PM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
WASHINGTON — Unveiling a variety of touches that broke from longstanding tradition, the Kennedy Center toasted five titans of the performing arts on Sunday in the 38th annual presentat…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
NBC’s “The Wiz Live!” delivered strong ratings in the major markets and with adults 18-49. Preliminary Nielsen ratings have the three-hour live telecast averaging a 4.4 rat…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:38PM[SHARE]Even as the rave reviews were flowing in via social media, "The Wiz Live" producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron were still sweating out the key moment they felt would make or break the produc…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:38PM[SHARE]David Alan Grier loosened up by joking around in a faux Shakespearean actor voice. Limber dancers in creature costumes, ranging from furry winged warriors to sexy poppies to sassy crows mill…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
John Benjamin Hickey, Christopher Denham and Mamie Gummer have gone from "Manhattan" to Manhattan. The trio of actors from the WGN America period drama are on stage in New York this fall in …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 31, 2015
Call it grassroots marketing in the Motor City. TCM is lending its feed this weekend to a Halloween-themed fundraiser for the last independent theater left in the heart of Detroit. Cinema De…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:50AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
NBCUniversal's plan to launch a streaming channel next year to better mine the value of "Saturday Night Live" and all of its late-night comedy programming has been no secret in TV and digita…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 24, 2015
Big challenges, big changes, happy accidents and getting there on diversity — these were among the topics tackled by top producers, showrunners, directors and execs on Saturday at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
The Broadway smash "Hamilton" has been the talk of the town since it opened in August. But the rap-based musical about one of the nation's founding fathers would not exist in its current …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Dennis Haysbert has joined the cast of “Undercover,” the limited series set to air next year on the BBC and BBC America. The six-part series penned by Peter Moffat revolves aroun…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
Nicole Scherzinger, a singer who is a staple of British TV including a regular gig on “The X Factor UK,” has signed on to NBC’s “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
Neil Patrick Harris wants to attract a very specific demographic with "Best Time Ever": Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K. and their ilk. On big key to the success of the show " a huge swing for NB…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2015
Legiters love their own, and they love pushing the boundaries of the stage. That was the clear vibe in the room at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday during the Tony Awards ceremony. It was evi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
The Kennedy Center has tapped White Cherry Entertainment, veteran producers of numerous TV events including the Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, to handle production of this year's Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Fox is developing an event special around “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the enduring midnight-movie classic that has been playing for 40 years. Kenny Ortega is on board to dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
TEL AVIV " Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his performance as Tevye the milkman in "Fiddler On the Roof," has been awarded Israel's highest honor: The Israel Prize for Lifetime Ach…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
The hefty three-year pact calls for Leight to develop new projects exclusively for the studio. But the deal also allows Leight to continue as showrunner on "SVU" for the coming 2015-16 seaso…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
Disney's long corporate runoff has come to an end with the promotion of Tom Staggs to chief operating officer. The Walt Disney Parks and Resort chairman has long been seen as the front-runne…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Disney shares shot up more than 7% in early trading Wednesday to top the $100 mark, thanks to the tailwind from Tuesday’s stellar quarterly earnings report. The Mouse House’s str…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2015
Joe Franklin, the New York media fixture who hosted one of TV’s first and longest-running talk shows, died Saturday. He was 88. “The Joe Franklin Show” was a Gotham latenig…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Time Warner and Disney were the showbiz’s biggest gainers in the stock market in 2014. Discovery Communications and Viacom were the biggest losers in what was generally a solid year fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
NBC’s three-hour “Peter Pan Live” telecast, starring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, scored a solid but unspectacular 2.3 rating/7 share in adults 18-49 and about …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
Allison Williams has taken wing on NBC’s “Peter Pan Live.” So far, so good with the first flight over London and a safe landing in the children’s room at the Darling …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Stephen Colbert has been tapped to host the Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 7. "He is best in class and will no doubt undue any solemnity that might otherwise attend the occasion," said Honors…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In its pursuit of audience-grabbing event programming, NBC is said to be eyeing a live staging of Aaron Sorkin's play "A Few Good Men."
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