Tuesday, October 3, 2017
For Variety's latest issue, we asked Lin-Manuel Miranda to write a tribute to Oskar Eustis, one of 50 people to make our New Power of New York list. Here's why Eustis, the artistic director …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10PM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2017
In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting that killed at least 58 people in Las Vegas and injured hundreds more during a country music concert, entertainment figures are begging the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
When Barbara Cook had been hired to play the lead in "She Loves Me," my image of her was based on the roles I had seen her play. I thought she was more or less an innocent ingénue. The firs…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2016
Vice-president elect Mike Pence went to see the hip-hop musical “Hamilton” on Broadway Friday night, and the performance was disrupted when the audience wouldn’t stop booin…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
A collection of awards season contenders including “Jackie,” “La La Land,” “Arrival” and “Manchester By the Sea” will screen at the Savannah F…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
Edward Albee, who shocked Broadway audiences with his play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1962, died Friday at his home in Montauk, Long Island in New York. He was 88…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
"You are the writer, but I am the author!" When famed ghost-singer Marni Nixon said those words to me, her ghostwriter, I didn't quite understand how any of it would work. I had written prev…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54PM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2016
Controversy magnet Shia LaBeouf earned big laughs Thursday playing a demented military General whose fear of fluoride leads to armageddon in a raucous Live Read of the 1964 classic "Dr. Stra…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
Though much of Mickey Rooney’s most notable work appeared more than 70 years ago, the Hollywood community remembers him fondly as a hardworking actor who started his career as a child …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:49AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
Alec Baldwin says simply “I give up” on the cover of the latest issue of New York Magazine. But what’s he giving up? In a wide-ranging rant, he explains that he’s not…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2014
The last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers made famous in “The Sound of Music” died this week at her home in Vermont. Maria von Trapp, the second-oldest…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:21PM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2013
“August: Osage County” star Julia Roberts will be honored with the Palm Springs Film Festival’s Spotlight Award at the Jan. 4 awards gala. The festival runs Jan. 3-13. R…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2013
British theater director Matthew Warchus (“God of Carnage”) is set to direct “Pride,” an ensemble period dramedy toplined by Bill Nighy (“The Best Exotic Marigo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
James Gandolfini, who won three Emmys for his portrayal of flawed antihero and conflicted mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos,” died in Italy at the age of 51 of a possible he…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 1, 2013
Jean Stapleton, who won three Emmys and charmed audiences as the “dingbat” Edith Bunker on the groundbreaking TV show “All in the Family,” died Friday in New York of …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
Film critic Roger Ebert was not only the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, but one of the only critics known to the general public, thanks to his long-running movie review shows suc…
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