JoAnn M. Hunter, the choreographer of Broadway's "School of Rock" and "Bad Cinderella," has been hired to direct the upcoming musical "Yasuke: The Black Samurai." This production, which Hunt…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:54PM[SHARE]Angelina Jolie may get the award for most enthusiastic audience member. The A-list star was seated in the front row at the Tony Awards on Sunday and jumped to her feet at every win for "The …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Audra McDonald will portray the ultimate stage mom, Mama Rose, in the upcoming Broadway revival of "Gypsy." George C. Wolfe, a Tony winner for "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" and …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Theatres, gives me a choice. We're supposed to have a 20-minute interview in Las Vegas at CinemaCon, a four-day gathering of movie theater owners and Hollywood stud…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Robert Downey Jr. will make his Broadway debut this fall in the new play, "McNeal." Written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher ("To Kill a Mockingbird"), "McNeal" will star Downey …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PM[SHARE]AMC Theatres, the world's largest cinema chain, is leaning into distribution. The company is expanding its distribution team with a key hire and promotion, underscoring its commitment to rel…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Mary Todd Lincoln had grand ambitions of being a cabaret star, at least according to playwright Cole Escola. Now, the former first lady is getting her due on the grandest stage of all. "Oh, …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Break out the dumpling wrappers and mahjong sets because "Crazy Rich Asians" is coming to Broadway. The beloved romantic comedy is being developed as a Broadway musical by director Jon M. Ch…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]"West Side Story" star Rachel Zegler and "Heartstopper" breakout Kit Connor will make their Broadway debuts in "Romeo+ Juliet," a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's classic that will ope…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AM[SHARE]Ariana DeBose will host the Tony Awards for the third consecutive year. Broadway's biggest night will take place on June 16 in New York City at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. I…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sufjan Stevens is bringing his musical talents to Broadway. The singer-songwriter's show "Illinoise," based on his album of the same name, will open at the St. James Theatre in the spring. T…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01AM[SHARE]Climate change protestors disrupted Thursday night's performance of Broadway's "An Enemy of the People." The disturbance briefly halted the play and resulted in several of the cast members, …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:31AM[SHARE]Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will return to Broadway to interpret the Bard. They will star in a revival of Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello," which opens in the spring of 2025 and is …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:46AM[SHARE]Netflix is getting into the business of Broadway. The streaming behemoth is producing the upcoming play "Patriots," from "The Crown" creator Peter Morgan. The show, set in 1991 after the fal…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22PM[SHARE]"My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)" has postponed its Broadway debut. The comedic play, which premiered on London's West End, will open next season instead of this spring. The one-pers…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:47PM[SHARE]"Kiss the Future," a documentary produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and featuring Bono and Bill Clinton, is coming to the big screen next month. The film will receive a theatrical run ex…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PM[SHARE]Hats off to "Gutenberg! The Musical!" The Broadway show, starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (whose characters wear dozens of caps) as they reunited 12 years after "The Book of Mormon," ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:56PM[SHARE]"Vanderpump Rules" star Ariana Madix will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in "Chicago." She will play the blond-haired ingenue, the one whose name is on everybody's lips, for an eight-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:37AM[SHARE]Jason Biggs, Edie Falco and Hank Azaria have joined the producing team of "The White Chip," a comedy that will premiere Off-Broadway in 2024. Described as a "wry and wild" journey, the story…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]RWS Global, the world's largest producer of live experiences, has hired former NBCUniversal executive Chris Lucarz as chief financial officer. In his new role, Lucarz will oversee all financ…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star in the world premiere of "Mother Play," a new Broadway show by playwright Paula Vogel. Tina Landau is directing the limited engag…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift is here to save movie theaters. Her "Eras Tour" concert film, which opens theatrically on Oct. 13, has already earned a massive $26 million in presale tick…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:57AM[SHARE]"Once Upon a One More Time," a fairy tale-inspired musical powered by the discography of Britney Spears, is closing on Broadway. The show, which opened in June, will play its final performan…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:44PM[SHARE]"The Outsiders," a musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 movie, is heading to Broadway. The show will open on April 11, 2024 at the Bernard B. Jac…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:36AM[SHARE]AMC Theatres has promoted Ellen Copaken to lead its marketing department. As senior VP of marketing, effective immediately, she will report to AMC's chairman and CEO Adam Aron and will join …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:05PM[SHARE]Broadway Across America, a touring network of shows and musicals, has set a new executive team. As part of the shakeup, Richard Jaffe, who currently serves as co-CEO, is taking over as the s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda is adapting a stage musical version of "The Warriors," Sol Yurick's 1965 novel. That book inspired a 1979 cult action thriller directed by Walter Hill that is even more…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PM[SHARE]AMC Theatres is scrapping its plan to charge moviegoers more money for a better view of the screen. The company announced it is no longer moving forward with "Sightline at AMC," a ticket pri…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PM[SHARE]In the battle of the bomb vs. the bombshell… why not both? Plenty of moviegoers are making the decision to watch Christopher Nolan's atomic drama "Oppenheimer"Â and Greta Gerwig's colorf…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Washington Heights, a neighborhood in northern Manhattan that's best known to theater lovers as the setting of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first hit show, played host to thousands in the Broadway c…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:03AM[SHARE]Although "Funny Girl" isn't eligible at this year's Tony Awards, the cast of the Broadway musical is performing a musical number during Sunday's ceremony. It's an unconventional move since t…
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