Thursday, April 9, 2026
Fiona Dourif, best known to "The Pitt" fans as Dr. McKay, has joined the cast of the horror film "A Head Full of Ghosts." She'll star alongside the previously announced ensemble of David Har…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Tom Felton is extending his run as the platinum-blonde baddie Draco Malfoy in Broadway's "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." He joined the show in November 2025 and was scheduled to depart …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
Focus Features will release a filmed version of Broadway's "Six" on the big screen over the summer. It will land in domestic cinemas on Aug. 14. "Six" imagines the wives of Henry VIII as a p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
The "Heated Rivalry" phenomenon is headed to the stage. "Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody" will run Off-Broadway this spring following eight sold-out concert performances earl…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
"I May Destroy You" creator Michaela Coel is writing and directing a remake of Jean-Claude Van Damme's martial arts classic "Bloodsport" for A24. Van Damme starred in 1988's "Bloodsport," wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2026
Maya Rudolph will be the latest star to don the bratty curls and hoop skirt for Cole Escola's sensation "Oh Mary!" She is making her Broadway debut as former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln on …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Nicole Travolta's solo show "Nicole Travolta Is Doing Alright" will return to the New York Stage this spring. The play is scheduled for an encore engagement at the SoHo Playhouse from April …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2026
Megan Thee Stallion will make her Broadway debut in "Moulin Rouge! The Musical." She's stepping into the role of nightclub impresario Harold Zidler, a part originated by Tony winner Danny Bu…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2026
John Turturro's crime thriller "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York" has sold to Sony Pictures Classics a month after its Sundance Film Festival premiere. A release date hasn't been set b…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2026
Broadway will remain closed on Monday amid the major winter storm that brought heavy snowfall to New York City. Venues on the Great White Way (a particularly apt nickname for the theater dis…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
Broadway will dim its lights early on Sunday due to the impending blizzard that's expected to take aim at New York City. After initially planning to remain open, most Broadway shows " includ…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2026
Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will star on Broadway in this fall's revival of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." This marks a reunion for the "Avengers" actors; Hiddleston is best kn…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Black Bear has acquired rights to "Wicker," a twisted romantic drama starring Olivia Colman as an ostracized woman who commissions a local basket maker to weave her a husband. Eleanor Wilson…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
"Baby Reindeer" breakout Jessica Gunning will portray Cass Elliot in "My Mama Cass," a biographical drama about the singer of the 1960s folk group the Mamas & The Papas. Adapted from Ell…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Director Sam Mendes is rounding out the call sheet for "The Beatles " A Four-Film Cinematic Event," his upcoming cinematic extravaganza about the wildly popular British band. "Bhaag Milkha B…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Jennifer Hudson is telling you, she is going to produce the Broadway revival of "Dreamgirls," which will open in the fall. Hudson won the Oscar for portraying Effie White in the 2006 movie v…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2026
After a record-breaking "Actors on Actors" season, Variety and CNN are joining forces again, this time for a one-of-a-kind town hall conversation featuring Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McC…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2026
"Moulin Rouge! The Musical" is closing after seven years on Broadway. The upbeat jukebox musical will play its final performance on July 26 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. By then, "Moulin Rou…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Baby is making her way across the United States. "Dirty Dancing: The Musical," a stage adaptation of the beloved 1987 romantic drama, is embarking on a North American tour. It will launch th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2026
Back in the fall of 2019, on the night of the first performance of "& Juliet" in Manchester, England, director Luke Sheppard was sweating. "Nobody had bought a ticket," he recalls.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
After an old-fashion, multi-day bidding war, Olivia Wilde's Sundance darling "The Invite" has sold to A24. A24 and Focus Features were locked in a tense fight for rights to the relationship …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2026
"Once upon a time, there lived an extraordinary man who connected all of us in this room," Ethan Hawke narrated to kick off the Sundance Institute's annual gala, fittingly a tribute to the f…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Martin Short will be the subject of a new Netflix documentary. "Marty, Life Is Short" will chronicle the rise and career longevity of the legendary comedian. The 75-year-old became famous as…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson will make their Broadway debuts in "The Fear of 13," a searing play about a wrongly convinced death row prisoner. "The Fear of 13" tells the true story of Nic…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 11, 2026
Ricky Gervais wasn't at the Golden Globes, where he won the award for best comedy special, so presenter Wanda Sykes took the opportunity to thank "God and the trans community" while acceptin…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PM[SHARE]Rose Byrne took home the first Golden Globe of her career for portraying a mother on the brink in the psychological genre-bending "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You." Byrne seemed genuinely surpris…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2026
"I swear to God. I'm going to kill myself," Kristen Stewart says, ribbing her longtime friend Jesse Eisenberg for watching her directorial debut, "The Chronology of Water," on his laptop. Â…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 28, 2025
Timothée Chalamet is officially the king of the Christmas box office. It's the third consecutive holiday season where the A-list star has dominated at the box office, a reign that began wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2025
Disney is developing a live-action film about Gaston, the boastful, brawny antagonist in "Beauty and the Beast." Luke Evans played Gaston in Disney's 2017 live-action "Beauty and the Beast" …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PM[SHARE]"Titanique," a campy Off Broadway hit, will open on Broadway in the spring. The show is a low-fi musical parody of James Cameron's disaster epic "Titanic" that uses Céline Dion's music to r…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Actors on Actors is ready for its closeup. Variety and CNN have revealed the star-studded lineup for the 23rd season of Actors on Actors, the Emmy-winning franchise that pairs the year's bes…
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