Monday, February 24, 2025
"Heathers the Musical" is returning to New York after an extended run in London and throughout the United Kingdom. The show will play a limited engagement through Sept. 28 at New World Stage…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
Holiday blockbusters like "Mufasa: The Lion King" and "Gladiator II" and a re-release of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" helped lift profits and revenues at Imax during its fourth quarter…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Cynthia Erivo, fresh off the box office success of "Wicked," will command center stage on Broadway's biggest night as host of the 78th Tony Awards. She takes over as emcee from Ariana DeBose…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
President Trump said Wednesday that he'd been "unanimously" elected to lead the board of the Kennedy Center, completing his takeover of the Washington, D.C. cultural center. The move, which …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:48PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
When Jeremy O. Harris was tapped to help reinvigorate the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he didn't just think about traditional showcases for plays and musicals. "The American festivals that…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2025
Tituss Burgess is about to don Mary Todd Lincoln's bouncy curls and voluminous gowns. The "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" star will take over the lead role in Broadway's "Oh, Mary!" after Betty …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2025
"44," a humorous musical about Barack Obama's presidency, has announced its complete casting ahead of its production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. The show, which is produced by Monica Saunde…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Tommy Dorfman will star in New York Theatre Workshop's upcoming production of "Becoming Eve." The show was written by Emil Weinstein ("A League of Their Own") and is based on the memoir by A…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2025
From thrillers like "Babygirl" and "Love Lies Bleeding" to genre-bending horror flicks like "The Substance" to inspirational sports dramas like "The Fire Inside," women directed some of last…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43PM[SHARE]Jennifer Lopez keeps having to remind Judy Robles that she deserves all the attention she's been getting as the pair promote "Unstoppable." The inspirational sports drama has been earning aw…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:42PM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2024
Disney's "Mufasa: The Lion King" is reigning over the holiday box office. The family film, which is a prequel to "The Lion King" (both the 1994 animated classic and the less canonical 2019 p…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23AM[SHARE]Mark O'Meara, a Virginia-based movie theater owner, wonders and worries constantly about what exactly his customers will buy tickets to see on any given weekend. It's not that people have fa…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2024
The Southampton Playhouse, a historic cinema that is being revitalized into a state-of-the-art movie theater, announced its leadership team on Tuesday. Maria A. Ruiz Botsacos, a top executiv…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2024
"Swept Away," a musical that mixed together a shipwreck, cannibalism and the music of the Avett Brothers, hoped to defy conventional wisdom about what constitutes a Broadway hit. Instead …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2024
Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of "Hello Dolly!" and "Hair" who died in September at the age of 48, was celebrated Monday as a passionate artist and activist in an emotional memori…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2024
"Swept Away," a musical about four men stranded at sea, had a landlocked genesis. John Logan, the show's Oscar-nominated and Tony-winning writer, started teasing out the idea for the musical…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:50AM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2024
"Slumdog Millionaire," the Oscar-winning film about a young man from an impoverished background who competes on India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," could be headed for the s…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2024
"Sleep No More,"  the immersive experience that revolutionized the theater scene, has announced its  final performance. The influential, site-specific show will close follo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
"Back to the Future: The Musical," a pricey stage adaptation of the beloved sci-fi adventure, is packing up the DeLorean. The production will have its final Broadway performance on Sunday, J…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2024
"I'm smaller in real life," Laura Donnelly tells me after I admit that I didn't recognize her, standing pensively by the entrance to the midtown bar where we're meeting, scanning the room. I…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:16AM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2024
Playwright and actor Ryan O'Connor has written a modern, unapologetically queer take on Nöel Coward's classic comedy "Hay Fever." Entitled "The Cowards: A Marvelously Queer New Comedy," the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:41PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
The Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall for the show's 78th edition. It's the first time that the annual celebration of the best of Broadway has been held at the Midtown Manhatt…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2024
Nicole Scherzinger sounds like a kid desperately clinging to those last fleeting moments of summer break before school starts. She's calling from an airport in Portugal, having recently wrap…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2024
A frosty start to the summer movie season was devastating for AMC Theatres, the world's biggest exhibitor. The theater chain's quarterly earnings were severely impacted by a lack of blockbus…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PM[SHARE]Elizabeth Lail, Zane Phillips and Nic Ashe are set to star in the off Broadway premiere of "Pretty Perfect Lives," a look at sexual exploration, internet addiction and the danger…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
Jen Namoff, a prominent talent manager and Tony Award-winning producer, will join the New York office of Artists First. She is known for managing a deep roster of entertainment talent at her…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2024
Peter Friedman, the star of "Job," takes his time getting to the theater each day. Sometimes he'll board a local train from his home on the Upper West Side instead of the express that gets h…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:02PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2024
Betty Buckley, the Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated actor and singer, has signed with Sugar23. Best known for her performances in on stage, particularly for her soaring rendition of "Memory…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Willkommen, bienvenue Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho. There's a new act at the Kit Kat Club. Lambert, a Grammy nominee and "American Idol" breakout, and Cravalho, the star of the movie ada…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2024
Is it a musical? Is it a roller derby? Is it a game-show? When the roller-skating phenomenon that is "Starlight Express" opened in London in 1984 it was all of those and more, as evidenced b…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Regardless of one's political allegiance, it's almost universally agreed that in recent years political expediency rather than truth has been, literally, the governing principle behind speec…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PM[SHARE] 
