Thursday, June 15, 2023
In a move certain to shock Los Angeles theatergoers, the Center Theatre Group (CTG) announced Thursday that it is canceling plans for a 2023-34 season at the Mark Taper Forum, one of the mos…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:22PMMonday, June 5, 2023
In front of the Broadway Theatre at the corner of Broadway and 53rd Street in Manhattan are posters for the venue’s incoming production, “Here Lies Love,” advertising a score by David …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:59PMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Nobody’s perfect, but “Some Like It Hot” was close enough for the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards, which gave the Broadway adaptation of the classic film comedy eight honors on Wednesday…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:58PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
“The Voice” has not been much concerned with current Broadway voices until now. That’ll change in a big way with this coming Monday’s episode, which will feature a show-stopping numb…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Comes a time when even Neil Young is going to set foot on a stage again after the pandemic, and the recently gig-shy legend turned in his first substantial live performance in almost four ye…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:16PMSaturday, April 8, 2023
A touring production of the stage version of “The Bodyguard” was brought to a halt and canceled in Manchester, England on Friday night after patrons would not stop singing along with the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
The verdicts on the new Broadway musical-comedy “Shucked” are in, and the critics have asked you to lend them your ears — so to speak — as they’ve cobbled together their reactions …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:55PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
The summer 2023 season for the Hollywood Bowl will kick off in June with an opening night concert pairing Janet Jackson with Ludacris and continue with shows by King Gizzard and the Lizard W…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01AMThursday, January 12, 2023
“Here Lies Love,” a celebrated “disco pop” stage musical with a score by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, dramatizing Imelda Marcos’ rise to prominence and downfall in the Philippines,…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
There’s seeing a movie with a live audience, and then there’s the probably once-in-a-lifetime experience that was Monday night’s Chinese Theatre screening of “RRR,” which had direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:14PMThursday, December 1, 2022
It’s a few days after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony when we find Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo holed up in the green room of a Beverly Hills performing arts center, talk…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01PMThursday, July 28, 2022
Incoming Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Pat Benatar and her musical partner and husband Neil Giraldo are announcing an L.A.-area November world premiere for “Invincible — The Musical,” a …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01PMMonday, July 18, 2022
There aren’t many Tony-winning productions in which one of the veteran creator-performers can announce that he’s retiring, right in the middle of a performance… and do it in song form�…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
According to Stephen Schwartz, nothing can follow “Defying Gravity.” And for the “Wicked” songwriter, that’s one key reason why the movie version of his blockbuster Broadway musica…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMThursday, June 16, 2022
“King James,” a new dramedy at the Mark Taper Forum, is a two-hander about a love triangle of sorts. The unseen third point in this romance, per the title: basketball legend LeBron James…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:58PMThursday, June 2, 2022
“Almost Famous” is almost ready for Broadway. The specific New York theater has yet to be announced, but opening dates for the musical adaptation of the Cameron Crowe film were revealed …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:34PMSaturday, April 16, 2022
After the Grammys earlier this month, comedian Rebecca Corry got hit with a flood of press requests, and not for any part she’d played in the proceedings. Everyone wanted to know what she …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMSaturday, February 26, 2022
If you’re easily triggered by 30- to 40-foot props, dance routines with dozens of performers, childish wonder, juvenile humor, drug-trip simulations or just color, by all means avoid “Ka…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:56PMSunday, December 12, 2021
When the pandemic hit, there were many aspects of the performing arts that adopted a livestream model, of course, as a necessity and a stopgap until normal life — and normal live — could…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:50PMTuesday, October 12, 2021
The new book “Get Back,” which is comprised of transcriptions of conversations during the making of the “Let It Be” album and film, put the lie to the idea that the Beatles were gett…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40PMSaturday, September 25, 2021
What do the Bride, Jackie Brown, Django, Mia Wallace, Hans Landa, Cottonmouth, Stuntman Mike McKay, Mr. Pink, Charles Manson and the Gimp all have in common? For one thing, that they’re al…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PMThursday, September 23, 2021
Initial casting is being revealed for the Pasadena Playhouse’s production of the Go-Go’s-scored musical comedy “Head Over Heels,” opening in a reconfigured, immersive setting within …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMMonday, August 23, 2021
Barry Manilow fans never got to hear the end of his set at Saturday’s “We Love NYC” Central Park concert, after the all-star show got shut down right in the middle of a Manilow medley.…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:08PMWednesday, August 18, 2021
“Head Over Heels,” the Broadway production that put the song catalog of the Go-Go’s to use as the basis of a narrative musical-comedy, is finally reaching the band’s hometown of Los …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42PMSunday, June 27, 2021
One of downtown Los Angeles’ landmark clock towers, the one atop the 1927 Tower Theatre, is no longer right just twice a day. More significantly, the landmark theater below it at 8th and B…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:41AMWednesday, June 23, 2021
More than a dozen of music’s biggest stars, from Beyoncé to H.E.R., would love an Emmy to add to their award shelves. A Variety review of the 535 entries throughout the Television Academy…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:39PMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Dave Grohl is determined to be at the forefront of some post-quarantine firsts. Foo Fighters played the first Los Angeles stadium show of the pandemic era, with a closing set at the filming …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMSunday, May 16, 2021
Clive Davis has a gig as music’s own new Barbara Walters, if he wants it. For the second half of his two-part virtual “Grammy gala” this year, the music mogul doubled down in Saturday …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:56PMFriday, April 23, 2021
Returning to the scene of the crime seemed to Sara Bareilles like a good way to promote her just-announced live album, “Amidst the Chaos: Live at the Hollywood Bowl,” and so the singer-s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PMThursday, April 22, 2021
Jim Steinman was an ultimate officiant in the marriage of rock ‘n’ roll and theater. The songwriter, who died April 19, only had a handful of productions play out on the legit stage, inc…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:18PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
Clive Davis has announced the second part of his virtual “Pre-Grammy Gala,” delayed from its original date of the night before the awards, with music veterans like Elton John, Joni Mitch…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30AM 
