Ava DuVernay’s “13th” opened the 54th New York Film Festival with a jolt of topical urgency, shaking up tradition as the first documentary to kick off the festival and addr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05AMA slew of Broadway and Hollywood names have teamed up for a one-night only Broadway performance benefiting the Hillary Victory Fund, with Julia Roberts, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hugh Jackman a…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:03PMThere’s a movie hitting theaters this fall that pushes the technical limits of the filmmaking process to new extremes. But the filmmaker isn’t using his tech in the service of an effects…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe 2016 New York Film Festival is a big draw for the city’s movie lovers — and this year, it may attract a crowd of theater fans, too. From the premiere of a “Hamilton…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThe Complicite production of “The Encounter” opened on Broadway Sept. 29, following well-received productions at the Edinburgh International Festival and then in London. Matt T…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has launched a new series of initiatives aimed at combating the underrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMJohn Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, is a familiar figure. He’s the real-life equivalent of George Etherege’s “Man of Mode” and Aphra Behn’s “Rover” — a licentious …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMSplat! That’s playwright Neil LaBute with egg all over his face for penning “All the Ways to Say I Love You,” an embarrassingly clumsy one-act about an older wom…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMElizabeth LeCompte, founding member and director of the Wooster Group, the pioneering experimental theater troupe, has won the 2016 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with a cash pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PMGarth Drabinsky, the Canadian stage producer who’s served jail time for fraud and forgery, has locked in plans for his comeback production. “Sousatzka,” a new musical wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMKevin Kline is set to return to Broadway in a new revival of “Present Laughter,” slipping into the St. James Theater for an April opening. Kline, who hasn’t been on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PM“Jackie,” the biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy that picked up massive buzz at festivals in Venice and Toronto, has join the lineup of the 2016 New York Film Festival, where Pablo Larrain’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTony Awards, a Pulitzer, “Star Wars”: Lin-Manuel Miranda has had a damn good year. With everything that’s so obviously gone swimmingly for him, it seems like few people th…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AMLin-Manuel Miranda isn’t playing Dick Van Dyke’s character in “Mary Poppins Returns.” But according to the “Hamilton” creator, who goes into production on…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45AMLin-Manuel Miranda has long stumped for Hillary Clinton, but he explained why Donald Trump would be a dangerous president in a new interview with Variety. In a passionate conversation for th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMLin-Manuel Miranda is standing in the graveyard behind Trinity Church, just a few feet from where Alexander Hamilton is buried. On the 212th anniversary of Hamilton’s death, the playwrigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMIt’s official: Tony Award-winning British director Michael Grandage will direct Disney’s Broadway musical adaptation of “Frozen,” which is on track to open on Broad…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMIt looks like Broadway’s fall season has officially begun, with four plays starting previews last week and one of them — “The Front Page” — leaping into the …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMDavid Rabe (“Streamers,” “Hurlyburly”), a playwright in the midst of a creative resurgence, delivers a heavy but fascinating drama on the futility of understanding human relationshi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMThe live musical adaptation of Disney animated hit “Frozen” is said to be eyeing Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage (“Red”) and his frequent collaborator, d…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:10AMBroadway veterans Robert Ahrens and Chris Aniello have opened up Live Wire Theatrical Management, a new general management company for stage productions. The New York-based firm will focus o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM“Good Canary” is a very good film. Trouble is, it’s on stage. Directed for the third time by John Malkovich, after productions in French and Spanish, Zach Helm’s boulevard tragicomed…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:14PMArnon Milchan, the founder and chairman of New Regency, will receive the annual industry tribute at the 2016 Gotham Independent Film Awards, as part of a slate of Gotham tributes that alread…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMRamin Karimloo, who played Jean Valjean in the latest revival of “Les Miserables,” has been cast in “Anastasia,” the new Broadway musical based on 20th Century Fox…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM“Allegiance,” the Broadway musical that starred George Takei in a four-month run last season, will come to movie theaters around the country in a one-night-only December screeni…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, the 31-year-old playwright who’s considered one of the theater world’s most important young creatives, is among the 23 artists and scientists to receive a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13AMThe Marquis Theater seems to have found a profitable use for its Monday nights, with the Broadway venue — whose current tenant, “On Your Feet!,” is dark every Monday —…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!,” featuring Bette Midler in the title role, is shaping up to be a major commercial player this season, with theater owners reporti…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM“The Humans,” the Broadway production that won the 2016 Tony Award for new play, has recouped its capitalization costs, according to Scott Rudin and Barry Diller, who lead the sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:24AMGavin Creel and Kate Baldwin are among the actors set to join Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce in the highly anticipated Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” this spring. Creel,…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMBroadway’s “Something Rotten!,” a raucous Renaissance musical comedy, will close in January after a run of a bit less than two years. The show, the tale of two brothers who…
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