Thursday, May 26, 2022
When someone who has made a four-decade career out of being funny decides to take a step back from what made them famous, there’s always that potentially nagging sense of self-doubt that c…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PMThursday, May 19, 2022
The Pasadena Playhouse has announced its lineup for the 2022-23 season, including a six-month Sondheim Celebration that will kick off in January 2023. The celebration is dubbed to be the mos…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMFriday, May 6, 2022
Levi Kreis was a born performer, a singer-songwriter touring for audiences from the age of 12 and landing a full scholarship to study piano at Vanderbilt University when he was only a sophom…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMThursday, April 7, 2022
After almost 50 years as an interviewer, comedian and talk show host, David Letterman’s pedigree on stage feels so firmly established that it’s hard to imagine a situation where he’d b…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMNo matter how many people tied to the Comedy Store you ask about the late Mitzi Shore, the connective tissue between their answers is an almost identical impression of the late owner. David …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThe Comedy Store turns 50 this year, and it’s now known as a storied birthplace for the careers of literally hundreds of comedians — from David Letterman to Jim Carrey to Whoopi Goldberg…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMFriday, November 5, 2021
When Louis Faranda and his team started putting together the New York Comedy Festival after a year’s absence due to the pandemic, they knew it would be a lot of work — it always is. But …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Just for Laughs Montréal is the world’s largest international comedy festival and this year it’s taking that notion to a new level. With COVID travel restrictions making it impossible t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMBert Kreischer can pinpoint the exact moment his life changed: Dec. 28, 2016. Before then, Kreischer had been a stand-up comedian for about 20 years and had achieved what appeared to be a go…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, March 18, 2021
Aaron Sorkin is widely considered the king of film and TV dialogue. Actors line up for a chance to feast on his words and the opportunity to deliver a Sorkin-penned speech. And yet his monol…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10PMMonday, February 15, 2021
Jamie Dornan is happy to get silly, even showing up for an interview sporting a bikini t-shirt, swag from his new film. The film in question is “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” Krist…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:29PMFriday, April 26, 2019
Terry Fator always knew he’d be an entertainer when he grew up, he just didn’t know he’d be doing it as a ventriloquist or that he’d be one of America’s top — and top-paid — ta…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThursday, April 4, 2019
You may have heard of stage actors holding for laughs — when they have to wait to continue their lines because an audience is laughing so loud. But holding for tears? It’s happened, and …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PMFriday, November 30, 2018
As with anyone who gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s journey is the result of hard work and inspiration, along with influences and confluences that shaped and…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, November 1, 2018
The New York Comedy Festival, founded 15 years ago by club impresario Caroline Hirsch, features hundreds of standups, sketch and improv artists performing all over the city over the course o…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSaturday, September 8, 2018
After his film “Moonlight” won the Academy Award, Barry Jenkins had a lot of offers — but not from Marvel. The filmmaker stopped by the Variety Studio presented by AT&T at T…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:06PMMonday, August 20, 2018
Twenty years ago, Jennifer Garner thought her career couldn’t get better. She’d survived nine months of sleeping in a kitchen in Manhattan and eating spaghetti with butter while understu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMFriday, June 8, 2018
Here are some of the artists receiving special Tony Award honors on Sun., June 10. JOHN LEGUIZAMO Leguizamo has been a regular fixture on Broadway since his first show on the Great White Way…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMBroadway is as American as apple pie — or at least as American as the Big Apple. But this year, a lot of the nominees for Broadway’s biggest night have one thing in common: A British pas…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
It’s been a good year for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songwriting and composing duo better known as Pasek and Paul. After landing an Academy Award for their song, “City of Dreams” …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:23PMWhen the Academy Awards were first handed out 89 years ago, Variety reported at the time that the planning for the dinner and ceremony at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood took about a week o…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Every year, Variety hosts an intimate brunch where it honors 10 Directors to Watch and the recipients of the Creative Impact Awards the morning following the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
While Saoirse Ronan soars as the title character in “Lady Bird,” she would be nowhere without her best friend Julie, played by Beanie Feldstein. The 24-year-old actress is also currently…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThursday, September 21, 2017
Jeff Dunham has always maintained full control over the world of characters that he’s created, and over the years has built various companies (On a Stick Prods., Red Wire Blue Wire — “…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, August 14, 2017
Though it was billed as an evening with “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Tituss Burgess on Saturday night at the Sayers Club, there was cause for double celebration when moderato…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:53PMThursday, June 15, 2017
Aline Brosh McKenna, the co-creator (with star Rachel Bloom) of the CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” is hard at work on the third season of the musical comedy, after the season-two finale s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, June 7, 2017
The hidebound tradition of the Broadway cast recording gets a shake-up this year, as the Tonys team with music label Broadway Records for an album that’s not songs from just one show – i…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
The British actress Imogen Poots recently seen in “Green Room” and “Roadies” will wrap her theater debut playing Honey in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” before heading to Ca…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AMMonday, April 17, 2017
Asked to pick his favorite memories at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Gary Sinise can only muster: “Oh, geez.” It’s a tall order, for sure, and one on which Sinise could spend hou…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMMonday, April 10, 2017
It’s been 27 years since Richard Gere and Julia Roberts charmed their way through “Pretty Woman” and today Gere is seated in a room at the Beverly Wilshire, the very hotel where they s…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney are best friends who genuinely love working together; it’s not difficult to imagine them doing this for the next 40 years — particularly since the pair ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:05PM 
