Thursday, June 8, 2023
Variety has named its 10 Comics to Watch for 2023. This year’s honorees will be profiled in a special comedy issue of Variety on July 19. They will then be honored at this year’s J…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMFriday, March 24, 2023
Pictured: Casting directors Katja Zarolinski and Geoff Josselson of JZ Casting. This article first appeared as part of Jenelle Riley’s Acting Up newsletter – to subscribe for early con…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Since 2013, Variety has been selecting its list of 10 Brits to Watch, artists across all media who have made an impact in entertainment. This year’s honorees will be feted at the seventh a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, February 9, 2023
It’s a tricky proposition to talk to director Benjamin Caron about his new movie “Sharper.” Not because it doesn’t elicit conversation — there is so much in the wickedly smart thri…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17PMFriday, January 6, 2023
Jeremy Pope doesn’t break into a new medium quietly. The actor not only earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in 2018’s “Choir Boy” by Tarell Alvin McCraney, he also became…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMFriday, November 18, 2022
When playwright Danny Robins wrote “2:22 A Ghost Story,” he thought he chose the titular number at random. “I wanted something that had a ring to it,” he reveals. But when actor Tom …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, November 10, 2022
Even with an Academy Award and six Emmys on his mantel, Aaron Sorkin was intimidated by the idea of a bringing “To Kill a Mockingbird” to the stage. Harper Lee’s 1960 novel remains a b…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMSunday, November 6, 2022
In 2021 with America barely emerging from the pandemic, Louis Faranda and his team struggled to get comedians and clubs to commit to the New York Comedy Festival. This year, however, people …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, July 25, 2022
After losing more than 75 pounds for Season 4 of “Stranger Things,” in which his character Jim Hopper was wasting away in a Russian gulag, David Harbour had one thing on his mind. “A…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMThursday, July 21, 2022
One of the joys of live theater is that it’s ephemeral — a show is never the same from night to night. But “Freestyle Love Supreme” has taken that up a notch, presenting an entirely …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:47PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
On a pretty cul-du-sac 25 minutes south of Nashville, Nate Bargatze lives in sprawling two-story brick house that doesn’t stand out. He’d owned the house for a couple years before the ne…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThursday, 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 06:23PM 
