BAFTAs awards producer Nick Bullen believes Twitter criticism of Ariana DeBose’s opening number at Sunday’s awards show was “incredibly unfair.” Speaking to Variety the morning after…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06AMA new stage adaptation of “A Little Life,” one of the most heartrending stories of modern literature, is finally coming to the West End, with starring roles for James Norton and “It’…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:19AMAriana DeBose and Jennifer Jason Leigh have joined Chris Pine’s directorial debut, “Poolman.” Fully financed by Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, the actors join an existing cast of Annette…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMWe’ll have to wait a while longer for Timothée Chalamet’s West End debut. “4000 Miles,” the play that was to be headlined by the “Dune” star, has been canceled at the Old Vic tw…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:55AMPatrons of London’s renowned subway system, the Underground, are used to seeing ubiquitous posters for the West End as they travel, but few can make heads or tails of an untitled poster fe…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:34PMIn 2022, Jodie Comer will say goodbye to the TV role that made her a household name — Villanelle in BBC America’s “Killing Eve” — and forge ahead with a promising film career and t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20AMThe stars of Cannes Film Festival opener “Annette” opened up on Wednesday about the demands of making Leos Carax’s rock opera and the film’s parallels with the real-life demands of f…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:49AMItalian metal band Måneskin, winners of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, is under investigation after their off-stage antics went viral during the grand final. Footage shared widely on soc…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMEurovision is back after two years, and the 65th edition of the world’s biggest music competition doesn’t stand to disappoint. There’s more global interest than ever this year thanks t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:36AMBerlin Film Festival organizers have said that staging their planned “Summer Special” in-person event in June is proving to be a “bigger challenge” given a recent update to the count…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMDavid Beckham is set to present a new Disney Plus series called “Save Our Squad.” Co-produced by Twenty Twenty and Beckham’s production outfit Studio 99, the series will find the footb…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:47PMAs writer Jakub Żulczyk faces charges for calling Poland president Andrzej Duda a “moron” on Facebook, and online event “Herstories for Women’s Day” is suddenly pulled, Polish lea…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01PM“Everyone Is Doing Great,” the comedy created by “One Tree Hill” alumni James Lafferty and Stephen Colletti, is heading to Paramount Plus outside the U.S. The ViacomCBS-backed SVOD h…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:52PMExactly one year since U.K. theaters shuttered their doors, 95% report being worse off due to the COVID-19 crisis. A new survey by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and nationwide org UK …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMA group of top British talent agents are convening to create a working group tackling issues of race faced by actors of color in the U.K. The collective of agents are part of the Personal Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:05AMBBC Three, the U.K. public broadcaster’s youth-skewing brand and the home of shows like “Fleabag” and “Normal People,” is returning as a broadcast channel. The BBC on Tuesday confi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12AMWith this week’s launch of streaming service BBC Select, one of the world’s most recognizable media brands is joining North America’s streaming ranks on its own terms for the very firs…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57PMFounded by Oscar-winning “Man on Wire” producer Simon Chinn and Emmy winner Jonathan Chinn, high-end documentary producer Lightbox is navigating the next phase of its evolution, and exit…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PMKenneth Branagh will play U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a new Sky TV series detailing Britain’s muddled response to the COVID-19 crisis. The five-part drama will be directed and wri…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PM“You are going to die in an hour and a half. You are going to die at the end of the play.” This is the ominous warning uttered to King Berenger in the opening minutes of Eugène Ionesco�…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMFor Brooklyn-born comic Colin Quinn, the Just for Laughs festival is the ultimate convention for comedians: “You see all your old friends and do a little shop talk,” he explains. The SNL…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:00PMIf you asked Colin Firth what his favourite piece of music was during his years studying acting in London, he would point out a Frederick Delius piece sung by the late Canadian contralto Mau…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:45PMThe fourth annual Just For Laughs Comedy Conference announced Tuesday that it will honour actor and comedian Garry Shandling with a lifetime achievement award. Shandling has worked as a tele…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:36PMCBC/Radio-Canada is about to be dealt a 5% blow to its parliamentary allocation in the next budget, Heritage Minister James Moore said. The minister gave his first major interview since the …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:15PMJames Taylor has never been one to shy away from telling stories in between songs. During his Saturday evening concert at Toronto’s Rexall Centre — the first pop performance of the inaug…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:42PMThe Soulpepper theatre company unveiled its summer 2011 lineup Thursday, with six shows including The Glass Menagerie, The Kreutzer Sonata, Exit the King, White Biting Dog, The Price and Bil…
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