Ariana DeBose made history on Sunday night by becoming the first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar for her work as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” The m…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:25PMBroadway veteran Cheyenne Jackson was ready to take another break from musical theater as he had done once before. That is until he got an offer he couldn’t refuse. “Oh, Mary!” directo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:37AMNicole Scherzinger has apologized after facing backlash on social media Thursday evening after she posted a positive comment on an Instagram an post by Russell Brand in which he flashes a …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06PMAngelina Jolie on Broadway? After taking home a Tony in June as a producer on best musical winner “The Outsiders,” Jolie tells me she may be interested in making her Broadway acting debu…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:09AMBroadway is raising its curtains for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Broadway Rallies for Kamala will take place in New York City on Oct. 14 and features stars of the stage and screen. The event…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:22PMOrville Peck may be headed to Broadway. The masked country singer hinted that he could be working on a project for the New York stage at an appearance Tuesday night at the Grammy Museum in L…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PMAlan Cumming has been named the new artistic director of Scotland’s Pitlochry Festival Theatre. The Tony winner will join Pitlochry Festival Theatre in January, with his programmed season…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMSasha Velour is in San Diego rehearsing “Velour: A Drag Spectacular,” her new autobiographical stage show at the La Jolla Playhouse. The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 9 winner and �…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMAugust kicked off with music superstar Maluma celebrating the opening of his new restaurant Casa Eterna in Medellin, Colombia. At the same time, celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Martha St…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:38PMCole Escola, the 37-year-old star and writer of the hit Off Broadway farce ”Oh, Mary!,” isn’t letting fame get to their head. (Escola identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronoun…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PM“Drag: The Musical” has announced the dates of its off-Broadway run. The show, about two rival drag bars that go head-to-head amid financial troubles, was written by “RuPaul’s Drag R…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMAfter Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose closed the 77th ceremony at Lincoln Center by dropping her mic and announcing, “DeBose — out,” this year’s winners, nominees, presenters and Broa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PMIt’s an early Friday morning in May and comedian Alex Edelman is on a Zoom video call from a Los Angeles hotel. He has a bit of a bed head and says that he had to borrow the socks he is we…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:43PMJay Marcus has been working in film and television for more than a decade, but he also has no problem boasting that he is a “theater nerd.” “I could talk about theater more than anythi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:18PMThough the Human Rights Campaign gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles contended with a brief interruption by protestors calling for a Gaza ceasefire, the annual stayed largely on course, se…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PMTalk about loyalty. Betty Buckley has been staying at the Chateau Marmont for about 50 years. She first checked in when she landed the role of Abby Bradford, Dick Van Patten’s new wife and…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMElton John’s touring life may have come to an end last year with his five-year, 330-concert worldwide Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, but the work continues, including recording new music…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10PMJoe Locke, the breakout star of “Heartstopper,” has always had dreams of being on Broadway. Now, at just 20 years old, the British actor has made his Broadway debut as Tobias Ragg in the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29AMThis year’s Met Gala will be a garden party. Vogue announced Thursday that the 2024 gala — taking place May 6 — will coincide with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PMBroadway is coming to Santa Monica. Jenna Ushkowitz (“Glee”) and Merle Dandridge (“The Last of Us,” “Station 19”) are teaming up and gathering their singer friends to raise money…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PMRiley Keough, Bob Odenkirk and Danny Ramirez will star in a live reading of the Oscar-nominated drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” as will Jay Ellis, Kate Berlant, Quincy Isaiah and Olivia Wilde…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMNew Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre is returning to the award-winning “Drag: The Musical.” McIntyre reprises the role of Tom Hutchinson, which he originated in the 2022 launch of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:58AM“Smash” is about to take another major step in its march to Broadway. The cast and crew will gather for six weeks starting this month to mount a full stage and choreographed workshop, wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMZurin Villanueva was starring in the national tour of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” when news broke in May that the music icon had died at age 83. A week later, while performing the sc…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:23PMPower publicist Alla Plotkin is teaming up with Jillian Roscoe, becoming a partner in Birch Public Relations. Roscoe launched the firm in March 2023 after leaving ID PR. Plotkin also departe…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMIt’s good to know that Ben Platt and Molly Gordon’s failed childhood romance didn’t keep them from remaining life-long friends. The actors star in “Theater Camp,” a mockumentary ab…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:26PMI’m on the phone with J. Harrison Ghee when they walk into their dressing room at the Shubert Theatre before Tuesday night’s performance of “Some Like It Hot.” It’s their first sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:54PMIs there going be a musical episode of “Only Murders in the Building” in Season 3?! While it hasn’t been officially confirmed that Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez will be s…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:50PMSterling K. Brown could be on his way to Broadway. The three-time Emmy winner will star in a reading of a new stage production of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on May 18 in New Yor…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46PMPeppermint wants back on “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” She famously was runner-up in Season 9 when Sasha Velour took the crown after her iconic rose petal-filled finale lip sync. “I would lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMThe Tonys has asked the Writers Guild of America for a waiver in order to go ahead with plans for Broadway’s biggest night of the year. A source confirms that the request was filed with th…
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