Wednesday, August 11, 2021
No one is going to rain on Beanie Feldstein’s parade. The “Booksmart” star will play Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl,” giving the actress an opportunity to put her own spin on a role th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
“Pose” star Jason Rodriguez is partnering with his longtime manager Ricardo Sebastián to form a new talent agency with a mission to elevate BIPOC, queer and trans creative talent. The n…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, August 2, 2021
The Moulin Rouge has a new leading lady. Natalie Mendoza will join the Broadway company of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” replacing Karen Olivo in the role of Satine when the Tony-nominate…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMMonday, July 12, 2021
Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones will star in Second Stage Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Lynn Nottage’s new play, “Clyde’s.” The cast will also include Reza Salazar (“S…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“Sleep No More,” the groundbreaking and immersive reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” will resume performances this fall, becoming the latest show to announce its return after …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM“Enemy of the People,” an interactive adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic morality tale, has cancelled all remaining performances. The Park Avenue Armory show was scheduled to continu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:17AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
“MJ,” the upcoming musical about the life of pop singer Michael Jackson, will begin performances in December, but when it does, a new actor will be moonwalking into the role of “The Gl…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMThursday, June 24, 2021
In another sign that New York’s cultural life is coming back after a long COVID-era hiatus, “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet” will premiere in September. The show will be the firs…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:58PMJamie Forshaw was recently able to do something he hasn’t been able to do for more than a year. The executive producer of Madison Wells’ live entertainment division attended a dress re…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:35AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
“David Byrne’s American Utopia” and “Freestyle Love Supreme” will receive special Tony Awards at the 2021 ceremony. The prizes come more than a year after both shows closed their d…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThursday, June 17, 2021
In person, Ann Dowd, sweet, solicitous and ready to laugh at herself, is far removed from Gilead, the totalitarian state where Aunt Lydia, her alter ego on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” rules…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:12AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
“The Book of Mormon” is the latest long-running show to announce its return to Broadway. In another sign that the lights are flickering back on along the Great White Way, “The Book of …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
A new musical will serve as both a sequel to one of the greatest children’s stories of all time, as well as a prequel to another iconic fantasy adventure. “Alice in Neverland” brings t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:05PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will resume performances on Broadway on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, at the Shubert Theatre with Jeff Daniels reprising his role as At…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:51AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Westbrook Studios is partnering with songwriter and producer Freddy Wexler on “Soul Superhero,” a new live action musical fantasy film. The film is the story of a young Black girl who te…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMTuesday, June 1, 2021
At the height of her stardom, Marilyn Monroe took an 18-month hiatus from Hollywood. The screen icon, who would have turned 95 on June 1, was battling ill health, which was linked to her bar…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
The long-delayed Tony Awards will air primarily on Paramount Plus on Sept. 26, but certain key awards will be handed out as part of a celebration of theater that will air on the streaming se…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, May 20, 2021
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” the film adaptation of the popular West End musical, will debut on Amazon’s Prime Video. The film was originally set to be distributed on October 2…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:53PMMonday, May 17, 2021
Matthew Belloni, the former editorial director of the Hollywood Reporter, has joined the management team of a new media startup that will cover finance, politics, technology and entertainmen…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:35AMThursday, May 13, 2021
Streaming hits like “WandaVision” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” failed to deliver the kind of Disney Plus subscriber numbers that Wall Street was looking for, as the Walt D…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:45PMWednesday, May 12, 2021
The Walt Disney Company is in the throes of a major leadership shift, with newly minted CEO Bob Chapek asserting more authority as the longtime leader he replaced, Bob Iger, prepares to surr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20PMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Broadway is busting out some major firepower as it looks to reopen after more than a year of COVID-related closures. Three of the most successful shows in theater history — “Hamilton,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40AMFriday, May 7, 2021
Cinemark has reached new agreements with the five major studios that could help formalize a shorter theatrical window. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it comes as COVID-19 has resh…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:28AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
The show will go on. Broadway theaters will reopen at full capacity on Sept. 14, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced via Twitter on Wednesday. Tickets will go on sale on Thursday (though a …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:11PMTuesday, May 4, 2021
Sir Howard Panter, one of the leading forces in live theater, is so convinced that Broadway, the West End and other stage hubs are poised to come back in a big way post-pandemic, that he’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:55PMMonday, May 3, 2021
New York will lift capacity restrictions beginning on May 19, a move that potentially sets the stage for a Broadway and live theater revival. The new guidelines will also help cinemas in the…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PMWednesday, April 28, 2021
The producers of the 93rd Academy Awards promised to make the Oscars more like a movie. But the abysmal ratings and atrocious reviews that greeted their efforts to shake things up wasn’t t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMFlorence Welch will journey into the Jazz Age for her new musical project, one that will offer up fortune seekers and flappers, rum runners and rich dilettantes, self-made men and high socie…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMThursday, April 22, 2021
Several hundred Broadway advocates and theater workers gathered in New York City on Thursday to demand the industry banish Scott Rudin in the wake of a growing controversy around the produce…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:59PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
Nevertheless, she persisted. Elaine May, who turns 89 on Wednesday, has enjoyed a late career resurgence, earning a Tony Award for her work in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “The Waverly Galler…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:38PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
PBS and The WNET Group are launching a multi-platform campaign dubbed #PBSForTheArts, which will pay tribute to the struggle and resilience of American artists and arts organizations during …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM 
