Tuesday, January 7, 2025
One of the U.K.’s most prestigious drama schools – whose alumni include Daniel Day-Lewis, Olivia Colman and Patrick Stewart among other well-known names – is shutting down its undergra…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:29AMThursday, October 31, 2024
PHILANTHROPY Cate Blanchett and Wyclef Jean are set to join Benedict Cumberbatch’s charity event “A Night In The Theatre.” The evening, a fundraising edition of Cumberbatch’s annual …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:29AMThursday, May 23, 2024
London’s glitzy theater The Old Vic is set to begin searching for a new artistic director after Matthew Warchus confirmed he plans to step down in 2026 after 11 years in the role. The sear…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMMonday, February 19, 2024
The musical play inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow’s now infamous legal battle with Utah optometrist Terry Sanderson is transferring to the U.S, Variety has exclusively learned. But rather than …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54AMThursday, April 27, 2023
Sally Greene, the woman who appointed Kevin Spacey artistic director of The Old Vic theater in London, has stepped down as a director of the theater’s trust, Variety can confirm. Greene’…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMMonday, February 27, 2023
Ariana DeBose is ready to do the thing again. The Oscar-winner, who is set to play a one-off gig at the London Palladium in the U.K. next month, has said she might open her concert with her …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Joseph Fiennes is set to play England soccer manager Gareth Southgate in a new play written by “Sherwood” scribe James Graham. Fiennes, known for his turns in “The Handmaid’s Tale”…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:33AMThursday, September 29, 2022
Danny Boyle is set to direct a dance adaptation of 1999 sci-fi blockbuster “The Matrix.” Titled “Free Your Mind,” the Warner Bros. Theater Ventures-licensed project is set to debut n…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
THEATER “Peaky Blinders” is getting a theatrical adaptation with “Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby.” “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight has written the theatri…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:55AMFriday, June 10, 2022
ACCESSIBILITY U.K. theatres and arts organizations have been urged to prioritize accessibility particularly via digital platforms to prevent audiences “returning to pre-pandemic levels of …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AMSunday, March 13, 2022
Rachel Zegler‘s rise from high school student to “West Side Story” star is well known. But the film’s casting director Cindy Tolan revealed the search that went into finding Ariana D…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Read all about it – “Newsies” is coming to the U.K. The hit musical from Disney legend Alan Menken (“Beauty and the Beast”) and Jack Feldman (“A Goofy Movie”), with a book by H…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44AMTuesday, February 1, 2022
On Tuesday, Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds and Kodi Smit-McPhee were announced as the 2022 nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award. Nominees are selec…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50PMMonday, June 28, 2021
When news leaked last month that disgraced “House of Cards” actor Kevin Spacey had landed his first acting gig in over four years, taking on a supporting role in an Italian indie film, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:41PMThursday, June 3, 2021
Costumes for film and television can often become so iconic that they transcend the actors who wore them. Simply envision a blue, gingham pinafore and a pair of red shoes or a little black d…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PMTuesday, June 1, 2021
Some of Britain’s most respected drama schools are facing allegations of sexual harassment, with students claiming they experienced or witnessed sexual assault and “inappropriate” beha…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PM 
