Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Cole 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 02:14PMMonday, June 24, 2024
“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 11:00AMMonday, June 17, 2024
After 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 05:48PMThursday, June 6, 2024
It’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 06:43PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
Jay 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 08:18PMSunday, March 24, 2024
Though 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 05:22PMSaturday, March 9, 2024
Talk 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 01:00PMMonday, March 4, 2024
Elton 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 12:10PMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Joe 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 11:29AMThursday, February 15, 2024
This 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 01:07PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Broadway 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 06:09PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Riley 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 05:08PMThursday, February 8, 2024
New 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 09:58AMThursday, January 4, 2024
“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 10:30AMMonday, July 24, 2023
Zurin 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 07:23PMFriday, July 21, 2023
Power 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 11:15AMThursday, July 13, 2023
It’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 05:26PMTuesday, June 13, 2023
I’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 07:54PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Is 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 06:50PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
Sterling 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 04:20PMFriday, May 12, 2023
The 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Lea Michele’s run in “Funny Girl” doesn’t end until Sept. 3, but she’s already plotting her return to Broadway. In fact, the actor-singer tells me she has her next gig lined up. �…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:18PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Jake Gyllenhaal is determined to star in another Broadway musical. “There are so many musicals I love so deeply,” Gyllenhaal, who starred in a revival of “Sunday in the Park With Georg…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:19AMSaturday, April 15, 2023
A veteran of stage and screen, Tony winner Jane Krakowski returns to “Schmigadoon!” In the second season of Apple TV+’s musical series, Krakowski plays Bobbie, a trial lawyer who sings…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57AMSaturday, April 8, 2023
Hoyeon and Donald Glover were among the honorees at the inaugural GQ Global Creativity Awards on Thursday at the WSA, a new cultural center in downtown Manhattan. Hosted by musical artist Ia…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMFriday, March 3, 2023
Former ID PR publicists Rachel Karten and Lindsay Krug have launched their own firm, Origin Public Relations. Their client roster already includes Kathy Bates, Hannah Einbinder, Tracee Ellis…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Ever since I broke the news that Michelle Yeoh is playing Madame Morrible in Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” movies, she has been saying that the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Bette Midler had her first professional wardrobe fitting when she made her Broadway debut in 1967 playing Tzeitel in “Fiddler on the Roof.�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:56PMThursday, January 12, 2023
Idina Menzel is making her way back to the stage. The Tony winner will star in “Redwood,” a musical she first began developing almost 20 years ago, which will premiere as the final produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:59AMThursday, January 5, 2023
Ryan Raftery has written and starred in stage musical parodies about Martha Stewart, Anna Wintour, Andy Cohen and Andy Warhol. The actor is now taking on Kris Jenner. “Just for Variety�…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:18AM 
