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Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda will host a Broadway fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign next month that will feature a performance of Suffs: The Musical. The musical, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:08PMSunday, April 28, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Trump once again skipped this year’s annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, instead holding a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. “Is there any place t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Pete Buttigieg continues to line up celebrity figures for fundraising events, one of the latest being a group of New York media and entertainment personalities for a May 13 reception. Accord…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:36AMThursday, April 11, 2019
Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger is co-hosting and event next week with Chuck Schumer and a series of Democrats seeking reelection in 2020, as the party hopes to win back the majori…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31AMMonday, April 8, 2019
WASHINGTON — Taylor Swift has donated $113,000 to the Tennessee Equality Project as it tries to stop state lawmakers from passing a series of bills she and others characterize as a “slat…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:19PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump intends to appoint actor Jon Voight, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Broadway producer Daryl Roth to the board of trustees of the John F. Kenned…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMFriday, October 12, 2018
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are hosting a fundraiser on Sunday at their Beverly Hills home for Democratic Senate candidates, and Legend is expected to perform. The event will raise money …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:29PMMonday, October 8, 2018
A half a dozen Democratic candidates hoping to secure a majority in this year’s midterms will appear at the Writers Guild Theater on Tuesday for a fundraiser, aimed in part at drawing …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45PMWednesday, August 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Hanks, Chris Paul, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw appear in the latest videos for When We All Vote, an initiative co-chaired by the form…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AMMonday, August 6, 2018
WASHINGTON — Rosie O’Donnell and cast members from Broadway shows sang show tunes just outside the White House fence on Monday, joining what have been nightly protests against Pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
WASHINGTON — Cher, Reba McEntire, Philip Glass, Wayne Shorter, and “Hamilton’s” creators will be celebrated at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. The ceremony w…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:25PMMonday, July 2, 2018
WASHINGTON — Renee Fleming, currently starring in the Broadway revival of “Carousel,” will perform one of the classics from the show, “You’ll Never Walk Alone,&…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:17AMSaturday, March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — Participants in the March for Our Lives filled Pennsylvania Avenue hours before the scheduled start of the mass demonstration against gun violence in the wake of the mass …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:09PMFriday, March 23, 2018
WASHINGTON — The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump reluctantly signed on Friday includes a boost to federal arts funding. The legislation funds the govern…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:50PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
WASHINGTON — The National Endowment for the Arts is again threatened with a White House budget that calls for the elimination of federal funding, but the hundreds of arts advocates who…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Cynthia Nixon is assembling a staff ahead of a potential run for governor of New York, NY1 reported on Tuesday. Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers, who worked on Bill de Blasio’s first campai…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMFriday, December 15, 2017
Top Democrats on the Senate and House antitrust subcommittees are calling for hearings on the Walt Disney Co.’s proposed acquisition of a large portion of 21st Century Fox, including i…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24PMThursday, December 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — The rationale behind The Walt Disney Co.’s acquisition of Fox’s major content assets is that it’s necessary to bulk up in the new landscape, where compet…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
WASHINGTON — If the Walt Disney Co. reaches a deal to acquire most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, it’s likely that both companies will minimize any antitrust issues, describe…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36PMTuesday, September 5, 2017
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger weighed in on President Trump’s decision to rescind an Obama-era program to allow young undocumented immigrants to remain in the country. “The Dreame…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PMFriday, March 17, 2017
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who chairs a Senate subcommittee that oversees funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, said that she supports the agency despite President Trump̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57PMTwo divisions of The Walt Disney Co. will pay $3.8 million in back wages to nearly 16,400 Florida resort employees under an agreement with the Department of Labor. The DOL’s wage and h…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Animation workers have reached a $100 million settlement with the Walt Disney Company, Pixar, and Lucasfilm in a class action lawsuit claiming that the defendants violated antitrust laws by …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45PMMonday, January 16, 2017
The B Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen cover group, has backed out of plans to perform at a New Jersey inaugural gala on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s swearing in. The grou…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi performed before tens of thousands gathered at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall on Monday to rally voters for Hillary Clinton in the penultimate even…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:46PMSunday, November 6, 2016
When Bruce Springsteen performs at one of Hillary Clinton’s final campaign stops on Monday night, a rally on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, he’ll be among a flood of celebrit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:48PMFriday, September 23, 2016
Bruce Springsteen told Rolling Stone that he thinks Donald Trump is a “moron” and that Hillary Clinton would be “a very, very good president.” “Well, you know, …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:09PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton has been endorsed by the Actors’ Equity Association, marking the first time in the union’s 103-year history that it has backed any political candidate. “Our…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton spoke to an audience of donors who had paid at least $2,700-per-person to see the hottest show on Broadway, “Hamilton,” but she did her best to prove that she is …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger will serve as vice chair of the board of directors of Los Angeles 2024, the bid committee waging an effort to bring the Summer Olympic Games to the …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:41PMThursday, June 23, 2016
As Democrats continued their sit-in on the floor of the House on Thursday, showbiz figures lined up in solidarity, with Funny or Die staging a marathon of standup comics that ran for about 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:33PM 
