The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is returning after two years with an in-person event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the playwright’s “A Streetcar Named De…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:09PMTaylor Bradley has been named publicist for the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival, Louisiana’s largest literary and theatrical festival. The fest, now in its 36th year, …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:19PMLess than a week after Broadway’s shutdown, Seth Fradkoff, the senior vice president of publicity at United Artists Releasing, logged into Zoom and launched a class to teach kids about Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:19AMWhen Daryl Roth, 13-time Tony-winning producer, first announced that her Off Broadway theater would premiere a production during the pandemic, her argument to the city and state of New York …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMCOVID protocols have affected everyone in the production business, but perhaps none more so than the craft services members of IATSE Local 80, the only department to see the entire cast and …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46PMThe first time I saw myself on-screen was in 1972. The film was “Lady Sings the Blues,” a cinematic masterpiece about jazz icon Billie Holiday. At 13 years old, I could not believe I was…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PMAs a person who fancies himself a historian, my life is built around celebrating people in our culture who paved the way for us all, so it’s hard to focus on any one person. But in “Ma R…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06AMDespite Tim Blake Nelson’s knack for playing folksy characters in films such as “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” in his soul lurks the heart of a classicist. Nelson, who stars in HBO’…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15AMIn the summer, as temperatures rise and schools go on break, Hollywood likes to stick to a well-worn formula: Pack the multiplexes with franchises, spinoffs, reboots and remakes. This coming…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMOn April 9, FX debuts “Fosse/Verdon,” about two people who may not be household names, but are certainly in the Pantheon to those who love musicals. In the Jan. 25, 1950, issue, Variety …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMAMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan has a keen eye for shrewd business deals. So was he seeing straight in 2004 when he bought the Village Cinema in Greenport, N.Y.? “I would not call it a lucra…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMBarry Manilow’s place as one of America’s best-loved entertainers was secured decades ago, but the 75-year-old shows no signs of resting on his laurels, which include nearly 50 top 40 hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe last time Kelli O’Hara appeared on Broadway, she won a Tony for her performance as Anna in “The King and I.” Four years later, she’s back in an updated “Kiss Me Kate,” openin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMDelusion, the Los Angeles interactive theater experience, has remixed its current show into “The Blue Blade – Director’s Cut” for its newly expanded spring run. ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMAlfonso Ribeiro burst on the entertainment scene with the title role in Broadway’s “The Tap Dance Kid,” and earned his first Variety mention on Dec. 22, 1983, a rave review, when he wa…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMEmily Blunt and Hugh Jackman sat down for Variety’s Actors on Actors. For more, click here. Anyone who’s ever seen “The Greatest Showman” or “Les Misérables,” or the Broa…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFans of Los Angeles interactive theater experience Delusion who weren’t able to score a ticket during the show’s latest, instantly sold-out fall run, rejoice! Creator Jon Braver and the …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMOn Warner Bros.’ remake of “A Star Is Born,” actor-director Bradley Cooper and co-star Lady Gaga refused to settle for the traditional practice of pre-recording their songs and later l…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMFor nearly a decade, National Theatre Live has brought live theater from London’s acclaimed Royal National Theatre to a global audience, broadcasting productions such as “Hamlet” and �…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMBruce Dern is celebrating 60 years as an actor, having made his Broadway debut in the 1958 “Shadow of a Gunman” while studying with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan. This year, his film work…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMPeter Rotter is at the podium on the Warner Bros. scoring stage, about to conduct music for the season finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “You really bring the humanity to a very inte…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMTommy Mottola was the king of the music business for so long that he had his pick of any A-list star to perform at his 2000 wedding to Mexican singer and actress Thalía. He invited Donna S…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:06PMWhen set designer Christine Jones won a Tony for her work on “American Idiot,” she felt “there couldn’t be anything better career-wise.” Then along came “Harry Potter and the Cur…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMProducing the Tony Awards is hard enough without everyone on Broadway telling you how to do your job. But that’s exactly what White Cherry Entertainment’s Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss,…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMLike the Phantom of the Opera — and “The Phantom of the Opera” — “Love Never Dies” isn’t dead yet. The musical, mega-composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to his record-break…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:09AMIn late April, theater lovers devote most of their attention to the clutch of Broadway shows rushing to open before the eligibility cutoff for Tony nominations. But this year fans should be …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMIf NBC were looking for a higher-stakes musical to broadcast live on TV, it’s hard to imagine the Peacock landing a bigger fish than “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The rock opera musical by…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMFew public figures have fallen as far and as fast as Joe Paterno did in 2011. A college-football titan, he led Penn State’s team for 45 years, transforming a nascent athletic program into …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMFor more than 30 years, Neil Patrick Harris has done a little bit of everything, tackling comedy, drama and musicals across TV, film, theater and the internet. He started acting in the fourt…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWhen the flying carpet at “Aladdin” gets a standing ovation, you know you’ve done something right. The musical, which runs at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre until March 31, boasts some…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMIt’s no secret that Disney uses lots of music in its projects, and its TV series are no exception. But new Disney Junior animated show “Vampirina” is more steeped in musical theater th…
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