Each year, Variety compiles a list of Broadway stars on the rise. This year, Variety fill fete this round-up of stage actors, directors and writers at its Business of Broadway Breakfast pres…
It's midnight on a hot July Thursday at the David Kempinski hotel in Tel Aviv and Mathew Rosengart is in the lobby poring over a legal brief. A litigator-cum-shareholder at Greenberg Traurig…
As our driver approaches the Wiltern Theatre from a jam-packed stretch of Wilshire Boulevard, Nick Nuciforo, partner and head of comedy touring at UTA, keeps his eyes locked on the line s…
Mathew Rosengart has been "a massive Bruce Springsteen fan" since about 1980, when he was a college freshman. So it was a thrill when the high-octane Hollywood attorney was asked to guest DJ…
Mathew Rosengart arrives on the rooftop restaurant of the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills wearing a wheaten wool coat from Barney's, steeled against the early February cold snap that has whipp…
Lea Michele, Darren Criss, Seth MacFarlane and acclaimed actress and playwright Dominique Morrisseau ("Ain't Too Proud") were among the performers who stole the show at Monday night's "A Gra…
Whether they're depicting the dynamic of a single interpersonal relationship, recounting pivotal moments in history or conceiving new worlds beyond an audience's wildest imaginations, screen…
Variety will hold its second annual Salute to Service event Nov. 12 at Cipriani 25 Broadway to celebrate noteworthy individuals within the industry who champion veteran's causes and facilita…
John Waters has penned all his books in Provincetown, Mass., and most of his movies, too. The iconic indie filmmaker of such campy classics as "Female Trouble" and "Hairspray" was born and r…
Dove Cameron autographed purses belonging to pint-sized fans at Tuesday night's red-carpet premiere of the "Descendants 2" at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. The platinum-blonde sta…
What happens when you combine the booze-soaked cabarets of 19th century Europe with ribald, vaudeville-inspired comedy and titillating acrobatics " all performed on a stage nine feet in d…
The production of "Rent" that opens tomorrow in L.A. may be the 20th anniversary tour of the Broadway hit, but the rock musical, which changed the face of HIV awareness two decades ago, arri…
In screen-focused Hollywood, Robert Hayman and Rachel Ewy have done something you might not expect: They're launching a theater company. Their new troupe, Hollywood Stage Company, kicked off…
"It's a crazy time and I'm not going to talk about it," said Sandra Bernhard by way of introducing "Sandra Monica Boulevard: Coast to Coast," her traveling one-woman show that kicked off its…
"Big Sky," the new play by Pulitzer finalist Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros ("Omnium Gatherum") making its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, begins in a well-grounded place, focusing on …
Fan favorites like "The Sound of Music," "Grease" and "The Wiz" hit both stage and screen decades ago. Millions have committed every scene between Maria and the von Trapp family to memory an…
Long live the period piece. From time travel to a revival of a beloved romantic comedy about pen pals set in Hungary to a contemporary twist on the American revolution, this year's nominees …
Forty-five years since "Love Story" turned moviegoers into weepy messes and "Love means never having to say you're sorry" became an international catchphrase, the stars of the movie, Ryan O'…
You'd think audiences would be over "Annie." The 2014 Sony update, which starred Quvenzhane Wallis and Will Smith, flopped, and a lackluster 2012 revival on Broadway got panned by critics an…
Stage, TV and film actress Kristin Chenoweth gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Oh, Bette. You just keeping getting better. 43 years after the release of her 1972 debut album, "The Divine Miss M," co-produced by Barry Manilow, her piano accompanist during her formative …
Whether it was their first time seeing the film or their twenty-first, audience members Thursday night were treated to a magical 50th anniversary screening of "The Sound of Music," Robert…
Beyond a film about ALS, the devastating neurological disease that has spurred millions of Americans to dump buckets of ice water over their heads and donate money, George C. Wolfe's touchin…
In 2001, a frail Sid Caesar walked with assistance to the stage to accept his Television Critics Assn. Career Achievement Award, looking out at a ballroom filled with critics and Hollywood b…
From hip-hop to bossa nova to Hawaiian-style ballads, "Sofia the First" draws from a hodgepodge of multicultural influences when compiling its musical soundtrack, a bevy of catchy tunes that…