After a record-breaking "Actors on Actors" season, Variety and CNN are joining forces again, this time for a one-of-a-kind town hall conversation featuring Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McC…
"Moulin Rouge! The Musical" is closing after seven years on Broadway. The upbeat jukebox musical will play its final performance on July 26 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. By then, "Moulin Rou…
Baby is making her way across the United States. "Dirty Dancing: The Musical," a stage adaptation of the beloved 1987 romantic drama, is embarking on a North American tour. It will launch th…
Back in the fall of 2019, on the night of the first performance of "& Juliet" in Manchester, England, director Luke Sheppard was sweating. "Nobody had bought a ticket," he recalls.…
After an old-fashion, multi-day bidding war, Olivia Wilde's Sundance darling "The Invite" has sold to A24. A24 and Focus Features were locked in a tense fight for rights to the relationship …
"Once upon a time, there lived an extraordinary man who connected all of us in this room," Ethan Hawke narrated to kick off the Sundance Institute's annual gala, fittingly a tribute to the f…
Martin Short will be the subject of a new Netflix documentary. "Marty, Life Is Short" will chronicle the rise and career longevity of the legendary comedian. The 75-year-old became famous as…
Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson will make their Broadway debuts in "The Fear of 13," a searing play about a wrongly convinced death row prisoner. "The Fear of 13" tells the true story of Nic…
Ricky Gervais wasn't at the Golden Globes, where he won the award for best comedy special, so presenter Wanda Sykes took the opportunity to thank "God and the trans community" while acceptin…
Rose Byrne took home the first Golden Globe of her career for portraying a mother on the brink in the psychological genre-bending "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You." Byrne seemed genuinely surpris…
"I swear to God. I'm going to kill myself," Kristen Stewart says, ribbing her longtime friend Jesse Eisenberg for watching her directorial debut, "The Chronology of Water," on his laptop. Â…
Timothée Chalamet is officially the king of the Christmas box office. It's the third consecutive holiday season where the A-list star has dominated at the box office, a reign that began wit…
Disney is developing a live-action film about Gaston, the boastful, brawny antagonist in "Beauty and the Beast." Luke Evans played Gaston in Disney's 2017 live-action "Beauty and the Beast" …
"Titanique," a campy Off Broadway hit, will open on Broadway in the spring. The show is a low-fi musical parody of James Cameron's disaster epic "Titanic" that uses Céline Dion's music to r…
Actors on Actors is ready for its closeup. Variety and CNN have revealed the star-studded lineup for the 23rd season of Actors on Actors, the Emmy-winning franchise that pairs the year's bes…
Theater industry veteran Sean Cercone is launching The Licensing House, a boutique theatrical licensing imprint that will provide representation for plays and musicals. Cercone is the founde…
Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will return to Broadway in the Arthur Miller classic "Death of a Salesman." A revival of the acclaimed play will run for 14 weeks at the Winter Garden Theatre,…
Hollywood is giving thanks for "Zootopia 2" and "Wicked: For Good," two Thanksgiving offerings that kept movie theaters stuffed over the holiday weekend. Disney's animated sequel "Zootopia 2…
Get ready for a box office feast. Disney's animated "Zootopia 2" is poised to dominate the Thanksgiving holiday with projections of $135 million to $150 million over its first five days in t…
More than a few eyebrows were raised around Hollywood when Universal decided to turn "Wicked" into two separate films. Yes, the stage show has been a sensation on Broadway for decades. But i…
"Wicked: For Good" is flying high at the box office. The movie musical has collected $150 million in North America and $76 million overseas for a dazzling $226 million global tally. It's a b…
This weekend, the languishing box office has been changed for the better with "Wicked: For Good," which powered to $226 million globally. Those ticket sales rank as the fourth-biggest worldw…
Glinda and Elphaba remain "very very popular" at the box office. "Wicked: For Good," Universal's rendition of Act Two of the musical sensation, was No. 1 with $150 million from 4,115 North A…
Colleen Hoover isn't happy with how it ended. Hoover, who wrote the bestseller "It Ends With Us," has addressed the controversy surrounding the 2024 film adaptation of her novel, starring Bl…
Actors on Actors is getting a bigger stage. Variety's Emmy-winning series, which pairs the best performers of the year in unscripted interviews, will air on CNN for the first time. Under a n…