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 Desire…
Taylor 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, ha…
Less 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 Broad…
When 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 …
COVID 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 …
The 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 see…
As 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 Raine…
Despite 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's "Watch…
In 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…
On 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 revi…
AMC 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…
Barry 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 hits, …
The 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," opening March 14 a…
Delusion, the Los Angeles interactive theater experience, has remixed its current show into “The Blue Blade – Director’s Cut” for its newly expanded spring run. ̶…
Alfonso 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 was just…
Emily 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 Broadway m…
Fans 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 Delu…
On 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 lip-syn…
For 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 "War Ho…
Bruce 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 inc…
Peter 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 intense sh…
Tommy 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 ThalÃa. He invited Don…
When 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 Cursed Child, P…
Producing 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, the…
Like 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-breaking smash "Phant…