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Variety's 10th annual Artisans Awards, taking place Feb. 11 at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, celebrates craftspeople responsible for the visual magic in the biggest films of the year. The…
New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre is returning to the award-winning "Drag: The Musical." McIntyre reprises the role of Tom Hutchinson, which he originated in the 2022 launch of the show.…
Like much better dressed students, Ethan Hawke, Cate Blanchett, Claire Danes, Holland Taylor and Sarita Choudhury filed into the basement theater at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday to ho…
Tyne Daly will leave the upcoming revival of John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt" after she was "unexpectedly hospitalized" on Friday. She will be replaced by Amy Ryan, the Oscar-nominated star of…
The creators of "Illinoise," the new stage show inspired by the 2005 Sufjan Stevens album "Illinois," are the first to admit that the production isn't a musical in the most traditional sense…
A stage adaptation of "Purple Rain" will have its world premiere in Minneapolis. The location makes sense because Prince, the musical superstar behind the cult classic film and mega-selling …
Tom Holland is hanging up the spandex and taking on Shakespeare's most famous doomed lover. That's right, the "Spider-Man: No Way Home" star will play Romeo this summer in London's West End.…
In the game of football, possession is everything. When it comes to this year's Super Bowl, one studio will dominate the field by running nearly a dozen spots for its upcoming and exis…
Cara Delevingne will make her theater debut with "Cabaret" on London's West End. Delevingne will play the iconic role of Sally Bowles while Luke Treadaway, Olivier winner for "The Curious In…
Don Murray, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance opposite Marilyn Monroe in the 1956 film adaptation of William Inge's play "Bus Stop," has died. He was 94. His son Christoph…
It happens after almost every show. As "Days of Wine and Roses" stars Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James are leaving the theater they will invariably run into an audience member with a …
"Kiss the Future," a documentary produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and featuring Bono and Bill Clinton, is coming to the big screen next month. The film will receive a theatrical run ex…
Broadway legend Chita Rivera, a two-time Tony winner and nine-time nominee, died on Tuesday morning after a brief illness, her publicist announced. She was 91. The actor-singer-dancer origin…
Hats off to "Gutenberg! The Musical!" The Broadway show, starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (whose characters wear dozens of caps) as they reunited 12 years after "The Book of Mormon," ha…
Ariana DeBose, Boy George and Nile Rodgers have teamed up for "Electric Energy," the disco-infused bop featured in Matthew Vaughn's "Argylle." Rodgers, who produced the track which plays ove…
It's not exactly breaking news in the world of show-biz satire that actors can be vain, or insecure; it's been mined. But for as long as time and human consciousness still exist, there will …
Solo shows can be a blessing and a curse; they can be some of the most amazing theater you've ever seen… or an overindulgent trainwreck. Comedian Kate Berlant has somehow managed to captur…
One of the most important aspects of any home theater is a premium sound system, one that allows for an immersive auditory experience for any show or movie you decide to binge from the livin…
Jenny Hagel is "obsessed" with giving people advice " whether people ask or not. "I'm sure it's everybody's least favorite thing about me, but I can't stop," she admits. "It's like a facial …
There's no IP more innately suited for adaptation as a pure two-hander than the tale of Adam and Eve, a story in which, initially at least, there are no other characters, excepting the creat…
The cast of Universal's live-action "How to Train Your Dragon" movie is shaping up with the additions of Julian Dennison (A24's "Y2K," "Deadpool 2," "Hunt for the Wilderpeople"), Gabriel How…
When Sterlin Harjo, the co-creator of "Reservation Dogs," started writing his first play with the other members of The 1491s, the sketch comedy troupe of which he was member, he and the grou…
London's National Theatre has unveiled its summer season programming across its three stages. Frank Galati's Tony-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck's masterpiece, "The Grapes of Wrath" is…
Comedian Hannah Berner, who was named one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch" for 2023, is set to record her first comedy special for Netflix. The hour-long special will be taped in Philadelph…
Michael Stuhlbarg will play billionaire Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch who bolstered and then broke with Vladimir Putin, in a new Broadway production of "Patriots." The show, whic…