Public and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is receivi…
Nikki Renée Daniels has been performing on Broadway for 22 years, but she's never received entrance applause. That is until Wednesday, when she became the first Black actor to play the lead…
The body can sometimes say more than words, but even the most expressive moves cannot make a coherent case for "Paradise Square." The blunt and belabored history lesson of a new musical set …
Broadway's production of "Macbeth" has canceled its Saturday matinee and evening preview performances as a response to star Daniel Craig testing positive for COVID-19. The suspension of perf…
"Next to Normal," the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning 2009 musical, will be reimagined as a live immersive theatrical event. The new version of the acclaimed production will have its w…
Ariana DeBose made history on Sunday night by becoming the first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar for her work as Anita in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story." The musical…
On Monday evening in New York City, "Plaza Suite," a Neil Simon comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, opened on Broadway with a comedic crash nearly three years in the …
Samuel L. Jackson will return to Broadway in a new revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." He's joined by a cast that includes "Tenet" star John David Washington and "The Peacemaker's…
"Plaza Suite" practically demands to be played straight. Neil Simon's look at three romantic couples facing down the passage of time is sharp and knowing, but it is, crucially, earnest. Each…
Lerner & Loewe's "Camelot," that oft-old story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, will return to Broadway featuring a new book by Aaron Sorkin. That creative change may m…
For the second time in Oscars history, the Academy has recognized an actress for playing Anita in "West Side Story." Ariana DeBose took home the best supporting actress Oscar for her version…
"We've discussed this. We've discussed this many times." That wearied line, which appears in the final scene of David Hare's new play "Straight Line Crazy," is spoken by Ariel Porter (Samuel…
Top stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco surprised fans at his shows in the New York area by giving away free commemorative NFTs to all ticketholders " the first comedian to launch such an…
"CODA," "Encanto" and "West Side Story" were received top honors at the 37th annual Artios Awards. The Casting Society honors excellence in casting across feature films, television and theat…
Send in the tears: Stephen Sondheim is due to be remembered in song at the upcoming Grammy Awards by Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler, sources tell Variety. The pe…
Vendôme Pictures and Pathé are partnering with Tony Award-winning Deaf West Theatre to develop a stage musical adaptation of Oscar nominated and BAFTA-winning film "CODA." PGA award-winn…
Expanding accessibility is an ongoing concern for Broadway " and this spring, the musician Gaelynn Lea arrives with lessons she learned from advocating for the cause in the music industry. L…
Ben Stiller is in talks to star in Ivo van Hove's upcoming stage adaptation of Stephen King's horror classic "The Shining,"Â Variety has confirmed. The play is scheduled to open on the Wes…
Donald Glover never does press like a conventional actor. So when he arrived at the Paramount Theater in Austin on Saturday night for the SXSW premiere of "Atlanta" Season 3, he turned the c…
The post-COVID U.K. theater scene is getting a boost with the revival of "Kinky Boots" and "John Gabriel Borkman." The Tony and Olivier award-winning musical "Kinky Boots," based on the 2005…
KiKi Layne made her stage return in Aleshea Harris' "On Sugarland," an off-Broadway production that will take its final bow on March 20. Layne, known for prominent onscreen roles in "If Beal…
Oksana Shvets, an acclaimed Ukrainian film and theater actor, has died in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv. Her death was announced by the Young Theater, where she h…
John is desperate: "It's not a competition. Please, please it mustn't be that." Cue his girlfriend's snapped retort: "Then what is it really?" Good question. As revealed by the climactic rou…
RWS Entertainment Group has tapped Keith Senglaub as its next chief financial officer. A former Feld Entertainment finance executive, Senglaub joins RWS with more than 30 years of experience…
Hong Kong's ongoing anti-COVID restrictions are forecast to cost the city's cinemas HK$1.5 billion ($192 million) in lost box office receipts and cause the unemployment of thousands of peopl…