AMC Theatres, the biggest cinema chain in the world, is buying a 22% stake in Nevada-based gold and silver mining company Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. AMC's $27.9 million cash investment in …
Rachel Zegler's rise from high school student to "West Side Story" star is well known. But the film's casting director Cindy Tolan revealed the search that went into finding Ariana DeBose an…
You can never have too many masks at your disposal. Although mask mandates are loosening up across the country " signaling a new phase of the pandemic " many people are likely to continue co…
"Harold and the Purple Crayon" is coming to the Broadway stage, but this time the young artist will be all grown up. Tiwary Entertainment Group's TEG Plus has acquired the stage rights to th…
Now that omicron is in decline, Broadway optimism is on the rise. After a bumpy holiday season rife with performance disruptions, show closures and hiatuses due to the highly contagious COVI…
Just how vocally demanding are roles in Broadway musicals like "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen" " and how much singing is too much? If two professors at New York University had their way, B…
Read all about it " "Newsies" is coming to the U.K. The hit musical from Disney legend Alan Menken ("Beauty and the Beast") and Jack Feldman ("A Goofy Movie"), with a book by Harvey Fierstei…
After conquering the beach, "Baywatch" luminary Pamela Anderson will now try to dominate Broadway. Anderson will portray Roxie Hart, the morally flexible antiheroine at the heart of "Chicago…
Taron Egerton has offered an update after collapsing on stage during the first performance of "Cock," a revival being produced at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. During Saturday evening's…
Variety's eighth annual Artisans Awards returns to an in-person ceremony for 2022 to celebrate and honor those essential to the filmmaking process who have exhibited the most exciting, immer…
Johnny Brown, the actor, comedian and singer best known for his role as superintendent Nathan Bookman on the popular 70s sitcom "Good Times," died Wednesday. He was 84 years old. Brown's dea…
The scene at Wednesday's premiere of HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" at the Theatre at Ace Hotel was nearly as fast-paced and celebrity-packed as the 1980s Showtime era …
Holy Listicle, Batfans! With the release of "The Batman" this weekend at theaters and drive-ins everywhere, we're once again summoned to measure the Batmanliness of a new Bat Guy " Robert Pa…
Welcome to this week's "Just for Variety." From "Bridget Jones' Diary" to "Judy," Renée Zellweger knows a thing or two about transformation. The two-time Oscar winner's latest, as convicted…
"West Side Story" star Ariana DeBose has joined the cast of Sony's "Kraven the Hunter," an upcoming superhero action-adventure featuring Aaron Taylor Johnson. More to come…
Ned Eisenberg, a stage and screen actor who played defense attorney Roger Kressler on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and Detective Hauser in "Mare of Easttown," has died. He was 65.…
Ariana DeBose is now in the SAG Awards record books. After winning SAG's best supporting actress award for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story," DeBose is now the…
Patti LuPone tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. The theater legend will sit out her ongoing role in the current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" while she recovers fro…
If you're easily triggered by 30- to 40-foot props, dance routines with dozens of performers, childish wonder, juvenile humor, drug-trip simulations or just color, by all means avoid "Katy P…
At the start of the second half of Anthony McCarten's art-world bio-drama "The Collaboration," the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's agent finds himself alone on the scrappy sofa of Basquiat's N…
On Wednesday evening in New York City, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered its return to the original movie musical with "Cyrano," director Joe Wright's musical adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac," s…
"Kimberly Akimbo," one of the hottest tickets of the theatrical season will transfer to Broadway this fall following an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theatre Company. The musical about a New…
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…
Brittney Johnson is currently making history as the first Black actor to play Glinda in "Wicked," but she's also had a lot of Broadway experience in jobs that are in many ways even more chal…
"Mrs. Doubtfire" has pushed back its return to the Great White Way. The musical, based on the 1993 Robin Williams family comedy of the same name, is now set to reopen April 14, a month later…