As Broadway gets back to business and live performances resume around the country, the Sundance Institute has released a new study that diagnoses the state of the theater industry and imagin…
Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American Broadway actor who appeared in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song" and Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures," died at Providence Saint Joseph…
The Moulin Rouge has a new leading lady. Natalie Mendoza will join the Broadway company of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical," replacing Karen Olivo in the role of Satine when the Tony-nominated hi…
The Broadway League announced Friday that all audience members and performers must be vaccinated for COVID-19 when theaters reopen. Owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters in New Yo…
When Broadway returns in the fall, theater industry workers will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The Actors' Equity Association and the Broadway League on Thursday announced a…
Director and choreographer Graciela Daniele will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tonys when Broadway's biggest night of the year returns in September after COVID delays…
In "Nine Days," out this Friday in theaters, Winston Duke plays Will, a man who spends his lonely days and nights monitoring the lives of humans on a wall of vintage TV sets inside his home.…
Just for Laughs Montréal is the world's largest international comedy festival and this year it's taking that notion to a new level. With COVID travel restrictions making it impossible to im…
Bert Kreischer can pinpoint the exact moment his life changed: Dec. 28, 2016. Before then, Kreischer had been a stand-up comedian for about 20 years and had achieved what appeared to be a go…
Songwriter and producer Robert J. Sherman is continuing his family's rich musical legacy by teaming with finance professionals Bret Goldin and Andrew Kaplan to form Sherman Theatrical Entert…
Jackie Mason, the sometimes-controversial standup comedian who unapologetically embraced Jewish themes and political incorrectness, achieving a national profile through a series of successfu…
Skeptics puzzling over the logic of watching 82-year-old Ian McKellen playing student prince Hamlet need only look as far as the play's second scene in which Hamlet rebukes his mother. "I ha…
A new book titled "When the Lights Are Bright Again" will memorialize the theater industry's devastating yearlong pandemic-related shutdown. The book will be published by Applause Theatre an…
Welcome to this week's "Just for Variety." Kate Beckinsale is "highly" doubtful that another "Underworld" will be made, but that doesn't mean she isn't up for playing Selene in a sixth movie…
When the Broadway production of Antoinette Nwandu's play "Pass Over" opens on Broadway, it'll incorporate significant changes " both on stage and behind the scenes. Listen to this week's …
Composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber has decided not to open his £6 million ($8.2 million) musical "Cinderella," one day before it was due to open at London's West End after a cast m…
"Central Park" creator Josh Gad actually called the election results early during a Zoom call with the show's composers Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel. "I'll never forget that because we al…
Returning director Adam Robitel had production designer Edward Thomas raise the stakes for the sequel to 2019's "Escape Room." The new challenges in "Escape Room: Tournament of Champions," i…
Welcome to this week's "Just for Variety." Queer Disney fans raised a rainbow flag in 2017 when it was revealed that in the Bill Condon-directed live-action adaptation of the animated hit "B…
Edgewood founder Dale A. Mott and NEWorks Productions announced that two industry readings of the upcoming musical "Grace" will be held on Aug. 24 at Alvin Ailey Studios. "Grace" celebrates …
Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones will star in Second Stage Theater's upcoming Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's new play, "Clyde's." The cast will also include Reza Salazar ("Sweat") and K…
"Sleep No More," the groundbreaking and immersive reimagining of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," will resume performances this fall, becoming the latest show to announce its return after COVID-19 c…
"Enemy of the People," an interactive adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic morality tale, has cancelled all remaining performances. The Park Avenue Armory show was scheduled to continue thro…
The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation announced it will host its Ball to End AIDS fundraising gala on Sept. 17 at West Hollywood Park. At the gala, sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Amer…
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office told a judge on Wednesday that it is ready to bring Harvey Weinstein to trial within four months on charges of rape and sexual assault. Wein…