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New York City is taking steps to revive the theater industry, a sector of the city that has been shuttered for more than a year due to the pandemic. Those efforts, Mayor Bill de Blasio revea…
London's National Theatre is set to reopen two of its three venues in June after all U.K. indoor entertainment venues were forced to close in 2020 due to the pandemic. "After Life," based on…
 Welcome to this week's "Just for Variety"… With the West End set to reopen in May, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cinderella" musical, with a book by freshly minted Oscar nominee Emerald Fenn…
George Segal, whose long career included playing Albert "Pops" Solomon on "The Goldbergs," and garnering an Oscar nom for supporting actor for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," died Tuesday.…
As the number of vaccinations increase and people begin returning to the office, entertainment business executives are preparing for a post-pandemic industry. In the Variety Streaming Roo…
Hundreds of members of the international music industry have signed an open letter to record labels titled "Pay Songwriters," calling for better financial treatment from the record labels th…
ViacomCBS stock dropped nearly 9.1% Tuesday, as investors exited positions on news that the media conglomerate will sell up to $3.45 billion in stock as part of funding streaming content. Th…
ViacomCBS is readying itself to write some bigger checks for content flowing to Paramount Plus and its other streaming properties. The company, which bowed the Paramount Plus streaming servi…
Private equity giant Providence Equity Partners is betting on the rebound of the live event business, backing Ambassador Theatre Group's acquisition of high-end venues in San Francisco and D…
Neil Patrick Harris has been tapped to host the 29th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards pre-party special alongside Sir Elton John and his husband, David Furnish. Additionally,…
Disney's animated adventure "Raya and the Last Dragon" led the domestic box office in its third weekend, illustrating the appeal of family films as Hollywood attempts to mount a moviegoing r…
It could be said that Suzan-Lori Parks was destined to tell the story of Aretha Franklin. Not just because the "Genius: Aretha" showrunner is a celebrated playwright who won the MacArthur "G…
"In the Heights" will hit theaters, and HBO Max, sooner than expected. The musical is slated to open on June 11 instead of June 18. Director Jon M. Chu shared the news on Twitter, writing, "…
Nobody " literally nobody " knows when or how Broadway will reopen. But now, a year into a shutdown that began March 12, 2020, the road map to recovery has begun to take shape. The pace and …
Aaron Sorkin is widely considered the king of film and TV dialogue. Actors line up for a chance to feast on his words and the opportunity to deliver a Sorkin-penned speech. And yet his monol…
Now that Oscar noms are in and planning for the 93rd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre and Union Station is underway, I'm hoping the next announcement we hear is that the evening will serv…
The Academy Awards are over a month away, and the show's details have been a drip-drip as the season presents various challenges for award shows and ratings. In a letter to this year's Oscar…
The Super Bowl is the TV industry's biggest annual event. What if it became several? Walt Disney is considering a Super Bowl "mega-cast" that could create different broadcasts of the gridiro…
In recent weeks, New Yorkers might have stumbled upon a socially distanced pop-up performance by Jon Batiste at the Javits Center, or one by Patti Smith at the Brooklyn Museum. They were bot…
Just under a year ago, Live Nation, the world's largest live-entertainment company, launched Crew Nation, a charitable fund to which it contributed an initial $5 million donation, to h…
In today's Global Bulletin, musical "Anything Goes" sets London revival; iZen signs diversity pact with LineLight; MTV's "True Life Crime" gets U.K. version; and Banijay's refreshed "Changin…
Working in entertainment may never look the same again. To hear numerous executives tell it, the past 12 months have shifted the paradigm for modern office life. Gone are the days of staying…
Madison Avenue is paying more money to podcasting. Now a group of people focused on the industry wants advertisers to pay more attention. The Media Roundtable, a group of organizations that …
Move over, Martha Stewart. Jesse Tyler Ferguson has just released his first cookbook, "Food Between Friends," with co-author Julie Tanous. The 272-page tome includes recipes for garlicky sor…
Facebook says it wants to "empower" independent writers and journalists by letting them make money from their work. The social giant on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch a new platform for w…
