Benoît Jutras, the composer behind many Cirque du Soleil productions, is developing a slate of original musicals for the stage and screen. The first project will be a rock opera that trac…
The 2020 Gotham Awards made history, with all of this year's best feature nominees directed by women for its 30th celebration. The annual event, which is typically held in early December, an…
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in negotiations to play the iconic Hollywood couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in an upcoming film, titled "Being the Ricardos," directed by Aaron Sorkin…
The rat really raked it in " for a good cause. Inspired by social media and co-produced and co-created by Broadway pros including Lucy Moss ("Six"), Jeremy O. Harris ("Slave Play"), Tituss B…
While no tribute may ever go down as the one David Bowie actually deserves, Saturday's three-hour "A Bowie Celebration" livestream came within spitting distance of giving the duke his due, w…
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, Duran Duran, Ian Hunter, Boy George, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Adam Lambert, Peter Frampton, Andra Day and many more will perform at "Just for One Day,"…
When the lights go up on Broadway, "Mean Girls" won't be returning to the stage. Producers announced Thursday that the musical, based on Tina Fey's modern cult classic, will not reopen when …
Theaters, museums and other cultural venues will remain closed in France until the end of January, France's Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed during a televised address on Thursday evenin…
The new film "One Night in Miami" began life as a successful play " but New Yorkers might not know that, because despite accolades in Los Angeles and London, the play never got a production …
Paramount Pictures is getting in on the business of Monty Python. The studio has acquired "Spamalot," the upcoming movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The film was previously set u…
If you ever loved, liked or even hated "Rent," there's a fair chance that you've never been able to hear a set of numerals large enough to include a comma without having that musical's signa…
In March, Brian Stokes Mitchell was just four days away from performing a concert at New York's City Center when the pandemic forced theaters to close. All the other jobs that Mitchell, who …
Celebrity-driven online learning platform MasterClass hired Vanna Krantz, most recently chief financial officer of Disney Plus and ESPN Plus, as CFO. At Disney, Krantz built and led the fina…
Lashana Lynch is getting musical " with the British star set to join the cast of Netflix's upcoming adaptation of "Matilda." The musical movie is based on Roald Dahl's 1988 children's classi…
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched "Zoey's Extraordinary Return," the second season premiere of "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist." While the first season of NBC's musical c…
The COVID-19 numbers in Los Angeles County are dire, and hospital beds remain at worryingly low capacity, pushing Hollywood to delay when most L.A.-based television shows go back into produc…
Late night is returning home. James Corden's "The Late Late Show" on CBS and Jimmy Kimmel's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on ABC are back to filming their nightly shows remotely amid the surging COVI…
In today's TV news roundup, the cast of "The Waltons" will reunite in an upcoming episode of "Stars in the House," and HBO acquired the Scandinavian limited series, "The Investigation." DATE…
Welcome to the fourth annual edition of Variety500, an index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry.
The process of deciding who will be included in the annual Variety500 list is a year-round undertaking at Variety, one we are continually fine-tuning in hopes that no essential individual go…
Hollywood tapped a record number of women to call the shots on major movies in 2020, according to a new study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State…
In August of 2020 a tiny TikTok song dedicated to Remy the Rat (the animated star of the 2007 Pixar film "Ratatoullie") sparked a musical metamorphosis. Within days theater kid TikTok was al…
Richard Bates, the longtime head of government relations for Disney, died Dec. 31 at his home outside Washington, D.C. He was 70. Disney said the executive's death was sudden. Bates had repr…
After "Hamilton" made an earwormy global phenomenon from the life story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, no chapter of history can be declared too dour for spangly, heart-on-s…
Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine to avoid prosecution over charges that it illegally accessed systems of a startup rival to steal proprietary info in an attempt to "cho…