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Variety's New York Impact Report embraces the persistence and perseverance of the folks in the biz. This year, we've all dealt with a global pandemic, racial reckoning, protests, contentious…
Variety salutes stars in platforms from stand-ups to podcasts and sitcoms. Though things are different this year, the 10 comics to watch will participate in a FREE virtual conversation, open…
Broadway may be shuttered due to the pandemic, but Variety is keeping its annual tradition of celebrating the world of stage with a digital event, "Legit! The Road Back to Broadway," present…
Since its Broadway premiere in 2015, "Hamilton" has always been a smash hit with the theater crowd, but its release on Disney Plus opened it up for so many more people to enjoy. Instead of p…
This year's Pride Month celebrations won't look anything like they've looked in the 50 years since the first took place in 1970 in New York City, but that doesn't mean there's not a whole lo…
The Tony Awards celebrated the best of Broadway during a ceremony that was packed with music, dance and celebrations of the theater world's diversity with calls for more diversity, too. But …
Even in the current golden age of innovative television, the popular British crime drama "Peaky Blinders" has set a daring standard for its use of music, with original songs by Nick Cave, La…
Bryan Cranston took a moment to get political during Sunday night's Tony Awards, blasting the president's stance on the state of journalism. "The media is not the enemy of the people. Demago…
"Hadestown" director Rachel Chavkin, who won her first Tony Award on Sunday night, used her acceptance speech to make a call for greater diversity and representation on Broadway. "There are …
The last time James Corden hosted the Tony Awards, the CBS late-night host was understandably subsumed by events onstage and off; not merely were his last bits on the Tonys stage, in 2016, o…
Level Forward, the production entity launched last year by Abigail Disney and Adrienne Becker, is a winner in this year's Tony Awards derby even before the trophies are handed out on Sunday.…
James Corden has spent the last week prepping to host the Tony Awards " and rehearsals keep threatening to make him cry. Listen to this week's podcast below: "We had maybe 100 people arrive …
The 73rd Tony awards are under way in Manhattan. Winners in each category are bolded. Best Musical Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of the Temptations Beetlejuice Hadestown The Prom Toot…
Celia Keenan-Bolger won best featured actress in a play for her performance as Scout in the blockbuster hit "To Kill a Mockingbird" and Bertie Carvel earned a best featured actor in a play a…
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King dismantles the Asian market in this misfiring satire at London's Royal Court Theatre. "White Pearl" makes a case that those seeking to make inroads into the F…
Marisa Tomei will star in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo." The Oscar-winning actress will play Serafina, a part previously performed by the likes of Maureen Sta…
Variety and PBS SoCal have announced the actor lineup and schedule for Season 10 of "Variety Studio: Actors on Actors." The first two episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series will premiere …
The Cannes Film Festival is intended to celebrate the best of cinema. It's the favored venue for world-class auteurs such as Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, and Hirokazu Kore…
Oak View Group co-founders Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff were among the luminaries on hand to mark Pollstar's inaugural Impact 50 list recognizing the executives shaping the present and futur…
Concert and film producer Blackbird Presents announced today that industry veteran Joe Litvag has joined the company as a partner and president of live entertainment. In this newly created p…
SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris will seek re-election as the union's top national officer and the head of the ticket for the Unite for Strength and United Screen Actors Nationwide fac…
Despite Tim Blake Nelson's knack for playing folksy characters in films such as "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," in his soul lurks the heart of a classicist. Nelson, who stars in HBO's "Watch…
A New York State appeals court on Thursday unanimously upheld a judge's decision to bar the public from a critical hearing in the Harvey Weinstein rape case. On April 26, Justice James Burke…
TodayTix, a Broadway-born mobile ticketing start-up, is looking to expand into a bigger global media and transaction enterprise with a capital infusion of $73 million led by private-equity f…
Solvan "Slick" Naim is developing an untitled hip-hop movie musical based on William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for Netflix. The streaming service announced the project on Thursday, a …
