Stories have a way of opening up on a stage. Elizabeth Strout's bestselling novel "My Name Is Lucy Barton" looks, at first glance, like a curious choice for a theatrical adaptation. It's rum…
Bradley Cooper falls in love with Lady Gaga in Warner Bros.’ first trailer for its remake of “A Star Is Born.” Cooper, who also directed, stars as veteran singer Jackson Ma…
Tommy Mottola was the king of the music business for so long that he had his pick of any A-list star to perform at his 2000 wedding to Mexican singer and actress ThalÃa. He invited Don…
Apple has given a straight-to-series order to the half-hour dramedy “Little Voices,” which boasts J.J. Abrams and Sara Bareilles among its executive producers, Variety h…
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is currently the hottest ticket on the Great White Way. Now, Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who first portrayed the boy wizard, is following suit…
CBS must be breathing a sigh of relief. That’s because Bruce Springsteen has agreed to take the stage at the Tony Awards on Sunday, injecting some genuine star power into the congenita…
The third season premiere of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" opened with a song entitled "Where's Rebecca Bunch?" to address the second season's cliffhanger: how and when Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) would …
Basil Twist, the puppeteer and MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner, began his career way, way downtown. He’s still working there — current example: the 20th anniversary p…
When set designer Christine Jones won a Tony for her work on "American Idiot," she felt "there couldn't be anything better career-wise." Then along came "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, P…
Festivities are certainly in order for this superbly mounted 50th anniversary production of "The Boys in the Band," Mart Crowley's breakthrough 1968 play about Manhattan gay life ̵…
What’s it like to be recognized for a Tony Award compared to an Oscar? Let Andrew Garfield — the actor currently nominated for a Tony for “Angels in America,” and nom…
It's a risky business, making a musical not from a story demanding to be told but from a set of songs merely available to be used. "Jagged Little Pill," American Repertory Theater's world pr…
When Tina Fey was writing her first Broadway musical — “Mean Girls,” now nominated for 12 Tony Awards — she sometimes felt a little at sea. “There were definite…
Los Angeles-based entertainment industry power couple John Legend and Chrissy Teigen shelled out $9.02 million " a bit more than the $8.995 million asking price " for a triple mint, "vintage…
Collaborating for a first-time-ever performance to celebrate their work on “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” Grammy Award-nominated songstress and composer and star of…
Chinese video streaming giant, iQIYI has opened its first conventional movie theater in Zhongshan, southern China. The company aims to build a network of on-demand cinemas, at which viewers …
Patricia Morison, who starred as shrewish diva Lilli Vanessi in the original 1948 Broadway production of “Kiss Me, Kate” as well as Anna Leonowens in the 1954 run of “The K…
Welcome to "Remote Controlled," a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera. In this week's episode, Variety's …
Bradley Cooper may be reuniting with Clint Eastwood in his next film. Sources tell Variety that Cooper is in talks to join Eastwood in “The Mule,” Eastwood’s next dir…
Warner Bros. has won the bidding war over several other studios for the movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "In the Heights," which won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. The pr…
Scooter Braun, manager of Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber and the key organizer of last year's One Love Manchester concert, was awarded the Harry Chapin humanitarian award at the Music Biz c…
Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) certainly went through the ringer in the third season of CW musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” " which ended on a note that not only saw her bigges…
Next season will be the last for three CW dramas: “Jane the Virgin,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” and “iZombie.” The network confirmed Thursday that all three s…
LaChanze has a favorite Donna Summer song — but you won’t hear it in “Summer,” the Broadway bio-musical for which the actress is currently nominated for a Tony in the…
Paramount Pictures and Amblin Partners have finalized a deal to secure the music and life rights from Leonard Bernstein's estate, with Bradley Cooper in talks to direct, produce, and star in…