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David Mamet said he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. Mamet mentioned the new script in an interview in the Chicago Tribune. The new work is called “Bitter Wheat,” and t…
On Thursday night, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Variety teamed up for a panel highlighting some of this year’s Oscar contenders for best original song. Held at the L.A. Film Sch…
Bernadette Peters' return to Broadway puts the "doll" back in "Hello, Dolly!" Tiny, trim, and in terrific voice, the Tony Award-winning diva tops off previous triumphs like "Mack and Mabel" …
Following the lead of the film academy and other Hollywood guilds, the Television Academy has established its own new code of ethics and standards of professional conduct. Chairman Hayma Was…
Taye Diggs has been cast in a major role of The CW’s upcoming drama pilot inspired by the life of football player Spencer Paysinger, Variety has confirmed. In the pilot, a rising hi…
Kristin Chenoweth is joining the sophomore season of “Trial and Error” at NBC. Chenoweth will play suspected killer Lavinia Peck-Foster, who is described as the first lady of Eas…
Saoirse Ronan’s next film is here, following the success of awards-season favorite “Lady Bird,” and it takes her far away from early-2000s Sacramento. In the new “On …
" 'Baby Driver,' is not just an action film. It's more like an action musical," says its writer-director Edgar Wright. "The key is actually not that it is edited to the music, but more cruci…
Brandon Victor Dixon has been cast as Judas in NBC’s upcoming live staging of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the network announced Thursday. Dixon won a Tony in 2014 as a produc…
Drew Cohen has been appointed to the newly created position of global chief executive officer at Music Theatre International, one of the theater industry’s major theatrical licensing a…
Lee Yoon-taek, artistic director of Yeonheedan, one of South Korea's top theater groups, has been accused of sexual violence, including rape. The case is the latest scandal as the #MeToo cam…
Lupita Nyong'o will star in the Trevor Noah biopic “Born a Crime,” portraying the mother of the host of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.” The movie is an adaptation …
Representative Sydney Millsap is the kind of politician we all want to be, if we absolutely must be politicians. A Gold Star widow with the high ethical standards of an old school Texas Demo…
It's been a good year for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songwriting and composing duo better known as Pasek and Paul. After landing an Academy Award for their song, "City of Dreams" from "…
The son of playwright Paul Zindel filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that “The Shape of Water” was based on Zindel’s 1969 play, “Let Me Hear You Whisper.” Da…
Russell Simmons is “temporarily closed for spiritual maintenance” following sexual misconduct allegations him that surfaced in the fall. In an Instagram post Tuesday, the cofound…
I don't think I'd heard a word about "Angels in America" before I saw it in London. I had seen one play of Kushner's, "A Bright Room Called Day," and panned it. But I certainly knew about De…
When the Academy Awards were first handed out 89 years ago, Variety reported at the time that the planning for the dinner and ceremony at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood took about a week o…
Former employees have accused Thomas Schumacher, the president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions and the president of the Broadway League, of sexual harassment and misconduct. Sc…
Phillipa Soo has been cast in the upcoming CBS drama pilot “The Code,” Variety has learned. The tells the story of the military's brightest minds as they take on our country's…
How do you know expectations are high for a Broadway musical? When audience members arrive in costume. That’s what the stars and creators of “Frozen” faced in Denver, where…
Andrew Garfield sits in the break room of a Brooklyn rehearsal complex extolling the virtues of a quilt. "That quilt is maybe my favorite piece of art," he says of the Names Project AIDS Mem…
It's been 30 years since the musical "Chess," noted for its engaging score and inscrutable book, survived on Broadway for a scant two months. Could a high-profile revival finally be in the o…
Anne Hathaway is in negotiations to star in "Mudbound" director Dee Rees' "The Last Thing He Wanted," based on the Joan Didion political thriller. Elevated's Cassian Elwes will produce and T…
The board of the Weinstein Company voted on Friday to fire David Glasser, the company’s chief operating officer. Glasser was set to become CEO of the company under a new ownership grou…
