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Harry Connick Junior’s daytime talk show is drawing to a close. “‘Harry’ is ending it's run after two seasons,” a spokesperson for NBCUniversal Domestic Televis…
Carey Mulligan started her career on the main stage of London’s Royal Court — playing a narcoleptic schoolgirl in Kevin Elyot's family drama "Forty Winks." Fourteen years on, a s…
A24's "The Disaster Artist" is all about defying expectations. The 2003 Tommy Wiseau film "The Room" was a fiasco, but became an enduring hit. And in his 2017 movie about the making of the f…
Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan took home the best actress prize at the Irish Film and Television Academy's Film and Drama Awards, which took place in Dublin on Thursday night. Ronan's win for h…
Jeff Daniels will headline the cast of the upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” leading an ensemble that will also include Celia Keenan-Bolger, Stark Sands, G…
Kelli O’Hara, the Broadway favorite who won a Tony Award for her performance in the 2015 revival of “The King and I,” has signed with ICM Partners. O’Hara is a much-n…
MCC Theater, the non-profit, Off Broadway theater company where Neil LaBute has been a playwright-in-residence for several years, has abruptly terminated its relationship with the writer-dir…
A graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (PCPA), Vincent Rodriguez III cut his teeth on musicals such as “Hello, Dolly” and “Peter Pan,” the latt…
“Scorpion” star Katharine McPhee will step into the lead role of “Waitress” this summer, marking the Broadway debut of the “American Idol” contestant who&…
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are set to star in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of "Henry IV." Hanks will play the comedic role of Sir John Falstaff. The 24 performances will …
Both Kirstin Maldonado, a member of the popular a cappella group Pentatonix, and Jake Shears, a former member of the Scissor Sisters, have plenty of experience performing live. But performin…
Independent music publisher Big Deal Music Group announced today that they have entered into a long-term worldwide administration agreement with Notable Music, the company founded by lege…
"Torch Song" on Broadway this fall? It might happen " at the newly reopened Helen Hayes Theater. "They're only talking about it at this point," said Carole Rothman, the artistic director of …
With winter causing a slowdown in New York tourism and Bruce Springsteen on hiatus until the end of the month, the Broadway box office continued to deflate last week in the kind of slowdown …
Bette Midler and Sharon Stone are starring in a movie version of the play “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” Andy Fickman, whose credits include “Parental Guidance&#…
Oscar-winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will write the songs for an upcoming Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studio’s project, Variety has learned. The family film has the working title &#…
Dan Cohen has joined Nonesuch Records as vice president of marketing, the company announced today. Cohen comes to the Warner Music Group label from Republic Records, where he was vice presid…
Disney cartoon series are to be widely available in China following a deal between Buena Vista International and Youku, the video streaming platform owned by Alibaba. China strictly limits t…
Tina Fey and Robert Carlock were feted Sunday night at the East Coast edition of the Writers Guild Awards. True to form, Fey went right to the heart of why the longtime collaborators, who fi…
SAG-AFTRA has released a “Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment” instructing its 160,000 members how to deal with the issue. The union made the announcement Saturday night fol…
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, Va…
Award-Winning actress Elisabeth Moss ("The Handmaid's Tale") is set to star for director Ritesh Batra ("The Lunchbox," "The Sense of an Ending," "Our Souls at Night") in his upcoming feature…
“The Heart of Rock and Roll” will beat on in the theater as the hits of Huey Lewis and The News are set to soundtrack a future musical, it was announced on Thursday. The Bay A…
Characters from Disney and Pixar’s film franchises will be coming to a new mobile game, under a deal struck with games developer and publisher Glu Mobile. Glu Mobile announced a pact w…
A number of major regional theaters are changing artistic leaders at the moment. Over the last few months, that number has only grown as charges of sexual harassment and misconduct roil the …
