Celebrated film, television and Broadway composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman, a Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner as well as a five-time Oscar nominee, sold off the larger portion of his two-parce…
Michael Cerveris' television resume reads like a wishlist of projects, starting with his earliest days in the industry, when he appeared on the acclaimed 1986 series "Fame" with Debbie Allen…
Although Kristen Bell rose to fame with the titular role in the WB cult teen private detective drama "Veronica Mars" in the early aughts, she had actually been performing for more than a dec…
Walt Disney Co. has added two CEOs from the technology world to its board of directors. Oracle CEO Safra Catz and Francis deSouza, CEO of biotech firm Illumina, have been elected to board se…
Just because his company may be on the verge of a mega-merger doesn’t mean Peter Rice doesn’t have plenty to say about media M&A. The 21st Century Fox president and chairman/…
YouTube's strategy of working up original programming from international markets moved a step forward Thursday with the appointment of Luke Hyams as the first head of originals for the EMEA …
Chloe Sevigny plays a sexy-hippie drug addict like a pro in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's unfocused new play, “Downtown Race Riot.” But she also gracefully shows us the better side …
Welcome to "Playback," a Variety podcast bringing you exclusive conversations with the talents behind many of today's hottest films. As one of Hollywood’s preeminent writers, Aaron Sor…
Shanghai Disney Resort says that Shanghai Disneyland's seventh themed land, Disney Toy Story Land, will open in April next year. The new land is based on the Pixar "Toy Story" films. Disney …
Bob Iger is likely to extend his tenure as Disney chairman-CEO if the company succeeds in acquiring 20th Century Fox and other big assets from the Murdoch empire. Iger’s current contra…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton: An American Musical" is one of the hottest titles to have hit Broadway in recent history. On Tuesday, the writer and star of the award-winning musical appeare…
Disney has offered Rob Marshall the job of directing its live-action version of “The Little Mermaid.” The studio tapped Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken last year to write the …
Seven years on, Syria's civil war is still raging. Its death toll is nudging half a million, and ten times as many people have been displaced. For those that remain, conflict is the new norm…
Programming veteran Michelle Lee has joined Apple’s venture into scripted television content. Lee has been named a creative executive at Apple Worldwide Video, the unit tasked with lea…
"True is what happens," says a confidant Russian Red Army captain to a journalist who is having a difficult time describing things he has seen, be it the night sky or a war atrocity. "False …
WASHINGTON — If the Walt Disney Co. reaches a deal to acquire most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, it’s likely that both companies will minimize any antitrust issues, describe…
Twenty-First Century Fox's $15-billion bid to own all of Sky is already up in the air with Britain's regulatory authorities. A potential sale of various Fox assets to Disney, which would lik…
Who runs the film studio? Who gets the keys to the TV kingdom? And will a Murdoch be in line for Bob Iger's throne? There are more questions than answers as the possibility of Disney acquiri…
Back in 1988, the Broadway play “M. Butterfly” played like “The Crying Game” — four years before the Neil Jordan film was even released. “In the original …
Shares of 21st Century Fox rose moderately in early trading Tuesday after CNBC added new fuel to speculation that the Murdoch-controlled company would sell a significant chunk of its assets …
Di Glazer has been named the co-head of the theater department at ICM, where she’ll share the post with the agency’s veteran department chief Patrick Herold. Glazer will work wit…
The Broadway League, the trade association of Broadway producers, have brought a legal complaint against the New York theater industry’s biggest casting directors, branding the casting…
An artistic director in Los Angeles is suing the nonprofit theater he led for 17 years " and the case has reverberations far beyond Southern California. That's because the lawsuit points to …
Twitter has released its top-trending topics and tweets of 2017, with Barack Obama and Ariana Grande dominating the most popular posts. The former president’s response to violence i…
Jimmy Fallon resurrected his Bruce Springsteen impression for another parody cover, this time of “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” for Monday night’s episode of “…