While his "boss," Bruce Springsteen is lighting up Broadway with an acclaimed one-man show, E-Street Band guitarist/consigliere Little Steven Van Zandt is rocking the Sunset Strip 3,000 mile…
Fox’s upcoming live musical version of “A Christmas Story” has cast Jane Krakowski and Chris Diamantopoulos, the network announced Wednesday. Krakowski will play Ralphie…
Born to extended run? Bruce Springsteen fans who missed out on “Springsteen on Broadway” may have another chance to score tickets for the show next spring. The Boss i…
The Walt Disney Company is going to battle with its insurer, AIG, as it seeks coverage for a massive settlement in the “pink slime” defamation case. In a motion in federal court,…
The Tony-winning actor Tracy Letts only discovered acting because somebody blackmailed his father into starring in a community theater play. Letts, who as a writer (“August: Osage Coun…
Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee made the leap from goth-rocker to opera diva last night, as she and the band led a 20-piece orchestra through a sold-out performance at the Greek Theater Sund…
Fox Broadcasting, which enjoyed one of its most successful periods when it aired “American Idol,” said it would make a new foray into the music-competition genre by launchingR…
Looking for the theater industry's Harvey Weinstein moment? Look to Chicago. Last year, a bombshell report in the Chicago Reader brought to light two decades of harassment and abuse by Darre…
CANNES — Ricardo Darin and Mercedes Moran ("Neruda," "La Cienaga”) are attached to star in "Amor a ultima Vista" (Love at Last Sight"), directed by Patagonik producer-screenw…
"It's a world out there that is horribly stressed," said Bob Roth, the well-known transcendental meditation (TM) teacher, providing some remarks at a two-day festival designed to raise money…
“Springsteen on Broadway” had the megabucks launch — and continues to do huge business — but the other show to begin previews around the same time, “The Band…
CANNES — Walt Disney International Chairman Any Bird announced Monday morning that Mark Endemaño will be taking on an expanded role as Senior VP of Media Distribution for the compan…
Charles Cohen, one of the leading distributors of French movies in the United States, is set to play a bigger role in Gaul’s film landscape. A real estate tycoon turned movie mogul, Co…
This has been one of the most draining weeks for the entertainment media in a long time. Inside the industry, it feels like the sky is falling (but sort of in a good way). Outside the indust…
Broadway will soon be host to the collision of classical music and iconic rock songs when “Rocktopia” arrives in spring 2018. “Rocktopia” is a concert that celebrates…
Variety hosted the annual Power of Women: Los Angeles luncheon, presented by Lifetime and hosted by Judd Apatow Friday in Beverly Hills, Calif. And the esteemed producer got the ball rolling…
Fandango plans to acquire longtime competitor MovieTickets.com, in what would be the union of the industry’s two biggest online movie-ticketing services. Financial terms of the deal…
“War Paint,” the musical that stars big Broadway names Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will go dark earlier than expected, setting an imminent closing for Nov. 5. The show, …
"I’ll handle it myself, thanks." That was The Boss himself, jovially dressing down the few people in his Broadway audience who had begun to clap along to "Dancer in the Dark." This was…
As Bruce Springsteen began the last verse of "The Promised Land" on Tuesday night, he wandered away from the microphone but kept singing, and his voice carried, purely under its own power, t…
Disney/ABC Television Group has begun laying off employees, part of a long-anticipated restructuring and reallocation of resources at the Walt Disney Company’s non-sports broadcast and…
CBS will continue to broadcast the Tony Awards through 2026 under a new deal between the network and the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, CBS announced Thursday. The awards …
Broadway, mark your calendar: The Tony Awards have set the date for the 2018 ceremony, locking in June 10, 2018 for the CBS telecast, live from the stage of Radio City Music Hall. At the sam…
Can you zap old material into new life? The perennial problem of the family Frankenstein is the same one facing the comedian Mel Brooks. Exhuming “Young Frankenstein,” his classi…
Harvey Weinstein has been removed by Disney as a producer on the movie “Artemis Fowl” in the latest fallout from the scandal surrounding the mogul. “We have terminated his …