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“Oslo” scored yet another playwriting trophy — as well as an ensemble acting honor — on its way to the Tonys, taking one of two 2017 Obie Awards for best new American…
A label rep tells Variety that Ariana Grande is “okay” after two “loud bangs,” reported in some social media accounts as “explosions,” took place at he…
The mononym queens had it at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards. The two best reasons to tune in to an otherwise mostly dreary three-hour ABC telecast were striking performances by genera…
Writer-actor Hamish Linklater’s new play “The Whirligig,” expressionistic in form and melancholy in tone, examines the whirling emotions of the friends and family who are k…
In another instance of Chinese capital flowing into Hollywood, the newly established Culture China "Â Image Nation Content Fund will co-finance and executive produce Sony Pictures Entertai…
A host of marquee actors, singers, Hollywood execs, and Los Angeles dignitaries turned out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Center Theatre Group on Saturday in downtown L.A. The event st…
An evening that feels like a brash but cloddish welding of ill-matched parts beside the original film's smooth, mosaic-like assembly.
NBC has renewed freshman comedy “Trial & Error” for a 10-episode second season, Variety has learned. Though the show, which stars John Lithgow, has not been a ratings h…
The British actress Imogen Poots recently seen in "Green Room" and "Roadies" will wrap her theater debut playing Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" before heading to Cannes with her …
Disney kicked off the summer movie season on Thursday night with the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales," the fifth installment in the venerable franchise. Hundred…
Musical.ly, a startup that has more than 200 million users for its video-sharing app, is planning to launch original programming on the service this summer and is in talks with media compani…
Glenda Jackson, the Oscar winner who hasn’t appeared on the New York stage in almost 30 years, will star on Broadway next year in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” p…
Award-winning actor, playwright, and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda has had quite the year — and he shows no signs of slowing down. The “Hamilton” star and creator has j…
Broadway producers may have spent much of this week courting the theater industry’s Tony Awards voters at the Broadway League’s annual spring conference, but fans have signaled t…
Along with yachts, diamonds and Caribbean islands, English soccer clubs have become prized possessions for global plutocrats, and now former Disney chief Michael Eisner is about to join this…
"La La Land" producer Fred Berger has set multilayered noir thriller "Strange but True" as his next project. British sales company Bankside Films is handling international sales on the film,…
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Cheddar, which bills itself as a “post-cable” financial news network for millennials, announced $19 million in third-round of financing led by Raine Ventures, along with strategi…
Broadway and film composer Stephen Schwartz received the Founders Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) at its annual Screen Music Awards Tuesday night a…
Taiwan's Wudi Pictures has struck a multi-picture production deal with Walt Disney in China to produce locally targeted Chinese-language movies. The first title under the deal is "Miss Taken…
“Come From Away,” the musical that slipped into the Broadway season to give “Dear Evan Hansen” a run for its money at the Tony Awards, picked up four trophies at the …
Idina Menzel, the “Frozen” star and “Wicked” Tony winner who was also one of the leads in Lifetime’s “Beaches,” will star Off Broadway in “Ski…
Disney CEO Bob Iger had a bit of a bombshell revelation for his staff during a company town hall Monday: Hackers claim to have stolen a copy of an unreleased Disney movie, and are now threat…
Stephen Schwartz, who will receive the founders award at Tuesday night’s ASCAP Screen Music Awards in Los Angeles, says the forthcoming movie of his Broadway mega-hit “WickedR…
The Tony nominations have seemingly helped “Groundhog Day” turn heads, with the Broadway musical lifted to its highest weekly tally yet in the wake of seven nods including best m…
