Brendon Urie, the lead member of rock band Panic! At The Disco, has signed on for a summer run in the Broadway musical “Kinky Boots,” playing Charlie, the young man who takes ove…
John Legend has caught the VR bug, in a big way: The pop star slash actor is not only lending his voice to one of the main characters in "Rainbow Crow," a new animated VR series that is s…
AMC Theaters and IMAX Corp. have signed a new joint revenue-sharing arrangement which will see the premium large screen format installed in an additional 25 AMC-owned cinemas across Europe. …
Last week was a busy one at the Broadway box office, with three shows opening, two more beginning previews and a couple — “The Play That Goes Wrong” and “WaitressR…
It's been 27 years since Richard Gere and Julia Roberts charmed their way through "Pretty Woman" and today Gere is seated in a room at the Beverly Wilshire, the very hotel where they shot th…
Current Broadway play “Sweat” has scored playwright Lynn Nottage her second Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with the award this year going to a show that has proven a timely look at…
New York State’s newly approved budget, passed by the state senate nine days after the April 1 start of the fiscal year, includes a three-year extension of the Film Production Tax C…
Forget the Triwizard Tournament and the Hogwarts House Cup, Harry Potter has arguably won an ever bigger prize. The West End production of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” due on B…
Although "La La Land" didn't win best picture at the Oscars, Damien Chazelle's neo-musical did cop one final trophy at the 4th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards on Saturday…
Modern classics don't come along very often. “Consent” is, without a shadow of a doubt, just that: an intricately constructed philosophical drama that does for love, law and lang…
Adapted from Stephen Karam's hit 2007 Off-Broadway play, Dan Harris' film "Speech & Debate" unites three teenage outcasts who form their own speech and debate club in order to fight the …
Hillary Clinton is a Broadway regular these days — but it felt particularly symbolic to see her at the opening night of the musical “War Paint,” the musical about two trail…
“War Paint” is a musical about Catherine Zuber’s fabulous costumes and magnificent hats, as modeled by the great Patti LuPone as Helena Rubenstein and her Highness, Christi…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee emerged from the Broadway season’s third eligibility meeting with new rulings on a small batch of shows, including productions with high-profil…
An exhibition of work by longtime Disney animator Andreas Deja is on display through Oct. 4 at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. Deja, who was named a Disney legend at the l…
A married, middle-aged man falls in love with a goat. Edward Albee's set-up might be simple, but it's perfectly positioned " silly and shocking and, at its best, achingly sad. “The Goa…
Can there be a romantic relationship between two gay men of different generations: one who grew up in the shadows, witnessing struggles, pain and hidden pleasures; the other growing up in th…
Whatever would we do without Kevin Kline? In an age of lesser stars, he’s a bona fide matinee idol of the ideal age and with the urbane sensibility to do justice to sophisticated scrib…
Broadway producer David Binder will serve as guest artistic director for LIFT, the London International Festival of Theater, for the biennial event’s 2018 edition. Binder, the producer…
Current Broadway offerings “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Oslo” and “Indecent” are in the running for major trophies at the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards, the Off Broa…
What happens when you combine the booze-soaked cabarets of 19th century Europe with ribald, vaudeville-inspired comedy and titillating acrobatics " all performed on a stage nine feet in d…
YouTube is heading back to the desert: The video giant will exclusively live-stream the first weekend of Coachella 2017 for the seventh year in a row. From April 14-16, Coachella’s You…
The Disney Channel has ordered its “That’s So Raven” spinoff to series with a premiere eyed for later this year, Variety has learned. “Raven’s Home,”…
CANNES —Â More than anything else, the Disney Media Distribution showcase at the first MipTV Pre-L.A Screenings gave a tantalizing glimpse of mouth-watering series, though often no …
The only thing remotely Parisian about “Amelie” is the use of a bilious shade of green reminiscent of the outdoor pissoirs one used to see all over Paris. Hardly the image to tak…