“Hello, Dolly!” — but goodbye, house records. The ultra-hot revival led by Bette Midler broke the record for biggest week in the Shubert Theater with just seven performance…
NPR has a new “Morning Edition” at the ready. Starting Wednesday, April 5th, the public broadcaster will release “Up First,” a ten-minute daily news podcast culled…
Olivia Wilde will make her Broadway debut in “1984,” starring alongside Tom Sturridge and Reed Birney in the production that opens in June. Wilde (“Vinyl,” “Hou…
In the early 2000s, Julia Stiles was a teen movie superstar with lead roles in such sleeper hits as "10 Things I Hate About You" and "Save the Last Dance." But her first mention in Variety c…
The show must go on — but in the Broadway transfer of West End hit “The Play That Goes Wrong,” forgotten lines, lost props, technical gaffes and rebellious scenery all seem…
Paramount Pictures has named longtime Disney executive Dan Cohen the new president of worldwide television licensing, Variety has learned. In his new role, Cohen will oversee the gl…
Nearly $1 million was raised for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts during a star-studded tribute to the music composer Henry Mancini Saturday night at the Wallis theater in…
CANNES — Sealing anchor TV partnerships as it gears up for production, "Find Me in Paris," one of the first attempts to make a premium international series for teens, has closed a raft…
LaTanya Richardson Jackson's career is about hard work and continuity. Last year, she appeared in "The Taming of the Shrew" at the Public Theatre, a relationship that began in the 1970s. And…
From a purely cosmetic standpoint, the Broadway musical "War Paint" seems to have all the makings of an over-the-top season of the FX series "Feud": Two powerful, successful, ferociously com…
Disney’s “Lion King” live-action reboot is getting in formation. Sources tell Variety that Beyonce is director Jon Favreau’s top choice to voice Nala in the upcoming�…
As a former Doctor Who, David Tennant has done his fair share of regenerating. In Patrick Marber's contemporary spin on the Don Juan legend, "Don Juan in Soho," it's as if the age-old lothar…
On a warm night in late September, a young man named Jonah Ray stands at the center of a mock space station in a yellow jumpsuit, flanked on either side by two robot puppets. This can onl…
Ever since the tempestuous presidential election season, the country at large can't stop talking about politics. In Washington D.C., that's always been business as usual — only now, lo…
Juilliard alumna Phillipa Soo is coming off a deep dive into Americana, having originated the role of Elizabeth Schuyler in "Hamilton" and performing "America the Beautiful" before the Super…
Disney’s Club Penguin "Â the multiplayer online game that has kept kids entertained for more than 11 years " shut its doors for good at 12:01 a.m. PT on March 30. But Disney is hopin…
Walt Disney is expected to increase its share of the cost of expanding Hong Kong Disneyland and to end up owning a larger share of the theme park. In documents submitted this week to Hong Ko…
LAS VEGAS — An impassioned Christopher Nolan introduced intense footage from his World War II epic “Dunkirk,” expressing his goal of taking moviegoers back to the massive 1…
Although Disney’s “Frozen” was released nearly four years ago, it’s as fresh in our memories as the lyrics to “Let It Go.” But would the film have been as…
In today’s TV news roundup, “The Bachelor” alumni Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell will host Freeform special “Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings,” David Axelrod…
Director Tom Harper, whose credits include "War & Peace" and "Peaky Blinders," has boarded "The Rocks," a TV adaptation of Peter Nichols' novel, with "La La Land" producer Fred Berger at…
LAS VEGAS — Disney can be forgiven for phoning it in. Fresh off a $7 billion year at the global box office, the studio raced through its upcoming releases at a sprinter’s pace du…
John Fithian, the top lobbyist for the movie theater industry, hit back at rising populism around the globe in an address to studio executives and distrib…
Janeane Garofalo will make her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming production of “Marvin’s Room,” starring alongside Lili Taylor and Celia …
Robert Greenblatt, the NBC Entertainment Chairman who has made live broadcasts of classic musicals an annual event on his network, has joined the board of directors at Center Theater Group, …