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“Spotlight” writer-director Tom McCarthy is re-writing Disney's “Christopher Robin,” bringing momentum to the live-action fantasy movie. The move to hire McCarthy, wh…
Josh Gad is setting a milestone for Disney: His portrayal of LeFou in the live-action rendition of “Beauty and the Beast” will be Disney’s first openly gay character. In th…
Allison Janney may be best known for her TV work, but she got her start on stage. Now, after four seasons (and counting) on “Mom” — not to mention the seven seasons she spe…
“Scandal” star Tony Goldwyn and Julianna Margulies will narrate the documentary “Above the Drowning Sea.” The doc is about the Jewish refugee experience in Shangha…
Tuesday night, the cast of WGN America's "Underground" debuted its second season at the Westwood Village Theatre in Los Angeles. The hourlong series ushered in new cast members like Bokee…
Andrew Scott's electrifying debut as sing-song psychopathic Moriarty in the BBC’s "Sherlock" opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in 2010 was the most career-changing cameo since Judi Dench's…
Just this year, Lady Gaga’s performed at the Super Bowl and Grammys… and now she’s headed to Coachella. Gaga confirmed on her Twitter Tuesday night that she’ll be hea…
Janie Dee, comic royalty on English stages, applies her comedic chops to the title role in “Linda,” a feisty feminist play by Penelope Skinner that originated at London’s R…
Fox is developing an event series about the Cotton Club, the hottest club in Harlem in the roaring '20s, Variety has learned. Titled “Cotton Club,” the sexy, soapy music serie…
Disney is hoping to find new reason for Sofia the First and K.C. Cooper to smile: The company anticipates healthy demand for advertising as the TV industry ushers in the earliest part of the…
Richard III loses his kingdom for want of a horse.  The main character in David Mamet’s new play, "The Penitent," compromises his career because of a typo.  Did this …
Signature Theater stages are currently filled with two quite different end-of-life accountings. In one theater there's Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' expansive, lively and cautionary parable play "…
It’s been roughly 17 hours since “La La Land” was mistakenly crowned the best picture winner Sunday night, while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the pro…
After last week’s spike from Valentine’s Day and President’s Day, the Broadway box office of several of the street’s biggest shows dipped — but those declines w…
"The Night of the Iguana" is Tennessee Williams' darkly tragicomic 1961 musing on humanity's difficulties in hanging on to love, faith and grace, set on the eve of World War II when all thre…
It was a strange night at the Oscars. Someone still living was listed in the In Memoriam segment. First-time host Jimmy Kimmel attempted to bring non-famous people into the Hollywood fold in…
TOKYO — With its release perfectly timed to benefit from its six Oscars, "La La Land" danced to the top of the Japanese box office in its first weekend. Released by Gaga and Pony Canyo…
Most of the post-Oscars chatter will be dominated by a certain best picture mistake, but don’t let that overshadow the efforts of the artists. Specially, we’re taking a look at t…
Emma Stone reached for the stars and grasped them on Sunday night. She won the best actress Oscar for her performance as aspiring actress/dreamer Mia in the musical “La La Land.”…
Damien Chazelle claimed the best director award at Sunday’s Oscars celebration for “La La Land.” Chazelle ran through a list of thank yous from the Dolby Theatre stage, …
“City of Stars” from “La La Land” shined bright at the 89th Academy Awards, winning the statuette for best original song. Benj Pasek, one of the song’s ly…
City of stars, are you shining just for John Legend? The Oscar-winner, who has also won 10 Grammys, took to the Dolby Theatre stage and sent the audience to dreamland with a soulful mash-…
On Feb. 24 at the Beverly Hilton hotel, the Publicists Guild, a unit of the International Cinematographers Guild, will bestow trophies to many of its own members, and will accord special hon…
A concert staging at City Center last fall of Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Sunday in the Park With George” went swimmingly, with Jake Gyllenhaal …
A world premiere of a Center Theatre Group commission, and the American premiere of new work are on the Ahmanson Theater’s slate for 2017-18 in an announcement made by  artistic dir…
