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After a lengthy courtship, Lady Gaga is ready for her close-up as the titular starlet in Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” remake. Deadline Hollywood reported last month…
“Hamilton” will have a new Hamilton in July, with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator-star of the Tony-winning Broadway smash, confirmed to exit the show July 9 and his longtime alte…
Bradley Cooper is on board to exec produce the latest “Stand Up to Cancer” primetime fundraising special, set to air Sept. 9 as a roadblock across more than two dozen networks. T…
Fred Caruso, writer and producer best known as the creator of “The Big Gay Musical,” has died in an apparent suicide. He was 41. His friend, Rick Crom, posted to Facebook on T…
Ronnie Claire Edwards, best known for her portrayal of Corabeth Godsey in the 1971 series “The Waltons,” has died, according to a post on her Facebook page. She was 83. Edwards m…
Fox is in negotiations with Zac Efron to join Hugh Jackman in the P.T. Barnum biopic "The Greatest Showman on Earth." Fox had no comment on Efron’s possible attachment. The project has…
Members of the Broadway community have teamed up for a charity recording of “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” performed by a “We Are the World”-style supergoup of t…
With the Tony Awards out of the way, Broadway can now get down to ironing out its plans for the fall. The newest confirmed additions to the slate: “A Bronx Tale,” the musical co-…
The Broadway Channel — the video content brand affiliated with online ticket seller and news outlet Broadway.com and with producer-presenter Broadway Across America — is ex…
Fan favorites like "The Sound of Music," "Grease" and "The Wiz" hit both stage and screen decades ago. Millions have committed every scene between Maria and the von Trapp family to memory an…
In a basement studio under Chicago's Oriental Theatre, things are getting dramatic " and a bit surreal. A 14-piece orchestra is swelling to a cinematic crescendo. Three actors " portrayin…
The Roundabout Theater Company's revival of "She Loves Me" will become the first Broadway production to livestream a performance, with the title — nominated for eight Tony Awards and s…
CBS has set a new deal with the Recording Academy to keep the Grammy Awards telecast through 2026, a pact that marks the longest continuous partnership of a network and a major kudocast. CBS…
“Bright Star,” the Broadway musical written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will shutter at the end of the month, with producers posting a closing notice after weeks of …
Scott Ellis has been tapped to direct NBC’s upcoming live adaptation of “A Few Good Men.” Aaron Sorkin broke the news Tuesday morning at Variety’s annual TV Summit, h…
Isabelle Huppert's return to the London stage is welcome, but it comes in an impenetrable indulgence by Polish director Krystof Warlikowski. First seen at the Odéon Théà tre de l'Europe …
Disney hierarchy Bob Iger, Andy Bird and Bill Ernest were joined by stage and screen director Julie Taymor in Shanghai for the opening of the Mandarin-language version of "The Lion King" mus…
A company of women under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd (“Mamma Mia!”) romps through a subversive version of "The Taming of the Shrew" that takes some of the sting out of Shakes…
Long-time Sumner Redstone companion Manuela Herzer has made good on her promise to appeal a Los Angeles judge’s decision to deny her bid to be re-installed as the media magnate’s…
It’s too early to tell what kind of effect last night’s Tony Awards will have on the Broadway box office, but it’s not too soon to predict that “Hamilton” is go…
The show went on at last night’s Tony Awards after the day’s events in Orlando shocked the nation, and the producers say they faced difficult decisions about how to address the n…
Netflix has greenlit "Big Mouth," an animated series from Nick Kroll with a 10-episode order, Variety has learned. The 30-minute "edgy, surreal animated comedy" about teenaged adventures in …
The ongoing “Hamilton” hype helped boost the 2016 Tony Awards to the show’s highest overnight rating in 15 years, growing 33% from last year’s show. The CBS telecast …
CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone has been promoted to the newly created post of chief digital officer for CBS Corp. The boost for Lanzone, who will remain CEO of CBS Interactive, recognizes t…
“Hamilton” triumphed at the Tony Awards on Sunday, racking up 11 statues including the Best Musical prize. But the victory was colored by the mass shooting at an Orlando gay club…
