Take that, Oscars. As the Academy is just recovering from its #OscarsSoWhite fiasco, stemming from its all-white acting nominees, the Tony Awards set a new benchmark in diversity, thanks in …
On the heels of a national tragedy, the crowd inside the Beacon Theater on Sunday night was pulsating with pride and passion for the achievements of the Broadway community in the season of "…
In a 2015-16 season in which the top winner at the Tony Awards, “Hamilton,” had been a foregone conclusion since the musical opened last summer, the biggest uncertainty of the To…
Frank Langella was so moved by the mass shootings in Orlando that he tore up the speech he planned to deliver at Sunday’s Tony Awards so he could pay tribute to the 50 people who had b…
"Hamilton" ascended to the awards throne to which the Broadway smash has been headed all season, taking home eleven trophies at the 2016 Tony Awards, including the top prize for new musical,…
Frank Langella gave an emotional acceptance speech at the Tony Awards Sunday night, addressing the Orlando shooting to a somber crowd. Langella, accepting his fourth Tony win, said that he w…
Jessica Lange first performed the part of Mary Tyrone 16 years ago in a London stage production, but the newly minted Tony winner said that she understood the part in a fresh way starring in…
“Hamilton” star Lin-Manuel Miranda paid tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting on Sunday night at the 70th Tony Awards with a stirring speech that brought Broadway to tea…
The 2016 Tony Awards are taking place on Sunday, with “Hamilton” leading the nominations, nabbing a record 16 nods when noms were announced last month. “Hamilton” fac…
Host James Corden opened the 2016 Tony Awards in somber fashion, addressing the Sunday morning shooting in Orlando that killed 50 people. “All around the world, people are trying to co…
The show must go on " that was the emphatic sentiment shared Sunday night on the Tony Awards red carpet outside the Beacon Theater. On the same day the nation was jolted by the death toll fr…
Broadway’s biggest night is back. Hosted by James Corden, the 70th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. Digital viewers can watch a live stream of the c…
The dress rehearsal for the 2016 Tony Awards answered a lot of questions — from what song the cast of “Hamilton” will perform to which award Barbra Streisand will present &…
The biggest night of the year in Broadway, the Tony Awards, is taking place Sunday night. Which of Broadway’s finest will take home 2016’s big awards? Variety reporters are on th…
The devastating news of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history has left Tony Awards producers and CBS and scrambling to figure out the right way to address the tragedy on the three-hour…
Jon M. Chu is in early talks to direct The Weinstein Co.’s movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "In the Heights," which won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. Chu has a pai…
Even way back in the spring of last year, before the 2015-16 season had even started, the question about the Tony Awards was never whether “Hamilton” would win big at the ceremon…
“Nashville” has officially been renewed for Season 5 on CMT, Variety has learned. Hulu will continue to make “Nashville” episodes available to stream the day after th…
In 2007, Jeff Daniels starred as Ray in the first American production of David Harrower's profoundly unsettling drama "Blackbird," about an older man confronted by a woman over the relations…
The Broadway revival of “The Color Purple,” nominated for four Tony Awards and probably on its way to winning at least one of them, is an impressive achievement by any measure. B…
In anticipation of an imminent win at the Tony Awards, producers of “Hamilton” have jacked up the ticket prices of the Broadway smash, raising the top non-premium ticket price to…
The 2015-16 Broadway season couldn’t have found a more fitting end than “Shuffle Along.” Following a year of work that seemed a celebration of contemporary Broadway d…
CBS Studios Intl. and RTL II have signed a licensing agreement in Germany for “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” The series will air on RTL II's new Internet-only linear sta…
“Hamilton” cast will be performing at the 2016 Tony Awards, Netflix releases trailer for Season 2 of “Marco Polo” and more in Wednesday’s TV news Round…
For a brief moment, it looked like Pixar had finally made history by offering up the first gay character in a Disney animated film. The Internet erupted last month over a new trailer for …