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In 2005, an actor named Griffin Matthews volunteered to work at an orphanage in Uganda and returned home to start his own charitable organization. The writer-performer drew on that episod…
On Dec. 3, NBC will air a live production of “The Wiz,” a musical that has been a huge audience draw for 40 years. But that Yellow Brick Road was nearly a dead end, because th…
A Christmas Story House and Museum has acquired the holy grail of “A Christmas Story” memorabilia — an original, custom-made Red Ryder BB gun used in the film. The “o…
Jerry Seinfeld announced that he’ll be taking up residency at New York City’s Beacon Theatre in 2016, where he’ll perform a monthly show entitled “Jerry Seinfeld: …
Helen Mirren is in early discussions to join Will Smith in the New Line Drama “Collateral Beauty,” sources tell Variety. David Frankel was recently announced as the director of t…
With the addition of choreographer Lorin Latarro, the incoming musical “Waitress” has put together what’s being touted as Broadway’s first all-female creative team. L…
Helen Mirren spiced up the 2015 Gotham Awards ceremony with an acceptance speech that ranged from bawdy to funny to serious, getting in a dig at Donald Trump while she was at it. She slipped…
You’d think Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of Broadway hypemagnet “Hamilton,” would have hit peak pop-culture saturation by now, but then he had to go and top …
Four hard-working actors, ably assisted by a resourceful costumer and a nimble props master, make a mighty effort to play the 20-plus characters in “New York Animals.” Steven …
Routinely described as Britain's greatest living playwright — arguably in a job-share with Tom Stoppard — Caryl Churchill can do in a 45-minute triptych what most writers take th…
The holiday bounty on Broadway last week included a new Thanksgiving attendance record, with close to 290,000 theatergoers adding up to the best-attended Turkey Day week ever recorded.…
The Rob Reiner-directed, William Goldman-scripted film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Misery” premiered 25 years ago today (read the original Variety review here). Kat…
Playwright Patrick Barlow had a big, surprise hit with his stage version of “The 39 Steps,” racking up nine years in the West End and two more on Broadway, gleefully sending up i…
Whipped cream is known to be sumptuous, but its taste might seem a tad bittersweet for NBC. When the Peacock airs its much-anticipated live telecast of "The Wiz" this Thursday, it will also …
LONDON — Variety has teamed up with London’s Sanctum Soho Hotel to provide a venue for a series of exclusive events, including cast-hosted screenings of awards-nominated films, s…
LONDON — The live broadcast of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's stage production of "The Winter's Tale" topped the U.K. cinema box office on Thursday. William Shakespeare's play, …
Does getting chased by zombies feel any less terrifying if the undead have experimental theater credits? Probably not. But even if most theater people might not have "The Walking Dead Experi…
“The Humans,” the Stephen Karam play that won raves in its current Off Broadway run, has locked in dates for its anticipated Broadway transfer, starting performances in January a…
Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at 72, sti…
Old-fashioned Broadway is embracing newfangled virtual reality, in the hopes that the fashionable 3D-imaging technique will add up to real-life ticket sales. Last week, "The Lion King" relea…
Add more Arthur Miller to the Broadway slate: The Arthur Miller Foundation will celebrate the centennial of the playwright’s birth with a starry benefit featuring Alec Baldwin, Ellen B…
The team that brought L.A. audiences “Cruel Intentions: The Musical” and “The Unauthorized O.C. Musical” is at it again, lining up “The Unauthorized ‘Frid…
The Tony Awards have set dates and switched venues for their 2016 edition, returning to the Beacon Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for a ceremony that will air live on CBS June …
“If I were a rich man,” goes the song from “Fiddler on the Roof” — and to judge by the first few performances of the new Broadway revival, this “Fiddler&#…
The musical “Motown” has set a theater and a timeframe for its Broadway return, mapping out an 18-week run that starts in July 2016 at the Nederlander Theater. When the musica…
