Monday, September 15, 2025
“44 – The Musical,” a political satire that features music, lyrics and book by former Obama campaign staffer Eli Bauman, has announced the cast for its New York run. The show will feat…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, September 3, 2025
Douglas Aibel will step down as artistic director of Vineyard Theatre, ending a forty-year run. He will continue to work as a producer and casting director, focusing on several upcoming f…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58PMWednesday, August 13, 2025
“We couldn’t allow things to just trundle along,” Andrew Lloyd Webber says. “We had to make a big change.” He’s drumming his fingers on the dining room table of his Upper West Si…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
Grammy winner Kid Harpoon will create original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of “Art.” The Tony Award-winning show — about three friends who debate the merits of a ridiculous…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMTuesday, July 22, 2025
House Republicans are ready to do some rebranding. On Thursday, GOP members of the House Appropriations Committee voted to rename the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performin…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMMonday, July 7, 2025
Scott Rudin is returning to Broadway after allegations of abusive behavior derailed the producer’s career. Rudin and Barry Diller will produce Samuel D. Hunter’s new play “Little Bear …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMSunday, July 6, 2025
Richard Greenberg, the Tony Award-winning writer of “Take Me Out,” has died. He was 67 years old. Greenberg’s death was announced on social media by collaborators and colleagues such a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34AMMonday, June 23, 2025
Amber Heard, Brandon Flynn and Lío Mehiel have joined the ensemble cast of the world premiere production of Jeremy O. Harris’ “Spirit of the People.” Directed by Katina Medina Mora, �…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSunday, June 8, 2025
Broadway’s brights stars came out in force on Sunday for the 78th Tony Awards. There was plenty to celebrate for the theater business, which seems to have recaptured its stride after a lon…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11PMOn the Tony Awards red carpet, James Monroe Iglehart, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson and other Broadway artists and stars weighed in on the fallout surrounding Patti LuPone’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:37PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
When Michael Arden heard the pitch for “Maybe Happy Ending,” a love story about two robots who bond over being discarded by their owners, he thought — pass. But after reading the scrip…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07AMSaturday, May 31, 2025
Patti LuPone has apologized for comments she made about Audra McDonald and “Hell’s Kitchen” star Kecia Lewis in a recent New Yorker interview. “For as long as I have worked in theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27PMFriday, May 30, 2025
Broadway performers and theater professionals are calling on the producers of the Tony Awards to disinvite Patti LuPone from the show after the theater legend made controversial remarks abou…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:04PMThursday, May 29, 2025
The original cast of “Hamilton” will be back in the room where it happens. That’s right, Lin-Manuel Miranda and his ensemble of revolutionaries will reunite for a special performance a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Concord has acquired Broadway Licensing Global. As part of the deal, BLG’s family of imprints — Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts and Stage Rights — will now bec…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMWednesday, April 30, 2025
“Rolling Thunder” will make its U.S. premiere for a limited engagement this summer at off-Broadway’s New World Stages. Performances of the show, which is described as “part rock conc…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM“I probably should try to eat a little more,” David Hyde Pierce tells the waiter who just tried to clear his plate of scrambled eggs. We’re having breakfast in a diner on the Upper Wes…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AMFriday, April 11, 2025
Lily Rabe has been doing something she rarely does when she acts in a play or a film. She’s reaching out to urge her friends and family to head to Lincoln Center, where she’s delivering …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08PMThursday, April 3, 2025
David Mamet will release “Henry Johnson,” a prison drama that marks his first film in over a decade, this spring. Production wrapped recently on the film, which stars Shia LaBeouf and is…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
“Ava: The Secret Conversations” will have its New York premiere this summer at New York City Center, Stage I, following an acclaimed run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The show …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:05AMWednesday, March 26, 2025
For more than a century, B&B Theatres has brought movies — from “Casablanca” and “Psycho” to “The Dark Knight” and “Barbie” — to audiences across the South and the Mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40PMMonday, March 17, 2025
James Taylor’s hits are inspiring a new stage musical called “Fire and Rain.” The singer and songwriter has lined up some major talent in the effort. Tracy Letts, the Tony Award and Pu…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Growing up, Dana Ledoux Miller’s mother would take her and her brother to matinees of films like “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast.” After, she’d wear…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
It was only supposed to run for a few weeks at a small experimental space upstairs at London’s Royal Court Theatre. But somehow, 50 years after “The Rocky Horror Show” first debuted, …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
“Wicked,” “Moana 2” and holiday hits like “Mufasa: The Lion King” lifted quarterly earnings at AMC Entertainment. Revenues at the world’s largest movie chain hit $1.3 billion, …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PMAfter five months on tour, “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” has recouped its investment. The national tour kicked off last year in Providence, where it had the most successf…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PMMonday, February 24, 2025
“Heathers the Musical” is returning to New York after an extended run in London and throughout the United Kingdom. The show will play a limited engagement through Sept. 28 at New World S…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMThursday, February 20, 2025
Holiday blockbusters like “Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Gladiator II” and a re-release of Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” helped lift profits and revenues at Imax during its …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
Cynthia Erivo, fresh off the box office success of “Wicked,” will command center stage on Broadway’s biggest night as host of the 78th Tony Awards. She takes over as emcee from Ariana …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
President Trump said Wednesday that he’d been “unanimously” elected to lead the board of the Kennedy Center, completing his takeover of the Washington, D.C. cultural center. The move, …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:48PMMonday, February 10, 2025
When Jeremy O. Harris was tapped to help reinvigorate the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he didn’t just think about traditional showcases for plays and musicals. “The American festivals …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMThursday, February 6, 2025
Tituss Burgess is about to don Mary Todd Lincoln’s bouncy curls and voluminous gowns. The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star will take over the lead role in Broadway’s “Oh, Mary!” …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, January 27, 2025
“44,” a humorous musical about Barack Obama’s presidency, has announced its complete casting ahead of its production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. The show, which is produced by Monica …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
Tommy Dorfman will star in New York Theatre Workshop’s upcoming production of “Becoming Eve.” The show was written by Emil Weinstein (“A League of Their Own”) and is based on the m…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:21AMWednesday, January 1, 2025
From thrillers like “Babygirl” and “Love Lies Bleeding” to genre-bending horror flicks like “The Substance” to inspirational sports dramas like “The Fire Inside,” women direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43PMJennifer Lopez keeps having to remind Judy Robles that she deserves all the attention she’s been getting as the pair promote “Unstoppable.” The inspirational sports drama has been earn…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:42PMFriday, December 27, 2024
Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” is reigning over the holiday box office. The family film, which is a prequel to “The Lion King” (both the 1994 animated classic and the less canoni…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23AMMark O’Meara, a Virginia-based movie theater owner, wonders and worries constantly about what exactly his customers will buy tickets to see on any given weekend. It’s not that people hav…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
The Southampton Playhouse, a historic cinema that is being revitalized into a state-of-the-art movie theater, announced its leadership team on Tuesday. Maria A. Ruiz Botsacos, a top executiv…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, December 5, 2024
“Swept Away,” a musical that mixed together a shipwreck, cannibalism and the music of the Avett Brothers, hoped to defy conventional wisdom about what constitutes a Broadway hit. Instea…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM 
