
Marc Shaiman, the composer and lyricist behind "Hairspray" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," will look back on five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood in his new memoir "Never …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50AM[SHARE]"Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo" is planning a Broadway bow after opening last month at Arizona's Phoenix Theater Company. The new musical was conceived and written by Tony Awa…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]"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 feature T.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]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 upco…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58PM[SHARE]"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 Side apartment…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58AM[SHARE]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 ridiculously exp…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PM[SHARE]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 Perform…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PM[SHARE]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 Ridge …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]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 as Deni…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34AM[SHARE]Amber Heard, Brandon Flynn and LÃo Mehiel have joined the ensemble cast of the world premiere production of Jeremy O. Harris' "Spirit of the People." Directed by Katina Medina Mora, "Spir…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]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 long …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11PM[SHARE]On 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 c…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:37PM[SHARE]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 script and …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07AM[SHARE]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 theatre, I …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27PM[SHARE]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 08:04PM[SHARE]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 at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AM[SHARE]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 become pa…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]"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 concert, par…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]"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 West Side…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AM[SHARE]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 a ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08PM[SHARE]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 an …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51PM[SHARE]"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 was …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:05AM[SHARE]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 Midwest. The family-ow…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40PM[SHARE]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 Pulitzer…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]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 out her tapepla…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PM[SHARE]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, it i…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PM[SHARE]"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, up more than 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PM[SHARE]After 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 successful t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PM[SHARE]"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 Stage…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AM[SHARE]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 fourth quarter…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PM[SHARE]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 DeBose…
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