Thursday, June 24, 2021
The hits of Stephen Sondheim are finally back on Broadway — kind of, anyway. A week after moving back to live audiences for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, Stephen Colbert welc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08AMFriday, April 9, 2021
The cast of “Glee” reunited virtually to remember Naya Rivera, who died last July at the age of 33, at the GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday. The tribute was opened by Demi Lovato, who had …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
I’ve been lucky enough to play women who have marked history with their brilliance, and at the same time have somehow changed the way we see the world. Like many of the Black women in hist…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PMFriday, February 5, 2021
My first memory of Cicely Tyson was in “Sounder.” I only knew her from the screen back then. I was 9, and there were only a few television stations. I remember watching it at the foot of…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PMFriday, May 3, 2019
“Star Wars” actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbecca in the original trilogy, died on Tuesday, his family announced on his Twitter. He was 74. He died at his North Texas home surrounded …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Sarah Silverman is headed to the stage. Well, maybe not Silverman herself, but the story of the comedian is, at least. She gave an update on the musical based on her memoir, “The Bedwetter…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Netflix is a digital disruptor that’s done more than almost any company to upend the media business, and yet so much recent chatter about the streamer revolves around movie theaters. Last …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Bette Midler moved back to New York. But when she got there, she was unsettled by the garbage that she spotted everywhere. “It was unbelievable,” sa…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFriday, March 29, 2019
Variety has hired Lesley McKenzie as managing editor to oversee the multi-platform entertainment news organization across print, digital, and video. McKenzie, who has served as deputy editor…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
Nestled at the foot of a large hill on the edge of downtown Providence, R.I., Cable Car Cinema was known to local moviegoers as ”the one with the couches.” That was a charitable descript…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, February 7, 2019
Ariana Grande has fired back at Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich’s claims that she’s not performing at the ceremony because they felt it was “too late for her to pull something…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:07PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
After seven years coveting fellow billionaire Mark Cuban’s Landmark Theatres, distributor, producer and real estate magnate Charles S. Cohen can finally call the chain of U.S. movie houses…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
The unsung stars behind Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, “A Star Is Born,” talk about bringing Ally and Jackson to life. Read Variety‘s Lady Gaga cover story here. Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMLady Gaga can’t shake her character from “A Star Is Born.” And she doesn’t want to. “I feel Ally inside of me,” Gaga says of the rising musical icon she plays in the film. “I w…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
If you find yourself in a narrow East Village bar adorned with red lights, a precariously perched piano and a sign reading, “Resist, Persist, Keep Dancing,” you’ve stumbled into Alan C…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMSunday, August 26, 2018
If Ariana Grande fans ever wanted to just hang out with the pop star, the “Sweetener Sessions” might have been their best shot. Grande brought the series of intimate shows to Los…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
With “Equalizer 2,” Denzel Washington tackles the first sequel of his career. The movie, debuting July 20, follows the first film’s breakout success. Released in 2014, the …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15PMMonday, March 26, 2018
When “Jesus Christ Superstar” debuts next Monday on NBC, it will be only the latest in a long line of live TV musicals that have found varying degrees of success. Credit goes to …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
The Oscars have an embarrassing history of snubbing female directors. Barbra Streisand was naturally verklempt but ultimately fine when the Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate her for …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
I don’t think I’d heard a word about “Angels in America” before I saw it in London. I had seen one play of Kushner’s, “A Bright Room Called Day,” and panned it. But I certainly…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:41PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Andrew Garfield sits in the break room of a Brooklyn rehearsal complex extolling the virtues of a quilt. “That quilt is maybe my favorite piece of art,” he says of the Names Project AIDS…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Getting a $52.4 billion deal inked with Murdoch was the easy part. Now, Bob Iger is hip-deep in the hard work of hammering out a new management structure for the enlarged company once Di…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMThursday, January 11, 2018
On Thursday at New York’s Cipriani 25 Broadway, Variety and National Geographic teamed up for their inaugural Salute to Service event, which celebrated the contributions the United Sta…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:11PMThursday, December 14, 2017
For Bob Iger, the acquisition of key 21st Century Fox assets is a final mega deal that advances his priorities for his stewardship of the Walt Disney Co. For Rupert Murdoch, the sale of 20th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:25PMWednesday, December 13, 2017
As the countdown to the expected Dec. 14 announcement of a $60 billion-plus acquisition by Walt Disney Co. begins, insiders at Fox studio are privately expressing a mixture of shock, frustra…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Oscar-winning Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has issued a statement denying that he engaged in “inappropriate behavior” during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of &#…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
For nearly two months, the Walt Disney Co. evaded the sexual misconduct scandals that have afflicted some of its rivals. While Amazon (Roy Price), Warner Bros. (Brett Ratner) and Netflix (Ke…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:08AMFriday, November 3, 2017
As the fallout continues following Anthony Rapp’s initiation allegation against Kevin Spacey, three more men have gone public to BuzzFeed and accused the actor of varying degrees of se…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Early on a Wednesday morning in 1999, Robert Guillaume was called down to Stage 6 on the Disney lot. He was one of the stars of “Sports Night,” playing Isaac Jaffe, the boss at the f…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
You don’t need New York to succeed in the theater world. People forget that fact on Broadway, where the theater industry is centered on a dozen blocks in midtown Manhattan. But a handful o…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Some of the most impressive choreography on Broadway can be seen six nights a week on 45th Street, but it doesn’t happen on a stage. NYPD Officer John O’Gorman is the thin blue line betw…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM 
