Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Amber Ruffin is partnering with Matthew López to adapt film classic “Some Like It Hot” for the stage. The new stage adaptation will also feature music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scot…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:59PMSunday, January 24, 2021
Pray for movie theaters. “The Marksman,” a Liam Neeson thriller from Open Road, held onto first place for the second weekend in a row, grossing just over $2 million. The film has grossed…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:38PMFriday, January 22, 2021
In a career that spanned seven decades, Avian appeared in, staged, produced, directed or designed the dances for dozens of Broadway hits -- his resume reads like a history of musical theater…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:46PMBob Avian, the Tony Award-winning choreographer of “A Chorus Line,” died Thursday of a heart attack. He was 83. In a career that spanned seven decades, Avian appeared in, staged, produce…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08PMTuesday, January 19, 2021
Bob Iger and Bob Chapek, the two men in charge of the Walt Disney Company, saw their pay packages shrink in 2020 after forgoing bonuses that could have added millions of dollars to their com…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:53PMTuesday, January 12, 2021
Daniel J. Mertzlufft, who went viral with his arrangement of “Remy the Ratatouille” by Emily Jacobson, has signed with CAA and Kraft-Engel Management. The composer, arranger, music direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:18PMSaturday, January 2, 2021
Hollywood tapped a record number of women to call the shots on major movies in 2020, according to a new study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Celia Keenan-Bolger won best featured actress in a play for her performance as Scout in the blockbuster hit “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Bertie Carvel earned a best featured actor in a pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Marisa Tomei will star in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo.” The Oscar-winning actress will play Serafina, a part previously performed by the likes of Maure…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32AMSunday, May 19, 2019
The Cannes Film Festival is intended to celebrate the best of cinema. It’s the favored venue for world-class auteurs such as Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, and Hirokazu Kore…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:20PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
“Hadestown” a scruffy take on Greek mythology, dominated the Tony Award nominations, picking up a leading 14 nods on Tuesday, including one for best musical. “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PMFriday, April 26, 2019
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” the hit adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic novel, has recouped its entire investment after 19 weeks. The announcement was something of a foregone conclusion af…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMSaturday, April 13, 2019
You are cordially invited to George and Martha’s for an evening of fun and games. Laurie Metcalf and Eddie Izzard will play the battling, boozy couple at the heart of Edward Albee’s mast…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Kenny Ortega of the “High School Musical” franchise has just signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix. The pact with the producer, director, and choreographer continues Netflix’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” creator and star Rachel Bloom will host the 64th Annual Obie Awards, Variety has learned. The event honors the best in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway entertainme…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
“Guys and Dolls,” the venerable Broadway musical, is set to return to the big screen. TriStar Pictures has purchased remake rights to the original Damon Runyon short stories about gamble…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMGreta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” Cate Shortland’s “Black Widow,” Patty Jenkins’s “Wonder Woman 2,” and Elizabeth Banks’s “Charlie’s Angles” are among the ten most tra…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AMMonday, March 25, 2019
If you missed the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” last year, fear not. The full cast of the acclaimed production of Tony Kus…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM"The Music Man" has found its Marian, the librarian. Sutton Foster, the two-time Tony Award winner, will star opposite Hugh Jackman in the upcoming revival of "The Music Man." She will pla…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:04AM“The Music Man” has found its Marian, the librarian. Sutton Foster, the two-time Tony Award winner, will star opposite Hugh Jackman in the upcoming revival of “The Music Man.” She wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:19AMThursday, March 21, 2019
The domestic box office rebounded in 2018 in a recovery fueled by blockbusters such as “Black Panther” and “Incredibles 2.” Ticket sales in the U.S. climbed 7% to top out at a record…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
What kind of a boss will Disney be? That’s a question facing employees at 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, National Geographic Partners, FX Networks, and other assorted parts of Rupert M…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:28PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Miranda Priestly can’t call all the shots. The upcoming musical adaptation of “The Devil Wears Prada” has tapped Anna D. Shapiro to direct the show, which is eyeing an eventual Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01AMHugh Jackman will return to Broadway in an upcoming revival of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man.” It marks Jackman’s first musical role in more than a decade, which should make it a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:21AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Andrea Martin broke four ribs while rehearsing “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” and will leave the production. Kristine Nielsen, another member of the cast, will assume Martin’s ro…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PMFriday, March 1, 2019
“Choir Boy,” Tarell Alvin McCraney’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning “Moonlight,” ends its Broadway run next week. The drama has earned rave reviews for its portrait of a gay teen�…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PMMonday, February 4, 2019
“The Band’s Visit,” a musical adaptation of a 2007 Israeli film that became an unlikely stage hit, will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, April 7, 2019. Whe…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04AMMonday, January 28, 2019
Indie films can still succeed in theaters, but producers and directors must be more creative in selling their films and cooking up stories that will resonate with audiences. That’s the…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:11PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Michael Shannon and Audra McDonald will portray two lovers whose one-night stand turns into something deeper in the Broadway revival of “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.”…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMMonday, January 14, 2019
“What the Constitution Means to Me,” a buzzy Off-Broadway production that counts Hillary Clinton and Gloria Steinem among its fans, is making the move uptown. The play will come …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:42PMWednesday, January 2, 2019
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a certifiable smash and has become one of the greatest stage successes of this or any Broadway season. Aaron Sorkin’s adaption of Harper Lee̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:54PM 
