Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Turner has made a massive commitment to harness the power of the Force. The Time Warner division has struck a nine-figure deal with Disney for basic cable rights to 10 “Star Wars” movies…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, August 29, 2016
Before he achieved movie superstardom in the 1970s, Gene Wilder did Brecht on Broadway, Shaw in Louisville, and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Kirk Douglas on the Great White W…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46PMTuesday, August 16, 2016
Show the magic — that was a guiding principle for the “Grease Live” team as they tackled the challenge of mounting Fox’s live staging of the beloved musical. The end result of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08AMMonday, August 8, 2016
“Grease Live” and “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail is setting up shop at 20th Century Fox TV with a pod deal for his newly launched Old 320 Sycamore production banner.…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:05PMThursday, July 14, 2016
HBO’s epic fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” once again leads the pack of contenders for the Primetime Emmy Awards, grabbing 23 nominations for its sixth season. “Thron…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PMMonday, June 13, 2016
CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone has been promoted to the newly created post of chief digital officer for CBS Corp. The boost for Lanzone, who will remain CEO of CBS Interactive, recognizes t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:48AMOn the heels of a national tragedy, the crowd inside the Beacon Theater on Sunday night was pulsating with pride and passion for the achievements of the Broadway community in the season of �…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:38AMSunday, June 12, 2016
The show must go on — that was the emphatic sentiment shared Sunday night on the Tony Awards red carpet outside the Beacon Theater. On the same day the nation was jolted by the death toll …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:31PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
The biggest beneficiary of Tony Awards attention this year could well turn out to be “Bright Star,” the original musical penned by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. The show that opened Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:10PMJust call Scott Rudin the Iron Man of Broadway. The veteran producer is nommed for six productions this year — a step up in activity even after Rudin nabbed two big wins at last year&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Tina Fey took time out from the opening of her husband’s latest Broadway effort on Monday night to shower praise on NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt as he received the Actors …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07AMMonday, April 11, 2016
Ashley DeSimone spent more than a dozen years on Wall Street, working as an equities analyst and in investor relations. But her heart always belonged to Broadway. After 11 years as a partner…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20PMMonday, February 1, 2016
Producers of “Grease Live” are scrambling to fix a sound snafu that crept up during Julianne Hough’s performance of “Hopelessly Devoted to You” during the live …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35AMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Before there was Tessio, before there was Fish, Abe Vigoda made his name on the stage. In the 1950s and ‘60s, the actor who died Tuesday at 94 did everything from Shakespeare to musical c…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04PMFriday, January 15, 2016
Joy is the word for the producer and cast of Fox’s “Grease Live.” Cast members and producer Marc Platt were bubbly and as they discussed the ambitious live staging of the b…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50PMThursday, January 7, 2016
Bryan Cranston spent six months on stage in 2014 giving a tour-de-force performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in “All the Way.” But adapting the play by Robert Schenkkan for…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04PMMonday, December 7, 2015
WASHINGTON — Unveiling a variety of touches that broke from longstanding tradition, the Kennedy Center toasted five titans of the performing arts on Sunday in the 38th annual presentat…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMFriday, December 4, 2015
NBC’s “The Wiz Live!” delivered strong ratings in the major markets and with adults 18-49. Preliminary Nielsen ratings have the three-hour live telecast averaging a 4.4 rat…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:38PMEven as the rave reviews were flowing in via social media, “The Wiz Live” producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron were still sweating out the key moment they felt would make or break the pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:38PMDavid Alan Grier loosened up by joking around in a faux Shakespearean actor voice. Limber dancers in creature costumes, ranging from furry winged warriors to sexy poppies to sassy crows mill…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08AMMonday, November 9, 2015
John Benjamin Hickey, Christopher Denham and Mamie Gummer have gone from “Manhattan” to Manhattan. The trio of actors from the WGN America period drama are on stage in New York this fall…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:03PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
Call it grassroots marketing in the Motor City. TCM is lending its feed this weekend to a Halloween-themed fundraiser for the last independent theater left in the heart of Detroit. Cinema De…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:50AMFriday, October 30, 2015
NBCUniversal’s plan to launch a streaming channel next year to better mine the value of “Saturday Night Live” and all of its late-night comedy programming has been no secret in TV and …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:43PMSaturday, October 24, 2015
Big challenges, big changes, happy accidents and getting there on diversity — these were among the topics tackled by top producers, showrunners, directors and execs on Saturday at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMMonday, September 28, 2015
The Broadway smash “Hamilton” has been the talk of the town since it opened in August. But the rap-based musical about one of the nation’s founding fathers would not exist in its curr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
Dennis Haysbert has joined the cast of “Undercover,” the limited series set to air next year on the BBC and BBC America. The six-part series penned by Peter Moffat revolves aroun…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMFriday, August 28, 2015
Nicole Scherzinger, a singer who is a staple of British TV including a regular gig on “The X Factor UK,” has signed on to NBC’s “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16PMFriday, August 14, 2015
Neil Patrick Harris wants to attract a very specific demographic with “Best Time Ever”: Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K. and their ilk. On big key to the success of the show — a huge swing …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57AMSunday, June 7, 2015
Legiters love their own, and they love pushing the boundaries of the stage. That was the clear vibe in the room at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday during the Tony Awards ceremony. It was evi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
The Kennedy Center has tapped White Cherry Entertainment, veteran producers of numerous TV events including the Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, to handle production of this year’s Kennedy Cen…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMFriday, April 10, 2015
Fox is developing an event special around “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the enduring midnight-movie classic that has been playing for 40 years. Kenny Ortega is on board to dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PM 
