Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Send in the tears: Stephen Sondheim is due to be remembered in song at the upcoming Grammy Awards by Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler, sources tell Variety. The pe…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22PMWednesday, March 2, 2022
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” From “Bridget Jones’ Diary” to “Judy,” Renée Zellweger knows a thing or two about transformation. The two-time Oscar winner’s la…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17PMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Add Hannah Waddingham to the list of actors who would love to be in a superhero movie. “Why do you think I’ve done sci-fi things in the p…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:24AMWednesday, January 12, 2022
Jesse Plemons says Benedict Cumberbatch’s Method acting as the gruff Phil Burbank while shooting “The Power of the Dog” definitely intensified their on-camera dynamic. “It creates a …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:26PMSunday, October 24, 2021
The chandelier inside the Majestic Theatre, Broadway’s most beloved ghost light, rose again on Friday evening as “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show in Broadway histor…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PMThursday, October 14, 2021
On Wednesday evening in New York City, Anna Wintour, Huma Abiden, Joel Gray, Don Lemon, Phylicia Rashad, Kenny Leon and a host of New York theater luminaries filed into the Golden Theatre on…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25AMFriday, September 3, 2021
Broadway took its next step toward reopening Thursday night, carefully and deliberately on the backs of two shows telling stories of fear and resilience. “Hadestown,” the 2019 Tony-winni…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:09PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
The chandelier inside the Majestic Theater — the iconic gold fixture that plummets into the audience as the “The Phantom of the Opera” reaches its act one climax — is still dark, and…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:59PMWednesday, July 21, 2021
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Kate Beckinsale is “highly” doubtful that another “Underworld” will be made, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t up for playing Selen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:10AMThursday, July 15, 2021
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Queer Disney fans raised a rainbow flag in 2017 when it was revealed that in the Bill Condon-directed live-action adaptation of the animated …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:10AMThursday, June 10, 2021
The Tribeca Festival screening of “In the Heights” on Wednesday was the first major movie event to take place in New York City since the COVID-19 pandemic. And what a celebration it was.…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Daphne Rubin-Vega’s face may be on an “In the Heights” billboard on 41st Street in Times Square, but her son isn’t so impressed. “He is 16, so I am not the coolest person at all on…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
It may not have been a full Broadway production, but the Roundabout Theatre Company nonetheless knows how to welcome live theater back to New York City. The 56-year-old performing arts organ…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:48PMSaturday, June 5, 2021
“It’s going to be Washington Heights that is going to show the world how to get up again,” declared director Jon M. Chu as he addressed the audience ahead of the special preview screen…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40PMWednesday, May 12, 2021
Welcome to this week’s “Just For Variety“… Leslie Jones didn’t exactly run to get a COVID vaccine. “When it first came out I was like, ‘I’m not taking that shit,’” the fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMThursday, May 6, 2021
A new survey conducted The Actors Fund sheds more light on COVID-19’s impact on the entertainment industry. The organization surveyed 7,163 people who sought its assistance during the pand…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Emma Stone may be taking on the role of Cruella de Vil in Disney’s “Cruella,” but that doesn’t mean Glenn Close is done playing the D…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMSaturday, May 1, 2021
In what Hollywood hopes is a sign that live events are finally on the rebound, FX and 20th Television launched the third and final season of “Pose” with a red carpet premiere Thursday ni…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMThursday, April 29, 2021
Going once. Going twice. Sold! Timotheé Chalamet’s costume he wore to play Harry Styles on “Saturday Night Live” has sold for $4,725 during Christine Baranski’s celebrity auction on…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
It was this week a year ago that Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep and Audra McDonald went viral with their boozy rendition of “Ladies Who Lunch” during a virtual birthday celebration for…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMMonday, April 26, 2021
Patrick Dempsey has left the “Grey’s Anatomy” building…again! While the actor appeared on last week’s episode when Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) dreams of her and Derek finally having th…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10PMMonday, April 19, 2021
The Academy is not asking Oscar attendees to wear face masks while cameras are rolling during the live ceremony on April 25. The news was announced on Monday morning during a Zoom meeting wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:03PMBroadway, still shuttered, finds itself at the crossroads of several economic and political crises. Just this month, an exposé on Scott Rudin re-illuminated the industry’s long codependen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23AMWednesday, March 31, 2021
Jameela Jamil is celebrating the one-year anniversary of “I Weigh,” the podcast offshoot of her activist mental health organization of the same name. Guests have included Billy Porter, D…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMWednesday, March 24, 2021
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety“… With the West End set to reopen in May, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella” musical, with a book by freshly minted Oscar nominee Em…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:50AMThursday, March 18, 2021
Now that Oscar noms are in and planning for the 93rd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre and Union Station is underway, I’m hoping the next announcement we hear is that the evening will se…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
Move over, Martha Stewart. Jesse Tyler Ferguson has just released his first cookbook, “Food Between Friends,” with co-author Julie Tanous. The 272-page tome includes recipes for garlicky…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:58PMMonday, March 15, 2021
Less than a week after the Hollywood Foreign Press Association circulated a letter to Hollywood publicists insisting it was committed to diversifying and addressing longstanding criticism…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26AMFriday, March 12, 2021
A year to the day since Broadway shuttered, Liza Minnelli celebrated her 75th birthday — but not over post-show drinks with Joan Collins, in a limo in Paris with John Waters, or at her chi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety”… We’re just a couple days away from Liza Minnelli’s birthday, which is March 12. As I first told you, the Hollywood legend — and Varie…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PMThursday, March 4, 2021
The late Ann Reinking is being honored with a scholarship in her name. The $5,000 grant from Off the Lane will be awarded annually to a young dancer moving to New York City to help them in t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:56PM 
