Two Disney tentpoles, “Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Moana 2,” are crossing major box office milestones. “Mufasa” has surpassed $500 million globally after four weeks of release, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PM“Wicked” is “very very popular” — on the big screen, and now on video-on-demand. In a rare display of transparency for downstream revenues, Universal reported the big-budget musica…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37PMDisney’s head of theatrical distribution Tony Chambers is leaving his current role to serve as president of the Walt Disney Company in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will replace J…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMNot even the dynamic duos of Joy and Anxiety, Deadpool and Wolverine, Gru and his minions or Paul Atreides and those massive sandworms could push the 2024 box office to pre-pandemic heights.…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMDisney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” and Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” are duking it out for first place at the North American box office with each of the family friendly films …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:28AMUniversal’s “Wicked” is officially the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in global box office history, overtaking 2008’s “Mamma Mia” to notch the harmonious milestone. “Wick…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:28AM“Hold on to Me Darling,” an Off Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play starring Adam Driver, has recouped its initial investment. The show was capitalized at $1.8 million. During …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“Grey’s Anatomy” actor T.R. Knight is returning to Broadway in “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a stage play based on the massive Netflix television series. The show, which ope…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMMattel is being sued for mistakenly printing the URL for a pornographic site on the packaging for special-edition “Wicked” dolls. According to court documents, a South Carolina resident …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM“GLOW” actor Betty Gilpin is replacing Cole Escola in “Oh, Mary!” on Broadway. Escola, who wrote and starred in the deranged comedy since it debuted Off Broadway in January, is depar…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AM“Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were paid the same amount for leading the movie musical, Universal Pictures said in a rare statement on such a matter, to dispel online rum…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58PMSo if you care to find “Wicked,” look… just about anywhere. You’d have to be flattened by a farmhouse to miss the “Wicked” promotional onslaught. From Starbucks drinks (Elphaba c…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMCole Escola’s unconventional smash “Oh, Mary!” has recouped its entire production costs on Broadway. The play, capitalized at $4.5 million, is the first show of the 2024-25 season to d…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMarla Mindelle, the star of Off Broadway’s Golden Age fantasia “The Big Gay Jamboree,” gets anxiety during every performance. Sure, the delightfully ridiculous show — in which she pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMMoviegoers can channel their inner Glinda and Elphaba during sing-along screenings of “Wicked.” But they’ll have to wait. Interactive showings of Universal’s upcoming movie musical w…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08PMJon M. Chu had a pretty good excuse for missing the premiere of “Wicked.” The director of the two-part musical epic couldn’t make the starry Los Angeles event because his wife gave bir…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:06PMDelia Ephron invented a term — discardia — for indulging without guilt at New York City’s too-many tempting eateries. “It’s a game you play with yourself. You can buy anything you …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:22PM“Smash,” a stage adaptation of the fan-favorite NBC series, is officially opening on Broadway in 2025. The long-in-the-works musical will begin performances on March 11, 2025, at the Imp…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PMJoey Fatone is returning to Broadway for the first time in two decades, joining the company of the jukebox musical “& Juliet.” The revisionist take on Shakespeare’s classic tale of…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMLionsgate wants theatergoers to have the time of their lives, so the studio is adapting “Dirty Dancing” as a Broadway musical. “Dirty Dancing: The Musical” will launch in late 2025 …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMJoe Machota, head of CAA’s theater department, will be recognized with the time-honored Broadway tradition of getting a caricature on the wall at Sardi’s. Plenty of stars like Patti LuPo…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25AMBrody Grant, the Tony-nominated star of “The Outsiders,” is returning to the musical after a month-long hiatus. An exact date has not been finalized but representatives for the show said…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:51PMJonathan Groff, a recent Tony winner for “Merrily We Roll Along,” is returning to Broadway. He’s set to star in “Just In Time,” a new musical about the life and times of singer Bob…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMSarah Snook, the Emmy-winning “Succession” actor, will make her Broadway debut playing 26 characters in “The Pictures of Dorian Gray.” The adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s gothic horror…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM“Water for Elephants” is concluding its Broadway run this winter. The musical will play its final performance at the Imperial Theatre on Dec. 8. At the time of its concluding show, “Wa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMBroadway’s biggest stars got themselves out of bed bright and early on a coveted day off for Variety’s annual Business of Broadway, presented by City National Bank, a celebration of new …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:05PMTikTok Star Charli D’Amelio will make her Broadway debut in the jukebox musical “& Juliet,” a revisionist take on Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers. D’Amelio w…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMChristopher Ashley, the Tony-winning director of “Come From Away,” has been appointed as the new artistic director of Roundabout Theatre Company. Ashley has spent the past 17 years as th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMLin-Manuel Miranda, the creative mind behind “Hamilton” and “In the Heights,” is returning to Broadway in “All In: Comedy About Love.” The play, penned by former “Saturday Nigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMBroadway theaters will dim their lights in honor of James Earl Jones, the four-time nominated and two-time Tony Award winning actor who died on Sept. 9 at the age of 93. Broadway houses will…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AMUp two treacherous flights of stairs at the Lyceum Theatre, Cole Escola sits demurely in their dressing room, awaiting the delivery of a green smoothie. It’s a rare moment of downtime for …
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