Friday, September 16, 2022
As with so many western films, Bollywood has taken a beloved smash and turned it into a stage musical. Aditya Chopra’s “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge” opened in 1995 and is still playin…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:26PMTuesday, October 12, 2021
The Circle in the Square Theatre — a Broadway house that last opened a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” — transformed on Sunday in the ebullient and nourishing sett…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMWednesday, April 28, 2021
When we look back on 2020, Hollywood will probably think of it as a pivotal time for the data produced by such things as stream-ing entertainment and social media but data analysts and strat…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMWednesday, January 27, 2021
It’s been a banner year for Latin American cinema where 18 countries, including newcomer Suriname, have submitted films to vie for the international feature Oscar. Half of this year’s cr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:43AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
“Frozen,” “Mean Girls,” a Donna Summer musical and a “SpongeBob SquarePants” tuner are among the shows lined up for Hollywood in the 2019-20 season. And f…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, December 6, 2018
Since Bill Duke the Sundance Special Jury-prize winning film “The Killing Floor” (1984), the multi-hyphenate talent has rarely been out of sight on screens big and small. In the ’90s, …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
You’ve got to believe Quincy Jones was willing to die for his music. His biggest health scare came in in 1974 when he suffered a brain aneurysm. The blame fell to his workload — scoring …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, February 22, 2018
“ ‘Baby Driver,’ is not just an action film. It’s more like an action musical,” says its writer-director Edgar Wright. “The key is actually not that it is edited to the music, bu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMSaturday, October 21, 2017
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell were excited to bring their musical, “Bright Star,” back to the West Coast years after it opened at San Diego’s Old Globe Playhouse. At Friday’s openi…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Pegged as a conversation about the scenery behind hit musical “Hamilton,” talk really turned to the show’s birth Wednesday at NeueHouse in Hollywood. Opening night is Aug. 16 at th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:35PMSunday, May 21, 2017
A host of marquee actors, singers, Hollywood execs, and Los Angeles dignitaries turned out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Center Theatre Group on Saturday in downtown L.A. The event st…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:40PMMonday, May 8, 2017
While Hollywood hosts any number of film premieres, legit world premieres are more rare. On Sunday, Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum hosted the opening of Rajiv Joseph‘s &…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28PMSunday, April 30, 2017
John Legend’s electric performance capped Saturday evening’s Moca Gala at the Geffen Contemporary in downtown Los Angeles. Guests rushed the stage to have a front row spot, takin…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PMThursday, February 9, 2017
The rap on musicals used to be “audiences don’t want to see people breaking into song.” Now that “La La Land” has charmed audiences by doing just that, what does it mean for the fu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
At the Center Theatre Group’s celebration of Gordon Davidson’s life Monday at the Ahmanson there were testimonials, poems and songs sung to honor the man who built up regional theater on…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:41PMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Set in hip Silverlake, “Icebergs,” now making its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, offers plenty of laughs with witty dialogue and a knowing scenario about a showbiz couple, an in…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
In keeping with the playful George Gershwin tunes performed at the LA Philharmonic’s opening night gala on Tuesday, Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell sang, danced, and got the audience t…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:59PMMonday, September 12, 2016
The opening-night crowd at the Mark Taper Forum’s opening of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” showed the esteem with which director Phylicia Rashad is held in Los Angeles. The gues…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Mirada’s smash hip-hop tuner about America’s founding fathers, will anchor the Pantages’ 2016-17 season, running there Aug. 11-Dec. 30, 2…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMFriday, January 15, 2016
Rainn Wilson brings Will Eno’s one-man show “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” to the Geffen Playhouse 10 years after it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. First playing at t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:02PMThursday, January 7, 2016
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, which is currently repped on Broadway by “Misery” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” is developing a stage versio…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20PMFriday, November 20, 2015
John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar” makes its way to Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse without the starry presence of Debra Messing, who played one of the leads on…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:25AMSunday, January 4, 2015
Variety feted Steve Carell, Chris Rock and Rob Marshall along with its 2015 class of 10 Directors to Watch at a brunch Sunday at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Coming the day after the dese…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:23PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Kirk Douglas gave career tips to up-and-coming actors at Tuesday’s celebration of the 10th anniversary of his eponymous theater in Culver City. When Douglas was starting out in his car…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:56PMSunday, June 22, 2014
An L.A. tradition kicked off on the first day of summer with the Hollywood Bowl’s opening on Saturday with a raucous concert that saw the induction of Pink Martini, the Go-Go’s and Krist…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMThursday, October 3, 2013
The Ahmanson opening of Neil Simon‘s “The Sunshine Boys” brought out Danny DeVito‘s castmates of “Taxi” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:24PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Three Blighty hits and a couple of Broadway shows are on the bill for the Ahmanson’s next season.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01PM 
