What do the Bride, Jackie Brown, Django, Mia Wallace, Hans Landa, Cottonmouth, Stuntman Mike McKay, Mr. Pink, Charles Manson and the Gimp all have in common? For one thing, that they're all …
Initial casting is being revealed for the Pasadena Playhouse's production of the Go-Go's-scored musical comedy "Head Over Heels," opening in a reconfigured, immersive setting within the stor…
Barry Manilow fans never got to hear the end of his set at Saturday's "We Love NYC" Central Park concert, after the all-star show got shut down right in the middle of a Manilow medley. But t…
"Head Over Heels," the Broadway production that put the song catalog of the Go-Go's to use as the basis of a narrative musical-comedy, is finally reaching the band's hometown of Los Angeles …
One of downtown Los Angeles' landmark clock towers, the one atop the 1927 Tower Theatre, is no longer right just twice a day. More significantly, the landmark theater below it at 8th and Bro…
More than a dozen of music's biggest stars, from Beyoncé to H.E.R., would love an Emmy to add to their award shelves. A Variety review of the 535 entries throughout the Television Academy's…
Dave Grohl is determined to be at the forefront of some post-quarantine firsts. Foo Fighters played the first Los Angeles stadium show of the pandemic era, with a closing set at the filming …
Clive Davis has a gig as music's own new Barbara Walters, if he wants it. For the second half of his two-part virtual "Grammy gala" this year, the music mogul doubled down in Saturday night'…
Returning to the scene of the crime seemed to Sara Bareilles like a good way to promote her just-announced live album, "Amidst the Chaos: Live at the Hollywood Bowl," and so the singer-songw…
Jim Steinman was an ultimate officiant in the marriage of rock 'n' roll and theater. The songwriter, who died April 19, only had a handful of productions play out on the legit stage, includi…
Clive Davis has announced the second part of his virtual "Pre-Grammy Gala," delayed from its original date of the night before the awards, with music veterans like Elton John, Joni Mitchell …
The late rocker and TV/theater composer Adam Schlesinger, who died from complications of COVID-19 in April 2020, will be feted by dozens of musicians and actors in May in an online tribute b…
A virtual 40th anniversary reunion of the original "Dreamgirls" dream cast " Loretta Devine, Jennifer Holliday and Sheryl Lee Ralph " was among the highlights of a virtual benefit Sunday for…
Droll. Adroit. Literary. Observational. Epigrammatic. Empathic. Finely tuned. Waggish. Harmonious. Hilarious. Dryly devastating. These were the qualities that marked Adam Schlesinger's songw…
"Dorothy, I don't think we're on the Old Town Road anymore," as the saying goes. Lil Nas X ditches the quaint world of horseback commuting for the highway to hell in "Montero (Call Me By You…
Beyoncé's 28 wins at the Grammys Sunday made her the most-awarded woman in the history of the awards, moving her ahead of the former champion, Alison Krauss. Among both genders, she trails …
Taylor Swift became the first woman to win the award for album of the year three times when "Folklore" triumphed in that marquee category at the Grammy Awards Sunday night. She previously wo…
Taylor Swift performed on the Grammy Awards for the first time in five years, bringing her "Folklore" collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner with her for the first on-stage performanc…
When Leslie Odom Jr. signed up to play Sam Cooke in "One Night in Miami," he knew that he had a non-acting task awaiting him after shooting: director Regina King had already made it clear th…
Taylor Swift's lawyers have said "It's on," effectively, to a Utah theme attraction, Evermore Park, that sued Swift earlier in February, alleging that her "Evermore" album infringed on its t…
It's become clearer that Taylor Swift is making her re-recordings of her older catalog as close to the originals as possible, but the question arises: How difficult is that to pull off witho…
Of all the words of wisdom my mother has passed on to me, the earliest ones I remember have been the most useful. She told me I could achieve any goal I set for myself, but being Black, I wo…
Dolly Parton has reimagined her classic 1980 song "9 to 5" as "5 to 9" for a Squarespace commercial celebrating office workers getting their entrepreneurial side hustles going after hours. T…
Rita Moreno's most indelible screen moment, which had her and a "West Side Story" ensemble sizing up the pros and cons of their adopted U.S. homeland, remains an eternally clever musical arg…
Florida Georgia Line member Brian Kelley's plan to bring a country-music musical to life as a legit stage production is now extending to a movie version that is being developed simultaneousl…