The Comedy Store turns 50 this year, and it's now known as a storied birthplace for the careers of literally hundreds of comedians " from David Letterman to Jim Carrey to Whoopi Goldberg to …
When Louis Faranda and his team started putting together the New York Comedy Festival after a year's absence due to the pandemic, they knew it would be a lot of work " it always is. But this…
Just for Laughs Montréal is the world's largest international comedy festival and this year it's taking that notion to a new level. With COVID travel restrictions making it impossible to im…
Bert Kreischer can pinpoint the exact moment his life changed: Dec. 28, 2016. Before then, Kreischer had been a stand-up comedian for about 20 years and had achieved what appeared to be a go…
Aaron Sorkin is widely considered the king of film and TV dialogue. Actors line up for a chance to feast on his words and the opportunity to deliver a Sorkin-penned speech. And yet his monol…
Jamie Dornan is happy to get silly, even showing up for an interview sporting a bikini t-shirt, swag from his new film. The film in question is "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar," Kristen W…
Terry Fator always knew he'd be an entertainer when he grew up, he just didn't know he'd be doing it as a ventriloquist or that he'd be one of America's top " and top-paid " talents. "It did…
You may have heard of stage actors holding for laughs " when they have to wait to continue their lines because an audience is laughing so loud. But holding for tears? It's happened, and with…
As with anyone who gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda's journey is the result of hard work and inspiration, along with influences and confluences that shaped and c…
The New York Comedy Festival, founded 15 years ago by club impresario Caroline Hirsch, features hundreds of standups, sketch and improv artists performing all over the city over the course o…
After his film "Moonlight" won the Academy Award, Barry Jenkins had a lot of offers — but not from Marvel. The filmmaker stopped by the Variety Studio presented by AT&T at…
Twenty years ago, Jennifer Garner thought her career couldn't get better. She'd survived nine months of sleeping in a kitchen in Manhattan and eating spaghetti with butter while understudyin…
Here are some of the artists receiving special Tony Award honors on Sun., June 10. JOHN LEGUIZAMO Leguizamo has been a regular fixture on Broadway since his first show on the Great White Way…
Broadway is as American as apple pie " or at least as American as the Big Apple. But this year, a lot of the nominees for Broadway's biggest night have one thing in common: A British passpor…
It's been a good year for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songwriting and composing duo better known as Pasek and Paul. After landing an Academy Award for their song, "City of Dreams" from "…
When the Academy Awards were first handed out 89 years ago, Variety reported at the time that the planning for the dinner and ceremony at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood took about a week o…
Every year, Variety hosts an intimate brunch where it honors 10 Directors to Watch and the recipients of the Creative Impact Awards the morning following the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival…
While Saoirse Ronan soars as the title character in "Lady Bird," she would be nowhere without her best friend Julie, played by Beanie Feldstein. The 24-year-old actress is also currently enj…
Jeff Dunham has always maintained full control over the world of characters that he's created, and over the years has built various companies (On a Stick Prods., Red Wire Blue Wire " "a nod …
Though it was billed as an evening with “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Tituss Burgess on Saturday night at the Sayers Club, there was cause for double celebration when moderato…
Aline Brosh McKenna, the co-creator (with star Rachel Bloom) of the CW's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," is hard at work on the third season of the musical comedy, after the season-two finale saw Blo…
The hidebound tradition of the Broadway cast recording gets a shake-up this year, as the Tonys team with music label Broadway Records for an album that's not songs from just one show " it's …
The British actress Imogen Poots recently seen in "Green Room" and "Roadies" will wrap her theater debut playing Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" before heading to Cannes with her …
Asked to pick his favorite memories at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Gary Sinise can only muster: "Oh, geez." It's a tall order, for sure, and one on which Sinise could spend hours rum…
It's been 27 years since Richard Gere and Julia Roberts charmed their way through "Pretty Woman" and today Gere is seated in a room at the Beverly Wilshire, the very hotel where they shot th…