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 hit "B…
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. The…
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 the plane…
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…
"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 screening of…
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 former "Saturday Nig…
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 pandem…
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 Disney villain.…
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 night …
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 Wednesd…
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 Ste…
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 their wedd…
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…
Broadway, 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 codependent …
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, Demi …
 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 Emerald Fenn…
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 serv…
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 sor…
 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 critici…
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 child…
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 Variety cover sta…
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…
 Welcome to this week's "Just for Variety." Evan Ross appears in Lee Daniels' "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" as a federal agent. He knows the subject well " his mom, Diana Ross, …
Ring them bells! Liza Minnelli will be celebrating her 75th birthday on March 12 with a dancing and singing streaming shindig. The virtual "Love Letter to Liza: A 75th Birthday Tribute Celeb…
Live from New York or Beverly Hills, it's the 78th Golden Globe Awards. While the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC announced earlier this month that the Globes would be broadcast …