Newly-minted Tony nominee Cole Escola, Lisa Rinna and "Another Simple Favor" director Paul Feig are among the guest judges for "King of Drag." The bold-faced names were revealed in the show'…
It's been a busy season on Broadway, crowded with big stars, boffo hits " and strong contenders for awards attention. This year's Tony Awards nominations seemed particularly hard to predict,…
"Othello," starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, has recouped its entire investment after nine weeks on Broadway. Capitalized for up to $9 million, the show is now the highest-gros…
Nominees for the 78th annual Tonys were announced on Thursday. Tony Award winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce were on hand to unveil the nominees, with "Death Becomes Her," "Gypsy," "Su…
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' wants fans to do the time warp again for its 50th anniversary. The musical cult classic's half-century milestone will be celebrated with a new 4K Ultra remast…
Principal photography has begun on Walden Media and Weed Road Pictures' new thriller "Billion Dollar Spy," which is led by Oscar-winner Russell Crowe and "Industry's" Harry Lawtey, and direc…
Newly crowned Disney princess Rachel Zegler has lined her first film after "Snow White" and is set to play the daughter of Marisa Tomei's wild-living mother in comedy drama "She Gets It From…
In a sweeping transformation of Britain's most prestigious theatrical institution, Kate Varah, co-chief executive of the U.K.'s National Theatre, has unveiled ambitious plans for the organiz…
"Rolling Thunder" will make its U.S. premiere for a limited engagement this summer at off-Broadway's New World Stages. Performances of the show, which is described as "part rock concert, par…
"I probably should try to eat a little more," David Hyde Pierce tells the waiter who just tried to clear his plate of scrambled eggs. We're having breakfast in a diner on the Upper West Side…
Grammy-winning musician Joy Huerta and musical theater songwriter Benjamin Velez didn't know each other before they started working together on the score for "Real Women Have Curves." But th…
Priscilla Pointer, who played the mother of her real-life daughter Amy Irving in "Carrie" and also appeared on "Dallas," died Monday in Ridgefield, Conn. She was 100. Pointer's death was con…
Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in the new Broadway production of "The Picture of Dorian Gray." It's not a question of can she pull it off, but how? Costume designer and scenic designer …
In the first two weeks that "Smash" has played to crowded theaters on Broadway, the behind-the-scenes process around the show about the making of "Bombshell: The Marilyn Monroe Story" " adap…
The Latina seamstresses at a dressmaking workshop in East L.A. express their credo at the top of the new musical "Real Women Have Curves." With the pulsating song "Make It Work" these women …
Unlike the mobile British corpse in "Operation Mincemeat," the traveling American cadaver in the Broadway musical "Dead Outlaw" has a far less noble posthumous purpose than winning World War…
With both "Stranger Things" Season 5 and "Star Wars: Starfighter" on the horizon, "Deadpool & Wolverine" director Shawn Levy knows he will have to keep a secret or two. "'Stranger Things…
It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. "Jersey Boys" ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we've had "Summer: The Donna Su…
Darren Criss plops into a swivel chair, directly across from "Oh, Mary!" creator Cole Escola, and stashes his phone between the cushions. The former "Glee" star, on Broadway in "Maybe Happy …
Jonathan Groff is swooning over Nicole Scherzinger. "You're hot. You're so hot," he tells the pop star-turned-Broadway darling as she descends a spiral staircase, decked out in a form-fittin…
Actor and musician Adam Hunter has been cast as Brendan in the upcoming "Sing Street," the upcoming U.K. stage adaptation of John Carney's beloved 2016 film. Hunter, who featured on the orig…
Ted Sarandos' latest interview started with a softball question: "Have you destroyed Hollywood?" "No, we're saving Hollywood," the Netflix co-CEO replied with a smile. On Wednesday in New Yo…
Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen are bringing a musical adaptation of the 1999 rom-com "10 Things I Hate About You" to Broadway, Variety has confirmed. The Golden Globe-winning "Girls" creat…
Britain's favorite marmalade-loving bear will be hitting London's West End later this year. "Paddington the Musical," first announced in 2023, is taking shape, with the StudioCanal-backed st…