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 …
Joe Allen may have named his New York City restaurant after himself, but he was never one to seek the spotlight, even as the eatery became more renowned than he could have ever imagined. "He…
 Long before Jo Ellen Pellman was cast in the starring role of Emma in Ryan Murphy's movie adaptation of "The Prom," she saw the original production of the Broadway musical. "I'm only 25…
The inauguration television special "Celebrating America" was only about six weeks in the making. "We did election night, and people are calling me and going, 'Okay, what are we doing for th…
Kate Elliott has been working in and around New York's theater scene for about 20 years, after graduating from Boston University with a BFA in sound design and music. Most recently, she was …
Tina Fey and Wayne Brady have joined the lineup for this year's Educational Theatre Foundation Gala. Theatre Alive!: A Celebration of School Theatre, to be held virtually on Jan. 28, will ho…
In March, Brian Stokes Mitchell was just four days away from performing a concert at New York's City Center when the pandemic forced theaters to close. All the other jobs that Mitchell, who …
Looking for something to do while you are stuck inside? Check out Variety's Must Attend calendar of (mostly virtual) events. Jan. 6 El Museo del Barrio hosts the 44th annual Three Kings Day …
This year's Pride Month celebrations won't look anything like they've looked in the 50 years since the first took place in 1970 in New York City, but that doesn't mean there's not a whole lo…
In the new Broadway adaptation of Tim Burton's 1988 cult classic film "Beetlejuice," teenager Lydia takes center-stage alongside the titular gut-busting demon (Alex Brightman) to reflect the…