With the 2024-25 theater season now complete, a new rule has been added to the old Broadway playbook. That rule? Throw out the playbook. In a banner year that's seen Broadway sales finally s…
To sleep, or not to sleep? That is certainly a question for Patrick Ball, who will spend his nights during the coming weeks playing the title role in "Hamlet" at the Mark Taper Forum in down…
Nicole Kidman is attached to star in a series adaptation of the Eliza Jane Brazier novel "Girls and Their Horses," Variety has learned exclusively. The project is currently in development an…
USA Network has dropped the first trailer for the series adaptation of John Grisham's "The Rainmaker." In the trailer, which can be seen below, Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) loses his job at …
Morten Harket, the singer for A-Ha who rose to fame with the massive hit "Take on Me," has revealed that he is grappling with Parkinson's disease, and is not sure whether he will be able to …
There was no June gloom at the Gotham Television Awards, where Parker Posey and Brian Tyree Henry were honored with special awards and Netflix's "Adolescence" was the top winner at the New Y…
Dave Chappelle and Mo Amer became close during the pandemic, when Chappelle managed to secure a COVID testing machine and created a bubble at his Ohio home to bring in comedians to perform. …
ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus is proving that curiosity doesn't diminish with age. At 80, the Swedish songwriter behind some of pop music's most enduring hits is pioneering a new frontier in music…
"John Candy: I Like Me," a documentary from director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds, will open the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. It's set to screen on S…
Will Ferrell is taking his talents back to Broadway. The consummate funnyman is developing his film "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga" into a stage musical. Ferrell and Rachel…
Families can soon enjoy Disney's live-action remake of "Snow White" from the comfort of their own homes as the family tentpole arrives June 11 on Disney+. Starring "West Side Story" breakout…
Sunrise Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights to "Mr. Blake at Your Service," the France-set comedy-drama starring John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant and the late Émilie Dequenne, with …
Mark Hamill says Carrie Fisher once had to remind him where he came from. During a recent interview on NPR's "Fresh Air," Hamill remembered that Fisher encouraged him to "embrace" his "Star …
Jimmy Fallon took the good with the bad during his time on "Saturday Night Live." During a recent appearance on "The Diary of a CEO" podcast, Fallon said that as a young comedian on "SNL," h…
A single human voice singing, wordlessly, can evoke a sense of humanity " or inhumanity " depending on the behavior we witness on our screens. This was the case in two much talked-about stre…
Parker Posey needed to prove herself all over again when making the jump from indie films to Hollywood productions. During a recent appearance on the "Smartless" podcast, Posey, who started …
Jimmy Kimmel is roasting Donald Trump yet again, this time for the president's decision to share a "deranged" conspiracy on his Truth Social profile that claims Joe Biden was executed in 202…
About halfway through the first of two headlining sets at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre, Rachel Chinouriri invited the sold-out audience to close their eyes and think of something that brings t…
Having worked on "E.R" and "Presidio Med," costume designer Lyn Paolo felt she didn't feel the need to do another medical drama. But when she read the scripts for "The Pitt" by former "E.R."…
Justine Lupe has signed with CAA. Lupe most recently starred as Morgan in the hit Golden Globe-nominated Netflix series "Nobody Wants This," which returns for a second season on Oct. 23. Kri…
Bridget Everett isn't quite sure how she could ever top "Somebody Somewhere." The show ended its three-season run at the end of 2024 with a moving gathering of the show's characters and a st…
Nick Offerman kicked off Pride Month by defending the LGBTQ+ community against homophobic hate on X. Michael Flynn Jr., son of retired Army lieutenant general and Trump's former U.S. nationa…
When Michael Arden heard the pitch for "Maybe Happy Ending," a love story about two robots who bond over being discarded by their owners, he thought " pass. But after reading the script and …
The Latin Recording Academy will honor Spanish singer Raphael as Person of the Year with a gala set to take place on Nov. 12 in Las Vegas. As part of the week-long events in the week leading…
"Adolescence" has been praised by London Mayor Sadiq Khan for helping bring the subject of violence against women and the dangers of social media into the limelight. Speaking to Variety on t…