On Broadway Wednesday evening, "Skeleton Crew," the final of seven new plays written by Black playwrights to make its debut this season, opened to an intimate crowd at the Manhattan Theatre …
The playwright Dominique Morisseau knows what she is doing. That's clear not only because she says it so convincingly in her Playbill note for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of "Skeleto…
Veteran actor-host Wayne Brady has joined forces with Freestyle Love Supreme Academy and Speechless Inc. to launch a virtual business and educational training platform built around improv ac…
Playwright Dominique Morisseau has a lot going on right now " but then, she's just following the advice that the late Chadwick Boseman once gave her. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft"…
Le Pacte has unveiled a trailer for Christos Massalas' "Broadway," which will unspool in the Big Screen competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam's (IFFR) 51st edition. Massal…
James Snyder, the star of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," has been fired from the hit Broadway play in the wake of a cast member complaint about the actor's conduct. The producers of th…
As Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" steamrolls through awards season, gaining traction for leading ladies Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose, casting director Cindy Tolan talked about how D…
"Actors on Actors" is back with another star-studded season. Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Andrew Garfield, Kristen Stewart, Jamie Dornan and Ariana DeBose are among the awards-season heavyweig…
You can expect to see the next installment of Daniel Craig as Private Detective Benoit Blanc in "Knives Out 2" streaming on Netflix this fall. Variety has learned exclusively that writer and…
Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy winning composer A.R. Rahman ("Slumdog Millionaire") and revered "Elizabeth" and "Bandit Queen" filmmaker Shekhar Kapur have teamed to create Expo 2020 Dubai commissi…
Audible Inc. will produce a return engagement of The Public Theater's "Coal Country," a drama based on a real-life West Virginia mining tragedy that was forced to close its original run earl…
After a decade of working hard on Broadway, Ariana DeBose is enjoying her time in the limelight. Tonight, she hosts "Saturday Night Live," a major accomplishment for a newly famous actor. Fo…
The holiday season was supposed to be a celebratory time for New York City's theater and live events industries, marking a period of revival after months of setbacks and closures related to …
Theater, film and television writer-director Robert Allan Ackerman died Jan. 10. He was 77. Nominated twice for Golden Globes and five times for Emmys, Ackerman also received numerous theate…
"Girl From the North Country," a Broadway musical featuring Bob Dylan songs, will close on Jan. 23, but the show's producers hope to open again in the spring. It's the latest show, following…
Jesse Plemons says Benedict Cumberbatch's Method acting as the gruff Phil Burbank while shooting "The Power of the Dog" definitely intensified their on-camera dynamic. "It creates a mood," P…
"It just turned into triage." That's how Anne Quart describes the past few weeks on Broadway. As senior VP of production and co-producer at Disney Theatrical, Quart saw first-hand the chaoti…
THEATER The ongoing omicron wave in the U.K. has claimed another victim, with the producers of acclaimed play "Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)" at the Criterion Theatre on London's West End …
Jen Namoff has launched Namoff & Company, a new talent management and production company representing clients across television, film, music, and theater. In a 15 year-long career in ent…
Robin de Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominee who's currently co-starring in "Tick, Tick… Boom!," one of this year's film awards season contenders. But de Jesús will be the first…
There's a staggering legacy tied to the role of Anita, the Puerto Rican girlfriend of Shark leader Bernardo in "West Side Story," and star Ariana DeBose was well aware of it. The role repres…
No one stages something set across mountainous ski slopes in a 251-seat, three-sided theater without a sense of humor. Which is why director Michael Longhurst has attached the bold and perky…
Some thirty acts have announced the cancelation of their performances or attendance at the Sydney Festival, a major arts festival that started Thursday in Australia's biggest city. They argu…
Costume designer Sharen Davis is having a big year, having worked with both Denzel Washington, who directed "A Journal for Jordan," now in theaters, and with Will Smith, who stars in "King R…
"West Side Story" star Ariana DeBose will make her "Saturday Night Live" hosting debut on Jan. 15, the NBC sketch show's first installment of the new year. When Tony Award and Critics Choice…