SPOILER ALERT:Â Do not read if you have not yet watched the series finale of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." After four seasons of sending up romantic comedy tropes, expanding the quintessential lo…
The honorees at Variety's sixth annual Power of Women New York luncheon presented by Lifetime shared deeply personal stories that were variations on a powerful theme: Women overcoming obstac…
After 47 years, the Aretha Franklin concert documentary "Amazing Grace" finally arrives in theaters Friday. Alan Elliott has told the story of how he rescued the unreleased footage from the …
"She used to be mine" " that's how a lot of Sara Bareilles fans probably felt, losing her to the legit stage, at least as a recording and touring artist, for the better part of five years. W…
Shakespeare nailed it: "Though she be little, she is fierce." Glenda Jackson may look frail, but the 82-year-old legend performs the noble task of rescuing director Sam Gold's rickety Broadw…
You may have heard of stage actors holding for laughs " when they have to wait to continue their lines because an audience is laughing so loud. But holding for tears? It's happened, and with…
Hakuna Matata, indeed. Disney debuted all-new footage of the highly anticipated remake at CinemaCon, the annual exhibition trade show in Las Vegas. The roughly five minute clip followed a yo…
Leaders of Hollywood agents and writers have conducted what's become a deeply disappointing set of negotiations " fueling the town's growing uncertainty over the outcome. As of late Wednesda…
"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" creator and star Rachel Bloom will host the 64th Annual Obie Awards, Variety has learned. The event honors the best in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway entertainment, …
Jennifer Hudson delivered an anthemic rendition of "Memory" to cap Universal Pictures' CinemaCon presentation on Wednesday. Universal and Working Title didn't release any footage from "Cats,…
A year ago, Abba fans received a totally unexpected surprise when the group announced that they had recorded two new songs for a "Virtual Abba" experience in collaboration with "American …
Kids are central to the storyline of "To Kill a Mockingbird" " and for a while, child actors were going to be central to Aaron Sorkin's new Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel.…
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Bette Midler moved back to New York. But when she got there, she was unsettled by the garbage that she spotted everywhere. "It was unbelievable," says t…
The year of Ariana Grande continues. Grande and her longtime collaborator Victoria Monét surprised fans with a track titled "Monopoly" on Monday. The bouncy pop single comes less than two m…
Call it stealth theater. In the disarming introduction to her play "What the Constitution Means to Me," Heidi Schreck holds forth in an American Legion hall in her hometown of Wenatchee, Was…
The 95%-vote majority in the WGA's referendum on imposing a tough new code of conduct for talent agents sends a clear signal to the industry. The WGA is gearing up for tough negotiations in …
Members of the Writers Guild of America have voted overwhelmingly to support tightened restrictions on their agents " setting up a potentially chaotic scenario a week from now. The vote was …
Director Michael Lehmann was shocked when he looked at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times entertainment sections and saw there were no ads for the second week of dark high school comed…
Disney's "Dumbo" had an underwhelming liftoff at the domestic box office. Tim Burton's live-action remake of the 1941 cartoon debuted with $45 million from 4,259 North American theaters, bel…
Leaders of the Writers Guild of America have repeated a threat to sue the major Hollywood talent agencies for alleged conflicts of interest. The leaders issued the threat Saturday during a m…
Sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal and Pete Townshend are partnering on the Who's uncompleted rock opera "Lifehouse" for a graphic novel, with an eye to developing a movie and television pr…
Variety has hired Lesley McKenzie as managing editor to oversee the multi-platform entertainment news organization across print, digital, and video. McKenzie, who has served as deputy editor…
Director Harmony Korine may have been wastin' away again in Margaritaville when he came up with the idea for "The Beach Bum." According to Jimmy Buffett, his songs "Margaritaville" and "A Pi…
Earlier this week, Jezebel published an op-ed in which Tracy Clark-Flory says that Alanis Morissette's iconic, multiple Grammy-winning 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill," which she loved when s…
AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan has a keen eye for shrewd business deals. So was he seeing straight in 2004 when he bought the Village Cinema in Greenport, N.Y.? "I would not call it a lucra…