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Broadway is raising its curtains for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Broadway Rallies for Kamala will take place in New York City on Oct. 14 and features stars of the stage and screen. The event…
Jonathan Groff, a recent Tony winner for "Merrily We Roll Along," is returning to Broadway. He's set to star in "Just In Time," a new musical about the life and times of singer Bobby Darin. …
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for "Joker: Folie à  Deux" now playing in theaters. As costume designer Arianne Phillips was conceiving ideas for "Joker: Folie Å
Unless you're a hardcore Disney fan, you probably don't remember the short-lived attraction "The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter." A theatrical experience that ran briefly in the 1990s in…
The current crop of Broadway actors, creators, producers and thought leaders congregated at Variety's annual Business of Broadway Breakfast. Amidst the conversations with "Sunset Boulevard" …
Sao Paulo, Brazil " Expocine 2024, the largest and most important business gathering of the motion picture theater industry in Latin America, takes place in Sao Paulo from Oct. 8-11, as Braz…
Ken Page, a theater icon who brought Old Deuteronomy to life in the Broadway debut of "Cats" and delighted children everywhere by voicing Oogie Boogie from "The Nightmare Before Christmas…
"Spoiler alert: I die," Rachel Zegler says. You'll have to forgive the 23-year-old actress for giving away the ending to her next project. But to be fair, it's been 400 years since a certain…
Sarah Snook, the Emmy-winning "Succession" actor, will make her Broadway debut playing 26 characters in "The Pictures of Dorian Gray." The adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gothic horror novel is …
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Good Chance have revealed that "Kyoto" will transfer to @sohoplace theater in London's West End for a 16-week run from Jan. 9 to May 3, 2025. The prod…
Playing the character of "DHH," the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins "Yellow Face," the new production of David Henry Hwang's play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out. …
"Water for Elephants" is concluding its Broadway run this winter. The musical will play its final performance at the Imperial Theatre on Dec. 8. At the time of its concluding show, "Water fo…
The playwright Jez Butterworth recently had perhaps the most eventful recording session in the history of "Stagecraft," Variety's theater podcast. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" po…
As technology continues to evolve, the arts and humanities are having a reckoning, and it's not pretty. In his newest play, "McNeal," Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar ("Disgraced") confront…
Broadway's biggest stars got themselves out of bed bright and early on a coveted day off for Variety's annual Business of Broadway, presented by City National Bank, a celebration of new play…
Gavin Creel, a Tony-winning Broadway star who appeared in "Hair," "Hello, Dolly," "Into the Woods" and more, died Monday at his home in Manhattan of metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve she…
Ariana Grande joined her "Wicked" co-star Cynthia Erivo on the cover of Vanity Fair and fired back at critics of her speaking voice, which had a lighter and breathier register during and aft…
TikTok Star Charli D'Amelio will make her Broadway debut in the jukebox musical "& Juliet," a revisionist take on Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers. D'Amelio will join…
Jez Butterworth's ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama "The Hills of California" straddles dual worlds of dreams and reality as it shuttles between two pivotal time per…
The devil is making them do it… or maybe it's actually an exercise in divine justice. "Randy Newman's Faust," the only musical comedy ever written for the stage by the dean of barbed Ameri…
Governor Tim Walz and Emmy-nominee Anthony Ramos are bonding over the politician's career in education and the Emmy-nominee's own high school experience. In an exclusive first look at a vide…
British stage and screen actress Maggie Smith, who numbers two Oscars, three Emmys and countless stage awards to her credit, has died. She was 89 years old. "It is with great sadness we have…
Adam Aron, CEO of the nation's largest movie theater chain AMC Theatres, refuses to hide his optimism. After a wild year of bankruptcy speculation, debt repayment extensions, revised cre…
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is collaborating with directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones on "Hamlet Hail to the Thief," a new theater adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy incorporatin…
Christopher Ashley, the Tony-winning director of "Come From Away," has been appointed as the new artistic director of Roundabout Theatre Company. Ashley has spent the past 17 years as the ar…