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SPOILER ALERT:Â This articles discusses plot details of "The Substance," in theaters now. The final act of Coralie Fargeat's "The Substance" has the internet in shock, and might just be on…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative mind behind "Hamilton" and "In the Heights," is returning to Broadway in "All In: Comedy About Love." The play, penned by former "Saturday Night Live" writer…
The Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall for the show's 78th edition. It's the first time that the annual celebration of the best of Broadway has been held at the Midtown Manhatt…
Broadway theaters will dim their lights in honor of James Earl Jones, the four-time nominated and two-time Tony Award winning actor who died on Sept. 9 at the age of 93. Broadway houses will…
David Korins, the scenic designer behind "Hamilton," "Beetlejuice" and "Dear Evan Hansen," is headed to Tucson, Ariz., with a new exhibition titled "Stages of Imagination: The Iconic Broadwa…
Kenny Leon, the creative force behind a new revival of "Our Town" on Broadway this fall, wasn't always a fan of Thornton Wilder's 1938 play. "There was no diversity in the town," the Tony-wi…
Each new Broadway season brings an exciting group of fresh talents to the spotlight " and this season is no exception. Variety is proud to announce the 2024 edition of its annual 10 Broadway…
Marissa Bode thought she lost out on her dream role of Nessarose in "Wicked." After a self tape and a series of callbacks, she stopped hearing back from casting. "I was like, 'It's dunzo for…
Up two treacherous flights of stairs at the Lyceum Theatre, Cole Escola sits demurely in their dressing room, awaiting the delivery of a green smoothie. It's a rare moment of downtime for th…
Nicole Scherzinger sounds like a kid desperately clinging to those last fleeting moments of summer break before school starts. She's calling from an airport in Portugal, having recently wrap…
Danny Burstein, the Tony-winning actor of "Moulin Rouge" who has appeared in many, many other Broadway shows, has joined the upcoming revival of "Gypsy." He'll play Herbie, a former agent-tu…
A little-known fact about Daniel Dae Kim: He's really, really into "Saturday Night Live." "I'm a super fan," says the actor just a few days before starting performances for the revival of Da…
Shailene Woodley, "Star Trek" actor Zachary Quinto and "Euphoria" star Barbie Ferreira will lead the Broadway cast of "Cult of Love," a play by "Star Wars: The Acolyte" and "Russian Doll" cr…
Orville Peck may be headed to Broadway. The masked country singer hinted that he could be working on a project for the New York stage at an appearance Tuesday night at the Grammy Museum in L…
Variety has announced programming for its annual Business of Broadway Breakfast, presented by City National Bank, on September 30 in New York. The event, hosted by Cole Escola of "Oh, Mary!,…
Singer-songwriter Allison Russell had a song called "Persephone" on her debut solo album, so there may be some destiny in the fact that she will soon step into a role with that name in the B…
A musical about the Cuban artists behind the "Buena Vista Social Club," an internationally-recognized album of the country's most popular musical stylings, will open on Broadway next year. P…
The Luis Fonsi indie romcom "Say A Little Prayer" has set a distribution deal with AMC Theatres that calls for the movie to be released in 100 theaters in large U.S. markets during the Thank…
In the summer of 1982, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" led the box office, "Dallas" topped the Nielsen rankings and Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" was …
Alan Cumming has been named the new artistic director of Scotland's Pitlochry Festival Theatre. The Tony winner will join Pitlochry Festival Theatre in January, with his programmed season…
There's something loose, rebellious, and even wild hiding within the trappings of "The Roommate," a new Broadway production of a play written by Jen Silverman. One just has to wait for it to…
"There is," as Stephen Sondheim once groaned, "nothing worse than great expectations." It may seem unfair to evoke a master when reviewing only the second show from a young British musical t…
Emma Rice's U.K.-based theater company, Wise Children, has unveiled its upcoming season, headlined by a new adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1959 film "North by Northwest." The produ…
Denzel Washington is proud of his children. Why wouldn't he be? His youngest son, Malcolm Washington, just premiered his directorial debut with an adaptation of August Wilson's play, "The Pi…
Courtney B. Vance is a Tony- and Emmy-winning actor and the president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. To Vance, legendary actor James Earl Jones was known as "Jimmy." The two first met in the 1…