Cynthia Erivo attended her first Met Gala in 2017. "Walking on the Met Gala carpet that year was really fucking nerve-wracking," she told me Sunday night at UTA's pre-Met party at Nubeluz at…
On "SNL," a Weekend Update segment playfully poked fun at 20-year-old singer JoJo Siwa's transformation into an edgier and more adult persona. Chloe Fineman appeared as Siwa at the Weekend U…
All hope seemed to be lost when the zombie cowboy faced off against the putrid walrus in the final boss battle of "The Twenty-Sided Tavern," which opens at Stage 42 on May 5 in New York City…
Immersive art production company Meow Wolf has unveiled its plans to open its sixth permanent exhibition in a Los Angeles movie theater sometime in 2026. Organizers said the location would b…
It's the first week of April, and Netflix vice president of stand-up and comedy formats Robbie Praw is severely under the weather. He's just a month out from the launch of the second Netflix…
The Royal Shakespeare Company's theater adaptation of "The Buddha of Suburbia" had hard acts to follow, coming after an acclaimed novel and TV series. Hanif Kureishi's Whitbread Award-winnin…
"Lempicka," a musical about Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, May 19. The show has struggled to draw crowds since opening on April 1…
Since 2000, Variety has been naming its annual 10 Comics to Watch " and watching them go on to impressive careers. We decided to invite a few notable alumni who happen to be performing at th…
Alicia Keys has entered her Broadway era, with the hit musical "Hell's Kitchen," which just earned 13 Tony nominations, including Best Musical. The Broadway musical is semi-autobiographical,…
The new musical "Lempicka" has inspired a love-it-or-hate-it response from critics and audiences alike " and its two newly-minted Tony-nominated actors, Eden Espinosa and Amber Iman, love th…
When, at a dramatic peak, the lead character is running for her life and she's teetering on a perilously tiny walkway on the outside of a very tall building, and terrified, certain thoughts …
With the annual announcement of the Tony nominations comes the yearly list of snubs and surprises, as this season's shows see their dreams realized " or their hopes dashed " and prognosticat…
"Hell's Kitchen," a musical inspired by Alicia Keys' teenage years in New York City, and "Stereophonic," the story of a rock group in danger of splintering, dominated the 2024 Tony Awards no…
Comedy constantly shifts and changes, and tenets that might have applied years ago are also on the move. Variety spoke to some comics about everything from social media to cancel culture to …
Variety's Awards Circuit is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year. It features the official predictions for the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, and Tony Awards, cur…
For more than half a century, "Cabaret" " the iconic American musical set in Nazi Germany " has been produced, revived and revived again. This story, which touches on sex work, abortion and …
Eight years after her last visit to Broadway, Tony Award winner Jessica Lange returns to the stage in "Mother Play," a true story about a dysfunctional family with themes of love, loss, forg…
Sufjan Stevens's indie folk concept album "Illinois" (2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings, Pullma…
Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a "theater rat." So it's natural she'd be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the corner …
The music and lyrics in Broadway's "Water for Elephants" are expansive and a rich tapestry of American music ranging from folk, to swing, jazz and bluegrass. PigPen, a collective of seven mu…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby," which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity, is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous f…
There is no handbook on motherhood, but most people try their best when it comes to childrearing. Today, amid increasingly accessible resources and freedoms that weren't afforded in the p…
Chris Pine made a splash at the Los Angeles premiere for his directorial debut "Poolman" at The Vista Theatre on Wednesday night. He arrived decked out in one of his looks in the movie in an…
Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater's starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, th…
AMC Theatres, the world's largest cinema chain, is leaning into distribution. The company is expanding its distribution team with a key hire and promotion, underscoring its commitment to rel…