Variety won 20 first-place trophies Sunday night at the 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, up from the 14 the publication scored in last year's competition. Varie…
It was a heck of an opening gambit: In its first week on Broadway, the new revival of "Chess" earned more than $1.2 million from just four sold-out performances. A few weeks later, the show,…
Theater industry veteran Sean Cercone is launching The Licensing House, a boutique theatrical licensing imprint that will provide representation for plays and musicals. Cercone is the founde…
Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will return to Broadway in the Arthur Miller classic "Death of a Salesman." A revival of the acclaimed play will run for 14 weeks at the Winter Garden Theatre,…
"Is this bear an endangered species?" asks Tarinn Callender as the hapless helper of Victoria Hamilton-Barritt's (very) arch-villainess Millicent Price. With growling glee as insanely delici…
Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," "Travesties," "The Real Thing" and "The Coast of Utopia" and an Oscar…
What a long, strange bubble ride it's been. But the work of songwriter Stephen Schwartz on "Wicked" " the property he first discovered as a source novel and has led into Broadway and dual fi…
Kristin Chenoweth took to Instagram Wednesday night to share her thoughts on the recent cancellation of her musical "The Queen of Versailles" and to thank her fans for supporting the show. "…
Kristin Chenoweth's "The Queen of Versailles" has already set its final Broadway performance, less than two weeks after opening. The production disclosed Monday evening that its final bow at…
Awkward Productions are bringing their viral shows, "Gwyneth Goes Skiing" and "Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story," to select U.S. cities in 2026. "Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story," which…
After seven movies, the "Paranormal Activity" franchise doesn't frighten audiences the way it once did " that is, through the power of suggestion, using home security cameras, smartphones an…
How do you solve a problem like "Chess"? With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, and now with a new version of Rice's book by Danny Strong, "Chess…
In "Working Girl," an upwardly mobile Melanie Griffith embodied Tess McGill, a secretary from Staten Island with big hair and even bigger dreams. She thought her new boss (played by Sigourne…
Alan Cumming has unveiled Pitlochry Festival Theatre's programming for 2026. This will mark Cumming's inaugural year as the theater's artistic Ddirector for the theater and coincide with the…
"Slam Frank," a provocative new musical that reimagines Anne Frank's story to satirize progressive politics and media, is extending through the end of 2025. The off-Broadway show, which has …
In 2012, award-winning documentarian Lauren Greenfield's film, "The Queen of Versailles," became a Sundance darling. The documentary followed Jackie and David Siegel, billionaires and owners…
Jane Krakowski felt a pang of jealousy the first time she saw "Oh, Mary!," the hit comedy that imagines former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as a deranged wannabe cabaret star. The Tony-winni…
"Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Musical," an adaptation of Joan Lindsay's eerie novel, will begin performances on Dec. 16 at the Greenwich House Theatre (27 Barrow Street) for a strictly limite…
Paramount didn't want to keep Stephen Colbert at CBS, but the company has signed Jon Stewart for another year of hosting "The Daily Show" once per week on Comedy Central. Stewart will contin…
If only we could hear Norma Desmond rise up and sing: Don't cha wish your girflriend, that little tart Betty Schaefer, was hot like me? That does not happen in Nicole Scherzinger's current r…
The script for Samuel D. Hunter's "Little Bear Ridge Road" indicates that the play takes place at "a couch in a void." As the lights come up, we see it " a white leather monstrosity with sep…
Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway this spring in the solo play "Every Brilliant Thing." The actor, who became famous for playing the Boy Who Lived in eight wildly popular "Harry Pott…
It can be challenging to deliver something fresh and unique to the memory play genre. However, in writer Bess Wohl's new Broadway show, "Liberation," she manages to do just that. Directed by…
Jamie Lloyd had tried once before to lure Nicole Scherzinger to the stage. Several years ago, the renegade British theater director pursued the former Pussycat Dolls frontwoman to star in "E…
The marquees on Broadway will remain illuminated after the musicians union announced it had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, averting a strike that would have severely impact…