It's a time capsule from the hard-rocking halcyon days before iPhones, "American Idol" and the MP3 audio format changed everything about the music business. "The Best Summer," which premiere…
The 2026 Tony Awards will take place June 7. The 79th edition of Broadway's biggest night of the year will return to Radio City Music Hall and will be broadcast live on both coasts on the CB…
At the Los Angeles premiere of the HBO documentary "Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man," co-director and executive producer Judd Apatow took a moment to pay tribute to the late Rob Reiner, who …
Hulu has set the premiere date for "The Testaments," the followup to the streamer's hit series adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale." "The Testaments" will drop its first three episodes on Apr…
"How Brief," Kelly McCormack's Sundance-selected short film inspired by the music of vanished '50s singer-songwriter Connie Converse, has unveiled a stirring teaser. The cast of the short, w…
MASTERCLASS MASTERPIECE Writer/showrunner Russell T Davies and producer Nicola Shindler will headline a talent masterclass at Series Mania Forum on March 25 in Lille, France, unveiling first…
The critically acclaimed British musical "Cable Street" will make its international bow this spring when it opens the 2026 Brits Off Broadway season at 59E59 Theaters, running April 26 throu…
Ralf Little is set to take on the role of disillusioned British intelligence officer Alec Leamas in the U.K. tour of John le Carré's "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold." The production, a c…
The psychological competition format "The Traitors" is making the leap from television to theater, with a stage production planned for London next year. Studio Lambert and Neal Street Produc…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details for "Habseligkeiten," Season 4, Episode 3 of HBO's "Industry," now streaming on HBO Max. Anyone who last saw Kiernan Shipka as little…
Life behind bars means death behind bars, and all the pain and frailty that often precedes it " a fate that awaits a good number of America's incarcerated millions, though one we rarely see …
In Ursula Wills-Jones' 2008 short story "The Wicker Husband" (not to be confused with the "The Wicker Man"), an unpleasant fisherwoman in an unenlightened medieval town asks the local basket…
Park City had another crowd-pleasing premiere with Adam Meeks' "Union County," which earned a lengthy standing ovation at its Sunday screening at the Eccles Theater. The drama, which stars W…
While discussing her feature directorial debut, "The Chronology of Water," with The Times of London, Kristen Stewart said actresses get "treated like shit," and it wasn't until she was seen …
In Vera Miao's debut feature "Rock Springs," there is a wonderfully creepy doll. It's a nod to classic horror movies that she loves, but in her film, even recognizable elements take on a muc…
For those of us who saw it when we were still in school ourselves, Alexander Payne's "Election" was a startling work, and even a perspective-shifting one " a snarlingly funny introduction to…
Ethan Hawke might not be hanging from skyscrapers or clinging to a flying Airbus à la Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible" adventures, but he was game to do his own stunts in "The Weight,"…
ACLU held a panel at the Sundance Film Festival about the state of freedom of expression and creative freedom in today's America. Moderated by ITVS president and CEO Carrie Lozano, panelists…
"What does it mean to be a storyteller in 2026?" That was the big question posed at Sundance's Variety & Audible Cocktails & Conversations panel. Brent Lang, Variety's Executive Edit…
The temperature may be a few degrees warmer than usual this Sundance, but stars still descended on Park City this week in a variety of rich sweaters, billowing sweaters and textured layers t…
"Saturday Night Live" lightly took on ICE during "Weekend Update," hours after a 37-year-old Minneapolis intensive care nurse was killed by Border Patrol agents. "Vice President J.D. Vance c…
Artists create not because they've been given permission to do so, but simply because they must. This certainty illuminates filmmaking duo Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei's Tehran-set dra…
This week's "Saturday Night Live" featured a surprise cameo from series alum Mike Myers, who returned to the long-running NBC sketch comedy show to once again spoof Elon Musk. The cold open …
Olivia Wilde is at the Sundance Film Festival with two movies, but like most everyone else this weekend, she's concerned with the devastating news that Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was …
Natasha Lyonne took to X on Friday to reveal she has relapsed. The "Poker Face" star struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol throughout the 2000s. "Took my relapse public more to come,…