Category Archives: Variety

Amy Madigan didn’t expect to be here. Not in the thick of awards season, not making history with a 40-year gap between Oscar nominations, and certainly not doing it as the ferociously unforgetta...

In making "Wicked" and "Wicked: For Good," director Jon M. Chu knew he always wanted to expand the stories of both Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) beyond the Broadway musical, and s...

Free and easy down the road he goes... but not unencumbered by company. Because country star Dierks Bentley is nothing if not a solid curator of younger opening acts and heroes alike. His summer Off t...

Phil Spencer is retiring as Microsoft Gaming CEO after nearly 40 years with the Xbox owner. He will stay on in an adviser capacity until later in the year. Asha Sharma, most recently president of prod...

Television has always been more than an escape for me. Growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s on the South Side of Chicago, I was always thrilled to see women and girls who looked like me and reminde...

While Anna Sawai has been busy conquering TV and film, the Emmy-winning "Shgun" star first got her start in show business as a member of the J-pop band FAKY. Now, Sawai is going back to her musical ro...

Fans tuning in to Hilary Duff’s new album “Luck... or Something” quickly speculated that the track “We Don’t Talk” was about her strained relationship with her sist...

What does it take to drain a person of their humanity? According to Iwasaki Yusuke, a convenience store uniform and a morning meeting ritual will do it. That unsettling observation is the foundation o...

For four decades, Jesse Malin was the music mayor of New York's East Village. Beginning in the early '80s with his teenaged hardcore band Heart Attack through his years with the rock band D-Generation...

Liza Minnelli lashes out at the Oscars in her new memoir, “Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!” The “Cabaret” icon presented the Academy Award for best picture alongside Lady Gaga a...