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EXCLUSIVE: In what is turning into an impressive cast for Ari Aster’s highly-anticipated movie, Broadway darlings Nathan Lane and Patti LuPone along with Oscar-nominee Amy Ryan and Kylie Rogers have joined A24’s Disappointment Blvd. starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Gallery: The best musical movies of all time (Espresso) Joining Fisher and the rap star on the Walk of Fame list are DJ Khaled, Black Eyed Peas, Ashanti, Avril Lavigne, Tracee Ellis Ross, Patti LuPone, Francis Ford Coppola, Macaulay Culkin, Willem Dafoe, and Salma Hayek. Recipients now have two years to schedule their star ceremonies before their selection expires.

Apple TV+’s Central Park will welcome a slew of guest voice cast members and songwriters for its sophomore season.

A line-up of nearly 30 stars – from Glenn Close, Patti LuPone, Darren Criss, Kelsey Grammar and David Alan Grier to Jake Gyllenhaal, Joshua Henry and Phillipa Soo – will perform title songs from more than 20 musicals for a special livestreamed musical event next month benefiting The Actors Fund.

Company, the Marianne Elliott-directed revival of the classic Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, will resume performances at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in December, producers announced today.

HBO Max is rounding out cast for its comedy pilot OK Boomer. Will Sasso (United We Fall, Mom) and Tim Chiou (I Was a Simple Man, Seal Team) are set as series regulars, along with Zoe Manarel (New Amsterdam, An American Girl: Summer Camp) and Carter Chee in the multi-camera comedy pilot from creator Todd Linden (Happy Endings, Alexa & Katie), the late Jamie Tarses’ Fanfare and Sony Pictures TV. They join previously announced series regulars Patti Lupone, Erinn Hayes and Devere Rogers.

To hear the cast of Broadway’s Company tell it, the industry’s shutdown one year ago today was perhaps more shocking than surprising, arriving swiftly but maybe not swiftly enough. For at least a couple of the musical’s preview performances leading up to the city’s historic closing of March 12, 2020, the stage jitters had little to do with the usual pre-opening night nerves.

Patti LuPone and Erinn Hayes have been tapped as the adult leads in OK Boomer, a multi-camera comedy pilot from creator Todd Linden (Happy Endings, Alexa & Katie), the late Jamie Tarses’ Fanfare and Sony Pictures TV where the company continues to be based.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPatti LuPone and Erinn Hayes have signed on to star in the HBO Max comedy pilot “OK Boomer,” Variety has learned.In the show, a self-centered boomer (LuPone) shows up at her estranged daughter’s (Hayes) house hoping to live off the family’s money, but forms an unexpected bond with her progressive granddaughter who’s quick to challenge her on their differing views, of which there are plenty.LuPone’s character, Barbara, is described as a comically outrageous, wildly

In a world where it feels like it’s been 525,600 YEARS since Donald Trump lost the US Presidency to the Biden/Harris ticket in the presidential election, the talented team at ‘The Gregory Brothers’ released a quick snippet of Mr. Trump’s now notorious phone call, set to the song Seasons Of Love, from the popular musical Rent.Donald Trump’s hour long phone call with Georgia officials took place on Saturday, January 2 and it’s subsequent leaking has lead to widespread outrage from both sides of

The Prom living their teenage dreams on Netflix. Who she plays: Dee Dee Allen, an ego-maniac Broadway star similar to (but not really like) Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minelli, Chita Rivera, and the woman who originated this role on Broadway, Beth Leavel.

NEW YORK -- Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on Broadway’s Best Shows and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5.

Randy Rainbow, a comedic performer who has made President Donald Trump his primary parody target, has been selected to receive a top honor at the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival.

NEW YORK -- Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on Broadway’s Best Shows and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5.

Patti LuPone, 71, didn’t hesitate to mock President Donald Trump‘s public appearance on the balcony of the White House after his return from the hospital on Oct. 5.

Glenn Close, the Tony Award winner and seven-time Oscar nominee, will play powerful New York lawyer Roy Cohn in a charity reading of scenes from the play “Angels in America.” For contrast, Al Pacino won an Emmy for playing Cohn in HBO’s “Angels” miniseries in 2003.The hourlong, taped show, which benefits AMFAR, will be streamed on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel at 8:30 p.m.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAn all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, benefiting amFAR’s COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play performed by, among others, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree Henry, Paul Dano, Andrew Rannells and Slave Play playwright Jeremy O.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The 2020 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival has unveiled their schedule for livestream events and their program for its “Under the Stars” drive-in experience.For Outfest LA’s digital space, Tony Award-winning John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) will host a livestream marathon listening party of his critically acclaimed musical podcast, Anthem: Homunculus with performances from himself, Glenn Close, Cynthia Erivo, Patti LuPone,

Veteran industry executive Iris Grossman has been named president of GreenLight Women, the organization that advocates for professionals over the age of 40. Grossman succeeds Ivy Kagan Bierman in the post, balancing nonprofit duties with those at her day job as a manager at EchoLake Entertainment where she reps talent such as Unorthodox star Shira Haas, Mandy Patinkin, Patti Lupone, Christine Lahti, WaleedZuaiter, Frances Conroy, and others.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterJanelle Monáe, Cate Blanchett and Patti LuPone were among the entertainment industry stars offering a salute to female frontline workers in the TV special “Lifetime Presents Variety’s Power of Women: Frontline Heroes,” which premiered Thursday on Lifetime.The tribute also featured such Hollywood notables as Natalie Portman, Laverne Cox and Nicole Kidman putting the spotlight on the work of women around the world who have been first responders in battling the

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticStars Jim Parsons and Patti LuPone, along with directors Janet Mock and Jessica Yu joined Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event to discuss the Netflix limited series Hollywood, a seven-part show set in the Tinseltown of the ’40s but that puts a revisionist spin on things — a kind of wishful look at the town and the industry.“It was always going to be surrounding these outsiders who were looking in and wanting to be a part of the inside,“

Broadway veteran Patti LuPone is speaking her truth about the current state of America and she says that if it continues under President Trump's reign come November, she's packing her bags. Like many other performers around the globe, LuPone's career has been placed on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.The current state of the economy and the country was solely orchestrated by Trump, she says.

Patti Lupone is definitely not a fan of the current POTUS. In fact, far from it! The Broadway legend called Donald Trump out during her interview for Variety’s Power of Women 2020 issue, going as far as to say that America is ‘doomed’ with him as a leader! Not only that but, as far as she is concerned, the damages might just be irreversible even after someone else is elected in the highest position.

Revered stage star Patti LuPone has revealed she is considering moving to Ireland if Donald Trump wins a second term as president.

Patti Lupone isn’t mincing words when it comes to her thoughts on Donald Trump. “The country is doomed,” the Broadway legend, 71, said in the 2020 Variety Power of Women issue. “I think it is a failed experiment. I don’t see us pulling ourselves out of this. I think we’re heading into either fascism or a dictatorship.” Lupone has made her disdain for Trump known long before this candid interview.

EntertainersCate Blanchett, Janelle Monae, and Patti LuPone are set to be celebrated alongside coronavirus frontline staff at Variety’s Power of Women event.

By Variety Staff

It was announced on Monday that Broadway's Best Shows, a new content and entertainment platform, is launching a weekly play reading series benefiting The Actors Fund and its COVID-19 relief efforts. The first reading will feature such stars as John Malkovich, Patti LuPone, Dylan Baker, Ethan Phillips and Michael Nichols performing David Mamet's November on Thursday.

Patti LuPone is the reigning queen of the ladies who punch.

By Greg Evans

[This story contains spoilers from Hollywood.] Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's new Netflix limited series Hollywood reimagines how the entertainment industry may have evolved differently if a woman were in charge and people took bold steps to dismantle the biases against race, gender and sexuality back in the 1940s.

Broadway legend Patti Lupone has urged Barbra Streisand to give up her dream of starring in a planned movie adaptation of hit musical Gypsy, because she’s “too old”.

What would you do to climb the ladder in Hollywood? Would you help someone out or climb over them? What do the characters do in Ryan Murphy's Hollywood? See for yourself in the first look at the opening credits for the new Netflix limited series.

Tony-winning actress Patti LuPone may be busy promoting her upcoming Netflix series Hollywood, set to debut Friday (May 1), but that didn't stop her from taking a trip down memory lane on Watch What Happens Live! With Andy Cohen Monday night (April 27). To get LuPone to "spill

Hollywood stars and Broadway veterans are teaming Sunday to celebrate the 90th birthday of the legendary composer Stephen Sondheim. In a special virtual concert, titled Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, more than 20 powerhouse performers are uniting to sing songs of inspiration from the Sondheim catalog.

Meryl Streep and Broadway favorite Patti Lupone are to lead an all-star virtual tribute to Stephen Sondheim to mark his 90th birthday.