Variety is a weekly American entertainment
trade magazine owned by
Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by
Sime Silverman in New York in 1905 as a weekly; in 1933 it added
Daily Variety, based in Los Angeles, to cover the
motion-picture industry; in 1998 it brought out
Daily Variety Gotham, based in New York.
Variety.com is a free website that features breaking entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and more, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. The last daily printed edition was put out on March 19, 2013. Variety magazine originally reported on theater and vaudeville. It was enormously influential in the Early to Mid 20th century, and garnered the nickname
"Bible of the Theater".