Monday, October 10, 2022
John Fithian, the top lobbyist for the exhibition industry, will retire as the CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners on May 1, 2023. The group said it has already begun a search …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2022
It turns out Hugh Jackman is irreplaceable. "The Music Man" will end its run on Jan. 1, 2023 as the Tony-winning star of stage and screen finishes his lengthy commitment to the hot-selling B…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2022
"Take Me Out," the Tony Award winning best revival of a play, will make a rare return engagement on Broadway after taking its final curtain call in June. The comedic drama about a star baseb…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2022
Like the sharp-witted, no-filter Mary Flynn, the role she created in Broadway's "Merrily We Roll Along," Ann Morrison doesn't shy away from uncomfortable truths. "Good truth is uncomfortable…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Into the Woods," the acclaimed New York City Center Encores! production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's classic musical, will extend performances through Oct. 16 with a largely new e…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2022
Heidi Blickenstaff will star in the North American tour of the Tony and Grammy award-winning musical "Jagged Little Pill," reprising her role as Mary Jane Healy when the show premieres this …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2022
"Mr. Saturday Night" will wrap up its Broadway run on Sept. 4. Producers behind the show announced the news on Sunday. The show will have played 28 previews and 116 performances when it conc…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2022
"Paradise Square," a Tony Award-winning musical set in Civil War-era New York City, will close on July 17, citing soft ticket sales. The show's producers say that the closing will take place…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2022
Fairy tales have always been a strange and unlikely source of comfort. Children are orphaned, cruelty is king, and happy endings lead to perpetual disappointment with real life. Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM[SHARE]Beanie Feldstein will leave the Broadway revival of "Funny Girl" on July 31, roughly two months before she was slated to depart the production. In a statement on Instagram, Feldstein attribu…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2022
"Plaza Suite," the hot-ticket Neil Simon revival that stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, has been a box office juggernaut since debuting last spring. The show has become the t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2022
"Topdog/Underdog" will return to Broadway this fall with Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II appearing in the two lead roles. The revival is timed to the 20th anniversary of Suzan-Lori P…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2022
"A Strange Loop," "Paradise Square," "The Lehman Trilogy" and "MJ" are among the major productions competing at the 75th Tony Awards on Sunday. The telecast, which is being hosted by "West S…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover and more are New York City bound. Rockefeller Productions and Sesame Workshop are teaming for "Sesame Street: The Musical," a new Off-Broadway stage production a…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2022
As viewers gear up for the final seasons of "Stranger Things," "Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical" is launching new productions this fall in London and Australia. It will also mount an Off-…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Douglas Carter Beane, the Tony Award-nominated playwright behind "The Nance" and "The Little Dog Laughed," has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. Beane is one of the most pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
"A Strange Loop," an extremely meta musical about a black gay man writing a musical about a black gay man writing a musical, dominated the nominations for the 75th Tony Awards on Monday. The…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
After two years of delays, setbacks and an unending pandemic, Adam Lucas witnessed a resurrection. The 19-year-old New Jersey resident joined hundreds of screaming fans at the Marquis Theatr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2022
Broadway Licensing has acquired Stage Rights, an independent theatrical publisher and licensing company. Stage Rights joins Broadway Licensing family of imprints alongside Dramatists Play Se…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2022
Martin McDonagh has a profound feeling of déjà vu these days. The last time he was in New York, McDonagh was in the thick of Broadway previews for "Hangmen," his criminally funny look at…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2022
One of the biggest hits on Broadway is down a star. Matthew Broderick will miss an unspecified number of performances of "Plaza Suite" after testing positive for COVID-19. A second test conf…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2022
"Next to Normal," the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning 2009 musical, will be reimagined as a live immersive theatrical event. The new version of the acclaimed production will have its w…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Samuel L. Jackson will return to Broadway in a new revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." He's joined by a cast that includes "Tenet" star John David Washington and "The Peacemaker's…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:14PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2022
Lerner & Loewe's "Camelot," that oft-old story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, will return to Broadway featuring a new book by Aaron Sorkin. That creative change may m…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
RWS Entertainment Group has tapped Keith Senglaub as its next chief financial officer. A former Feld Entertainment finance executive, Senglaub joins RWS with more than 30 years of experience…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:29PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2022
After conquering the beach, "Baywatch" luminary Pamela Anderson will now try to dominate Broadway. Anderson will portray Roxie Hart, the morally flexible antiheroine at the heart of "Chicago…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 27, 2022
Patti LuPone tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. The theater legend will sit out her ongoing role in the current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" while she recovers fro…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:19AM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2022
"Kimberly Akimbo," one of the hottest tickets of the theatrical season will transfer to Broadway this fall following an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theatre Company. The musical about a New…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," an early casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, will at long last have its Broadway premiere. The show will begin performances Friday, April 8 and open Thursday, Apr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 27, 2022
Edie Brickell has penned "38 Minutes," a new musical about her personal experience living through the 2018 false alarm nuclear missile alert that shook Hawaii. The title is a reference to th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 23, 2022
James Snyder, the star of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," has been fired from the hit Broadway play in the wake of a cast member complaint about the actor's conduct. The producers of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PM[SHARE] 
