Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Alexander Hamilton never became president, but he was the king of the Broadway box office in 2016 as “Hamilton” nudged past Disney blockbuster “The Lion King” to top …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Michael Mayer and Tom Kitt are working on a new version of “As You Like It” in Tokyo. In the same city, Broadway stars like Ramin Karimloo and Emily Skinner all starred in the 2015 world…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15PMGeorge Bernard Shaw was adamant that “there are no villains” in his play “Saint Joan.” Those who wrongly convicted Joan of Arc on heresy charges did so in good faith, he contended. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
Dick Latessa, the Tony Award-winning actor who co-starred in the original Broadway production of “Hairspray,” has died. He was 87. The stage veteran, who also had screen credits …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:34AMMonday, December 19, 2016
There was no time like the present to catch “The Present” for New York theatergoers, who last week packed the house at Cate Blanchett’s Broadway debut. Oscar winner Blanche…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMTo watch all three of Richard Nelson’s plays about the Gabriel family in one sitting is to open yourself up to as much pain as pleasure. The pleasure is the total immersion in the live…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThis holiday season, it’s gratifying to encounter at least one Victorian-era entertainment that doesn’t end with wassail, Tiny Tim and his crutch. “Fingersmith” — based on the …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMThursday, December 15, 2016
A nation divided with history hanging in the balance: Robert Icke’s new version of Frederich Schiller’s “Mary Stuart” reflects this runaway year. With a coin toss each night …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMThere’s a Broadway-bound musical now rehearsing in Toronto whose creative team boasts an impressive 12 Tony Awards and 67 nominations. It also has a producer that’s served jail time for …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12PMCritic Frank Rich called the original Broadway production of “Dreamgirls” a “seismic emotional jolt that sends the audience, as one, right out of its wits.” It’s taken 35 years for…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PM“Oh, Hello on Broadway” doesn’t look much like most shows on Broadway at the moment — and neither does its audience. That’s a headturner on Broadway, where the …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Taran Killam (“Saturday Night Live”) will make his Broadway debut in musical-theater megasmash “Hamilton,” joining the cast along with a handful of other new addition…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMFrom two adjoining townhouses on London’s Bedford Square, theater mega-producer Cameron Mackintosh is fitting 10 musicals into a globe-spanning, seven-year plan that will land “Les Misé…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMHedda Gabler is at home. Again. Always. Ivo van Hove’s stark and self-conscious staging of Ibsen’s drama “Hedda Gabler,” a National Theater remount of the production that played New …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Jake Gyllenhaal will get to Broadway this spring after all, leading the cast of a revival of 1984 Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical “Sunday in the Park with George” that open…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMMonday, December 12, 2016
You can practically smell the man-sweat dripping off director Sam Gold’s radical revision of “Othello,” whose high-profile actors, Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo, appear in…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:54PMThe holiday season, plus a string of promising new productions, added up a to a nice boost at the Broadway box office last week as total receipts rose 8% compared to the previous week and e…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMSunday, December 11, 2016
Subways are for singing, at least in the world of “In Transit,” the charming a cappella musical of metropolitan life that’s rapturously harmonious, even when the times aren’t. The li…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSaturday, December 10, 2016
The opening scene of Sarah DeLappe’s exhilarating play “The Wolves,” which depicts the tough, tender and complicated lives of nine members of a girl’s high school indoor socc…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:59PMFriday, December 9, 2016
It’s impossible to resist the quirky appeal of “The Band’s Visit,” a modest but charming musical directed by David Cromer and featuring Tony Shalhoub. David Yazbe…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMThursday, December 8, 2016
Feeling confused, stuck, crushed and desperate? (Who isn’t these days?) Then “Tiny Beautiful Things,” the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s collection of empathetic advice columns…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:40PM“Dear Evan Hansen” is shaping up to be this season’s Little Broadway Musical That Could, ringing in more than $1.5 million in advance sales since its Dec. 4 opening, with …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
“Prince of Broadway,” the long-aborning Harold Prince retrospective, will arrive in New York later this year with a Broadway run that opens in August. Manhattan Theater Club will…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM“Strictly Ballroom” started out on stage: Baz Luhrmann’s cult movie about competitive dancing was originally a student play. His own musical adaptation, revised since its Austr…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
“The Babylon Line” is one of those modest little gems that contains sparks of white light if you look hard enough. Richard Greenberg’s quirky new play is wholly enjoyable…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:22PMMonday, December 5, 2016
The Broadway box office came down from its annual Thanksgiving spike last week — but remained plenty healthy, as last-minute business drove up the numbers at “Jersey Boys” …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:56PM“Sweat,” Lynn Nottage’s timely play about discontented working-class Americans struggling in a tight economy, has lined up a Broadway transfer, opening at Studio 54 in the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:28PMThe Broadway opening of buzzy new musical “Dear Evan Hansen” had Hollywood connections all over the place. First, of course, were the movie ties to songwriters Benj Pasek and Jus…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PMThe very thought of a Broadway transfer of “Dear Evan Hansen” might chill the blood of theatergoers who loved this bittersweet show when it played in the intimate setting of Off …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26AMFriday, December 2, 2016
Chazz Palminteri and Robert De Niro have been living with “A Bronx Tale” for a long time now. Palminteri wrote the solo play in the late 80s, co-starred with De Niro (who also di…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AM 
