Wednesday, December 14, 2016
From 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 11:54AMThursday, December 1, 2016
To the best of our knowledge, “A Bronx Tale,” Chazz Palminteri’s love letter to the wise guys and tough street kids from his old neighborhood has not been re-imagined as a …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23PM“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the two-part play that’s an ultra-hot ticket in London, looks to have scored its Broadway home. Producers of the show are in advanced d…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:23PM“Paramour,” the Cirque du Soleil Broadway show that opened in the spring, will find itself looking for a new home next year when its current venue, the Lyric Theater, closes for …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMMahershala Ali has won the 2016 award for best supporting actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, which has also announced special honors for Thelma Schoonmaker, the editor who’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
U.K.-based theater chain Ambassador Theater Group has named new executive leadership to its North American arm — including Kristin Caskey, the Broadway producer who was one of the lead…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, November 28, 2016
The annual bounty of Thanksgiving week gave the Broadway box office a record $35 million to be thankful for last week, with the hottest ticket on the street, “Hamilton,” blowing …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PMWednesday, November 23, 2016
How far we’ve come. Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeares were dismissed as “gimmicky” (and worse) four years ago. Today, genderblind casting is not the norm, but normalized: R…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:49PMMonday, November 21, 2016
The buzz that musical “Dear Evan Hansen” built up Off Broadway has apparently carried over at the Broadway box office, where the show’s first seven previews rang in an impr…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07PM“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” is now in the black. The Off Broadway play has recouped its capitalization costs with an unusual model that sees the show perform once a week with a dif…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMSunday, November 20, 2016
With Sutton Foster in the title role of “Sweet Charity,” we now know that even big, beautiful, corn-fed girls from the American heartland can be fragile Fellini waifs. Although c…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMThursday, November 17, 2016
Romantics will find much to embrace in writer Thomas Schulman’s stage adaptation of the 1989 film he wrote, “Dead Poets Society,” receiving its world premiere production at Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
The musical adaptation of “Amelie” has locked in a slot in the 2016-17 Broadway season, lining up a run that opens in April at the Walter Kerr Theater. Based on Jean-Pierre Jeune…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
The Broadway production of “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” may be much larger than the original version at Off Broadway’s tiny Ars Nova, which had an audience of less…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM 
