Tuesday, 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“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” with Josh Groban and Denee Benton in the title roles, is a luscious, 360-degree immersive experience that feels like being smothere…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24AMMonday, November 14, 2016
The many distractions of Election Day, including the spate of rescheduling it prompted as multiple Broadway shows got out of the way of Tuesday night’s main event, didn’t manage …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMThe Broadway revival of “Chicago” opened on Nov. 14, 1996 — and in the two decades since, it’s become one of the longest running musicals in Broadway history, second …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:47PMSuperstar producer-director J.J. Abrams will co-produce the Broadway transfer of hit London stage comedy “The Play That Goes Wrong,” joining a team of producers led by Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSunday, November 13, 2016
A giant tree limb slices diagonally across the stage, creating a looming image in Suzan-Lori Parks’ symbol-laden, language-rich, ritualistic play about the erasure of African Americans and…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, November 10, 2016
With “Women of a Certain Age,” Richard Nelson brings to a shuddering close “The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family.” Each of the plays in this poignant…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Returning to the stage after 25 years away, Glenda Jackson makes an extraordinary Lear: an elderly woman standing in for an old king. Her performance centers on a contradiction, her slight f…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:03PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Two healthy debuts — one for the musical adaptation of “A Bronx Tale” and one for Kristin Chenoweth’s — helped keep the Broadway box office steady last week i…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMA trio of regional theater veterans have launched Mainspring Arts Cooperative, a new nonprofit organization that will produce and present theater productions aimed at touring regional theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThursday, November 3, 2016
In “Sweat,” currently playing somewhere in the airless attic of the Public Theater, Lynn Nottage goes where few playwrights have dared to go — into the heart of working-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Don’t let the throwaway title deceive you. In “Notes from the Field,” Anna Deavere Smith has created one of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race con…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMKeegan-Michael Key has signed on to host the 2016 Gotham Awards, the indie-focused awards show presented annually by New York’s Independent Filmmaker Project. The writer-producer-comedian …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMMonday, October 31, 2016
At the Broadway box office, “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” is selling like hotcakes. But behind the scenes a dispute over playbill credits has escalated into a lawsuit …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:41PMSunday, October 30, 2016
What did people ever do before iPhone games? In 18th century Paris, where the sophisticates in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” lived, members of the upper classes passed the time play…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM“The Color Purple,” the Broadway production that won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will close in January after 14 months on the boards. The show, which also earne…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMThursday, October 27, 2016
William Finn and James Lapine were ahead of the curve when they wrote a trilogy of plays about a married man, his family, and his gay lover in the age of AIDS. “In Trousers” debu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
If only we could see the world through each other’s eyes, we could finally achieve true understanding. That eternal quest, exploited so inventively in Mary Rodgers’ 1972 book “Freaky F…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:17PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Qui Nguyen’s biographical play, “Vietgone,” is a smart variation on what a colleague used to refer to as the “My Life So Far” play. Instead of being a salute…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFathom Events, the alternative-content distributor for bigscreen fare, has teamed up with streaming service BroadwayHD to present U.S. cinema screenings of select U.S. and international titl…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMGlenn Close has locked in her Broadway return in “Sunset Boulevard,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in which she reprises the role that won her a 1995 Tony Award. Close, last on…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMMonday, October 24, 2016
David Hyde Pierce is giving a quietly devastating performance at Playwrights Horizons in “A Life,” Adam Bock’s meditative one-act play about the meaning and implicit value …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMDoes Josh Groban sell tickets on Broadway? The answer is looking like a yes, based on the boffo first-week sales at the musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.” H…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMFriday, October 21, 2016
The crowd at the Oct. 20 performance of Broadway’s “The Front Page” included some faces you don’t see every day at a Broadway opening: Critics, hunched in aisle seats…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:34PMAh, those were the golden days of journalism, when big cities like Chicago were infested with cheesy tabloids, and cynical reporters crammed themselves into squalid press rooms to write (or …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53AMThursday, October 20, 2016
The death of idealism usually signals the end of an era, a brutal message lyrically delivered by David Hare in his 1982 drama, “Plenty,” now in a rare revival at the Public Theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“Bandstand,” the musical that premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse last year, has joined the throng of new musicals crowding in to the 2016-17 Broadway season, lining up an Apri…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:27PMDonna Murphy has signed on to perform the lead role in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” at Tuesday performances beginning in June, alternating with headliner Bet…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:40PMIf ever a show caught the national mood, it’s this — “Little England: The Musical” by another name. Adapted by Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”) with a score …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMKenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” topped the nominations for the 2016 Gotham Awards, the indie-centric trophies handed out annually by the Independent Filmmaker Pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AM 
