Thursday, January 12, 2017
Joe Tracz is having a pretty good week. The first season of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” the Lemony Snicket TV adaptation on which he served as a story editor, bows Friday o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel “The Kite Runner” remains a literary sensation, tender, personal narrative that weaves through 25 years of Afghanistan’s history and has sold more than …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMMonday, January 9, 2017
The first full week of January brought the Broadway box office crashing down to earth, with sales plunging by 40%, or a whopping $20 million, compared to the previous week, when numbers were…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:23PMSunday, January 8, 2017
Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh lead the Sydney Theater Company in a sparkling production of “The Present,” Andrew Upton’s free-form treatment of Anton Chekhov’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMThursday, January 5, 2017
The $3 million week, which just a few years ago had seemed a faraway milestone for Broadway, is starting to become more common not just in New York but on the road as well, with “Wicke…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:38PMBroadway marquees will dim this weekend to memorialize the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, who made their Broadway debuts together in the 1973 production of the musical “I…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:15PMCate Blanchett is making her Broadway debut in “The Present,” an adaptation, directed by John Crowley, of an early Chekhov play. For her, the production — now in previews for a Jan. 8…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMMark Ruffalo will appear on Broadway for the first time in more than a decade, signing on to headline the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming revival of Arthur Miller’s “…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Powered by megahits like “Hamilton,” “Wicked” and “The Lion King,” Broadway box office hit a new high last week, ringing in just slightly less than $50 mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:11PMWednesday, 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 
