Tuesday, October 11, 2016
The long Columbus Day weekend gave the Broadway box office a nice jolt last week, with overall sales shooting up 13% as tourist-magnet titles posted major gains and the one new addition …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PM“Clue,” the Hasbro board game and 1985 movie it inspired, is headed to the stage in a new play penned by the movie’s writer-director, Jonathan Lynn, and bowing regionally a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMImagine it: You’re standing in front of 850 people, and you can’t get your words out. The moment might provoke awkwardness or discomfort in a lot of audiences, but not the one that gathe…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, October 10, 2016
John Mulaney have taken their cult hit, “Oh, Hello,” to mainstream Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, a “famously haunted theater,” according to the new residents. Their pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Broadway debut of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland is long, long overdue — at least according to Gil and George, the 70-something Upper West Siders played by Nick Kroll and John …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PM“I don’t know what’s going on but I’ll just go along with it,” a character says in Steve Martin’s “Meteor Shower,” opening at New Haven’…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMFriday, October 7, 2016
You could see the usual Broadway faces — Andy Karl, Laura Osnes, Rachel York — in the opening night audience of the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of “Holiday Inn”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMLaurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper, recent Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad will star this spring in “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” a new play by Lucas Hnath that debuts this sprin…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:43AMThursday, October 6, 2016
“Holiday Inn,” the 1942 film that starred Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby and a calendar full of Irving Berlin tunes, has gotten a complete and first-class stage redo at Roundabout The…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has tapped Jeffrey Finn, the Broadway producer behind shows including “An Act of God,” as its vice president of theater producing and progr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50PMMonday, October 3, 2016
The Broadway box office held steady last week, with the ups and downs at individual shows contributing to a slight overall rise in cumulative sales as one new title, “Falsettos,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:33PMGordon Davidson, who in many ways shaped the Los Angeles theater scene as the head of the Center Theatre Group, died Oct. 2 at 83. Under his stewardship for nearly 40 years, CTG became a maj…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:06PMSunday, October 2, 2016
Variety raised a glass to “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Saturday night in celebration of the world premiere of “Hamilton’s America,” director Alex Horwi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21AMSaturday, October 1, 2016
Ava DuVernay’s “13th” opened the 54th New York Film Festival with a jolt of topical urgency, shaking up tradition as the first documentary to kick off the festival and addr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05AMFriday, September 30, 2016
A slew of Broadway and Hollywood names have teamed up for a one-night only Broadway performance benefiting the Hillary Victory Fund, with Julia Roberts, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hugh Jackman a…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:03PMThere’s a movie hitting theaters this fall that pushes the technical limits of the filmmaking process to new extremes. But the filmmaker isn’t using his tech in the service of an effects…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe 2016 New York Film Festival is a big draw for the city’s movie lovers — and this year, it may attract a crowd of theater fans, too. From the premiere of a “Hamilton…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, September 29, 2016
The Complicite production of “The Encounter” opened on Broadway Sept. 29, following well-received productions at the Edinburgh International Festival and then in London. Matt T…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has launched a new series of initiatives aimed at combating the underrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMJohn Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, is a familiar figure. He’s the real-life equivalent of George Etherege’s “Man of Mode” and Aphra Behn’s “Rover” — a licentious …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Splat! That’s playwright Neil LaBute with egg all over his face for penning “All the Ways to Say I Love You,” an embarrassingly clumsy one-act about an older wom…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMElizabeth LeCompte, founding member and director of the Wooster Group, the pioneering experimental theater troupe, has won the 2016 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with a cash pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PMGarth Drabinsky, the Canadian stage producer who’s served jail time for fraud and forgery, has locked in plans for his comeback production. “Sousatzka,” a new musical wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Kevin Kline is set to return to Broadway in a new revival of “Present Laughter,” slipping into the St. James Theater for an April opening. Kline, who hasn’t been on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PM“Jackie,” the biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy that picked up massive buzz at festivals in Venice and Toronto, has join the lineup of the 2016 New York Film Festival, where Pablo Larrain’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTony Awards, a Pulitzer, “Star Wars”: Lin-Manuel Miranda has had a damn good year. With everything that’s so obviously gone swimmingly for him, it seems like few people th…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AMLin-Manuel Miranda isn’t playing Dick Van Dyke’s character in “Mary Poppins Returns.” But according to the “Hamilton” creator, who goes into production on…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45AMLin-Manuel Miranda has long stumped for Hillary Clinton, but he explained why Donald Trump would be a dangerous president in a new interview with Variety. In a passionate conversation for th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMLin-Manuel Miranda is standing in the graveyard behind Trinity Church, just a few feet from where Alexander Hamilton is buried. On the 212th anniversary of Hamilton’s death, the playwrigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMIt’s official: Tony Award-winning British director Michael Grandage will direct Disney’s Broadway musical adaptation of “Frozen,” which is on track to open on Broad…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMonday, September 26, 2016
It looks like Broadway’s fall season has officially begun, with four plays starting previews last week and one of them — “The Front Page” — leaping into the …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PM 
