Kenneth 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 10:10AMMike Bartlett’s play “Love, Love, Love,” now playing at the Roundabout Theater Company, takes an amused (and slightly horrified) look at the boomer generation as it arrogan…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMBeanie Feldstein, the actress who appeared in “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” has been cast in “Hello, Dolly!,” the upcoming Broadway revival starring Bette Midler. F…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58AMWriter-performer Sarah Jones is amazing. In her 2005 solo show, “Bridge & Tunnel,” she gave life to a cross-section of immigrants who get by in the city by living under the r…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAllison Janney will lead the cast of a Broadway revival of “Six Degrees of Separation” this spring, co-starring with John Benjamin Hickey in a new production of the 1990 John Gua…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PMA retro genre piece, crisply adapted by David Hare, “The Red Barn” at London’s National Theater watches as a man comes unstuck. Provincial lawyer Donald Dood (Mark Strong) hits mid-lif…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PMBig Broadway names — and a lot of Hollywood A-listers, too — hit the boards Monday night for “Stronger Together,” a one-night-only fundraiser performance for the Hill…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:24AMOil seems to us a fact of life: Having never known a world without it, we take it as a given and we take it for granted. Ella Hickson’s audacious stage epic, “Oil,” tilts time…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:57AMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has named Broadway producer Ken Davenport the company’s executive director for North America, giving him a role in the oversight of RU…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMIndividual productions had their ups and downs, but the overall Broadway box office held steady last week as three plays opened — “Oh, Hello on Broadway,” “Heisenber…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:55PMThe starry Broadway fundraiser for the Hillary Clinton campaign, “Stronger Together,” will live-stream online, showcasing a just-announced set list that includes a rewritten …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMActresses love to play Madame Ranevskaya, the enchanting idiot who dithers away the family estate in Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Film star Diane Lane (best rememb…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Film Society of Lincoln Center has named Robert De Niro the recipient of its 44th annual Chaplin Award, which honors major industry talents. De Niro will take home the 2017 trophy for a …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMThe Manhattan Theater Club production of “The Encounter” opened on Broadway Oct. 13, following well-received Off Broadway run last year. Marilyn Stasio’s review of that earlier…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“War Paint,” the new musical about dueling titans of the cosmetic industry, has staked out a spot in the 2016-17 Broadway season, snagging the Nederlander Theater for an April o…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMDisney Theatrical Productions has made profit-sharing offers to the actors slated to appear in an upcoming developmental lab of “Frozen,” the Broadway-bound stage musical adaptat…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:19PMThe 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 09:00AMJohn 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 11:00AMYou 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 11:43AM“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 12:50PMThe 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 04:06PMVariety 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 01:21AMAva 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…
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