Wednesday, 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 10:10AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Mike 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 11:58AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Writer-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 08:57AMMonday, October 17, 2016
Andrew 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 12:44PM 
