Monday, 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 04:54PMDavid Rabe (“Streamers,” “Hurlyburly”), a playwright in the midst of a creative resurgence, delivers a heavy but fascinating drama on the futility of understanding human relationshi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMFriday, September 23, 2016
The live musical adaptation of Disney animated hit “Frozen” is said to be eyeing Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage (“Red”) and his frequent collaborator, d…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:10AMThursday, September 22, 2016
Broadway veterans Robert Ahrens and Chris Aniello have opened up Live Wire Theatrical Management, a new general management company for stage productions. The New York-based firm will focus o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM“Good Canary” is a very good film. Trouble is, it’s on stage. Directed for the third time by John Malkovich, after productions in French and Spanish, Zach Helm’s boulevard tragicomed…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:14PMArnon Milchan, the founder and chairman of New Regency, will receive the annual industry tribute at the 2016 Gotham Independent Film Awards, as part of a slate of Gotham tributes that alread…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMRamin Karimloo, who played Jean Valjean in the latest revival of “Les Miserables,” has been cast in “Anastasia,” the new Broadway musical based on 20th Century Fox…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM“Allegiance,” the Broadway musical that starred George Takei in a four-month run last season, will come to movie theaters around the country in a one-night-only December screeni…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, the 31-year-old playwright who’s considered one of the theater world’s most important young creatives, is among the 23 artists and scientists to receive a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13AMMonday, September 19, 2016
The Marquis Theater seems to have found a profitable use for its Monday nights, with the Broadway venue — whose current tenant, “On Your Feet!,” is dark every Monday —…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!,” featuring Bette Midler in the title role, is shaping up to be a major commercial player this season, with theater owners reporti…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM“The Humans,” the Broadway production that won the 2016 Tony Award for new play, has recouped its capitalization costs, according to Scott Rudin and Barry Diller, who lead the sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:24AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Gavin Creel and Kate Baldwin are among the actors set to join Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce in the highly anticipated Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” this spring. Creel,…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMThursday, September 15, 2016
Broadway’s “Something Rotten!,” a raucous Renaissance musical comedy, will close in January after a run of a bit less than two years. The show, the tale of two brothers who…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMAndrew Lloyd Webber‘s producing and licensing company, the Really Useful Group, has partnered with U.S.-based recorded music and publishing company Concord Bicycle Music to launch The …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
The sound of gospel soars through the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, a re-commissioned church with excellent acoustics (if no organ.) The occasion is the limited engag…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMLongtime Sony executive Lia Vollack has been named president of Columbia Live Stage, the new live theatrical productions division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In her new post, Vollack, p…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
The new musical adaptation of “Groundhog Day,” currently wrapping up its critically adored premiere at the Old Vic in London, has set plans for Broadway, lining up an April open…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMMonday, September 12, 2016
“Aubergine,” a new play by Julia Cho (a winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and multiple other honors), poses a unique challenge. The language is lovely, the dramatic stru…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe annual slump that hits the Broadway box office immediately after Labor Day amounted to a decline of $3.2 million this year, or nearly 14%, compared to the previous frame, slimming the m…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:33PM“Family Ties,” the ’80s NBC sitcom that launched the career of Michael J. Fox, will be adapted into a stage play under the tutelage of the Araca Group, the company that is…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:43PMLaurence Connor, the “School of Rock” director who’s restaged a string of British megamusicals, has signed with Paradigm Talent Agency, where the head of the Theater Litera…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25AMThursday, September 8, 2016
Hip-hop, Broadway showtunes, Viennese waltzes — is there anything this guy can’t write ? No, not “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, but Gerard Alessandrini, who…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMDanny DeVito has signed on to join John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub in “The Price,” the Arthur Miller play getting a Broadway revival in the spring from Roundabout Theater Company…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMYou might wince at the prospect of a group of Broadway egotists landing in a conservative town to fight for a teen lesbian to bring her date to the prom — but it turns out to be a happ…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PMThe Writers Guild of America East has teamed with New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the Department of Small Business Services for the Made in NY Writ…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
There are clues about the “Avatar” sequels to be found in “Toruk,” the Cirque du Soleil “Avatar” prequel that lands tonight at Barclays Center in Brookl…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:59PMAmy Adams, Ethan Hawke and Oliver Stone will receive 2016 career tributes at the 2016 Gotham Independent Film Awards, the annual ceremony presented by New York’s Independent Filmmaker …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
“Jersey Boys,” the long-running Broadway musical hit about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, will close in January 2017 after a run of 11 years. With strong reviews from critic…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMBroadway box office surged up 9% in the final week of summer before the Labor Day holiday, with major gains at closing shows — particularly “Les Miserables” — helping…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PMMonday, September 5, 2016
“The Entertainer” is not a great play, but a historical one. Not only did John Osbourne’s portrait of clapped-out vaudevillian Archie Rice encapsulate the England of its time, …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM 
