Monday, 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 01:30PMThursday, August 25, 2016
“Queen of Katwe,” the Disney film directed by Mira Nair and starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo, is among the films lined up to screen at the 20th Urbanworld Film Fe…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMNo theater producer or creator likes to face the critics. Even worse? Seeing their Broadway baby, the show they’ve slaved over for years, rated with a number. Which means that Show-Score, …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:21AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
The world premieres of two theater documentaries — Alex Horwitz’s “Hamilton’s America,” a behind-the-scenes look at the history of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PMMonday, August 22, 2016
The Broadway box office continued its late-August deflation last week as nearly every show on the boards saw sales decline — except for a few productions including “Finding Never…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:11PMAnnie Golden, the theater veteran and regular on TV’s “Orange Is the New Black” (playing inmate Norma), isn’t precisely “Annie Golden,” protagonist of Joe Iconis’s new musical…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:22PMSaturday, August 20, 2016
The Manhattan District Attorney has indicted a former theater agent, Roland Scahill, for stealing $165,000 from investors in a phony Broadway play that would have starred Lupita Nyong'o.Acco…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:29PMThe Manhattan District Attorney has indicted a former theater agent, Roland Scahill, for stealing $165,000 from investors in a phony Broadway play that would have starred Lupita N’yong…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PMFriday, August 19, 2016
Most theatrical road movies take a trip through the landscape; this one goes on a journey through time. Directed by Rachel Chavkin, “Anything That Gives Off Light,” part of the E…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PMEven war has its blue-sky days. Opening with Brecht’s question — “In the dark times, will there also be singing?” — Kneehigh, the company behind Broadway’s “Brief Encou…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46PMWednesday, August 17, 2016
This one will run and run. And run. And run… Reuniting the Tony Award-winning team behind “Matilda,” “Groundhog Day” cracks open Danny Rubin’s story for the 1993 Harold Ramis f…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PM“Come From Away,” inbound for Broadway this spring, has locked in its New York dates, setting a March opening night after pre-Broadway runs in Washington, D.C. and Toronto. The c…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:32AMJason Sudeikis will take on the Robin Williams role in “Dead Poets Society,” a new stage adaptation of the 1989 movie opening in November at Off Broadway’s Classic Stage Co…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:38AMMonday, August 15, 2016
The play that won the crown at the 2016 Tony Awards, “The Humans,” played its first week in its new home at the Schoenfeld Theater last week, and the bigger venue helped the prod…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:08PMJohn Turturro, Tony Shalhoub and Jessica Hecht will star in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Price,” cued up for spring at the Roundabout Theater Company. Turt…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:08PMFriday, August 12, 2016
The 20th annual New York International Fringe Festival launches tonight, and somewhere in this year’s crop you might find the next “Urinetown,” the 2002 Tony Award winner t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:13PMA new signature acrobatic sequence, rechoreographed flying machines, a trimmed climax, and deeper backstories for the lead characters are all among the creative changes that Cirque du Soleil…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:13PMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Seth Gelblum, the entertainment attorney who was widely respected and much admired in the Broadway community, died Aug. 8 at 62 following a long illness. A partner at Loeb & Loeb, where…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:22PMDid Shakespeare really write “Troilus and Cressida”? That’s fair to ask of a play with unlovely lovers, listless poetry, and a fractured plot that staggers from romantic …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13PMMonday, August 8, 2016
With the summer slate winnowed down to 25 shows — 23 of which were musicals — all three of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s shows notched spots in the Top 10 at the Broadway box offic…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:32PMSunday, August 7, 2016
The Second Stage Uptown production of “Engagements” is typical of the work done by this top-drawer house. The acting is polished. The direction is smart. And the production value…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PMFriday, August 5, 2016
The upcoming revival of “Miss Saigon” will land its helicopter in the same Broadway venue where it played the first time around: the Broadway Theater, where the show will open in…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24AMThursday, August 4, 2016
Disney Theatrical Productions and director Alex Timbers have parted ways on the brewing Broadway production of “Frozen.” “Making the tough calls when creating a new Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39AMWednesday, August 3, 2016
James Houghton, the founder of Off Broadway’s Signature Theater, died at his home in Manhattan Aug. 2 following a battle with stomach cancer. He was 57. Houghton had a 25-year tenure a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:58PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
After conquering Broadway, “Hamilton” will now try its hand at taking over the world — with upcoming productions in Chicago (this fall), L.A., San Francisco and London (in…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PMJoshua Henry has joined the Chicago cast of “Hamilton,” signing on to play Aaron Burr, the nemesis of the title character and the part that won Leslie Odom, Jr. a Tony Award. Mea…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMFor the fourth week in a row, the Broadway box office didn’t do quite as well last week as it did during the same week in 2015: Last week’s cumulative tally of about $25.5 mill…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMThe rationale for casting an ensemble of actresses to enact Major John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Colorado River expedition eludes me. But as penned by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMTuesday, July 26, 2016
James M. Nederlander, the impresario who was the chairman of Broadway’s Nederlander Organization, died July 25 at 94, it was announced by his son, James L. Nederlander. As the head …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:32PMMonday, July 25, 2016
It’s been a stage megasmash since tickets first went on sale — and were snapped up instantly. It’s got a huge, rabid fanbase. And theater critics are going gaga for it. It&…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:34PMIt is, quite simply, spellbinding: The Show That Lived Up to Expectations — and Then Some. Three years after J. K. Rowling announced her boy wizard would hit the stage, “Harry Potter…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:41PM 
