Thursday, 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 01:30PMThursday, 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 10:08PM 
