Monday, October 17, 2016
The 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 12:44PMSunday, October 16, 2016
Actresses 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 10:00PMSaturday, October 15, 2016
The 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 06:15PMThursday, October 13, 2016
The 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 04:30PMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Disney 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 05:19PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
The 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 09:00AMMonday, October 10, 2016
John 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 11:00AMFriday, October 7, 2016
You 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 11:43AMThursday, October 6, 2016
“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 12:50PMMonday, October 3, 2016
The 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 04:06PMSunday, October 2, 2016
Variety 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 01:21AMSaturday, October 1, 2016
Ava 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05AMFriday, September 30, 2016
A slew of Broadway and Hollywood names have teamed up for a one-night only Broadway performance benefiting the Hillary Victory Fund, with Julia Roberts, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hugh Jackman a…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:03PMThere’s a movie hitting theaters this fall that pushes the technical limits of the filmmaking process to new extremes. But the filmmaker isn’t using his tech in the service of an effects…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe 2016 New York Film Festival is a big draw for the city’s movie lovers — and this year, it may attract a crowd of theater fans, too. From the premiere of a “Hamilton…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, September 29, 2016
The Complicite production of “The Encounter” opened on Broadway Sept. 29, following well-received productions at the Edinburgh International Festival and then in London. Matt T…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has launched a new series of initiatives aimed at combating the underrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMJohn Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, is a familiar figure. He’s the real-life equivalent of George Etherege’s “Man of Mode” and Aphra Behn’s “Rover” — a licentious …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Splat! That’s playwright Neil LaBute with egg all over his face for penning “All the Ways to Say I Love You,” an embarrassingly clumsy one-act about an older wom…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMElizabeth LeCompte, founding member and director of the Wooster Group, the pioneering experimental theater troupe, has won the 2016 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with a cash pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PMGarth Drabinsky, the Canadian stage producer who’s served jail time for fraud and forgery, has locked in plans for his comeback production. “Sousatzka,” a new musical wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Kevin Kline is set to return to Broadway in a new revival of “Present Laughter,” slipping into the St. James Theater for an April opening. Kline, who hasn’t been on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PM“Jackie,” the biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy that picked up massive buzz at festivals in Venice and Toronto, has join the lineup of the 2016 New York Film Festival, where Pablo Larrain’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM 
