Monday, 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 07:41PMBroadway box office took a dip last week in what could be the first of several weeks of gradually tapering sales on the way down to Labor Day — especially now that some productions a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:36PMSunday, July 24, 2016
Jonathan Pryce makes a strong case for Shylock’s infamous demand for a pound of flesh in Shakespeare’s Globe‘s gorgeously stylized production of “The Merchant of Veni…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20PMFriday, July 22, 2016
Broadway ticketbuyers expect seating charts to look a certain way: The stage is here; the audience is there. So when tickets went on sale for the $14 million Broadway production of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
The well-reviewed Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” will close at the end of the year, with its producer, Jeffrey Richards, announcing the end date well in advance in hop…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:47PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Can’t get a ticket to “Hamilton”? Try “Spamilton,” the new spoof of the Broadway megasmash from the mind behind 30 years of “Forbidden Broadway,” Ge…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMJake Gyllenhaal will star in a revival of the 1987 play “Burn This,” leading a production that will re-open midtown’s Hudson Theater as a Broadway venue. Michael Mayer, the…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PMWait! Do you really want to click on that Baby Pandas / Neo-Nazi / S&M website? British scribe James Graham and Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke, who co-created the mind-…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10AMMonday, July 18, 2016
The new revival of “Cats” pounced on Broadway last week, launching to healthy sales in a window that saw a few titles dial up to nine-show weeks in order to take advantage of su…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:31PMThursday, July 14, 2016
Horribly misogynistic or fatally misjudged? Turns out “The Stripper,” the pulp fiction pastiche by “The Rocky Horror Show” creator Richard O’Brien, is both. Ad…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:19AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
The upcoming Chicago production of “Hamilton” has cast its major roles, with Karen Olivo — a Tony Award winner whose breakout came in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:38PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
I’ve seen “Hamilton” four times. Well, maybe more like 3.33 times. (More on that later.) But with all the media hype, the 11 Tony Awards, the tickets selling for thousands of dollars o…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:40PMThe Broadway box office continued a summer slowdown last week — but “Hamilton” held strong in its last week with three of its original stars, while a couple of shows were u…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30AMWhat would it take to get you to Lincoln Center Theater to see a three-hour political drama about the 1993 peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization known as the …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30AM 
