Monday, July 25, 2016
It 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 06:30AMMonday, July 11, 2016
A musical adaptation of the 1993 Johnny Depp movie “Benny & Joon” is among the projects on tap for the National Alliance for Musical Theater’s 2016 Festival of New Musicals, the an…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMSunday, July 10, 2016
The mob had clogged the sidewalk outside the Richard Rodgers Theater an hour and a half before the show had even started: Ticketholders eager to get in, fans across the street or outside the…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMJohn McMartin, the Broadway veteran who created roles in landmark musicals including “Sweet Charity” and “Follies,” had died. He was 86. The death of the longtime act…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:03PMWednesday, July 6, 2016
Brandon Victor Dixon, the Broadway regular who was nominated for a Tony earlier this year for his performance in “Shuffle Along,” will step into “Hamilton” in August …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:39PMTuesday, July 5, 2016
Long weekends can sometimes be a boon for the Broadway box office — but not when the long weekend is part of the July 4 holiday, which is so full of barbecues and fireworks and other o…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:46PMThursday, June 30, 2016
Debbie Alsebai has spent 55 hours of her life waiting for a ticket to “Hamilton.” The first time she tried to snag one of the very few seats released to the cancellations line b…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
Playwright David Henry Hwang will success costume designer William Ivey Long as the chair of the American Theater Wing, the not-for-profit theater development organization that founded the T…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:31PMOne of Broadway’s prime musical houses, the St. James Theater, will soon begin an expansion of its stage that will push the back wall of the theater out into the alley behind it. Work …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:12PM“Anastasia,” the stage musical inspired in part by the 1997 animated film, has claimed a Broadway home, targeting an April 24, 2017 opening at the Broadhurst Theater. The show, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMThe new docu-solo from Anna Deavere Smith and older titles from Tracy Letts and Bruce Norris are on the 2016-17 season slate at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater. The latest from wr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:33AMSpurred by its victories at the Tony Awards and by the return of its Tony-winning star, the musical revival of “The Color Purple” took a mighty leap upward at the Broadway box o…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:33AMLong-gestating a capella musical “In Transit” is commuting to Broadway at last, with the show claiming Circle in the Square for a run that will begin this fall. The musical, whic…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:33AMSunday, June 26, 2016
Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, the two 70-something New Yorkers who are the comic alter egos of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, will play a stint on Broadway this fall, with the comedians …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:38PMSaturday, June 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton supporters have a chance to score Broadway’s hottest ticket with a special fundraising performance of “Hamilton,” scheduled as an extra matinee on July 12. …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:42PMThursday, June 23, 2016
“Shuffle Along,” the starry Broadway musical that was nominated for 10 Tony Awards earlier this year, will be closing much earlier than expected, with producers choosing to shutt…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:24PM“An American in Paris,” the stage musical that meshed Broadway and ballet, will close on Broadway in January — but the major renovations planned for the production’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:17PMAl Pacino, James Taylor, the rock band The Eagles, Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, and gospel/blues singer Mavis Staples have been named the 2016 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors,…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PM 
