Thursday, June 23, 2016
Al 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 04:13PMCirque du Soleil and the NFL are planting a flag in Times Square, constructing a four-story, 40,000 square-foot interactive exhibit, “NFL Times Square,” that aims to attract 25,…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PM“The Humans,” the production that won best play at this year’s Tony Awards, will finish up its run at the Helen Hayes Theater in late July — and then resume performa…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PM“The Healing,” the new play by MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner Samuel D. Hunter, was written specifically for Theater Breaking Through Barriers, a company of disabled ac…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AMWednesday, June 22, 2016
RWS & Associates, a producer of stage shows for cruise ships and theme parks, is looking to make a name for itself in commercial theater with the acquisition of Binder Casting, the vete…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM“Fun Home,” the intimately scaled musical that won five 2015 Tony Awards including best musical, will close in September after 18 months on Broadway. Although the production̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50AMTuesday, June 21, 2016
A twist on the Edward Snowden story, Mike Bartlett’s new play “Wild” is really an examination of rampant rational skepticism. If ours is a world in which nothing is what it seems and n…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PMMonday, June 20, 2016
A recent win at the 2016 Tony Awards seems to have had an instant effect on the Broadway box office of “The Humans,” the glowingly received production that took home the 2016 …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:55PMNickelodeon’s endearing, absorbent, animated oddball optimist SpongeBob SquarePants and his surreal undersea habitat Bikini Bottom get a Broadway-scaled stage treatment in “The Spon…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMHasbro is getting into the live entertainment game. Their first move: “Monopoly the Musical,” targeted for Broadway and the first of a series of stage projects to be announced ou…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMFriday, June 17, 2016
Philippa Soo, the actress nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in “Hamilton,” will take on the title role in the brewing musical adaptation of “Amelie,” set…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:31PMThursday, June 16, 2016
When Javier Munoz takes the stage as the new Hamilton in “Hamilton” this July, it won’t be the first time he’s playing the role. He’s been creator-star Lin-Manu…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45PM“Hamilton” will have a new Hamilton in July, with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator-star of the Tony-winning Broadway smash, confirmed to exit the show July 9 and his longtime alte…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:13PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Members of the Broadway community have teamed up for a charity recording of “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” performed by a “We Are the World”-style supergoup of t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:54PMThe Broadway Channel — the video content brand affiliated with online ticket seller and news outlet Broadway.com and with producer-presenter Broadway Across America — is expand…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMWith the Tony Awards out of the way, Broadway can now get down to ironing out its plans for the fall. The newest confirmed additions to the slate: “A Bronx Tale,” the musical co-…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMThe Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “She Loves Me” will become the first Broadway production to livestream a performance, with the title — nominated for eight Tony Awards…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:56PMIn a basement studio under Chicago’s Oriental Theatre, things are getting dramatic — and a bit surreal. A 14-piece orchestra is swelling to a cinematic crescendo. Three actors — portr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:56PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
“Bright Star,” the Broadway musical written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will shutter at the end of the month, with producers posting a closing notice after weeks of stru…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:29PMIsabelle Huppert’s return to the London stage is welcome, but it comes in an impenetrable indulgence by Polish director Krystof Warlikowski. First seen at the Odéon Théàtre de l’Europ…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:49AMA company of women under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd (“Mamma Mia!”) romps through a subversive version of “The Taming of the Shrew” that takes some of the sting out of Sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15AMMonday, June 13, 2016
It’s too early to tell what kind of effect last night’s Tony Awards will have on the Broadway box office, but it’s not too soon to predict that “Hamilton” is go…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11PMIn a 2015-16 season in which the top winner at the Tony Awards, “Hamilton,” had been a foregone conclusion since the musical opened last summer, the biggest uncertainty of the To…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:38AM“Hamilton” ascended to the awards throne to which the Broadway smash has been headed all season, taking home eleven trophies at the 2016 Tony Awards, including the top prize for new musi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31AMSunday, June 12, 2016
The dress rehearsal for the 2016 Tony Awards answered a lot of questions — from what song the cast of “Hamilton” will perform to which award Barbra Streisand will present &…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11PMFriday, June 10, 2016
Even way back in the spring of last year, before the 2015-16 season had even started, the question about the Tony Awards was never whether “Hamilton” would win big at the ceremon…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMThe Broadway revival of “The Color Purple,” nominated for four Tony Awards and probably on its way to winning at least one of them, is an impressive achievement by any measure. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31AMIn 2007, Jeff Daniels starred as Ray in the first American production of David Harrower’s profoundly unsettling drama “Blackbird,” about an older man confronted by a woman over the rel…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31AMThe 2015-16 Broadway season couldn’t have found a more fitting end than “Shuffle Along.” Following a year of work that seemed a celebration of contemporary Broadway diver…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31AMIn anticipation of an imminent win at the Tony Awards, producers of “Hamilton” have jacked up the ticket prices of the Broadway smash, raising the top non-premium ticket price to…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
It’s tough being a Broadway actor around Tony time. You’ve got eight shows a week, of course, but you’ve also got rehearsals for the Tony Awards ceremony to slot into your …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:38PM 
