Tuesday, 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 04:13PMCirque 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 09:29PM 
