Thursday, June 16, 2016
“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 09:38PMIf you haven’t seen “Hamilton” yet, it’s easy to believe that the blockbuster musical is all about the men. Actors easily outnumber actresses among its leads and featured players, an…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:42PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon will star on Broadway in a spring 2017 revival of “The Little Foxes” — and alternate in the play’s two major female roles. In the Manha…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PMIn the old days, there was one road to Broadway, and it was usually on the road. Producers took a new musical out of town, worked out the kinks in the relative privacy of the regions and the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PMCasual viewers of the June 12 Tony Awards might be forgiven for wondering if the Broadway-centric telecast represents the bastion of commercial theater in America, then why is one of the nig…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PM“Bright Star” doesn’t sound like most Broadway musicals. There’s that banjo, for one thing, not to mention the autoharp and the mandolin. If you’re trying to describe the productio…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PMComing after “Gloria” and “An Octoroon,” both brimming with ideas, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new work, “War,” is a bit of a buzz-kill. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:29AMMonday, June 6, 2016
“American Psycho,” one of the musicals mostly left out of this year’s Tony Awards race, got a nice boost at the Broadway box office in its final week on the boards —…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35PMScott Rudin’s very full Broadway plate has gotten a little bit lighter, with the producer deciding to step away from the brewing musical version of “Groundhog Day,” which …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PMSunday, June 5, 2016
“Shuffle Along” and “The Humans” won the top honors at the 2016 Drama Desk Awards, scoring trophies for outstanding musical and outstanding play, respectively. As the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30PMFriday, June 3, 2016
Disney’s brewing Broadway musical adaptation of “Frozen” has lost a choreographer, with the previously announced Peter Darling exiting the production because of a prior commitment …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:59PMIt was mostly by accident that “Waitress” became the first Broadway musical with an all-female creative team. But in the middle of a season that was all about diversity, the show, nomina…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:59PMThursday, June 2, 2016
If viewers of this year’s Tony Awards get to see a performance from “Spring Awakening,” they’ll have fans to thank for footing the bill. Deaf West Theater’s nom…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:41PM 
