Monday, May 2, 2016
Paper Mill Playhouse has been named the winner of the 2016 Regional Theater Tony Award, the annual trophy handed out to companies beyond the Broadway world on which the Tony Awards focus. Lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PMWatching “Dear Evan Hansen,” now playing at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater, is like falling down a rabbit hole that leads back to high school. Steven Levenson’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AMRajiv Joseph’s play “Guards at the Taj,” seen at the Atlantic Theater Company last year, and the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “The Robber Bridgeroom&…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AMSaturday, April 30, 2016
Now that we finally know what “Shuffle Along” is, Broadway can get down to what it does best: gossiping and prognosticating about awards season. With nominations for the 2016 Tony Awards…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:56PMFriday, April 29, 2016
“It’s been like learning about family members you didn’t know you had.” That’s how six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald described working on the Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,�…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:19PMDavid Schrader, the longtime executive at Disney Theatrical Productions, will depart his current position as the company’s exec vice president/managing director next month to strike ou…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:53PM“Shuffle Along” has been deemed a new musical in the upcoming Tony Awards race — thereby putting the freshly opened show, from a formidable team of creators and performers,…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM“Elegy” might be described as a memory play — not because it recalls the past but because it is a play that remembers. As in his earlier play “Constellations” (seen on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PM“Shuffle Along” is to die for. Subtitled “The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed,” the dance-drunk show (choreographed by Savion Glover) recounts the peril…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:47AMThursday, April 28, 2016
The well-received Roundabout Theater Company revival of “She Loves Me” led the nominations for the 2016 Drama Desk Awards, pulling in nine nods including best musical revival, pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PMWhen you’ve got big names like Jessica Lange, Michael Shannon, Gabriel Byrne and John Gallagher Jr. starring in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” on Broadway, some equally big names wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
The tenderness between Gabriel Byrne, in the towering role of the fading Broadway actor James Tyrone, and Jessica Lange, as his beloved but tormented wife Mary, brings welcome relief from th…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PMWith “Matilda” exiting Broadway in January, there’s a new singing pre-teen hoping to generate the same family-audience appeal. But whether Winnie Foster, the main character in the new …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26AMAndrew Keenan-Bolger wears a lot of hats. At 30, the fan-favorite stage actor (“Newsies”) and star of the Broadway musical “Tuck Everlasting” is also an early digital-media adopter, …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
The Broadway musical "Waitress," earning a heaping helping of positive reviews in the wake of its April 24 opening, is so fresh out of the oven that it'll have theatergoers believing they ac…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:07AMMust theater sell its soul for new audiences? Director Jamie Lloyd has made it his mission to bring a new generation into theater, but at what price? Canny casting pulls in a young crowd; fl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10AMThe theater industry may be in the final throes of activity before the Tony Awards nominations are announced May 3 — but right now, the brand-new big-earner at the Broadway box office…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10AMJesse Tyler Ferguson, the star of ABC’s “Modern Family,” takes his shot at “Fully Committed,” Becky Mode’s tour-de-force-for-solo-actor about the travails…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10AMMonday, April 25, 2016
The Broadway musical “Waitress,” earning a heaping helping of positive reviews in the wake of its April 24 opening, is so fresh out of the oven that it’ll have theatergoers…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PMSunday, April 24, 2016
“Waitress” owes its sweetness to the mouth-watering goodness of Jessie Mueller. As a diner waitress named Jenna, Mueller is such a honey bun, she melts us like the mounds of butt…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
If Ivo van Hove’s “Roman Tragedies” was a surprising medley of Shakespeare plays, his “Kings of War” history cycle, now running at London’s Barbican Center, is altogether mor…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PMFriday, April 22, 2016
Writer Jen Silverman is the recipient of the 2016-17 PoNY Fellowship, the annual playwrighting grant endowed with notably robust support (including a rent-free year in a Manhattan apartment)…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:42PMBroadway mourned Prince last night, as musicals “Hamilton” and “The Color Purple” took a moment during their curtain calls to honor the late musician with performance…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PMThere’s no heart but lots of blood in “American Psycho,” Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s witty musical treatment of the scandalous 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis (…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:43AMThursday, April 21, 2016
If you’re making a stage musical of “American Psycho,” one thing’s for sure: There will be blood. But that raises a whole host of questions: How do you make stage blo…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
“Hamilton,” “School of Rock,” “American Psycho” and “Waitress” are among the Broadway nominees vying for the new musical trophy at the 2016 Drama League Awards, with plays �…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
“American Psycho,” the Broadway musical that opens Thursday, and the well-received revival of “She Loves Me” topped the list of 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards nomin…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PMSheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Broadway musicals including “Fiddler on the Roof,” and Circle Repertory Company founder Marshall W. Mason will be the recipients of the 2016 Ton…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PMMonday, April 18, 2016
Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer will lead the cast of “Les Liaison Dangereuses” on Broadway this fall, with Schreiber cast as the Machiavellian seducer Valmont. The actor steps i…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PM“Hamilton,” the Broadway smash that’s looked like an awards-season favorite from the moment it opened, has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Although it’…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PMCan Cirque du Soleil sell on Broadway? Looks like it, at least judging from the one preview that new Cirque show “Paramour” has performed so far. “Paramour” — …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PM 
