Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Key Brand Entertainment, the company that owns a portfolio of live-entertainment players including Broadway Across America, has rebranded itself the John Gore Organization, named after the e…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:01PMSunday, May 29, 2016
Born out of Germany’s economic meltdown in the 1920s, “The Threepenny Opera” puts the destitute and desperate onstage — a remarkable thing at the time. Rather than refresh its re…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:22PMThursday, May 26, 2016
Neither love nor hate make this “Romeo and Juliet” — the best so far of Kenneth Branagh’s ongoing season of West End plays — but haste. The actor-manager and his co-directo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:55PMLast fall, Amsterdam-based director Ivo van Hove had zero Broadway credits to his name. Six months later, he’s got two: “A View From the Bridge,” the critics-darling revival starring M…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:24PMAt the end of “Incognito,” a new play by Nick Payne (“Constellations”) at Manhattan Theater Club, one line of dialogue jumps out: “There is nothing whatsoever remarkable about …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:24PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Somebody should have warned Cirque du Soleil Theatrical that it would be an iffy business trying to bring Broadway to Broadway. “Paramour” is an ambitious departure from the comp…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:46PMIn Cirque du Soleil’s first Broadway show, “Paramour,” it’s not just the acrobats who take flight. It’s the lampshades. In a romantic moment when two characters…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMProducers Michael Rabinowitz and Ira Deutchman have optioned the stage rights to the 1975 indie-film success “Hester Street,” planning to produce a New York theatrical adaptation…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Struggling at the box office and essentially shut out of the nominations for the Tony Awards, Broadway musical “Tuck Everlasting” has proven fleeting, with producers announcing …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMHell looks a lot like New Orleans in director Rachel Chavkin’s stunning production of “Hadestown,” singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell’s ravishing music-theater piece at New Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMMonday, May 23, 2016
Tony Awards nominees “The Humans” and “Eclipsed” both scored trophies at the Off Broadway-centric Obie Awards, which gave its top playwriting prize to Rajiv Joseph&…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18PMWhite-hot from the buzz of its newly minted megahit “Hamilton” and the enduring popularity of crowdpleasers including “The Lion King” and “Wicked,” Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMDavid Mamet’s first play following the bad-buzz magnet “China Doll” has been added to the 2016-17 season at the Atlantic Theater Company, the Off Broadway troupe that Mame…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:21PMSaturday, May 21, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
“Hamilton,” “The Humans” and Lin-Manuel Miranda were among the winners of the 2016 Drama League Awards, which anointed a quintet of winners that are also in the runni…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:39PMWednesday, May 18, 2016
Sutton Foster will star in a new production of “Sweet Charity,” kicking off a 2016-17 season at Off Broadway’s The New Group that also will include the American premiere of…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:43PMHere’s a sure bet for the regional theater circuit — a play about a play that shocked Broadway and landed both the show’s producer and its leading man in jail. “Inde…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:45AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Ambassador Theater Group, the largest theater owner-operator in the U.K. and a company in the midst of expanding its New York footprint, has tapped new leadership as its founding leaders and…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:51PMDavid Hyde Pierce has signed on to co-star with Bette Midler in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” The brewing production, from producer Scott Rudin, has also locke…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:51PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Broadway musical “Shuffle Along” dominated the 2016 Astaire Awards, which honor choreography and dance performance on stage and on film. The show picked up trophies for male danc…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38PM“Jitney,” the August Wilson play about unlicensed cab drivers in the 1970s, will make its Broadway debut this season in a new production from Manhattan Theater Club, which has ad…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38PMA lot of productions posted minor gains at the Broadway box office last week — but those rises were countered by some big, unavoidable losses at a few individual titles, including R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38PMFresh-faced Samira Wiley, a SAG winner as Poussey Washington in “Orange Is the New Black,” is a captivating young actor. (That smile is a traffic-stopper.) In “Daphne’…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20PMThursday, May 12, 2016
The brush strokes are broad in “My Paris,” the predictable bio-tuner of Belle Epoque artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, now premiering at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. The chanso…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMWednesday, May 11, 2016
The producer of a new Sherlock Holmes play is investigating a path to the West End and Broadway, enlisting a creative team led by director Daniel Evans to stage an original tale of the mas…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
With Tony Awards season in full swing, the New York theater industry probably hasn’t taken much notice yet of “Josephine,” the new musical about Josephine Baker that open…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMThere’s been some shuffling of the schedule at Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” which has set new dates for the hiatus of star Audra McDonald — and ad…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMMonday, May 9, 2016
The Broadway box office got a leg up last week from the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, with musical contenders “Waitress” and “Shuffle Along” hitting new highs alongsi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMDarren Criss will kick off the national tour of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” taking on the lead role during the production’s first two stops in San Francisco and L.A. Criss…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PM“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the large-scale musical from Warner Bros. Theater Ventures, has locked in its Broadway details, with Christian Borle starring in a production…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:09AMThe Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “She Loves Me” led the 2015-16 Outer Critics Circle Awards, scoring four trophies, while the company’s starry revival of “Long …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:07AM 
