A 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 03:20PMThe 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 06:04PMThe 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 12:31PMWith 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 04:33PMThe 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 06:07AMTelevision turned Technicolor. Dylan went electric. Now, the Kneehigh theater company’s Emma Rice (“Brief Encounter”) has taken over the leadership of Shakespeare’s Globe, and “cul…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM“Finding Neverland,” the Broadway musical produced by Harvey Weinstein’s Weinstein Live Entertainment, will close in August, prior to the launch of a U.S. national tour thi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01AMThe New York Drama Critics Circle has named family drama “The Humans” the best play of the season, with “Shuffle Along” taking the award for musical. That’s a b…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28PMThe hasty closing notice put up by Broadway musical “Disaster!” in the wake of the 2016 Tony Awards nominations underscores the downside of awards-season hype: The hoopla of it a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:36PMCall it the “Hamilton” effect. As Broadway’s newest megahit dominates the Tony Awards conversation, the theater industry is buzzing about all the ways in which the ultrahot musical’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:17PM#TonysNotSoWhite? After a notably diverse season on Broadway, the 2016 Tony Awards nominations set up the real possibility that for the first time in Tony history, all four musical acting ca…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:10PMIn some ways, the 2016 Tony Awards nominations shook out exactly as expected, with “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pop-culture phenomenon, dominating the conversation. But…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMRegardless of how the imminent nominations for the 2016 Tony Awards turn out, Brian Stokes Mitchell already knows he’s going home with a trophy. The actor, currently appearing in ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PM“Hamilton” dominated the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway juggernaut notching a record 16 noms for the theater industry’s 70th annual …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMWith the theater industry holding its breath ahead of the Tony Awards nominations announcement May 3, the Broadway box office got a bit of a boost last week as spring break at New York Ci…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:49PMThe National Endowment for the Arts and longtime theater-industry executive Miles Wilkin will received the 2016 Special Tony Awards. These specials prizes are part of a slate of awards hand…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PMPaper 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 10:28AMNow 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 03:56PM“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 06:47AMThe 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…
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