Wednesday, June 8, 2016
If 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 08:41PMA Greek holiday home becomes a symbol of a diplomatic powerplay in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s two-act time-hop, “Sunset at the Villa Thalia,” at the National Theater. The playwright of tran…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:45PMOne man unites the live musical smash and Broadway sensation.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMWant a $10 ticket to “Hamilton”? Try enrolling in a New York City public school. Tickets to the Broadway sensation — and presumptive Tony Awards champion — may be goi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
The Broadway musical “Waitress” is shaping up to be one of the spring season’s success stories. The latest indication? The show’s become the newest member of the mill…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:26PMDNA may have ended the romantic mystery of the Anastasia legend, but fairytale princesses are forever. Making a story of a little girl lost more than child’s play is a challenge largel…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:01PMKey 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
