Monday, May 9, 2016
The 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 06:07AMFriday, May 6, 2016
Television 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 06:01AMThursday, May 5, 2016
The 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 10:28PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
The 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 02:17PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
#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 02:07PMMonday, May 2, 2016
With 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 10:28AMSaturday, 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 12:27PM 
