Monday, April 18, 2016
Can 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 08:07PMSaturday, April 16, 2016
Original cast members of the Broadway megasmash "Hamilton" have reached a deal with the show's producers, led by Jeffrey Seller, to share in profits of the production, which has been one of …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:22PMCirque du Soleil has joined the raft of entertainment-industry companies and individuals pressuring South Carolina to repeal recent legislation that is seen by many to be anti-LGBT, with the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM“Anastasia,” the new musical inspired by 20th Century Fox’s 1997 animated film, has made its Broadway intentions plain, with producers announcing a plan to arrive in New Yo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMOriginal cast members of the Broadway megasmash “Hamilton” have reached a deal with the show’s producers, led by Jeffrey Seller, to share in profits of the production, whic…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMFriday, April 15, 2016
The president of Lincoln Center, Jed Bernstein, has suddenly stepped down from the post after about three years in the job. The former head of the Broadway League and a Broadway producer, Be…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PMThursday, April 14, 2016
Frank Langella has made a brilliant stage career of playing monumental heroes and villains, from King Lear to Count Dracula. So it makes sense that he would tackle the greatest hero-villain …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54PMBroadway musical “Matilda” will close in January, following a run that saw the show become a popular destination for family audiences and city visitors seeking something quirkier…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48PMAttorney Seth Gelblum, vocal coach Joan Lader and costume shop proprietor Sally Ann Parsons have been named the 2016 recipients of the Tony Honors for Excellence, the special annual awards h…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42AMTuesday, April 12, 2016
News plays by Pulitzer winner Annie Baker, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Will Eno, plus revivals of a series of plays by another Pulitzer winner, Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as one by Athol Fuga…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:42PMDaniel Radcliffe will be the latest big-name screen actor to show up onstage at the Public Theater, the Off Broadway company that has recently hosted Lupita Nyong’o (“Eclipsed&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:59PMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference has lined up an eight-play slate for 2016 that includes a new work by Keith Huff, the “Mad Men” w…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:59PMMonday, April 11, 2016
Broadway’s overall sales took a breather last week, but its new spring shows ramped up, with highs hit by titles including “Waitress” and “Shuffle Along” as pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40PMBefore playwright Tracy Letts and director Anna D. Shapiro teamed up at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater for the explosive, Tony and Pulitzer-winning family drama “August: Osage County…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMFriday, April 8, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
The current Broadway production of “Blackbird,” starring Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels, has been deemed a revival by the Tony Awards Administration Committee, while Jennifer…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:04PMHeather Headley, the theater-fan favorite who hasn’t had an ongoing Broadway role since she won a 2000 Tony Award for “Aida,” will take over for Jennifer Hudson in “T…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Jesse Eisenberg will reprise his role in his own play this summer in London, where “The Spoils” will open in June in a transfer that will star Eisenberg and a fellow member of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM“Sunset Boulevard” made Glenn Close an icon of musical theater. Twenty-three years later, at age 69, she returns to a part that, she claims, has “haunted” her ever since — form…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMThe Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie,” with Cherry Jones reprising her lead role, will be the centerpiece of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival. The American Re…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMAnne Washburn writes weird plays, and “Antlia Pneumatica” is no exception, although it does seem more grounded in reality than her post-apocalyptic “Mr. Burns.” In th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMLast week’s firestorm about the casting notice for the Broadway juggernaut “Hamilton” was frustrating, disappointing, enlightening and educational. On its face, it was a simple…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMDiane Lane will lead the cast of the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming revival of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” As a child, Lane made her Broadway debut i…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMMonday, April 4, 2016
Last week Jessica Lange and Jesse Tyler Ferguson led the final push of new shows in Broadway’s 2015-16 season, with three titles — “Long Day’s Journey Into NightR…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:36PMSadie Thompson, that naughty lady of Pago-Pago, has had the struggle over her soul dramatized innumerable times on stage and screen since Somerset Maugham created her in his 1921 short story…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMSunday, April 3, 2016
Oscar Isaac, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actor who will next be seen on the bigscreen as the titular baddie in “X-Men: Apocalypse,” will play Hamlet in a 2017 …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42PMDame Judi Dench is now the winningest performer in the history of the Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of the Tony Awards. The actress picked up her eighth Olivier during an April 3 cer…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42PMFriday, April 1, 2016
There’s bound to be head-scratching over Ivo van Hove’s peculiar Broadway production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s towering 1953 drama about the infamous 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36AMThursday, March 31, 2016
A trio of Broadway veterans will head up the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells and Stephanie J. Block on board to play …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:51PMMobile gaming and musical theater: Two great tastes that taste great together? That’s the premise of “Peter Panic!,” a new videogame in which let’s-put-on-a-show dreams are achieved…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:54PMWednesday, March 30, 2016
“An Act of God,” the stage comedy that had a successful limited run on Broadway last year with Jim Parsons, will be back in New York come May, with Sean Hayes now filling the s…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:38PM 
