Monday, 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 12:27PMSunday, April 24, 2016
“Waitress” owes its sweetness to the mouth-watering goodness of Jessie Mueller. As a diner waitress named Jenna, Mueller is such a honey bun, she melts us like the mounds of butt…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
If Ivo van Hove’s “Roman Tragedies” was a surprising medley of Shakespeare plays, his “Kings of War” history cycle, now running at London’s Barbican Center, is altogether mor…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PMFriday, April 22, 2016
Writer Jen Silverman is the recipient of the 2016-17 PoNY Fellowship, the annual playwrighting grant endowed with notably robust support (including a rent-free year in a Manhattan apartment)…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:42PMBroadway mourned Prince last night, as musicals “Hamilton” and “The Color Purple” took a moment during their curtain calls to honor the late musician with performance…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PMThere’s no heart but lots of blood in “American Psycho,” Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s witty musical treatment of the scandalous 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis (…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:43AMThursday, April 21, 2016
If you’re making a stage musical of “American Psycho,” one thing’s for sure: There will be blood. But that raises a whole host of questions: How do you make stage blo…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
“Hamilton,” “School of Rock,” “American Psycho” and “Waitress” are among the Broadway nominees vying for the new musical trophy at the 2016 Drama League Awards, with plays �…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
“American Psycho,” the Broadway musical that opens Thursday, and the well-received revival of “She Loves Me” topped the list of 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards nomin…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PMSheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Broadway musicals including “Fiddler on the Roof,” and Circle Repertory Company founder Marshall W. Mason will be the recipients of the 2016 Ton…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PMMonday, April 18, 2016
Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer will lead the cast of “Les Liaison Dangereuses” on Broadway this fall, with Schreiber cast as the Machiavellian seducer Valmont. The actor steps i…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PM“Hamilton,” the Broadway smash that’s looked like an awards-season favorite from the moment it opened, has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Although it’…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PMCan 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 02:32PM 
