Wednesday, April 6, 2016
“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 08:38PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Nathan Lane and John Slattery will lead the starry cast of an upcoming Broadway revival of “The Front Page,” opening in New York in the fall with Scott Rudin producing. John Good…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:49PMMonday, March 28, 2016
BroadwayHD, the stage-centric subscription and on-demand service that launched last year, will take its latest step on the challenging path toward establishing itself as a Netflix for Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:25PMWith the Easter holiday prodding the overall Broadway box office to rise again, the new musical “Waitress” had a hearty debut, averaging a whopping $140,000 per performance in i…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:25PMFriday, March 25, 2016
The Broadway musical “Bright Star” had a couple of unannounced cast members for its opening night performance March 24: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, who wrote the show, and jo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34AMA little bit of bluegrass music is quite enough of a good thing, so it’s just bad luck that “Bright Star,” a new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell based on their 20…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34AMThursday, March 24, 2016
John Legend has signed on to co-produce an Off Broadway production of “Turn Me Loose,” a new play about comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, in a staging that will st…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMProducers of of the Carole King musical “Beautiful” are targeting Broadway with a new musical adaptation of Audrey Hepburn film “Roman Holiday,” featuring Cole Porter…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMTuesday, March 22, 2016
What language are these people speaking, anyway? The equity traders in Sarah Burgess’ frighteningly funny play, “Dry Powder,” converse in the private jargon of the financi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38PM“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” the Tony-winning play that has carved out an unusually long run for itself on Broadway, has posted its closing notice, with p…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:56PMMonday, March 21, 2016
Looks like the hotly anticipated new musical “Shuffle Along” has a lot of spring in its step — judging, at least, from its robust numbers at the Broadway box office in its …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PMJ. J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Jodie Foster, Alfonso Cuaron, Idina Menzel and Francis Ford Coppola are among the names signed up to participate in the Tribeca Talks series of public discussions …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PMFriday, March 18, 2016
Jane Krakowski will tell you that Broadway’s a little bit like childbirth. “It’s a lot more work than I remember it!” she cracked after the March 17 opening night per…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PMThursday, March 17, 2016
The Roundabout Theater Company’s enchanting Broadway revival of “She Loves Me” is so charming, you kind of wish it would follow you home. The show is a special triumph for …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58PMKenneth Branagh proves a born farceur in Sean Foley’s adaptation of Francis Veber’s classic French farce “The Painkiller.” As an anonymous hitman who holes up in a hotel roo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58PMTony winner Patina Miller (“Pippin”) and Tony nominee Andrew Rannells (“The Book of Mormon”) will announce the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, set for May 3 at the Diam…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58PMWarner Bros. Theater Ventures has locked in the Broadway plans for its musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” with Jack O’Brien (“Hairspray,” “The C…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58PMLaura Benanti would rather be singing “Vanilla Ice Cream” than starring on “Supergirl.” After five years of focusing on TV (“Supergirl,” “Nashville,” “Nurse Jackie”), the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Can a musical have a half-life? “Miss Atomic Bomb” does, and it’s not quite long enough. Set against Nevada’s nuclear tests of the 1950s — specifically, the beauty pageants set…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:50PM 
