Tuesday, 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 06:50PMThe enduringly popular musical “Wicked” has hit $1 billion at the Broadway box office, 12½ years after it opened in 2003 and snowballed into a global megasmash. The show has ac…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Country music superstar Strings McCrane is trying to get real — but in Kenneth Lonergan’s funny, beguiling but overwritten new play “Hold On To Me Darling,” reality isn’…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34PMSpring really started to heat things up at the Broadway box office last week, with the seasonal influx of city visitors driving a spike in sales — especially at the biggest names most …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23PMHaving fun shouldn’t be as exhausting as director Alex Timbers makes it out to be in his overly antic production of “The Robber Bridegroom” at the Roundabout Theater Compan…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23PMIt must have seemed like a good idea to adapt “Southern Comfort,” the 2000 film documentary by Kate Davis, into a folk and bluegrass musical. But good ideas don’t always pa…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Forest Whitaker is blessed with an air of warmth and decency that shines through in film roles like the one he played in “The Butler.” Michael Grandage, for lauded his stagings of &…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMBack in 1996, Drew Hodges and the New York-based company he founded, SpotCo, were the brash upstarts in the insular world of Broadway marketing. Twenty years later, he has put together a boo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMThe much-lauded revival of “Gypsy,” starring Imelda Staunton, and the West End production of American Tony winner “Kinky Boots” led the pack of nominations for London…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PM“Nerds,” the long-aborning and much-delayed musical comedy about the rivalry of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has hit another roadblock, cancelling a Broadway opening that had been …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMSometimes the most powerful fights are the ones we have in our own minds — a fact vividly depicted on stage in “The Royale,” a riveting play by Marco Ramirez (“Dared…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMIt’s rare for an instant A-lister like Lupita Nyong’o to return to the stage just as her movie career is kicking into high gear. But that’s what Nyong’o did, starring…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PMJamie Lloyd is not the first director to cast black actors as Jean Genet’s murderous maids. In doing so, he directly contravenes the playwright’s advice. Genet warned against flattening …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM 
