Thursday, February 11, 2016
The stage musical adaptation of Disney animated megahit “Frozen” is targeting a Broadway opening in spring 2018, following an out-of-town trying in the summer of 2017, with exac…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24AMFiercely committed to broadening the international reach of African artists and the African story, “The Walking Dead” actress and “Eclipsed” playwright Danai Gurira p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24AMAaron Sorkin will write a new stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” for a Broadway run during the 2017-18 season. Bartlett Sher has signed on to direct the show, produced b…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
The brewing Jimmy Buffett musical doesn’t have a title yet, but it’s got a plot, plus dates for a world premiere production at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse in the late sp…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:16AMThe Williamstown Theater Festival, the Massachusetts summer theater festival that regularly attracts stars and yields New York transfers, has tapped actors including Marisa Tomei, Alfred M…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12AMRalph Fiennes likes a challenge. He picks his parts like a pole-vaulter pushing himself higher. Last year, it was Jack Tanner in the moral maze of Shaw’s “Man and Superman,” a …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12AMIt might seem like the Super Bowl appeals to an entirely different demographic than Broadway, but that never stops the NFL’s big night from raining on Broadway’s parade. The di…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01AMAfter limited runs at Ars Nova and 59E59 Theaters, Strangemen & Co.’s production of “The Woodsman” is back on the boards. There’s a haunting beauty about this dar…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
“Hamilton” was the heavy at the Broadway box office last week — by a lot, as the Street recovered from the knockout blow it got dealt by the blizzard the previous frame. Ea…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMMary-Louise Parker will star in a Broadway transfer of the well-received Off Broadway play “Heisenberg,” which will open at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Thea…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMJames Corden, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway turn in “One Man, Two Guvnors” before CBS tapped him for “The Late Late Show,” will host the 70th annual Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMFriday, January 29, 2016
What better way to counter the invisibility of older women than by putting them on stage? Caryl Churchill’s new play at the Royal Court, coming soon after last fall’s “Here We …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Cate Blanchett will be eligible for a Tony Award for the first time later this year, when she makes her Broadway debut in Chekhov adaptation “The Present.” Blanchett, the two-t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04PMFrench playwright Florian Zeller is fast becoming London’s cheri. Just as his well-received play “The Father,” due on Broadway in March with Frank Langella, let us into the mind of an…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
The New York theater industry already knew the weekend’s blizzard — and the two-performance shutdown it prompted — was going to be rough at the Broadway box office. Now we …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:13PMTimothy Olyphant, the actor who headlined six season in FX series “Justified,” will star Off Broadway in the world premiere of “Hold On To Me Darling,” the new play b…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PM“It’s a treat to be here tonight,” New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo said from the stage of Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. “I’ve been shoveling snow for two d…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52AMSunday, January 24, 2016
The stunningly appointed “Empire The Musical,” world premiering at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (and no relation to the hit Fox series), gains strength from the entire compa…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:34PMSaturday, January 23, 2016
The winter storm pounding the east coast this weekend has prompted Broadway to darken across the board, with the Broadway League declaring all Saturday shows cancelled due to a government ba…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:46PMFriday, January 22, 2016
With a major winter storm expected to hammer the east coast this weekend, Broadway is bracing for potentially disruptive snow — but holding out hope that New York will escape the w…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PMThursday, January 21, 2016
Claire Danes and Hank Azaria have signed on to join John Krasinski in “Dry Powder,” the new play premiering this spring at Off Broadway’s Public Theater. Sanjit De Silva …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:36PMIt’s now and forever, all over again: “Cats,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit that helped usher in the age of the British megamusical, will return to Broadway this summer. The…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
There’s little wrong with “Skeleton Crew,” the final play in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit trilogy, that August Wilson couldn’t fix. Like Wilson, whose ten-play…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PMNot even the sainted Linda Lavin can save the deeply unpleasant character she plays in “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,” a lazy play by Richard Greenberg commissioned and first …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PMDaniel Dae Kim will make his Broadway debut in “The King and I” later this spring, after return engagements from Ken Watanabe, who originated the titular king in the Lincoln Cent…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
The long weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day helped “Hamilton” hit the number one spot at the Broadway box office in a week that saw overall sales hold steady following the po…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMHomosexuality is “a bad habit,” according to Ugandan politician Medard Bitekyerezo — a statement that reflects the homophobia enshrined in his country’s law. Chris Urch’s bulli…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMBette Midler will star in a 2017 Broadway revival of the musical “Hello, Dolly!,” directed by Jerry Zaks and produced by Scott Rudin. Midler, who showed off her power at the Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMFriday, January 15, 2016
Once is not enough. Even twice seems inadequate. Still, no matter how many times you see “Noises Off,” you won’t get all the jokes or catch every sight gag in Michael Frayn…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37AMThursday, January 7, 2016
Like the breed of itinerant entertainers it celebrates, “Louis & Keely ‘Live’ at the Sahara” has been boppin’ around various venues for more than a decade, trying out new thing…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20PMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Actors’ Equity Association, the union of stage actors and stage managers, has made a deal with Cirque du Soleil Theatrical for the company’s upcoming Broadway debut, “Param…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37PM 
