Sunday, March 13, 2016
Jamie 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 06:01PMLongtime Broadway favorite Barbara Cook will bring an evening of songs and stories to Off Broadway this spring in “Barbara Cook: Then and Now,” a new production conceived by Jam…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PMIt never fails. The minute you sit down to compose a Requiem Mass, Mom and Dad get on your case and perfect strangers show up on the lawn to keep a death watch. That’s the peculiar pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMBroadway got a few intimations of its annual spring crush last week, as two notable titles — “Eclipsed” starring Lupita Nyong’o and the Steve Martin-Edie Brickell mus…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMThe new play by “Eclipsed” writer and “Walking Dead” star Danai Gurira, “Familiar,” is indeed on common turf — in the bosom of a loving family that …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PMLincoln Center Theater has come aboard the Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with the New York nonprofit theater company joining Jujamcyn Theaters to present the show at the Walte…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PMBroadway megahit “Hamilton” is heading to the White House next week, where the show’s creators and cast will test out plans for the production’s robust educational in…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMThe Broadway box office showed signs of growth last week — if only in baby steps — as sales began their spring recovery from the deepest depths of winter. It’s around this …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMIn the days leading up to Forest Whitaker’s Broadway debut in “Hughie,” people were nervous. Gossip columns picked up on rumors that Whitaker couldn’t remember his lines duri…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM“Hughie,” the Broadway play starring Forest Whitaker that opened last week, has posted a closing notice for the end of the month, abbreviating its run after weeks of very slow sa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMA contentious family grappling with a matriarch’s dementia over the Christmas holiday might not seem an obvious template for humor, but in “Dot,” playwright Colman Domingo sees the abs…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMCalling all disco queens. Get out your best polyester frock and fluff up your fro — it’s party time on the Barracuda, the casino riverboat bound for destruction in “Disaste…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMThe following is an edited version of Marilyn Stasio’s Off Broadway review of “Eclipsed,” including new additions addressing the Broadway transfer that opened March 6. When…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMMia Michaels, the choreographer best known for her work on “So You Can Think You Can Dance,” has taken the reins of the new live production featuring the Rockettes, a summer sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMChances are you’ve never heard of Hazel Ellis. And why should you? The Irish actress-playwright only wrote two plays, and after her second, “Women Without Men,” was produce…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMWe’re still seven weeks away from the Tony nominations on May 3, but this year’s competition is already a horse race. “Hamilton,” which opened all the way back in Au…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMWas it love — or was it statutory rape? That’s the loaded question at the heart of Scottish playwright David Harrower’s profoundly unsettling drama, “Blackbird,” wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
George C. Wolfe, the director-writer at the helm of the upcoming, starry Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” will be honored by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center with the 201…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37PMChicago swooned over an earlier production of “Smokefall,” a work written by playwright-screenwriter Noah Haidle (“Stand Up Guys”) and pristinely directed at Off Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:34AMMonday, February 22, 2016
With fewer tourists in town to pack into big-name musical crowdpleasers, plays got a little room to breath at the Broadway box office last week as nonmusical titles, including well-received …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20PM“Nice Fish” is both the title and the punchline of the deliriously funny existential ruminations that Mark Rylance (currently up for an acting Oscar for “Bridge of Spies…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28PMFriday, February 19, 2016
The formula for a family-reunion play goes like this: Multiple generations of a clan get together for a holiday, air their dirty laundry at dinner, start fighting over dessert and at the e…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52AMThursday, February 18, 2016
Actor-turned-director Joe Mantello is among New York’s most regularly employed stage directors, but even so, things are unusually busy for him this spring. His critically lauded staging of…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMSandy Duncan has made a hasty exit from Broadway musical “Finding Neverland,” with its producers — led by Harvey Weinstein — battling rumors that she quit with a stat…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMDirector Robert Icke has become the great hope of British theater. The 29-year-old has a rare talent for tapping into a text’s driving forces. He staged “1984” not as a possible future…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMWe know “a Sam Shepard actor” when we see one. He’s lean and weather-beaten and never far from a bottle. A mean look in his eye suggests he might be dangerous, or maybe jus…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
After taking a bruising the previous week, the Broadway box office bounced back in a big way last week — thanks to valentines and presidents. Valentine’s Day always bring a spik…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:03PM“Come from Away,” the musical that earned enthusiastic reviews in an initial co-production at La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theater, has mapped out a road to Broadway,…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:05PMIt’s not a stretch to imagine a musical version of “A Bronx Tale.” The 1993 film adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man play — about growing up i…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:05PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
Matthew Perry’s playwriting debut “The End of Longing” opened on the West End last night — and many London critics weren’t kind. The play, in which Perry also s…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:06AMIn the run-up to “The End of Longing,” the West End play written by and starring Matthew Perry, the actor-playwright let slip that he can’t remember filming three seasons of “Friends…
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