Tuesday, 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 11:37PMDisney dominated the Broadway box office in 2015 just as it did in 2014, with Disney Theatrical’s “The Lion King” proving the top earner of the calendar year and the compa…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:26PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
Seniors dance hip hop — sort of — in this high-concept, sweet-natured but currently bland and unsurprising new musical comedy “Gotta Dance,” premiering in Chicago with a plan…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PMMonday, December 21, 2015
Christmas isn’t until this week, but a few of Broadway’s biggest tourist magnets, from “Aladdin” to “Wicked,” started to unwrap their annual holiday sales bounty a bit early. The…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:58PMWhat is “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”? A delicious slice of scandalous eroticism — pure sauce and spleen — or something more intricate? Josie Rourke leans towards the former, en…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMSunday, December 20, 2015
Tevye is a mensch. In director Bartlett Sher’s thoughtful but uneven revival of the enduring, endearing musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” Danny Burstein – a longtime Broadway vetera…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Broadway and the live theater industry stand ready to pop champagne tomorrow over the expected passage of the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act 2015, the tax package that includes a pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Ambassador Theater Group, the largest owner-operator of theaters in the U.K., will expand its stake in Broadway real estate, launching a multimillion-dollar renovation of the Hudson Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50PMMonday, December 14, 2015
“Fun Home” made itself at home in the black, “School of Rock” began to rise and the overall Broadway box office held steady in one of the final weeks leading up to th…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:36PM 
