Thursday, January 21, 2016
It’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 06:36PMWho wants to be the first kid on the block to own a robot? Get in line behind writer Jordan Harrison (“Orange is the New Black”), an original thinker who’s fixated on sci-…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PMJosh Groban will make his Broadway debut in “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” gearing up to return to New York in September 2016. An uber-successful crooner whoR…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:59PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
The opening night audience for Broadway’s “The Color Purple” didn’t wait for the curtain call to give the show a standing ovation. They rose to their feet during the …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMForget the looking glass. Blur frontman Damon Albarn and playwright Moira Buffini take us through “Black Mirror” territory in “Wonder.land,” their musical reboot of “Alice in Wonde…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMThursday, December 10, 2015
The ladies wear the pants in John Doyle’s ravishing revival of “The Color Purple.” Jennifer Hudson is radiant as the love machine Shug Avery. Danielle Brooks shakes the hou…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54PMTonight the Off Broadway musical “Daddy Long Legs” will become the first show, on or Off Broadway, to live stream a full performance, free of charge on any computer or mobile dev…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54PMChristmases past, present and future have one thing in common: Someone, somewhere will be staging Charles Dickens’ seasonal favorite “A Christmas Carol.” It’s that creaky ove…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Sam Mendes has withdrawn as the director of the incoming Broadway production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the musical that he directed in its premiere production in Lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:28PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
“The Man Who Fell to Earth,” the 1976 Nicolas Roeg movie starring an impossibly young and beautiful David Bowie, was initially a 1963 novel by Walter Tevis. In writing “L…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:55PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Under the far better title of “Fat Camp,” “Gigantic” won the Best of Fest Award at the 2009 New York Musical Theater Festival. The perky charms of this offbeat musica…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMIn these days of tight budgets and straitened circumstances, theater artists coast to coast are scaling back reliable warhorses. The hope is always to find something new and true in well-wor…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMKids and guitars and rock ‘n’ roll? That’s a slam dunk — just ask the enthusiastic crowd at the opening night of the Broadway version of “School of Rock.”…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PM“School of Rock” took a tumble at the Broadway box office last week — but nobody’s expecting the show to stay down for long. The new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PM 
