Saturday, 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Sam Mendes has withdrawn as the director of the incoming Broadway production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the musical that he directed in its premiere production in Lo…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 06:52PMSunday, December 6, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber unleashed his inner child to write the period rock for “School of Rock,” an exuberant feel-good musical based on the beloved 2003 movie starring Jack Black as…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42PMFriday, December 4, 2015
When Fanny Brice’s boss tries to make a joke of her dowdy looks, dolling her up as a deluded bride convinced of her beauty, his comic star takes him to task. “They’re supposed to lau…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08AMLike most of the Internet, Ali Stroker, a cast member in the Deaf West Theater revival of “Spring Awakening,” had a strong reaction to Kylie Jenner’s controversial photos…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07AMThursday, December 3, 2015
In 2005, an actor named Griffin Matthews volunteered to work at an orphanage in Uganda and returned home to start his own charitable organization. The writer-performer drew on that episode …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:27AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
With the addition of choreographer Lorin Latarro, the incoming musical “Waitress” has put together what’s being touted as Broadway’s first all-female creative team. L…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PMYou’d think Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of Broadway hypemagnet “Hamilton,” would have hit peak pop-culture saturation by now, but then he had to go and top hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PMHelen Mirren spiced up the 2015 Gotham Awards ceremony with an acceptance speech that ranged from bawdy to funny to serious, getting in a dig at Donald Trump while she was at it. She slipped…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PMFour hard-working actors, ably assisted by a resourceful costumer and a nimble props master, make a mighty effort to play the 20-plus characters in “New York Animals.” Steven Sa…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:48PMMonday, November 30, 2015
The holiday bounty on Broadway last week included a new Thanksgiving attendance record, with close to 290,000 theatergoers adding up to the best-attended Turkey Day week ever recorded. The…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMRoutinely described as Britain’s greatest living playwright — arguably in a job-share with Tom Stoppard — Caryl Churchill can do in a 45-minute triptych what most writers take …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMPlaywright Patrick Barlow had a big, surprise hit with his stage version of “The 39 Steps,” racking up nine years in the West End and two more on Broadway, gleefully sending up i…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Does getting chased by zombies feel any less terrifying if the undead have experimental theater credits? Probably not. But even if most theater people might not have “The Walking Dead Expe…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26PMWallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at 72, sti…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26PM“The Humans,” the Stephen Karam play that won raves in its current Off Broadway run, has locked in dates for its anticipated Broadway transfer, starting performances in January a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26PMThe team that brought L.A. audiences “Cruel Intentions: The Musical” and “The Unauthorized O.C. Musical” is at it again, lining up “The Unauthorized ‘Frid…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26PM 
