Thursday, November 5, 2015
“The Bandstand,” the new musical currently wrapping up a tryout run at the Paper Mill Playhouse, has set its sights on Broadway, with producers announcing a plan to bring the sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMThe new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse about pop music ambition, “Breaking Through,” never breaks out. One-dimensional characters, self-conscious darkness and a story derived from eve…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMThe Public Theater — the influential downtown institution that has recently provided the launchpad for “Hamilton” and “Fun Home,” as well as the Broadway-bound …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMA slew of Broadway favorites — including Faith Prince, Roger Bart, Kerry Butler, Adam Pascal, Kevin Chamberlin and Rachel York — will star on Broadway this spring in the disaster…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Long before the Great Depression caused America’s workforce to stall, Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 expressionist sequence of scenes, “The Hairy Ape,” rattled the cages of …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:56AMIlana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the creators and stars of Comedy Central series “Broad City,” will host the 25th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. In selecting Glazer and Ja…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:56AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Give the prophets of doom some credit: Halloween 2015 turned out to be just as rough on the Broadway box office as they’d expected. The holiday is always pretty scary for Broadway, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:41PMCharles who? Although several notches down from America’s fixation on Princess Diana, our infatuation with the British royal couple, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his lovely D…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:19AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut’s Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of “Rear Window” are the windows —…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PMFriday, October 30, 2015
Glyndebourne has become a British institution: an opera house on a large country estate deep in the heart of the Home Counties. David Hare goes back to its beginnings with a portrait of its …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:18PMBeing onstage with Keira Knightley can be dangerous. But mostly just for Knightley herself. The actress, making her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway producti…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44AMMatt Ryan’s got a busy couple of weeks ahead of him. Tonight the actor opens in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway production of “Therese Raquin,” in which he…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:25AMIs it okay to laugh? That’s what audiences are likely to ask about the histrionic staging of Helen Edmundson’s new adaptation of Emile Zola’s 1867 novel, “Therese Raq…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:25AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Steven Pasquale will star in an Off Broadway revival of the 1975 musical “The Robber Bridegroom,” set to be directed by Alex Timbers (“Peter and the Starcatcher,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:40PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of “Hughie,” with Forest Whitaker in the lead role, has locked in its Broadway plan, setting a February opening at the Booth Theater. New York theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:40PMIn a headturning shift in the insular world of Broadway PR, executives from the New York theater press agency O&M Co., led by Rick Miramontez, will join DKC Public Relations to launch D…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:40PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
The Broadway comedy “Sylvia” opened Oct. 27 — but really, that’s just an excuse for everybody to talk about their dogs. The play chronicles a middle-aged man’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
The shrewdest thing about this Broadway revival of “Sylvia” was the decision not to update A.R. Gurney’s 1995 comedy to the present day, when it would probably be stoned to…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMHoping to score a ticket to “Hamilton”? Try enrolling in a New York City public school. Producers and creators of the box-office-busting Broadway buzzmagnet have partnered with t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PMMonday, October 26, 2015
Two stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today. The service kicks off with a lib…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:55PMIt’s gonna get scary. That’s the thinking, anyway, among Broadway watchers looking to the week ahead. Last week’s Broadway box office actually looked pretty good —…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51PMJerome Kass, who co-wrote the 1978 musical “Ballroom” based on his own teleplay, died of prostate cancer Oct. 22 at his Manhattan home. He was 78. Kass, who was married to fell…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PMTwo stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today.
The service kicks off with a li…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:41AMTwo stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today. The service kicks off with a lib…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:12AMTwo stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:49AMTwo stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today. The service kicks off with a l…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:29AMFriday, October 23, 2015
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the Harry Potter play due to open in the West End in the summer of 2016, will be a two-part epic set 19 years after J.K. Rowling’s seve…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51AMHow cruel, to make comparisons with a legendary star! How unkind! How unfair! Well, tough luck, because here it comes: the new leading lady of “Dames at Sea” is no Bernadette Pet…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:53AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Every year Chicago theater heats up as the weather begins to cool, but this autumn has quickly turned especially hot with high quality work, most all of it original. The likes of David Rab…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:59PMThe Manhattan Theater Club presumably commissioned “Ripcord” from playwright David Lindsay-Abaire to give their faithful subscription audience a subject dear to their own hearts.…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:11AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
“Bright Star,” the bluegrass musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has locked in its Broadway details, setting a March opening with a cast headed by Carmen Cusack, who origi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:25PM 
