Monday, November 16, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jennifer Hudson and two familiar properties added up to strong initial showings at the Broadway box office for musicals “School of Rock” and “The Col…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:18PM"Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will return to Broadway this spring in a new production of "Fully Committed," the restaurant-world comedy by Becky Mode.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:41PM“Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will return to Broadway this spring in a new production of “Fully Committed,” the restaurant-world comedy by Becky Mode. Ferguson, who got h…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42AMFor a thriller, the Broadway production of “Misery” sure gets a lot of laughs. And that’s just how the creative team of the show, which stars Bruce Willis in his Broadway d…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMSunday, November 15, 2015
The eek! factor is largely missing from “Misery,” starring a laid-back Bruce Willis as the bed-bound author held hostage by his “greatest fan,” played here by Laurie …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:18PMFriday, November 13, 2015
If you’re going to have an opening night party for the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge,” it doesn’t hurt to throw it under an actual…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:35AMBreathe, everybody, breathe! Audiences really need to be reminded of that at the end of Ivo Van Hove’s magnificent production for the Young Vic of “A View From the Bridge,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40AMThursday, November 12, 2015
It’s early yet in the 2015-16 Broadway season, but the Tony Awards Administration Committee has already made decisions that will influence the 2016 trophy race, including which perfo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59PMTwo major musical-theater names, Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, have signed on to star in the world premiere of “War Paint,” the new musical by the creative team of ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59PMExtended out-of-town tryouts are the stuff of legend — but 36 years? “Shear Madness,” the audience-participation murder mystery with franchises all over the country and b…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:41AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
These days, Broadway looks so diverse, it’s like an episode of “Orange Is the New Black.” Just last week, “Allegiance,” a musical set during the Japanese-American internments of WW…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:55PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
You might call “You Me Bum Bum Train” the ride of a lifetime — only that would be underselling it. It’s the ride of several lifetimes at once. Morgan Lloyd and Kate …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:39PMMen, don’t take your husbands to see “Dada Woof Papa Hot” at Lincoln Center Theater if either or both of you are on the fence about having children. Playwright Peter Parn…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMAfter the sock in the jaw that was Halloween, Broadway box office picked up considerably last week with nearly every show on the boards rising, including “On Your Feet!,” the mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMMonday, November 9, 2015
"I don't have a bucket list anymore!" George Takei declared after the Broadway opening of "Allegiance."
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:05PM“China Doll,” the new Broadway play written by David Mamet and starring Al Pacino, has pushed back its opening by about two weeks in the midst of rumors of trouble during its pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:51PM“I don’t have a bucket list anymore!” George Takei declared after the Broadway opening of “Allegiance.” That’s because the new musical, which centers on o…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:03PMThe strength of “Allegiance” is in the story. Not the musical’s book, which is no more than serviceable, but the disturbing real-life events behind it. After the bombing…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Kenneth Branagh has a habit of occupying West End theaters. In 1988, his actor-led company Renaissance Theatre took over the Phoenix for a season, challenging the commercial sector with its …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37PMFriday, November 6, 2015
Music Theater International, the American theater licensing agency now broadening its reach with new offices this year in London and Australia, has taken the next step in its global growth w…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PMIf the producers of “On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan” know what’s good for them (odds are, they do), they’re ad-bombing Spanish-language media ou…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15AMThursday, November 5, 2015
The upcoming Broadway production of “Waitress” has filled in its cast with a list of actors that includes Kimiko Glenn, one of the stars of “Orange is the New Black,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:01PM“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 03:18PM 
