Tuesday, 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 06:25PMLupita Nyong’o will take her passion project “Eclipsed” all the way to Broadway, with the play — written by Danai Gurira, the playwright who is also a star of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:21PMMonday, October 19, 2015
In a Broadway box office frame when many musicals saw shrinkage following a long-weekend holiday, plays stood out as the shows gaining momentum, with productions including “King Charle…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28PMJim Dooley, a composer and songwriter who works regularly in TV, has acquired the musical theater rights to “Witch’s Night Out,” a 1978 animated special that starred the v…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:28PMDaniel Craig will go from Bond to Iago next fall when he stars opposite David Oyelowo in an Off Broadway production of “Othello,” to be directed by Tony winner Sam Gold. Craig, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMFriday, October 16, 2015
Matthew Broderick is becoming as much a fixture on Broadway as the TKTS booth. After nine months in starry smash “It’s Only a Play” last season, he’s back this fall in dog comedy “…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13PMThursday, October 15, 2015
It can safely be said that the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times,” starring Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly, opened Oc…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMThe Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “Old Times” can’t possibly miss. Harold Pinter’s three-handed battle for sexual dominance, first performed on Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMBob Saget has signed on to join the cast of Broadway play “Hand to God,” stepping for the Tony-nominated comedy’s final months before the show ends it runs in January. Sage…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMWith two new plays joining the Broadway fray — including Keira Knightley making her Broadway debut in “Therese Raquin” — overall sales ticked upward following a week …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMA perfect storm of factors, from the pope to the United Nations to the end of Broadway week, combined to hold back Broadway box office, pushing down both sales and attendance. The vast major…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMJohn Krasinski will make his stage debut at the Public Theater this spring in “Dry Powder,” a new play to be staged by “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail. Krasinski wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMThings got physical at the Oct. 8 opening night of Manhattan Theater Club’s revival of Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love.” Shepard’s assault-and-battery story about tormented …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMRobert O’Hara’s cruelly funny new play, “Barbecue,” shrewdly turns the formula for the American domestic comedy on its head, forcing uneasy thoughts about the facile …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMJeff Daniels and Michelle Williams will star in a Broadway staging of “Blackbird,” the David Harrower play to be directed by Joe Mantello (“Wicked”). Scott Rudin, the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMLove hurts — quite literally, in the Manhattan Theater Club’s highly physicalized revival of Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love.” The production originated l…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMThe Araca Group, the Broadway producer and merchandising firm, has launched a new division, Araca Media & Entertainment, to develop and manage Broadway-inspired entertainment properties …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMIt’s true what they say about bona fide stars like Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones — they could indeed hold us spellbound simply by reading the New York telephone book. Not t…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMThe brewing Broadway musical version of “Soul Train” has found its conductor, and it’s Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the “CSI” franchise. TV procedural maven Z…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMPlaywright Danai Gurira — also the actress best known as Michonne on “The Walking Dead” — delivers politics with a passion in “Eclipsed,” a searing drama …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMLooks like the rhythm has already gotcha, Broadway — at least to judge from the first week of sales at “On Your Feet!,” the bio-musical about Gloria Estefan and Emilio Es…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMMobile ticketing app TodayTix is moving west, with the company expanding into the San Francisco Bay area after setting up home bases in New York and in London. With San Francisco launching n…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMJohn Doyle, the Broadway director who’s staging the upcoming revival of “The Color Purple” and who won a Tony Award for his production of “Sweeney Todd,” has be…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMChicago Shakespeare Theater’s spectacle-oriented production of “The Tempest,” seen in prior versions at American Repertory Theater and a couple of other regionals, achieves what many s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AMThe musical adaptation of “American Psycho,” starring Benjamin Walker as murderous protagonist Patrick Bateman, has locked in its Broadway home, nabbing the Gerald Schoenfeld The…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AMToo bad Pope Francis couldn’t have capped his U.S. visit with the revival of “The Sound of Music” at the Ahmanson Theater. The Holy Father would surely have been impressed, not just by…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AM“The Wars of the Roses” was a landmark production back in 1963 — one for the history books. Compressing the three parts of “Henry VI” and “Richard III” into a streamlined t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, experimental puppeteer Basil Twist and set designer Mimi Lien are among the names on the list of 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellows, each r…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:02AMMonday, September 28, 2015
The Old Vic has a new head in Matthew Warchus (“Matilda,” “God of Carnage”), and he’s already gone one better than his predecessor. Where Kevin Spacey started his t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:59PMSan Francisco’s Curran Theater, the 1,650-seat venue that has hosted Broadway tryouts for shows including “Wicked” and “Beautiful,” will get an extensive renov…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PMHow’s this for irony? In the middle of the Swinging Sixties, Great Britain abolished hanging. On Nov. 9, 1965, it stopped swinging. Great news for progressives; less so for Harry Wade, the…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PM 
