Monday, September 28, 2015
How’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 12:58PMThere isn’t another play quite like “Pomona.” Alistair McDowall is one of a batch of young British writers chucking dramatic form up against the wall. His debut, “Brilliant Adventur…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PMAt century’s end, director-choreographer Susan Stroman and librettist John Weidman developed three stories-in-dance to preexisting recordings, and the resulting show,“Contact,” glided …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PMIn the final week on the boards, the Broadway revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” went out with a bang — especially compared to the rest of the Street, where a lot of in…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMLucas Hnath’s soul-searching drama, “The Christians,” grabbed the eyeballs at the 2014 Humana Festival. Playwrights Horizons showed faith by opening its season with the p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMBroadway saw the inklings of the coming fall rush last week, as previewing musical “Spring Awakening” (pictured above) was joined by Clive Owen in “Old Times” and Sam…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMProducers of the Broadway musical “Amazing Grace,” which has struggled with poor sales since it began performances over the summer, have decided to throw in the towel at last, po…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMThe Broadway community turned out in force Monday to honor Roger Rees at a memorial for the Tony-winning Welsh actor at the New Amsterdam Theater. Actors Bebe Neuwirth, Chita Rivera, Sherie …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMTriptyk Studios, the production company involved in the upcoming Broadway musical based on Archie comics, has tapped longtime industry veteran Elie Landau to fill the post of executive produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMBroadway producer and general manager Stuart Thompson has teamed with his longtime associate David Turner to form Thompson Turner Productions, with the upcoming New York staging of London hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMThursday, September 10, 2015
Broadway producers have teamed with Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills Prods. to develop a new play about the Hollywood actor, composer and pianist Oscar Levant, with Hayes in mind to star. ItR…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:14AMWednesday, September 9, 2015
“Hand to God,” the gleefully dark Broadway comedy about a boy and his potentially satanic hand puppet, will close in January before opening on London’s West End in Februa…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:35PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” has mapped out its exit strategy, with producers announcing that the show will play through the fall and shutter in January. ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:50PMWith barbecues and back-to-school prep distracting potential audiences all weekend, Labor Day tends to be one of Broadway’s more lackluster holidays in terms of the long-weekend boos…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:14PMFriday, September 4, 2015
Whose life is it, anyway? That’s the ethical question that bedevils “Whorl Inside a Loop,” a meta-theater piece by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott based on the experienc…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AMIt was unusual back in 2001: A musical arriving on Broadway with a predominantly female leadership team, from the show’s top producer to its director to its book writer. It’s still prett…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:25AMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Zachary Levi, the “Chuck” star who’ll appear in NBC’s upcoming fall series “Heroes Reborn,” will step into the Broadway musical “She Loves Me”…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PMMonday, August 31, 2015
Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents stage actors and stage managers, has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the Broadway League, the trade as…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:04PMCastmates and classmates gathered in Manhattan’s Central Park on a sweltering August afternoon to honor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the history-making “Les Miserables” actor who di…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PM“On the Town,” the well-reviewed Broadway musical that has struggled to attract ticketbuyers for much of its time on boards, seems to have found its magic ingredient: Misty Cop…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PMHe’s ready: SpongeBob SquarePants, the massive Nickelodeon property with a fanbase that reaches well beyond its target kiddie demographic, will go from Bikini Bottom to Broadway in …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMFriday, August 28, 2015
The highly subscribed suburban Marriott Theater outside Chicago has been making strides over the last decade in developing original musicals, but it gets a jet-propelled thrust into the pote…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Thought you knew “Hamlet”? Think again. Benedict Cumberbatch’s prince might have triggered a media frenzy, but make no mistake, this is director Lyndsey Turner’s production — a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Kevin Bacon will break a leg this fall in the world premiere of the stage adaptation of "Rear Window," which bows at Hartford Stage
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:54PMMonday, August 24, 2015
Forest Whitaker, the actor and director who won an Academy Award for his performance in the 2006 film "The Last King of Scotland," will make his Broadway debut
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:02PMFriday, August 14, 2015
The musical adaptation of 2007 indie film “Waitress” has set its Broadway timeline, snagging the Brooks Atkinson Theater for a run that starts preview in March. The show, with a …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Thom Yorke, the frontman for influential rock band Radiohead, has signed on to write original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Old Times" starring Clive Owen. Because Harold Pinte…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:02AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
“The Bandstand,” the new musical directed and choreographed by “Hamilton” choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, has locked in its casting in a trio of roles, with Laura …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45PMFriday, August 7, 2015
How do you celebrate a Founding Father? With fireworks, of course. And the producers of ultrahot Broadway musical “Hamilton” obliged, capping the show’s opening night party…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PMFriday, July 31, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
Cell phones in Broadway theaters: What are people thinking? Now we know, sort of, thanks to a publicity-stunt press conference during which one cell phone offender — the guy who tried …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:14PM 
