Thursday, October 15, 2015
Bob 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 12:58PMThere 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…
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