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 05:14PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
Deaf West Theater’s well-received production of Tony-winning musical “Spring Awakening” has set the dates for a Broadway run, snapping up the Brooks Atkinson Theater for an…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
Harvey Fierstein is a playwright and an actor who has won Tonys for his works “Torch Song Trilogy” and “La Cage aux Folles.” His show “Kinky Boots” is currently playing on Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Another play about the coming of age of an artistically inclined boy? Bor-ring. Douglas Carter Beane tries to minimize the ho-hum factor in “Shows for Days,” his own entry into…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PMFriday, June 26, 2015
Jonathan Groff has appeared in plenty of projects onscreen and onstage — “Looking,” “The Normal Heart,” “A New Brain” — that seem like they’ve helped pave the way for the…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:09PMThursday, June 25, 2015
If Gurinder Chadha’s Brit flick “Bend It Like Beckham,” which gave the world one Keira Knightley, seems an odd choice for a musical adaptation, it actually works a lot better on stage …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMThursday, June 11, 2015
There is some corner of a playing field that is forever England in the new play by Patrick Marber (“Closer”), his first in more than eight years, which turns a dysfunctional non-league s…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:02PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
“Gigi,” the Broadway musical starring Vanessa Hudgens, will shutter June 21 after its middling sales didn’t sufficiently improve following a recent Tony Awards appearance. The show ea…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMThe show-within-the-show became the show on June 8, when the cast of NBC series “Smash” reunited to present a song-and-dance concert version of “Bombshell,” the music…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18AMMonday, June 8, 2015
By the reckoning of many Broadway observers, the 2015 Tony Awards had a script and largely stuck to it. A lot of wins had been predicted by pundits — as was the case with sure thing …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMSunday, May 31, 2015
Off Broadway hit “Hamilton” and Tony contender “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” topped the 2015 Drama Desk Awards, with “Hamilton” taking seven awards includin…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:31PMFriday, May 29, 2015
With the opening of Broadway comedy “An Act of God,” Jim Parsons joins the venerable pantheon of actors who have taken on the almighty role of, well, The Almighty. “It̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:39AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Producers decide to combine visitors' two fave things to do in Gotham: see the sights and a show.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM“I resent this levity, sir.” So says besuited neatnik John Simm as Gibbs, who has just been accused of plotting to murder his boss. That his line and plight are met with raucous laughter…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Raised in the East End and trained on Saville Row, fashion designer Alexander McQueen was an icon of creative London in an era when Cool Britannia ruled the waves. James Phillips’ soulless…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMThursday, May 14, 2015
Timed to mark Arthur Miller’s centenary, “Death of a Salesman” proves grimly pertinent in austerity Britain. High school students are taught to see Willy Loman as a man chasing the Am…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:21PMMonday, May 11, 2015
Despite a distinguished career spanning half a century, the celebrated 82-year-old South African playwright, Athol Fugard, still thinks of himself as an “outsider artist.” That p…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTony contender "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" led the Outer Critics Circle Awards, taking five statues including the honor for Broadway play. Broadway musical "An Americ…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:04AMMonday, May 4, 2015
Broadway musical “Doctor Zhivago” will close at the end of the week, following the show’s shutout from the 2015 Tony nominations. “Zhivago,” which earned mix…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Broadway comedy “Living on Love” will make a quick exit, with producers announcing they’ll close the show Sunday after the production failed to secure a spot on the list of…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:16PMFriday, April 24, 2015
The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the Theatrical Teamsters Local 817 have partnered to award three “Made in NY” grants to support community-based organiza…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Theater union Actors’ Equity Association has taken the latest step in its controversial bid to restructure the employment arrangement for actors working in Los Angeles theaters of 99 seats…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMWhat’s better than a standing ovation at the end of a Broadway show? A standing ovation halfway through the first act. Just ask the cast of musical comedy “Something Rotten.̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:52AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss and Bill Nighy are all in competition -- in the same category -- for the 2015 Drama League Awards.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:45PMDistributors Abramorama and The Orchard have teamed up to release “Lucky Stiff,” a movie musical starring a slew of Broadway talent, this summer. Broadway regular Christopher Ashley (“…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMBradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss and Bill Nighy are all in competition — in the same category — for the 2015 Drama League Awards. For …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:56AMThursday, April 16, 2015
When Harvey Weinstein throws a Broadway opening, Hollywood shows up. There was Bryan Cranston, sporting a mustache and a full head of hair, chatting at intermission. Helen Mirren and Taylor …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:17AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
“It Shoulda Been You” is awfully funny. That’s strange, because there’s nothing especially clever about this musical comedy by Brian Hargrove (book & lyrics) and …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, April 10, 2015
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it's back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. "Gigi," which opened April 8, made the most of the laby…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:48AMThursday, April 9, 2015
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it’s back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. “Gigi,” which opened April 8, made th…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Prudish American audiences can relax. There’s nothing to offend their tender sensibilities in this antiseptic version of “Gigi,” Lerner and Loewe’s enchanting 1958 fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PM 
