Wednesday, March 25, 2015
If you’ve ever thought your high school drama teacher deserved a Tony Award, now is your chance to make it happen. In an unprecedented move, the Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards have tea…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMImagine Alan Ayckbourn clawing his fingernails down a blackboard; that’s Sam Holcroft’s “Rules for Living.” She takes your average family farce — a social occasion su…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMFriday, March 20, 2015
Watch Elisabeth Moss play the title character in the Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles,” and you can’t help but see Heidi in relation to P…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:08AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Vincent Pastore and fellow "Sopranos" alumnus David Proval will rejoin the mob next month in "A Queen for Day," the mafia-themed play that's making its world premiere Off Broadway in April.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:58AMMonday, March 16, 2015
Cynthia Erivo, the London stage veteran who’s appeared in musicals there including “The Umbrella of Cherbourg” and “I Can’t Sing,” will reprise the starri…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMFriday, March 13, 2015
Boy, the cast of Broadway’s “On The 20th Century” is a wreck. Peter Gallagher, for one, was out of the show for a couple of weeks with a sinus infection that got really bad…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:39AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
James Houghton, the founding artistic director of Off Broadway’s Signature Theater, will step down from the organization after a 25-year tenure that has seen the organization’s e…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Broadway box office held steady last week, with overall sales remaining about on par with the previous week as the Street looks forward to spring break sales and a spate of new productions t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMWest End transfers of Broadway musicals “Memphis” and “Beautiful” lead the 2015 nominations for the Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tony Awards. R…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32AM"The Audience" marks Helen Mirren's return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play's opening night March 8, the audience at "The Audience" was chuffed indeed to have her back.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:31AM“The Audience” marks Helen Mirren’s return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play’s opening night March 8, the audience at “The Audience” was…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:24AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
New York’s Roundabout Theater Company celebrated Helen Mirren March 2 by reminding her, repeatedly, that she can’t sing her way out of a paper bag. “Helen Mirren can do a l…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AMThursday, February 26, 2015
Kevin Spacey will be presented with a special award at the 2015 Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of New York's Tonys.Spacey, while juggling film work and his starring role in "House of …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 04:35AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Darren Criss will return to Broadway in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” stepping into the title role after John Cameron Mitchell, the musical’s co-creator and its original st…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Cynthia Nixon, a busy, bankable thesp who’s bagged Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Awards since appearing in her first film at age 12 and making her Broadway debut at 14, makes an assured direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
Ivo Van Hove’s revival of “A View from the Bridge” and Jonathan Kent’s staging of “Gypsy,” starring Imelda Staunton, have picked up Critics Circle Theater Awards in London j…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMMonday, January 26, 2015
The return of co-creator and original star John Cameron Mitchell to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” helped the Broadway musical post solid sales last week, a late-January frame whe…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
“Whorl Inside a Loop,” the latest stage show by Dick Scanlan and Broadway fave Sherie Rene Scott, will round out the 2014-15 season at Second Stage Theater, the New York nonp…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Tony Danza shows off some mean tap skills in “Hpneymoon in Vegas,” the Broadway musical that opened Jan. 15. What, you’re surprised Danza can tap? Don’t be. He’…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:29AMThursday, January 15, 2015
Broadway played a starring role in the 2015 Academy Awards nominations — just as two nominees are playing starring roles on Broadway. Both Bradley Cooper, nominated for best actor for …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:17PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Ruth Wilson is having a helluva week. First she wins a Golden Globe, and then two days later, on Jan. 13, she opens her first Broadway show, “Constellations,” with costar Jake Gy…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:19AMThursday, January 8, 2015
Broadway vets Christian Borle and Brian d’Arcy James will lead the cast of upcoming musical “Something Rotten!,” starring in the show after the two appeared in NBC’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Broadway musical "The Last Ship" will close later this month despite a last-ditch effort to drum up sales with an acting stint for Sting, the show's composer.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:31AMThursday, December 18, 2014
When Disney and director Rob Marshall needed a screenwriter for the movie-musical “Into the Woods,” they went straight to the source: James Lapine, the book writer of the Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Didn’t get a chance to catch Audra McDonald’s Tony-winning (and history-making) performance as Billie Holiday in Broadway’s “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Gri…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:42PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
“One Day,” a retooled version of cult 1999 teen musical “Inappropriate,” will play New York in a new multimedia production from Big Block Entertainment — which …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:50AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Broadway favorite Laura Benanti (“Nashville,” “The Good Wife”) has signed on to star in “New York Spring Spectacular,” the new show at Radio City Music Ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:23PMMonday, December 8, 2014
There's a lot of history in the current Broadway production of "The Elephant Man," which opened on Dec. 7 with Bradley Cooper in the title role.First, there's the history of the play, which …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:32AMThere’s a lot of history in the current Broadway production of “The Elephant Man,” which opened on Dec. 7 with Bradley Cooper in the title role. First, there’s the hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44AMRita Wilson has signed on to the cast of "Fish in the Dark," the new Broadway play written by and starring Larry David.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 04:51AMFriday, December 5, 2014
Liza spoiled it for everyone with her thrilling perf as Sally Bowles, the flamboyant party girl in “Cabaret.” Although her pitiful musical talents are the least of the service…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PM 
