Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Charting the career of Ray Davies and the Kinks at their peak, “Sunny Afternoon” is a jukebox musical in the mold of Buddy Holly bio-tuner “Buddy.” Trouble is, no one dies at the end…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PM“It Shoulda Been You,” a new musical comedy directed by Tony winning actor (and “Frasier” alum) David Hyde Pierce, has lined up a Broadway run this spring with a cast…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Both “American Horror Story: Freak Show” and the Broadway musical “Side Show” take place in the same circus world of human marvels and oddities. But you’d never…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMRalph Cramden and Ed Norton will belt out the big notes when “The Honeymooners,” the new musical based on the hit 1950s TV series, premieres at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMBroadway musical "The Last Ship" is full of Sting's music, but the opening night crowd got something most audiences don't: Sting himself singing it.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:09AMThe Broadway revival of "A Delicate Balance" got off to a stellar start last week, as a cast that includes Glenn Close -- appearing in her first Main Stem gig in 20 years -- pushed the play …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:43AMMonday, October 27, 2014
The Broadway revival of “A Delicate Balance” got off to a stellar start last week, as a cast that includes Glenn Close — appearing in her first Main Stem gig in 20 year…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMBroadway musical “The Last Ship” is full of Sting’s music, but the opening night crowd got something most audiences don’t: Sting himself singing it. The musician took…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:17AMSunday, October 26, 2014
Sting lives up to his nickname, “the King of Pain,” with “The Last Ship.” Melancholy tones of sorrow and regret saturate this highly personal and intensely felt music…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, October 24, 2014
Nathan Lane has done plenty of TV and film, but he’s a Broadway baby. This season, he’ll star in Eugene O’Neill classic “The Iceman Cometh,” as well raucous comedy “It’s Only a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMPlaywright Ayad Akhtar has seen his Pulitzer Prize winning play “Disgraced” open in productions around the country and around the world. But the show’s opening on Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AMThursday, October 23, 2014
It always makes Broadway look good to have a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama on the boards. “Disgraced” won the 2013 prize for scribe Ayad Akhtar and fits the bill for an intellectu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57PMCraig Zadan and Neil Meron have set a legit production and development pact with the Shubert Organization. Deal covers the pair’s work on original plays and musicals, as well as reviva…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PMKeira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in "Therese Raquin," toplining a fall 2015 production from the Roundabout Theater Company.Knightley will play the title character in Helen Edmund…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:13PMKeira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in “Therese Raquin,” toplining a fall 2015 production from the Roundabout Theater Company. Knightley will play the title character in Helen E…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
The musical timeline of “The Fortress of Solitude” is mid-1960s to late 1980s. But the theme of this blood-pumping, heart-thumping show — the indestructible links that bind…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMDavid Binder, the Broadway producer of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” has signed on as an artistic associate of LIFT, the 33-year-old London Intl. Festival of Theater. The producer…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:02PMMSG Entertainment has brought on board producer Harvey Weinstein and creatives Warren Carlyle, Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner to retool the company’s large-scale theatrical event aime…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
In case you weren’t sure the Broadway transfer of sock-puppet comedy “Hand to God” was a risky commercial endeavor, the production’s ad campaign will go ahead and con…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMTatiana Maslany, the critically adored star of BBC America series “Orphan Black,” will make her New York stage debut this spring in the world premiere of Neil LaBute’s R…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWhat’s an unhappy, suicidal, clinically depressed sourpuss like Raymond Chandler doing in sunny Hollywood — and working with that famously difficult writer-director, Billy Wilder…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMMonday, October 20, 2014
As play titles go, “brownsville song (b-side for tray)” won’t set off a stampede at the Lincoln Center Theater box office. That’s too bad, because Kimber Lee’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMBroadway box office experienced a predictable decline last week after the boost it got the prior frame from the Columbus Day weekend — but the larger dips at the Main Stem’s to…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:42PMIt’s been a while since a serious, period epic of redemption amid political turmoil formed the basis of a large-scale original musical, and for that reason alone this Broadway tryout in Ch…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PMFriday, October 17, 2014
Three famous thinkers locked together in Hell is the jokey setup for Scott Carter’s awkwardly-titled but sparkling “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Le…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PMIt was a patriotic night at the Oct. 16 opening of the Broadway revival of “On the Town.” One of the second act’s nightclub sequences included a fourth-wall-breaking singal…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:04AMThursday, October 16, 2014
“On the Town” is back on Broadway, and whaddya know, it’s still a helluva show. Helmer John Rando (who directed the musical at Barrington Stage last year) has given the k…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMLincoln Center Theater has lined up two productions to open in June, including the world premiere of “Shows for Days,” the latest play by Douglas Carter Beane, whose play “…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PMAl Pacino, one of only a few big-name actors who have proven consistent draws at the Broadway box office, has made plans for his Main Stem return, starring in a new play by David Mamet, R…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PMSecond Stage Theater, the Off Broadway company that found itself with a hole in its season when its scheduled production of musical “American Psycho” was yanked by commercial pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM 
