Second 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 02:00PMBroadway will turn out to honor the late Elaine Stritch with a starry performance next month that will include theater-industry royalty including Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Hal Prin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMAlthough there isn’t a kitten or a puppy in sight, “Found” is so cute, it’s almost too cute. Helmer Lee Overtree has been extremely clever in staging this quirky m…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PMColumbus Day brought a surge of long-weekend tourism business to Broadway last week, with the holiday spurring major gains all along the Street at shows including newly anointed critical dar…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:14PMThe stage at Off Broadway’s Ars Nova is so long and narrow, there’s hardly room to swing a cat. So it might seem absurd to install a fully functioning hot tub as the centerpiec…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Oct. 9 opening of starry comedy “It’s Only a Play” brought a little old-fashioned glamor back to Broadway: The event was black tie, just like in the golden age, and all…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12AMNobody does mean-nasty-vicious like Terrence McNally, bless his black heart. The pitiless playwright has exhumed “It’s Only a Play,” his 1986 love-hate letter to those big babies who w…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAmid the continuing global expansion of stage musical “Once,” the Broadway production that launched the Tony-winning legit title will shutter in January, ending its run after abo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMMarian Seldes, the actress and recent winner of the Tonys’ lifetime achievement award, died at her home Oct. 6 following a long illness. The actress’ brother, Timothy Seldes, announced t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:55PMThe National Theater’s stage adaptation of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” opened on Broadway to rave reviews Oct. 5, after a well-received London debut that led to…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10AMThe National Theater's stage adaptation of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" opened on Broadway to rave reviews Oct. 5, after a well-received London debut that led to a Wes…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:10AMBelieve the buzz. The National Theater Production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is spectacular, like Cirque du Soleil with brains. Scribe Simon Stephens …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39PMNobody ever chose to go to the theater to watch an actor be adequate. Sadly, “adequate” sums up Lindsay Lohan’s London stage debut in David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.” The bad news…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PMDonald Margulies gets a big, sloppy kiss from leading lady Blythe Danner, who is effortlessly lovely and irresistibly charismatic as the queenly head of a fractious theatrical family in his …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“You will die from all this grieving.” Oh no she won’t. Playing the title role of Sophocles’ “Electra,” a mesmerizing Kristin Scott Thomas is paradoxically alive with grief. Bein…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PMRuth Wilson, the British actress (“Luther”) who is one of the stars of upcoming Showtime series “The Affair,” will appear opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in “Constella…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThe title of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s fascinating, flawed play about massive social change in China, “The World of Extreme Happiness,” is almost beyond ironic. Nobody in this work, pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PMRandom House has acquired a new biography of musical theater legend Stephen Sondheim, to be written by Variety‘s London theater critic David Benedict. Benedict will wrap up his eight-y…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMLondon hit “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” has begun to gain momentum at the Broadway box office, which makes for a promising sign ahead of the show’s o…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PMTwo productions, a new revival of “Children of a Lesser God” and a Thai-inflected musical called “Waterfall,” have begun to steer themselves toward Broadway, with bot…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22PMBroadway Worldwide, the company with ambitious plans to capture and distribute Broadway titles in surround sound and HD, has pacted with Chinese firm Sun New Light Culture Development Limite…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:25PMThe Harvey Weinstein-produced musical “Finding Neverland” has found its Broadway home, nabbing the Lunt-Fontanne Theater for an April opening. The tuner, which got an unusual showcase o…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMYep, that’s the real Steve Martin collaborating with roots-music queen Edie Brickell on the Old Globe premiere “Bright Star,” but not the wild and crazy guy with an arrow through his h…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AM“You Can’t Take It With You” declares itself in a stage direction: “This is a house where you do as you like, and no questions asked.” That license to live the …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30PMClear Channel Spectacolor, a division of outdoor advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor, has ponied up to produce one of the Broadway shows its signs will advertise, coming aboard the fal…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:34PM“Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2,” the rebranded two-part theater event that originated at the Royal Shakespeare Company as “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,R…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PM“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” may not post the highest numbers on the Broadway charts, but the play-with-music is making big money in a small theater: The show…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMDisney’s “The Lion King” has claimed a new crown: Top box office title in any medium. The Associated Press did the math and discovered the 17-year-old stage musical, which on Broadway…
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