Monday, 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 02:00PMBroadway 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 01:00PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Although 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 05:18PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Columbus 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 05:14PMMonday, October 13, 2014
The 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 10:00PMFriday, October 10, 2014
The 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 11:12AMThursday, October 9, 2014
Nobody 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 10:00PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Amid 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 10:30PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Marian 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 12:10AMSunday, October 5, 2014
Believe 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 11:39PMFriday, October 3, 2014
Nobody 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 01:54PMThursday, October 2, 2014
Donald 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 04:13PMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Ruth 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 12:00PMTuesday, September 30, 2014
The 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 01:00PMMonday, September 29, 2014
London 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 03:22PM 
