Broadway 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 08:17AMSting 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 10:00PMNathan 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 08:59AMIt 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 11:30AMThe 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 08:00AMIn 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 12:00AMAs 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 03:13PMThree 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 08:04AM“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 01:00PMAlthough 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…
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