Thursday, 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 03:22PMBroadway 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 06:00AMSunday, September 28, 2014
“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 11:30PMFriday, September 26, 2014
Clear 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 03:34PMThursday, September 25, 2014
“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 05:37PMMonday, September 22, 2014
“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…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07AMFriday, September 19, 2014
Donna Murphy is a Broadway favorite, but before legit fans see her onstage again they’ll see her on the smallscreen — in two different shows. On ABC, Murphy has a recurring role as a…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Brian Dennehy & Mia Farrow. Dennehy & Carol Burnett. Alan Alda & Candice Bergen. Stacy Keach & Diana Rigg. Anjelica Huston & Martin Sheen. That’s the revolving star…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAt the village hall, the choirmaster brings news of a slight adjustment to the plan. “I’ve successfully equipped most of the choir with AK47s but I’ve had to plump for M16s for the alt…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
This old town hasn’t seen a dame as bawdy as Bridget Everett since those big fat mamas who stripped for free drinks at Sammy’s Bowery Follies. But you’ll just have to take …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTwo cheerfully ludicrous characters stuck in the same place play extravagantly with language and each other as they jockey for position and kill time. And although their seemingly mad activi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:48PMTuesday, September 16, 2014
Angela Lansbury will return to the role that won her a Tony in “Blithe Spirit,” leading the cast of a North American tour that launches in December. Lansbury, just feted at an Am…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThe Mimi Award, the largest monetary prize for theater in the U.S., will go this year to Stephen Adly Guirgis, who scores $200,000 as part of the package. The writer of Broadway’s “The M…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM 
