Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Time’s up for Broadway’s “Cinderella,” which will close at the end of the year following a guest stint by “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star NeNe Leakes. The upcoming closing …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:19PMLondon hit “Skylight” will get a Broadway transfer this spring, with stars Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy reprising their roles in Stephen Daldry’s staging of the 1995 play …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:06PMManhattan Theater Club, the New York nonprofit theater company, will round out its Broadway season with “Airline Highway,” the new play by Lisa D’Amour (“Detroit̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMStar-heavy Broadway comedy "It's Only a Play" went from zero to 60 last week, launching out of the gate with a strong tally in a week that saw overall Main Stem sales hold steady ahead of th…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 05:23AMTuesday, September 2, 2014
Star-heavy Broadway comedy “It’s Only a Play” went from zero to 60 last week, launching out of the gate with a strong tally in a week that saw overall Main Stem sales hold…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PM“Fish in the Dark,” the new play written by and starring Larry David, has lined up its Broadway dates, theater and initial casting, tapping actors including Rosie Perez, Jayne H…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12PMThursday, August 28, 2014
Any Broadway producer will tell you there’s no magic formula for Broadway success. But that doesn’t stop some people from trying to find one. Particularly statisticians. Suspecti…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMDirector Darren Aronofsky (“Noah,” “Black Swan”) will take home the 2014 Honorary Maverick Award, the annual kudo handed out every year by the Woodstock Film Festival…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58AMTuesday, August 26, 2014
"Mad Men" actor Vincent Kartheiser will play legendary Hollywood writer-director Billy Wilder in "Billy and Ray," the Off Broadway play directed by Garry Marshall.
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:04PM“Mad Men” actor Vincent Kartheiser will play legendary Hollywood writer-director Billy Wilder in “Billy and Ray,” the Off Broadway play directed by Garry Marshall. Ka…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17PMWith Scotland voting next month on whether to claim independence from the rest of the United Kingdom, polls suggest that the unionist No voters hold the majority. But to judge from this year…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMThe 2014 New York Film Festival will present a special screening of “This Is Spinal Tap” in celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary, with writer-star Christopher Guest o…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMMonday, August 25, 2014
Be so kind as to hand me the straight razor. “And I And Silence,” a new, politically potent historical drama from Naomi Wallace, deals with the casually racist and purposely crue…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTwo shows closed, one began previews and one got a new star as Broadway shifted some pieces around last week in advance of the fall season. Andrew Rannells (“Girls,” “The B…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMT.R. Knight will star in the world premiere of “Pocatello,” the new play by Samuel D. Hunter getting its world premiere at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons. “Grey&…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMFriday, August 22, 2014
Broadway's "Motown" is taking a breather.Producers of the musical have made the unusual decision to close the tuner in New York -- but only temporarily, planning to bring the show back to th…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:07PMThursday, August 21, 2014
Broadway’s “Motown” is taking a breather. Producers of the musical have made the unusual decision to close the tuner in New York — but only temporarily, planning to b…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:24PMWednesday, August 20, 2014
There’s no direct flight from New York to Ashland, Ore. But more and more people in the entertainment industry have decided to make the trek all the way there — thanks to “All the …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMEmma Stone has finalized plans to make her Broadway debut in "Cabaret," stepping into the show when Michelle Williams exits in November.The deal -- reached following earlier reports of negot…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:19PMEmma Stone has finalized plans to make her Broadway debut in “Cabaret,” stepping into the show when Michelle Williams exits in November. The deal — reached following earl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, August 18, 2014
As the slow summer attrition of the Broadway slate continues, the musical adaptation of “Rocky” hit the mat with a final box office bump — but only a relatively modest one,…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PMThe Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan musical “On Your Feet!” has locked in its Broadway timeline, with a Chicago tryout in the summer of 2015 planned ahead of a November opening…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:50AMSunday, August 17, 2014
We’ve all been there — at another couple’s house in the country when too many bottles of wine are consumed over dinner and a sexually charged quarrel breaks out to ruin the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMThursday, August 14, 2014
The new play that J.M. Barrie is struggling to write — which would eventually become “Peter Pan” — in the Broadway-bound tuner “Finding Neverland” doesn’t come alive un…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:35PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Not to contradict that “Avenue Q” tune, but the Internet isn’t just for porn anymore. Now it’s for Broadway investing too. Maxolev Prods., the Broadway production shi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:22PM“Finding Neverland,” the movie-to-musical adaptation produced by Harvey Weinstein, has penciled in a Broadway schedule, with the production aiming to begin performances in New Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMTuesday, August 12, 2014
Richard Chamberlain has signed on to the New Group's upcoming revival of David Rabe's "Sticks and Stones," the Vietnam-era tale already set to star Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman.He'll play t…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:48PMRichard Chamberlain has signed on to the New Group’s upcoming revival of David Rabe’s “Sticks and Stones,” the Vietnam-era tale already set to star Holly Hunter and…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PMMonday, August 11, 2014
Disney Theatrical Prods. is having something of a magic moment on Broadway this summer: As the long-lead closing announcement of “Newsies” has yielded a spike of last-minute sale…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMIf it’s true there was much at stake for the early kings of Scotland as they tried to establish order in turbulent times, it is equally true that everything is riding on playwright Ron…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PMSaturday, August 9, 2014
As showpieces go, they don’t get much showier than Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert in the Sydney Theater Company production of Jean Genet’s “The Maids,” the theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:16PM 
