Monday, June 30, 2014
Warren Adler’s play “The War of the Roses,” the divorce comedy based on his own 1981 novel, is gearing up for a run on Broadway, with a team of producers acquiring the rig…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMFriday, June 27, 2014
Mary Rodgers, the Broadway composer and children’s book author, died of heart failure June 26 in her Manhattan home. She was 83. The daughter of musical-theater legend Richard Rodgers…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:17PMThursday, June 26, 2014
America Ferrera will topline Second Stage Theater’s Off Broadway production of Terrence McNally’s 1991 play “Lips Together, Teeth Apart.” Ferrera, the “Ugly Bet…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMBuckle up: Lindsay Lohan is speeding toward her West End debut in “Speed-the-Plow,” the 1988 Hollywood comedy by David Mamet. She’ll play an ambitious Tinseltown striver in a role crea…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:10PM“The Last Ship” sets sail in Chicago on its way to a Broadway launch in October, filled with all the hope and heartache and working class nobility of a lush, lovely original score from …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMOff Broadway’s New Group has lined up a slew of stars for its 20th season, setting a 2014-15 slate that includes acting stints from Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman, Jesse Eisenberg and Dianne W…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
In the immediate wake of a recent ruling that cleared former NewsCorp exec Rebekah Brooks of all hacking charges during her tenure at News of the World, the National Theater in London has an…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:57PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Manhattan Theater Club has tapped “The Swing of the Sea,” the new play by Richard Greenberg, for its 2014-15 season at the Gotham nonprofit’s Off Broadway venue. “Sw…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMRose Byrne will follow up her role in Universal’s hit “Neighbors” with a gig on Broadway, joining the cast of the upcoming revival of Moss Hart’s “You Can’…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08PMAt 26 years old, the young Broadway producer Megan Savage has two Tony Awards to her name. And a day job. Savage — a member of the producing team for this year’s Tony favorite “A G…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, June 23, 2014
It only took eight months, but “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” is finally inching closer to hit-show numbers. After sweating out an entire season of slow to middling sales, pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMSunday, June 22, 2014
“Newsies,” the modestly-scaled stage musical that surprised Disney Theatrical Prods. by finding a foothold on Broadway, will end its Main Stem run Aug. 24 after several months�…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMFriday, June 20, 2014
It’s no secret that “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” the Broadway musical that incorporates the songs of Tupac Shakur, is having trouble drawing crowds — just take a look at show…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:12PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Remembered for its unconventional theme, its inviting score, its polarizing effect on audiences and its brief, 91-perf run on Broadway in 1997, the cult-favorite flop “Side Show” now eme…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMDespite a clunky book, this show is on fire. But it's going to be a hard sell with traditional auds, and can the real fans spring for Broadway ticket prices?
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06PMGerry Goffin, the lyricist whose work with songwriting partner (and wife at the time) Carole King yielded some of pop music’s most enduring hits, has died of natural causes at his L.A…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PMA star vehicle on cruise control this ain’t: Carey Mulligan’s Kyra is all composure, a sense of purpose masking layers of hurt, while Bill Nighy’s furiously brittle Tom blazes with…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
Producers usually spend the opening night of a Broadway show sweating it out while they wait for reviews to come in. But the upcoming opening night of “Honeymoon in Vegas” will …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Cherry Jones heads up a first-rate cast in “When We Were Young and Unafraid,” a provocative if loosely constructed play by Sarah Treem that looks back with pride (and a hint of h…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMRupert Grint will follow in the Broadway footsteps of fellow “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe this fall, with Grint signing on for the already starry production of Terrence…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMMonday, June 16, 2014
All those giddy young lovers in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedies have a regrettable tendency to blur into one another. Except, of course, for Beatrice and Benedick, that quick-witted,…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMSummer tourism helped tune up Broadway ticket sales last week, as Tony Awards attention prodded demand at titles including “All the Way,” “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PMSaturday, June 14, 2014
Tony-nominated Broadway musical “After Midnight” will close June 29, following months of lackluster sales that did not sufficiently improve in the wake of the Tony Awards ceremony. The C…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:38PMFriday, June 13, 2014
A new solo stage show from Darrell Hammond, “The Darrell Hammond Project,” has joined the 2014-15 slate at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, where the world premiere begins its run in Fe…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThursday, June 12, 2014
Andrew Rannells, who starred in Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon” before going on to TV gigs in “The New Normal” and “Girls,” will take over for Neil …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PMIn Donald Margulies’ Geffen premiere “The Country House,” genuine legend Blythe Danner effortly embodies fictional legend Anna Patterson, doyenne of a handsome summer home in that bast…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PM“Buyer and Cellar,” one of the rare Off Broadway titles to prove successful enough to carve out a yearlong run and spawn a national tour, will shutter at the Barrow Street Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMJake Gyllenhaal has booked his Broadway debut in “Constellations,” a project that will reunite him with writer Nick Payne and director Michael Longhurst of “If There Is I H…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWednesday, June 11, 2014
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has decided that the authors of some revival productions will be eligible for a Tony alongside producers in the revival of a play and revival of a mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:56PMWith the Scott Rudin-produced Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” recouping its $4.25 million investment in the wake of the production’s three Tony wins, the 2013-14 …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMThe compassion and concern for character in the plays of Irish master Brian Friel (“Translations,” “Dancing at Lughnasa”) has led him to be rated alongside the greats of Russian dram…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM 
