Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Broadway play-with-music “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” powered by a lead performance that won Audra McDonald a historic sixth Tony win, has recouped its $2.6 mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMTwo trajectories determine Benedict Andrews’ in-the-round production of “A Streetcar Named Desire”: the tragic arc of Gillian Anderson’s remarkably vivid Blanche, and that of the n…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PMMonday, July 28, 2014
Second Stage really knows how to show a girl a good time, the proof being its excellent track record of producing vital work by important women playwrights. Chalk up another win with “…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMidsummer tourism brought another big-money week to Broadway with 11 shows raking in more than $1 million apiece, including James Franco-Chris O’Dowd starrer “Of Mice and Men,&…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PMSunday, July 27, 2014
Everybody loves the new West End adaptation of "Shakespeare in Love." Everybody, that is, except the New York Times.
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 05:29PMThursday, July 24, 2014
Everybody loves the new West End adaptation of “Shakespeare in Love.” Everybody, that is, except the New York Times. The July 23 opening of “Shakespeare in Love” in L…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:44PMHeather Graham will play a movie star in Neil LaBute’s Off Broadway play “The Money Shot,” the Hollywood comedy getting its world premiere this fall from MCC Theater. Terr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMWednesday, July 23, 2014
Can an adaptation be too faithful? Directed with verve by Declan Donnellan across, up and down Nick Ormerod’s versatile Elizabethan theater set, the 28-strong cast of this grand screen-to-…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMNT Live, the National Theater’s successful series of cinema broadcasts of theater performances, has tapped its first Broadway title with “Of Mice and Men,” the Broadway r…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM"Bullets Over Broadway," the musical based on Woody Allen's 1994 comedy, will call it quits in August after a disappointing five-month run.
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:38AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
“Bullets Over Broadway,” the musical based on Woody Allen’s 1994 comedy, will call it quits in August after a disappointing five-month run. With a book by Allen (based on t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34PMBeth Malone, one of the stars of last season’s Off Broadway hit “Fun Home,” will take on the title role in the Denver Center Theater Company’s upcoming revival of …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMFriday, July 18, 2014
The billowy white blouse. The black stockings. The oversized sunglasses. The hat. And that famous croak of a voice. When people say there was no one like Elaine Stritch — and everyone …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Underdog contender "Rocky" couldn't triumph over Broadway, where soft sales have led producers to post an Aug. 17 closing notice for the big-budget musical based on the Oscar-winning film.
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:19AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Underdog contender “Rocky” couldn’t triumph over Broadway, where soft sales have led producers to post an Aug. 17 closing notice for the big-budget musical based on the Os…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMJoely Richardson, the English actress best known to U.S. audiences for her role in FX series "Nip/Tuck," will take on Emily Dickinson in an Off Broadway production of "The Belle of Amherst,"…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:28PMJoely Richardson, the English actress best known to U.S. audiences for her role in FX series “Nip/Tuck,” will take on Emily Dickinson in an Off Broadway production of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PMPowered by a Tony-winning performance from Neil Patrick Harris, Broadway musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” has recouped its $5 million capitalization costs in about 15 weeks, …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMBroadway's Tupac Shakur musical "Holler if Ya Hear Me" won't be heard after July 20, when the sales-challenged new show will close following several weeks of dire box office.Just last week p…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:57AMMonday, July 14, 2014
Broadway’s Tupac Shakur musical “Holler If Ya Hear Me” won’t be heard after July 20, when the sales-challenged new show will close following several weeks of dire box…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:02PMSome things old and some things new dominated the Broadway box office charts last week, as “Aladdin” and “Beautiful,” two of the strongest spring openers, muscled pas…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PM"American Psycho," the murderous musical that had its world premiere in London last year, has lined up a Stateside debut at Off Broadway's Second Stage Theater, where the tuner will have a s…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:14PM“American Psycho,” the murderous musical that had its world premiere in London last year, has lined up a Stateside debut at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater, where the t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMPulitzer-winning playwright-provocateur Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park,” “The Pain and the Itch”) has proven himself an expert at depicting American middle class hypocrisy, exposing c…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMSunday, July 13, 2014
In “The Long Shrift,” Robert Boswell has written James Franco the flashy leading role of a hardened ex-con named Richard Singer who, as an awkward 18-year-old high school kid, wa…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, July 11, 2014
“The Qualms,” the new play by Pulitzer winner Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”), has locked in a New York run at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons just ahead of…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:40PMThursday, July 10, 2014
Reviews were mixed and sales are downright dire. Which is why all of Broadway is wondering: When will "Holler If Ya Hear Me" throw in the towel?Not yet, according to Eric L. Gold, the Hollyw…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:38PMReviews were mixed and sales are downright dire. Which is why all of Broadway is wondering: When will “Holler If Ya Hear Me” throw in the towel? Not yet, according to Eric L. Gold, the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMNew plays by Bathsheba Doran and Nick Jones, two playwrights whose TV gigs include Emmy-nominated series “Masters of Sex” and “Orange is the New Black,” have been …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Watching the infamous title character slash his way through his family tree en route to the throne in Shakespeare’s “Richard III” tends to be like entering a maze: You know where it’…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMThe partnership between big-league Gotham nonprofit Manhattan Theater Club and scrappy new-work developer Ars Nova will yield its first full production with “By the Water,” a new play b…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM 
