Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The freaks will invade Broadway this fall, with the high-profile regional revival of cult 1997 musical “Side Show,” directed by Bill Condon, booking the St. James Theater for a …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMJohn Lithgow has a great gift for playing comedy high ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels") and low ("3rd Rock from the Sun"). So who would think he'd give us such a piteous Lear?
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:10AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
John Lithgow has a great gift for playing comedy high (“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”) and low (“3rd Rock from the Sun”). So who would think he’d give us such a pite…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30PMDisney's Broadway staging of "Newsies" seems to be reaping the rewards of its rabid fanbase, with its imminent Aug. 24 closing adding sales momentum to weekly box office figures that had beg…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:13AMMonday, August 4, 2014
Disney’s Broadway staging of “Newsies” seems to be reaping the rewards of its rabid fanbase, with its imminent Aug. 24 closing adding sales momentum to weekly box office fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMAnyone with an eye on the Middle East this summer will recognize the importance of dialogue and mediation. That seems to have been something implicitly understood by Jane Fonda in 1988 when …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThere’s a delicious moment in the reworked musical “The Visit” when Chita Rivera, playing Claire Zachanassian, the world’s richest woman, speaks of her eventful, much-widowed life an…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PMSaturday, August 2, 2014
Placing 1968’s “Hair” in the cavernous Hollywood Bowl poses a trap. A flamboyant celebration of Aquarius, even at this 50-year remove, couldn’t be easier, but emotionality is diminis…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Stephen Adly Guirgis is such a quintessentially New York playwright, it’s incredible how popular his plays are outside the city limits. You have to wonder what those out-of-towners wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWhen James Franco directs, he calls Scott Haze. The actor (named one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch last year) not only stars in Franco’s movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy nov…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:33PMMia Farrow, Brian Dennehy and Carol Burnett are among the actors lined up to star in the revolving-door cast of “Love Letters,” the incoming Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney’s 1988 play…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMEver notice how many Hollywood actors have a special affection for stage work? Either they're like Neil Patrick Harris or Daniel Radcliffe -- who got their starts on screen but like to chall…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:29AMEver notice how many Hollywood actors have a special affection for stage work? Either they’re like Neil Patrick Harris or Daniel Radcliffe — who got their starts on screen but li…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26AM“Sex With Strangers” sounds like fun. Scribe Laura Eason certainly tries hard to make it so, with a cunning plot about a callow young author of bestselling dreck who seduces a …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
Broadway Across America and Lifetime morning show “The Balancing Act” have teamed for a series of six TV segments that will highlight Broadway titles that are currently on the ro…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMTuesday, 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 04:28PM 
