Wednesday, June 11, 2014
The 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 01:30PMBob Greenblatt was on a plane when he won a Tony. It’s no secret the NBC Entertainment chairman harbors an abiding love for musical theater. His first big creative risk at the network was…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Greta Gerwig, indie pinup girl for “Frances Ha,” proves stageworthy playing a sexually needy woman in “The Village Bike.” In this dark domestic dramedy, which preemed…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“Disgraced,” the Ayad Akhtar play that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, has lined up a fall run on Broadway with a cast that includes Josh Radnor and Gretchen Mol, while th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47PMMonday, June 9, 2014
Remember when “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” was having trouble selling tickets? That phase may have passed, at least for a while: After the notching four Tony wins Sunday ni…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PMThe Broadway revival of “Of Mice and Men,” which has posted robust sales since it began previews earlier this spring, has recouped its $3.8 million capitalization costs in about a dozen …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM“It’s like a fairy f–kin’ tale!” declared producer Joey Parnes Sunday night, clutching the Tony Award he’d just won. It was rather ungentlemanly language…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PMAs the culmination of a Broadway season with no clear frontrunner, the 2014 Tony derby was a little bit like the wild west, where all bets were off and anything could happen. So in a sense, …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMSunday, June 8, 2014
In an anything-goes Broadway season with no clear frontrunner, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” won the top Tony for new musical after the title proved the favorit…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:10PMSaturday, June 7, 2014
Crack scribes Betty Comden and Adolph Green were “work-spouses” for 64 years while married to others. Speculation on how such unconventional relationships can play out feeds into the new…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMFriday, June 6, 2014
Right now at Radio City Music Hall, it’s all falling into place. Broadway casts are rehearsing their performance numbers. Transitions are being practiced again and again. Members of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMThere’s something magnificently depraved about the vision of “Macbeth” evoked by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford for the immense (55,000 sq. ft.) playing field of the Drill…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, June 5, 2014
When Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Fantasia Barrino take the stage during the Tony Awards ceremony Sunday night, they’ll be there to showcase the new musical contender “After Midnigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM“All the Way,” the heavyweight Tony contender with Bryan Cranston in the leading role, has recouped its $3.9 million capitalization costs after about 16 weeks on the boards, acc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Jennifer Hudson will perform a song from Harvey Weinstein’s Broadway-targeted musical version of “Finding Neverland” during the Tony Awards as part of a telecast that will …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:29PMTake a stroll through the theater district these days, and one thing is obvious: You’re just as likely to come across a Hollywood name on a Broadway marquee as you are on a screen. Film an…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
The audiences at “Just Jim Dale” may be turning out to see the chap who gave voice to hundreds of characters as narrator of the entire series of Harry Potter audio books. But the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMRobert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the songwriting duo who penned the tunes for Disney smash “Frozen” and won an Academy Award for song “Let It Go,” will foll…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMCarole King is nobody’s shill. And that may be why she’s so good at hawking “Beautiful.” A Tony-nominated Broadway musical based on King’s life, “Beautiful” has looked like th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMJulia Stiles, last seen on the Gotham stage in the Broadway revival of “Oleanna,” will topline an Off Broadway production of Scott Organ’s play “Phoenix,” runn…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, June 2, 2014
Celebs had to push their way through the food festival on West 46th Street in order to make it to the Tony Honors ceremony, which provided a bit of a warm-up for Sunday’s Tony Awards …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58PMThe post-Memorial Day hangover may have deflated Broadway B.O. a bit last week, but that didn’t stop some of this season’s Tony nominees from playing to packed houses. Three of the four …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PMMatching the increasingly international reach of Broadway fare, the 2014 Tony Awards ceremony will be broadcast live in more than 30 countries around the world. With a starry cast of present…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PMSunday, June 1, 2014
Broadway musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” got in one last awards-season kill before the Tonys, slaying its competitors at the 2014 Drama Desk Awards and eme…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMFriday, May 30, 2014
Broadway generated nearly $12 billion in spending for the New York City economy during the 2012-13 season, according to a new report from the Broadway League, with a direct spending subtota…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PMThursday, May 29, 2014
Tally up the packleading 10 Tony nominations for “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” and the Broadway musical looks like the clear favorite of the season. But add up some of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
As Off Broadway’s 2014-15 season continues to shape up, Second Stage Theater adds to the mix with two productions including a world premiere by Neil LaBute, “The Way We Get By.&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:39PMNew plays by Pulitzer and Tony winner Doug Wright (“I Am My Own Wife,” “Grey Gardens”) and Broadway alum Rajiv Joseph (“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”) …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMA Shakespeare-inspired show by Rufus Wainwright and Robert Wilson, a Dutch production of “Angels in America” and a new music-theater work from “Glass Menagerie” co…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Broadway musicals “The Lion King” and “Wicked” came within spitting distance of earning $100 million each during the 2013-14 season, which, with the final numbers no…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:28PMHoward Ashman may have died in 1991, but he left a musical theater legacy that endures across film and theater — stretching all the way into this year’s Tony’s race. With composer …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM 
