Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Howard 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 03:00PMSpend enough time with Bryan Cranston and he’ll show you the imaginary dial he uses to visualize how someone — anyone, including you — lives life. “I came up with this gauge …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:41PMSometimes a new Broadway musical makes a social media push with Twitter and Facebook and Instagram — and sometimes it does it with a real-world, hand-delivered bottle of poison. Well, …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00AMThursday, May 22, 2014
For a play that needs to go through at least one more draft, “American Hero” is more provocative and entertaining than you’d expect. Set in a generic sandwich shop in an an…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMCameron Mackintosh, the U.K. stage producer behind global megahits including “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Miserables,” has pacted to purchase the West End’s Victoria Palace …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMWhat do want from a musical… the music? If so, Cameron Mackintosh’s hotly anticipated revival of “Miss Saigon” is home free. In the title role, Eva Noblezada makes an astonishing…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Annette Bening has booked a role opposite John Lithgow in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear,” starting performances in July. Bening wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:51PM“On Your Feet!,” the brewing musical about the lives and careers of Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan, has mapped out a conga-line to Broadway, with producers of the tuner plann…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:46PMProducing and general management firm Martian Entertainment and production company All the Way Around have launched Stage + Screen Digital Studio, a new post-production and editing facili…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, May 19, 2014
Is “Fun Home” the first Tony contender of the 2014-15 Broadway season? The Lisa Kron-Jeanine Tesori musical has notched a slew of prominent legit kudos in advance of its planned�…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMTake three generations of a cheerfully squabbling family, put them into a spy drama, fill with lust, love and lies, whip everything along as a comedy and what have you got? “Donkey Heart.�…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMBroadway musical “The Bridges of Madison County,” currently nominated for four Tony Awards, posted its highest B.O. numbers ever last week in the final stretch before the show&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PMSunday, May 18, 2014
In Nicky Silver’s previous play, “The Lyons,” which originated at the Vineyard under the direction of Mark Brokaw, Linda Lavin played a mother who ruins her children’…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, May 16, 2014
With the theater awards race heating up on the way to Tony Awards, the annual round of New York legit awards has begun to highlights favorites — including musical “A Gentleman’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PMThursday, May 15, 2014
The 2014-15 season on Broadway is shaping up to be just as starry as the current one, with Glenn Close now confirmed for a fall opening in a Rialto revival of “A Delicate Balance”…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher are set to make their Broadway returns in “On the Twentieth Century,” the 1978 musical that New York’s Roundabout Theater Company will…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMIt’s no secret Ryan Murphy assembled a wide pool of recognizable names for HBO’s movie adaptation of “The Normal Heart.” Possibly the most surprising among those names? Jason Blum, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMMonday, May 12, 2014
Univision, ESPN, “Godzilla”: All of the above tried to take a bite out of Broadway last week, but Main Stem box office fought them off. Upfronts, the TV industry’s annual sales pitch t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PMThe Outer Critics Circle gave a thumbs-up to Tony nomination packleader “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” handing the musical four kudos including top tuner in the race for th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AMFriday, May 9, 2014
Stars are called stars because they shine brighter than anyone else. Every time Chazz Palminteri sashays into “Unorganized Crime” as Gotham mob scion Sal Sicuso, cool and sardonic, seeth…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMSamuel D. Hunter is one playwright who legitimately deserves to be called eccentric. In “The Whale,” which picked up some prestigious awards last season, the central character is…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMThursday, May 8, 2014
Big demand, small theater: Hugh Jackman’s next Broadway gig, “The River,” has lined up its venue and dates, setting a November opening at the 776-seat Circle in the Square…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
It’s a case of too many favorites — or not enough. Even now that the 2013-14 Tony nominations are set, the race for Broadway’s biggest awards remains wide open. Voters find themselves …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMCAA has signed Broadway director Jack O’Brien, the prolific helmer whose Tony-winning Main Stem work ranges from razzledazzle tuner “Hairspray” to Shakespeare’s ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” topliner Neil Patrick Harris, “Cabaret” choreographer and co-director Rob Marshall, “Aladdin” genie James Monroe Iglehart a…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:38PMBryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Zachary Levi and Sophie Okonedo are among the dozen performers to score this year’s Theater World Awards, the annual kudo that honors thesps making …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:03PMMonday, May 5, 2014
Two gripping political dramas in the same season? How positively civilized. Bryan Cranston’s rip-roaring portrayal of LBJ in “All the Way” epitomizes Washington power polit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMConor McPherson play “The Night Alive” and Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical “Fun Home” took the 2013-14 awards for best play and musical, respectively, from the New Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:51PMNotching a beltful of Tony nominations doesn’t bring the same enduring sales spike as an award itself, but it helps: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” and R…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:48PMMarc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the “Hairspray” composers whose musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is currently playing on the West End, have signed with CAA…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMSunday, May 4, 2014
“Here Lies Love,” the immersive staging of the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim tuner about Imelda Marcos, got up and walked away with five Lucille Lortel Awards, the New York legit industry’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24PM 
