Wednesday, 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 10:24PMAnybody who got through this Broadway theater season alive deserves to see “Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!” — the latest edition of the irreverent satirical revue t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Broadway musical “The Bridges of Madison County” will shutter later this month, despite scoring four Tony noms earlier this week including one for Jason Robert Brown’s sco…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46PMMusical theater scribes Nathan Tysen (pictured above, right) and Arthur Perlman (above, left) have nabbed the 2014 Kleban Prize, the hefty annual award that comes with a $100,000 check for …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMMarried actors Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are back onstage together for the New Group’s Off Broadway run of “Annapurna,” the two-character show in which they first appeared last …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Broadway musical “After Midnight,” fresh off the publicity boost of its seven Tony nominations, aims to turn even more theatergoers’ heads with a trio of well-known music …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
The Tony nominations have claimed their first victim: New play “The Velocity of Autumn” posted a closing notice for Sunday, after the struggling show came up short on love from …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMAnother year, another batch of Hollywood names who didn’t claim a spot in the Tony nominations. Daniel Radcliffe and Denzel Washington, giving highly praised performances in the reviv…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PMIt was going to be the new musical category that would be widened to five this year. Or maybe the play revival race. But five for new play? That wouldn’t happen. That was the thinking, an…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMIn a Broadway season without obvious awards frontrunners, musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” led the pack of Tony Awards nominees with ten nods, including o…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AMMonday, April 28, 2014
As all of Broadway holds its breath for the impending Tony nominations, new titles including “Aladdin,” “Beautiful” and “If/Then” have already attained strong sales momentum even…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PMSpeaking of the Tony Awards: Off Broadway’s Signature Theater will receive the Tonys’ 2014 regional theater award, in the wake of a new rule initiated last year that made Gotham …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:41PMThe Tony Awards have teamed with Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University to inaugurate a new national honor for theater educators. The kudo, which will be awarded every year to one ed…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04PMFriday, April 25, 2014
How about another wild card thrown into an anything-goes Tony race? The Tony Awards Administration committee, which meets periodically to decide eligibility questions regarding the season&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:22PMFour or five? That’s the question everybody’s asking about the upcoming Tony Award nominations now that the organizers of the theater world’s highest-profile awards ceremony have decid…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” cleaned up in the nominations for the annual Drama Desk Awards, making off with an even dozen nods. Among the season’s Broadway musicals, “…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMAlan Cumming, fresh off the April 24 opening night performance of the Broadway revival of “Cabaret,” emerged from backstage wearing plaid, brandishing a cigarette and eyeing the …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, April 24, 2014
Alan Cumming owns the debauched role of the Emcee in this redux of the dazzling 1998 revival, but Michelle Williams falters in her early scenes as Sally Bowles.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMJames Earl Jones will return to Broadway this fall in a revival of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s “You Can’t Take It With You.” Scott Ellis helms the comedy about …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PMNew plays by Pulitzer winners Annie Baker and Doug Wright are among the nine in-development stage projects tapped for the Sundance Institute’s 2014 Theater Lab. Baker, who just picked up t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:19AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
The inspiration for Harvey Fierstein’s “Casa Valentina” was a discreet sanctuary in the Catskills where manly men (with wives and children and other baggage) could get thei…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMCrackerjack comic timing was the last thing anyone expected from an alarming play about 21st-century concerns over data, secrecy and power. But it’s all over James Graham’s dazzler “Pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMYou could forgive John Cameron Mitchell for feeling a sense of ownership of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the 1998 musical he and Stephen Trask wrote. He also created the title r…
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