Wednesday, April 23, 2014
You 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22AMProducer Jeffrey Finn (“Seminar,” “Scandalous,” “Dead Accounts”) will shepherd new play “An Act of God” to Broadway, where the show — ba…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Harris channels Iggy Pop and Lou Reed by way of the Ramones, not to mention his inner Rockette, in this spectacular revival of the 1998 musical.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMA touring production of Broadway hit “The Book of Mormon” and local revivals of “Hello Dolly!” and “Glengarry Glen Ross” were each multiple winners April 21 at the Helen …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10PMMonday, April 21, 2014
“We all think it’d be wonderful to be praised as much as Meryl Streep is, but actually I think it must be a nightmare.” So said “Angels in America” writer Tony …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:56PMThe Easter Bunny brought a whopper of a basket to Broadway last week, as the overlap of the holiday with Gotham schools’ spring break schedule resurrected sales so boffo they wouldn�…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:52PMA new musical from the writer-composer and director behind Tony winner “In the Heights,” another by the creatives of Off Broadway-to-Broadway transfer “Passing Strange,&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWith Idina, Hedwig, and Sally Bowles in town, is it possible for a modest musical heroine like “Violet” to survive on Broadway? Let’s hope so, because helmer Leigh Silver…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39AMSunday, April 20, 2014
Before audience members at the April 20 opening of Broadway’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan” could congratulate Daniel Radcliffe on his performance, they had to get a stupid q…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:17PMIn “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” Martin McDonagh’s sublime tragi-comedy about life on Ireland’s desolate Aran Islands, there are two old biddies who desperately dote on…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMFriday, April 18, 2014
Everyone knows Mama Rose’s first line in 1959’s “Gypsy.” It’s “Count four before you start, Louise!” Or at least it was. But one day in rehearsal Ethel Merman crossed it out fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThursday, April 17, 2014
Moss Hart has a lot to answer for. Just think how many future brain surgeons and rocket scientists were lost, lured to Gotham to pursue a theater career after reading “Act One,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMThe Lark Play Development Center and Playwrights of New York have named scribe Eric Dufault as the 2014-15 recipient of the PONY Fellowship, the hefty annual grant program that has a track r…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMChutzpah isn’t the first trait you’d associate with the elegant, patrician Ruth Draper (1884-1956), intimate of Shaw and Henry James and creator of precisely observed monodramas on the f…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM“Of Mice and Men” may be a particularly American tale, but Irishman Chris O’Dowd — who stars with James Franco in the Broadway revival that opened April 15 — st…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Anna D. Shapiro delivers a flawless, beautifully acted revival of John Steinbeck's 1937 play.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMEveryone likes secrets, especially dramatists. So it’s no surprise that the unravelling of the mysteries of the current Queen Elizabeth’s famously undocumented weekly meetings with her P…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
A skilled director can work magic, which is what Steven Soderbergh has done with “The Library,” a thin play penned by Soderbergh collaborator Scott Z. Burns (“Side Effects…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMHyper-alert Andrew Scott is ideal casting for Paul, the central role of “Birdland,” the latest play by Simon Stephens (“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PM“Rock of Ages” producer Matthew Weaver has acquired the stage rights to “Soul Train” with an eye toward turning the property into a Broadway musical. The producer has…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:24PMMonday, April 14, 2014
Daniel Radcliffe made a little Broadway box office magic last week, pulling in robust numbers in the first two previews of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” during a frame that saw springtime…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMDonna Tartt’s sprawling story “The Goldfinch,” which is being adapted for Hollywood by “The Hunger Games” producer Nina Jacobson, took home the 2014 Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:10PMNew plays by Tanya Barfield and Halley Feiffer are among the six works on tap for this year’s National Playwrights Conference, the annual new-play development program at the Eugene O’Nei…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMSunday, April 13, 2014
“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s elegiac lament for the jazz singer Billie Holiday at the end of her broken-down life, has been knocking aro…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMBroadway hit “The Book of Mormon” scored the same kind of awards love in London as the show got in New York: The tuner nabbed a total of four trophies, including the awards for …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47PMFriday, April 11, 2014
Following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, her successor, the current Prince Charles, about to be crowned king, holds the government and the entire country to ransom. It’s not j…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMOn Broadway, you can’t throw an unusually opulent opening night party without people gossiping. Take the shindig for the musical “Bullets Over Broadway” after its April 10 opening…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Susan Stroman's energetic direction almost compensates for a weak book and a few key miscastings in Woody Allen's showbiz tuner.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMA new superhero musical directed and co-written by Michael Mayer, the Tony-winning “Spring Awakening” helmer now directing Neil Patrick Harris on Broadway in “Hedwig and t…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
“There will be blood,” promises director Stuart Gordon of “Taste,” the stage play now running through May 17 at L.A.’s Sacred Fools Theater. That red stuff probably isn’t much o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMActor’s Fund president Joe Benincasa, Broadway photographer Joan Marcus and general manager Charlotte Wilcox will receive this year’s Tony Honors. The Tonys hands out its special honors …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AM 
