Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Actor’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 10:42AMMichael Cera and Kieran Culkin will star in a new production of Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 play "This Is Our Youth," originating this summer at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater and moving on to Br…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:17AMMichael Cera and Kieran Culkin will star in a new production of Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 play “This Is Our Youth,” originating this summer at Chicago’s Steppenwolf The…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Jane Greenwood, the longtime theatrical costume designer whose first Broadway credit was 1963′s “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,” will receive a lifetime achievement trophy d…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, April 7, 2014
Famous faces helped keep some Broadway titles buoyant in a ebb-tide week, as Neil Patrick Harris, Denzel Washington, Bryan Cranston and — indirectly — Carole King pumped interest…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMNeil Patrick Harris, Harvey Weinstein, Bryan Cranston joined U.S. senator Charles E. Schumer in a public push to grant Broadway a tax incentive similar to the one offered to the film and TV…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PMPerformance artist, poet and musician Saul Williams will lead the cast of incoming Broadway musical “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” which draws from the Tupac Shakur catalog for its scor…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMAmbassador Theater Group, the U.K. legit company in the process of bolstering its position as an international player, continues to step up its expansion efforts with the promotion of David …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMProducers at the April 6 opening night party of starry Broadway play “The Realistic Joneses” had plenty of cause for celebration as the positive reviews started to roll in. But t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMSunday, April 6, 2014
It’s the words, stupid. That’s what Will Eno keeps telling us in his hypnotically quirky plays. What separates the men from the beasts? The words. What saves humanity fro…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMFriday, April 4, 2014
Denzel Washington is back on Broadway in “A Raisin in the Sun,” which opened at the Barrymore Theater April 3. But the project was in the works long before that. Washington and …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:33AMThursday, April 3, 2014
Denzel Washington gives a triumphant performance in this heart-stopping revival of Lorraine Hansberry's classic.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
The Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “Cabaret” will get a national TV spotlight later this month when “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
The organizers of the Tony Awards have tapped Rosie O'Donnell to receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award, handed out annually to a legiter who's made a significant contribution to humanitarian …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:22PMTwo immersive Off Broadway buzzmagnets, the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim disco tuner “Here Lies Love” and Tolstoy-and-vodka musical ”Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMAnna Gunn is following her “Breaking Bad” co-star Bryan Cranston to the New York stage, where she’ll star this summer in Laura Eason’s “Sex with Strangers”…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMBroadway alum and “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will host the 2014 Drama League Awards, the annual legit kudos from Gotham’s 99-year-old theater development o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PMThe organizers of the Tony Awards have tapped Rosie O’Donnell to receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award, handed out annually to a legiter who’s made a significant contribution to h…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56PMHere are some of the ways the 1988 film “Heathers,” the blackest of high school comedies, could have ended: The school blows up. Or protagonist Veronica blows up. Or Veronica ask…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Like the cult movie to which it pays homage, “Heathers” the musical should score with all those teen misfits who fantasized about getting even with the popular kids who humiliate…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:21PMIf it were possible to gauge a Broadway musical’s box office prospects from a single performance alone, then Neil Patrick Harris’ turn in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” looks legendary.…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMSunday, March 30, 2014
Everyone has an if/then moment that leaves them wondering what might have happened if life went another way, and the opening night performance of parallel-lives Broadway musical “If/Then�…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53PMIn her belated return to Broadway after “Wicked,” powerhouse belter Idina Menzel is sorely misused in “If/Then.” ”Next to Normal” writing team Brian Yor…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMFriday, March 21, 2014
Chris Pine and Lauren Ambrose will spend the summer doing a little play in the Berkshires, signing on to star in Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love” at the Williamstown…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PMFor director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway's go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," "Elf," "The Drowsy Chaperone"), Broadway's "Aladdin" marked the first work with Disn…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:33AMFor director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway’s go-to guy for musical comedy (“The Book of Mormon,” “Elf,” “The Drowsy Chaperone”), Broadway’s “Al…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:12AMThursday, March 20, 2014
This super-costly extravaganza doesn't do justice to the movie, or to the spirit of the late Howard Ashman.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:29PMWith no New York City film czar yet appointed some three months into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s term, the local entertainment industry’s backchannel lobbying has grown increasingly…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMTen world premieres, including new plays by Tom Stoppard and David Hare, and a stage stint for Ralph Fiennes spearhead the National Theater’s 2014-2015 season led by outgoing a.d. Nicholas…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Sheryl Crow’s musical adaptation of “Diner” will finally have it world premiere at the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., following a long period of development that saw a pre-Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57PM 
