Tuesday, 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 10:57PMNina Arianda certainly knows how to make an entrance. For her Tony Award-winning role in “Venus in Furs” — her last appearance on the New York boards — she blew ons…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMA historical trilogy from two of Britain’s national theaters and a new stage adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front” are among the higher profile offerings on tap for the 2014 E…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PMMonday, March 17, 2014
Newcomers poured new coin into the Broadway coffers last week as previewing titles “Les Miserables,” “A Raisin in the Sun” “If/Then” and “Bullets Over Broadway” helped push t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMFriday, March 14, 2014
What if David Fincher directed “Rocky”? It might look something like “Rocky” the musical. That was part of the concept, anyway, for Alex Timbers, the director of the spectacularly st…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57AMThursday, March 13, 2014
Whatever your expectations going into “Rocky,” you come out rocking the technology. No mystery about where the $16.5 million capital investment went in this musical iteration o…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Broadway Channel, a producer and distributor of legit-centric video content, has partnered with PIX11, the New York CW affiliate, to produce segments and primetime specials focusing on B…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMCynthia Nixon has signed on to star opposite Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “The Real Thing,” the 1982 play in …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PM“Harmony” confirms Barry Manilow’s musical theater chops. The pop legend invests this biotuner of the Comedian Harmonists — a real-life German male sextet, pre-WWII toasts of two…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47PMIf you haven’t come across George Takei lately, you might be living under a digital rock. The former “Star Trek” actor has, over the past five years, morphed into one of social media�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, March 12, 2014
Blythe Danner and scribes Donald Margulies and David Auburn have lined up world premieres as part of the Manhattan Theater Club’s 2014-15 season, a lineup that sees the Gotham nonprof…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Meet Tyrone, the dirty-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet who steals the show in “Hand to God,” Robert Askins’ pitch-black comedy about a teenage boy (a sensational perf from…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PMThe Drama Desk has tapped Laura Benanti, the Broadway fave (“Gypsy”) whose TV credits include “Go On” and “The Sound of Music Live,” to host the org’…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMMonday, March 10, 2014
The movie adaptation may be a nonstarter, but John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” has taken its first steps toward the stage as producers announced a legit…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:13PMIdina Menzel and Denzel Washington flexed their box office muscle on Broadway last week, as Menzel topliner “If/Then” and Washington starrer “A Raisin in the Sun” each posted impress…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:19PMThursday, March 6, 2014
Commercial producers aren’t just commercial anymore. At least not all of them — not since the divide between the commercial theater industry and the not-for-profit legit sector has crumb…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe 2014 Tribeca Film Festival has filled out its 2014 feature slate with a starry Spotlight section as well as midnight and special screenings, a group that taken together includes a new mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
“Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” the Royal Shakespeare Company’s hit staging of Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning novels, has lined up a commercial West End run that will open…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
It was a best-selling novel and a profitable film, but Iris Rainer Dart’s tear-jerker, “Beaches,” struggles to find a footing as a compelling musical in its premiere at Arlington, Va.�…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMMonday, March 3, 2014
“Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue” began the cycle of plays by Quiara Alegria Hudes about a young Marine’s re-entry into the land of the living after a soul-destroying tou…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“Les Miserables” stormed back to Broadway and “Aladdin” made a little box office magic of its own last week, with the two big-name tuners beginning previews in a seven-day frame that…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMJohn Travolta memorably mangled Idina Menzel’s name during the Oscars on March 3 and that may have been rough for Menzel right before she belted out the hit tune from Disney’s &#…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PM“Old-fashioned” is most often a derogatory term, but it can also mean traditionally well-crafted. That’s definitely the case with “Versailles,” Peter Gill’s highly articulate, le…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PM“Tuck Everlasting,” the tuner that had been targeting a Broadway run during the 2013-14 season before getting detoured, and the world preem of the musical adaptation of “Bull Durham”…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52AMA new musical adaptation of “Made in Dagenham,” the 2010 British indie that starred recent Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins, will premiere at the Adelphi Theater on the West End this …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:56AMFriday, February 28, 2014
Commercial and not-for-profit theatres can’t do without each other, but hooking up can be as problematic as it is profitable
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:00PMA movie helps a Broadway show. But will the film version of “Les Miserables” give a leg up to the new Main Stem revival of the title that inspired it? Beginning previews March 1, “Les …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, February 27, 2014
Who says a matinee has to be on a Wednesday afternoon? Well, Broadway does, and has for years. But later this spring, a concerted push to institute a Thursday matinee option will bring the M…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
The Broadway-aimed revival of “Can-Can” and the world premiere of the musical version of 1998 Cinderella redux “Ever After” are among the titles on the 2014-15 slate …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PMDiane Ladd and Eden Brolin have been tapped to topline “I Dream Too Much,” an indie feature to be exec produced by Richard Linklater. Danielle Brooks (“Orange is the New Bl…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Most movies are regenerated on stage for one reason alone: No matter how unwieldy the material, familiarity breeds box-office contentment. But there’s a solidly theatrical reasoning behind…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PM 
