Monday, January 27, 2014
Last week’s blizzard blew a chill wind over the Broadway box office, further softening up sales in a month that is often one of the Main Stem’s cruelest. The severe stormfront, dumping s…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PMKristin Davis is poised to appear in the West End stage adaptation of “Fatal Attraction,” with the actress lining up a role in the thriller as the wife of the man who is trapped in an af…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Leaving aside Kurosawa’s Japanese epic “Ran” and “A Thousand Acres,” the 1997 adaptation of novelist Jane Smiley’s relocation of Shakespeare to Iowa, there hasn’t been a s…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PM“Outside Mullingar,” the new John Patrick Shanley play that opened Jan. 23 on Broadway, may be Debra Messsing‘s Main Stem debut. But it’s not the first time she’…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:21PMThis winter, nothing scares Broadway producers like the Super Bowl. January and February are always tough months for the Main Stem, hammered by the slump that hits when holiday tourists go h…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe stage musical adaptation of Disney’s 1996 animated pic “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” which premiered in Germany in 1999 but never made it Stateside, will have its Amer…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, January 23, 2014
It may not be as dramatic as “Doubt” or as funny as “Moonstruck,” but John Patrick Shanley has not written a more beautiful or loving play than “Outside Mulling…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMLooks like Hugh Jackman has some competition on Broadway next season: Producer James L. Nederlander has confirmed that Bradley Cooper will star in “The Elephant Man” this fall al…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:52PMA new digital venture is betting old-school Broadway is the key to a lucrative new-media audience. Stage 17, launching a public beta next month ahead of a wider rollout later in the spring, …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMDavid Gordon Green, Amber Heard and a co-founder of South by Southwest are among the honorees lined up to receive trophies at the Austin Film Society’s 2014 Texas Film Awards. The kudos si…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
For a while there, it was starting to look as if concerts on Broadway were the new star-driven play revivals: A go-to option for producers looking for one of the Main Stem’s safer fina…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PMBehind-the-music tale “Beautiful” is subtitled “The Carole King Musical,” but it could have been something else. Or nothing at all.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMF. Murray Abraham and outgoing “Cinderella” star Laura Osnes are among the lead thesps in Martha Clarke’s new Off Broadway production of “The Threepenny Opera,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMAlthough a little slow in the early going, “The Legend of Miss George McBride” — the new play by Matthew Lopez, whose title “The Whipping Man” was one of the most-produced play…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and a couple of newer shows gaining momentum combined to help perk Broadway up a bit in a winter month when the Rialto box office is usually at its…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:28PMMonday, January 20, 2014
When Hugh Jackman hits Broadway next season in Jez Butterworth’s play “The River,” it’ll mark his fourth stint on the Gotham boards in a dozen years. His return not only underscores …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PMWhen former German international soccer player and sometime English league player Thomas Hitzelsperger came out earlier this month it made headlines not just in the U.K. but around the world…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMFriday, January 17, 2014
New York’s Unsung Musicals Co. has lined up its 2014 season, including a world premiere of “Up in Arms!,” a new musical incorporating material by Frank Loesser and TV scribe Arnold Aue…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSo rare is a show that can run fundamentally unaltered for 26 years, bringing in global audiences galore, that this touring production of still-going Broadway megahit “The Phantom of the O…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMGiven Frank Langella’s rock-solid stage background, it should come as no surprise that the old lion makes a formidable monarch in “King Lear.” Under Angus Jackson’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMThursday, January 16, 2014
Enthralled as we are to our digital gadgetry, you’d think we’d identify with the heroine of “Machinal,” Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Expressionistic melodrama (inspi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMRoundabout Theater has locked in two more more titles for its 2014-15 season, skedding a new Broadway production of Michael Frayn’s farce “Noises Off” in winter 2015 and lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMOne last star-driven play has squeezed into a crowded Broadway season, with the Daniel Radcliffe-toplined production of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” locking in dates at the Cort Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:07PMBarry and Fran Weissler, the producers behind the Broadway revivals “Chicago” and “Pippin,” have teamed up with Canuck theater owner-producer David Mirvish to captain…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:11PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
Cirque du Soleil will take a shot a diversifying its output with the launch of a new theatrical division to be led by Scott Zeiger of BASE Entertainment. The new branch of the Montreal-based…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PMMonday, January 13, 2014
January chilled Broadway to the bone last week, with the annual post-holiday slump and the polar vortex joining forces to push the Rialto box office barometer down by a mammoth $11.5 million…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMA spokesman for Disney Theatrical Prods. has confirmed that Disney Animation’s hit “Frozen” is in early development for the stage, following a Fortune interview in which B…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMCarole King didn’t even show up for the Jan. 12 opening of “Beautiful,” the new Broadway musical that features her songs. But that’s no surprise. Everyone knows she&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46AMSunday, January 12, 2014
The early life and career of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King surely deserves more imaginative treatment than the corny chronological storytelling (And then we wrote …) and old-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, January 10, 2014
Tourist biz, an increasingly dominant force on Broadway in recent years, hit a high-water mark last season, with out-of-town visitors accounting for a whopping 66% of all ticket sales during…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:56PMLet’s face it: The Broadway industry’s reputation for being hidebound isn’t entirely undeserved. So you wouldn’t expect a theater exec to be the one to create a digital social networ…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26AM 
