Monday, February 3, 2014
The prophets of doom turned out to be right last week, as the Super Bowl took a supersized bite out of Broadway sales that were already weakened by the annual January slowdown. Box office sl…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMFriday, January 31, 2014
Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Bob Gale have teamed with Universal Stage Prods., producer Colin Ingram and Amblin Entertainment to turn 1985 time-travel comedy “Back to the Future” int…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44AMThursday, January 30, 2014
The Williamstown Theater Festival has given New York legiters a couple of reasons to spend a weekend in the Berkshires this summer, with Chita Rivera, Renee Fleming, Joe DiPietro and Kathlee…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:21PMWith the Hollywood awards season building to an Oscar frenzy, the legit world’s 2014 kudo season continues to come into focus as the Drama Desk sets dates for its annual round of award…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PMChris Jones, the veteran theater journo who is the chief theater critic and columnist at the Chicago Tribune, will take the reins at the O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
Broadway may have ended a record-breaking streak last season, but across the pond, numbers are on their way up. In London, both box office and attendance rose to new highs in 2013, according…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMTuesday, January 28, 2014
With the producer of the stage version of “King Kong” talking up an impending Broadway opening during an interview on Australian radio, the New York run of the big-budget, Aussi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PMShirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer topliner “Elsa and Fred,” a remake of the 2008 Argentinian/Spanish hit, will open the 31st annual Miami Intl. Film Festival, a ten day ev…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:39PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Isn’t it just a bit ironic that “Stop Hitting Yourself,” the Rude Mechs’ pointed (if only fitfully funny) satire of American materialism, should be playing in the gra…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMLast 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 05:08PM 
