Monday, December 9, 2013
One of the most resonant shocks of the powerful stage version of cult Swedish movie “Let the Right One In” is one of the simplest: the bringing up of the house-lights at the start of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, December 6, 2013
Seriously, kids — Burt Bacharach? Millennial age actor-musician-songwriter Kyle Riabko developed an almighty crush on this composer of an earlier fuddy-duddy generation, and “W…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:31PMMaybe credit the overlap of Sondheim’s rise to prominence with the flourishing of the television age. But whatever the explanation, the filmmakers discovered they had a wealth of resources…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMThursday, December 5, 2013
The producers and creatives behind the upcoming Broadway musical adaptation of “Bullets Over Broadway” have finalized their choice for the show-stealing role of Helen Sinclair, c…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:40PMIs Uncle Benjamin still alive? Are Marian and Adam back together? Has Richard gone over to the dark side and become a Republican? And is everyone agreed that this country has gone to…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
“I speak to thee plain soldier. If thou canst love me for this, take me!” No wonder Jessie Buckley’s grave, beautifully controlled Princess Katherine reacts like a rabbit trapped in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
The sublime talents of soprano Idina Menzel are showcased to the hilt in “If/Then,” an impressive new tuner by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey that gives new meaning to the term “book-heavy …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMMonday, December 2, 2013
Broadway publicist Michael Hartman, a 20-year veteran of the industry, will shutter the Hartman Group, the agency he founded in 2009, at the end of the year, ankling the legit world entirely…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:34PMBroadway feasted on record box office totals last week as shows ranging from “Kinky Boots” to “Twelfth Night/Richard III” broke house records and “Pippin”…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:06PMBroadway’s spring lineup of plays continues to fall into place as Tyne Daly starrer “Mothers and Sons,” the latest outing to join a crowded slate, claims the Golden Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PMFriday, November 29, 2013
Angela Lansbury will reprise her Tony-winning turn as dotty psychic Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” on the West End this spring. Lansbury first appeared in the comedy in…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:41PMBroadway types really know how to get into the Christmas spirit. To wit, look no further than “Carols for a Cure.” The enthusiasm of Main Stem casts has helped sustain 15 years of wassai…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
If the eyes of Broadway producers light up at the mention of the word “Thanksgiving,” it’s not because they like turkey so much. It’s because every year the Main Stem rings in big-mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
The Bryan Cranston-toplined production of “All the Way,” in which the “Breaking Bad” thesp will make his Broadway debut in the bio-play about Lyndon B. Johnson, has s…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:05PMJames Franco’s long-gestating Broadway bow in “Of Mice and Men” has at last set a theater and dates, with the thesp starring opposite Chris O’Dowd in a production set…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Broadway had a single new addition to the lineup last week, and even if box office for “Beautiful” wasn’t quite gorgeous, it was still a promising start for a tuner that looks to tap t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PMTrying to figure out a Pinter play is like pounding nails in your skull. Trying to figure out a Beckett play is like using a drill. But holding forth in a death-defying repertory bill …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTV creative Amy Sherman-Palladino is getting behind her “Bunheads” star, Sutton Foster, to join New York nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company and a team of commercial producers o…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AMFriday, November 22, 2013
The play's not quite the thing in helmer Jack O'Brien's high-concept revival, a showcase for spectacular visual and acoustic effects.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMAs underscored by the recent movement on a couple of projects — including a developing stage version of “The Princess Bride” and a play adaptation of “Shakespeare in Love” gearing …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Amanda Peet's play about the wretched (and lightly disguised) family of Bernie Madoff may not realize its ambitions, but it's not half bad in the hands of a superb cast led by Blythe Danner …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Denver Center Theater Company has set the majority of its slate for its 9th annual Colorado New Play Summit with a 2014 roster of readings that includes “Benediction,” the third …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, November 18, 2013
Here’s a sentence you never thought you’d read: The two hot tickets on Broadway last week were William Shakespeare and classical boy-band Il Divo. It seems unlikely enough that the Bard,…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:36PMBill Condon has reworked “Side Show,” the 1997 tuner succes d’estime — translation, floppo with cult status — into a handsome production that will follow its bow at the La Jolla …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PMSunday, November 17, 2013
How very daring — a witty musical about a serial killer that Stephen Sondheim didn’t write. Fashioned from the ingeniously absurd plot of the novel that inspired the classic Ale…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMLondon’s thriving not-for-profit houses again nudged out commercial competish to dominate the 59th Evening Standard Theater Awards at a glamorous ceremony held at the Savoy Hotel Nov. 17 a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PMThursday, November 14, 2013
Mix two parts Tarantino with two parts Pinter and one part Mamet — for violence, actor-friendly dialogue and punch, respectively — and serve in 1950s gangland London. That’s “Mojo,…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:52PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Disney Theatrical Prods. keeps loading more onto its plate, setting the creative team and West End theater for the upcoming premiere of its co-production of “Shakespeare in Love”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
Broadway veteran Tom Viertel has been tapped to run the Commercial Theater Institute, the training program for commercial theater producers run by the Theater Development Fund (TDF) and the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Nearly ten years after his last Broadway stint, Billy Crystal’s status as a box office powerhouse remains undiminished: His solo outing “700 Sundays” raked in more than $1 …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PMDisney Theatrical Prods. has embarked on a stage adaptation of “The Princess Bride” in a deal shepherded by Alan Horn. With no creative team yet attached, it’s not yet been…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PM 
