Thursday, January 16, 2014
Roundabout 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 08:26AMThursday, January 9, 2014
Mark Rylance and Samuel Barnett, two major players in this season’s much-lauded and recently profitable revivals of “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III,” won’…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:21PM“Who will get me my divorce?” Thundered out by fierce Henry VIII (Nathaniel Parker), that’s the problem underpinning Hilary Mantel’s huge novels “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the B…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMThe Shakespeare’s Globe’s repertory staging of “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III” has ticked over into the hit column, recouping its $3.1 million capitaliz…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23PMWednesday, January 8, 2014
Tupac Shakur, Broadway composer. “Holler If You Hear Me,” the musical inspired by the lyrics of the late rapper Shakur, has locked in a Broadway slot at the Palace Theater, where…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
The current Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ”The Glass Menagerie” has recouped its $2.6 million in capitalization costs, according to producers, allowing producer…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:49PMMonday, January 6, 2014
Hercules who? Broadway box office held up admirably last week, with the final push of holiday tourist traffic helping to keep sales aloft despite a weekend winter storm that threw a wrench i…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:02PMJim Norton, the Brit actor who scored a 2008 Tony for his perf in “The Seafarer,” has signed on to join James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Of Mice and…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AMFriday, January 3, 2014
A pair of Broadway press agents at PR firm the Hartman Group, long one of the two big dogs in the small world of Broadway praiseries, are striking out on their own as the Hartman Group close…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:09PMThursday, January 2, 2014
In the midst of their ongoing tussle for the number one slot in Broadway’s weekly Top 10, sixteen-year-old musical “The Lion King” has taken the title of top earner of the year, wrestl…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMMonday, December 30, 2013
This year after Christmas, the floor wasn’t just strewn with torn wrapping paper — it was littered with the remains of broken Broadway records in a B.O.-busting holiday frame. &#…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:46PM“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” may take the title as the money-losing-est musical in Broadway history when it closes Jan. 4 — but don’t call it a flop. At least not …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:33PMMonday, December 23, 2013
Who says Broadway has to wait until Christmas to start opening presents at the box office? Last week Rialto B.O., as if impatient for the spike that the current holiday week is sure to bring…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PMHugh Jackman has stepped away from the upcoming Broadway musical “Houdini,” citing the scheduling demands of developing a new tuner as the cause of his departure from a project t…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PMFriday, December 20, 2013
It doesn’t take a genius to peg the uber-successful Harry Potter franchise as ripe for a stage incarnation, and author J.K. Rowling has said she’s been besieged over the years by…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53AMThursday, December 19, 2013
Here’s the mystery surrounding Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new tuner “Stephen Ward”: How could the fallout from Britain’s most notorious real-life sex-and-politics scandal have been turn…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMJeanine Tesori has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. The composer of musicals including “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Caroline, or Change” will follow up the popular and crit…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMA team of four Broadway publicists will join agency Polk and Co. in the wake of the shuttering of the Hartman Group, the firm led by one of the Rialto’s veteran press agents. The quart…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
The Goodman Theater’s much-lauded 2012 staging of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” has locked in a New York run that will play the Brooklyn Academy of Music…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:44AMA switchup in top brass at Film Society of Lincoln Center is now complete, with Rose Kuo, who has been the org’s executive director since 2010, announcing she will step down. Her exit come…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:38AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Making enthralling theater out of one of Shakespeare’s best-known titles is one thing. It’s an achievement of an altogether higher order to take the austerely forbidding “Coriolanus”…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PMMonday, December 16, 2013
Broadway sales slipped last week, but not by much, as tourism declined a bit in preparation for the deluge that traditionally hits the Main Stem over the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s.…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PM 
