Monday, November 11, 2013
Disney 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 01:50PMWhen your Broadway show is actually two plays, which one do you do for the official opening performance? You do ’em both, which is what they did for the Mark Rylance-led stagings of Shakes…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08AMSunday, November 10, 2013
What sounds like a gimmick — a troupe of Shakespearean actors getting into costume and makeup in full view of the audience — turns out to be a stroke of genius when executed by the all…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM"Big Fish," the Broadway musical adaptation of the 2003 Tim Burton movie and the novel that inspired it, has thrown in the towel, posting a closing notice for Dec. 29.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PMFriday, November 8, 2013
Bill Condon makes his stage debut at the helm of the La Jolla Playhouse’s revival of cult musical “Side Show,” and everything you need to know about it can be summed up in just a few w…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AMYou oughta know: Alanis Morissette is developing her 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill” for the stage, with a targeted timeline that would see a workshop production of the piece bow…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29AMThursday, November 7, 2013
With some 175 comedians lined up to perform across more than 50 shows, the New York Comedy Festival is all about funny business. But its impact is no laughing matter. That Kevin Hart standup…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24PMIt’s not impossible to open a Broadway show over the summer — but it can be very, very hard. As if to prove the point: Musical “First Date,” which opened in August, anno…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMTo get it out of the way upfront: Yes, Neil Patrick Harris knows all the secrets to all the tricks in “Nothing to Hide,” the hourlong magic show that blew the minds of audience m…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:40PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Broadway courtroom drama “A Time to Kill,” based on the early tome by John Grisham that launched the novelist’s career, will shutter Nov. 17 after just seven weeks on the b…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PMMonday, November 4, 2013
“Domesticated” is the kind of play that big subscription houses are always on the hunt for: An entertaining domestic drama on a stimulating topic (the breakup of a marriage und…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMHalloween scared away some of Broadway’s sales last week as nearly every production on the boards slipped at the box office — but few of the drops were truly frightening. A couple …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMThe Broadway opening of Cotton Club revue “After Midnight” raised a couple of burning questions. Chief among them: How long until Hugh Jackman goes into the show as one of its sp…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:39AMSunday, November 3, 2013
Julie Taymor's first stage outing since "Spider-Man" soars with wit and imagination.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWhen Duke Ellington and his orchestra played the Cotton Club, the swells donned their white tie and tails and went uptown to Harlem in limousines. Everyone else took the A train. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Because it’s never too early to start booking big-name stars for Broadway stints, the Roundabout Theater Company has set Ewan McGregor to make his Main Stem debut in its revival of …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMThe room was warm, as theater folk say, at the 10th anniversary performance of Broadway musical “Wicked.” The Gershwin Theater audience was packed with a crowd made up of members of the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:55PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
Nick Kroll, the comedian-scribe-thesp who toplines Comedy Central skein “Kroll Show” and also appears in FXX series “The League,” has been tapped to host the 23rd ann…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
The Drama League, the 98-year-old theater development org, has tapped Neil Patrick Harris to receive its annual honor, with the performer set to receive the kudo at the org’s 30th R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Looks like on Broadway, Magneto and Professor X sell. Or Gandalf and Jean-Luc Picard do. The two-play outing led by Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, with productions of Samuel Beckett’s �…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Anyone who shelled out the big bucks to see James Bond in the flesh will get more than they bargained for in Mike Nichols’ impeccable revival of “Betrayal.” They’ll…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, October 24, 2013
Mary-Louise Parker is much too delicate and entirely too fashionable (in stunning widow’s weeds designed by Jane Greenwood) to be stuck in Syracuse in the dead of winter and at the end…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
“The Landing” is esteemed Broadway composer John Kander’s first musical since the death of his long-time collaborator, Fred Ebb, so all eyes are naturally on his new partne…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMImpressively stylized choreography and punchy lighting cues ignite “G Company Blues,” the opening number of lyricist-producer Tim Rice’s new tuner “From Here To Eternity.” Surprisi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMNina Arianda, the actress whose last stage role scored her a Tony in “Venus in Fur,” will swing back to the stage with the Off Broadway bow of “Tales from Red Vienna”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
How refreshing — a queer coming-of-age play in which the hero(ine) is not a diva, the parents are not monsters, and people are never mean, even when they’re being cruel. Lisa K…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWriter-producer Jules Bass — one half of Rankin/Bass Prods., the duo behind iconic 1960s TV specials “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Frosty the Snowman” — is pulling toge…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMNikki M. James, a Tony winner for her perf in “The Book of Mormon,” will play fan-favorite character Eponine in the incoming Broadway revival of “Les Miserables,” par…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMMonday, October 21, 2013
Married thesps Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman will topline an Off Broadway staging of “Annapurna,” the Sharr White play that rounds out the 2013-14 season from Gotham’s N…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:49PMBroadway slowed down a bit, but not by much, in the week after the Columbus Day boost, with most shows posting individual declines but few logging major ones. Helping to keep the cume aloft …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PMCan the Yankees hit a Broadway home run? Rialto producers are stepping up to bat with “Bronx Bombers,” a new play about the Gotham baseball team that will move into Circle in the Square …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01AM 
