Monday, 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 05:32PMThursday, December 12, 2013
Since soullessness is the essence of Patrick Bateman, the anti-hero of Bret Easton Ellis’s notoriously savage fantasia on 80s greed “American Psycho,” you could argue that an all-style…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMThe final pieces of Broadway’s spring puzzle are falling into place as one more play, “The Velocity of Autumn,” accelerates into the Booth Theater to start performances there in April.…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
The musical version of dark teen comedy “Heathers” has locked in its Off Broadway run, setting a timeline that will see the tuner begin performances this spring at New World Stag…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PM“Nothing to Hide,” the Off Broadway magic show directed by Neil Patrick Harris, has recouped its $400,000 capitalization in eight weeks, according to producers. That $400,000 pri…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMLinda Lavin will reunite with playwright Nicky Silver, helmer Mark Brokaw and Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theater to star in “Too Much Sun,” the new Silver play set to open at …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PM“Clever” is the word for Madeleine George’s bright idea of writing a play about those go-to guys named Watson with the solution to every scientific mystery from AI to corru…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Billy Crystal’s solo show ” 700 Sundays” may not have made the most money at the Broadway box office last week compared to other shows, but it sure is efficient about the w…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMThe Broadway revival of “Cinderella” has tapped Fran Drescher to play the wicked stepmother in the Rodgers and Hammerstein tuner, with the actress set to step into the role in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PMOne 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 09:00AM 
