Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Fans of Main Stem musical romance probably watch the Food Network. Own an espresso machine? You’re a lot more likely to be a Broadway ticketbuyer than someone who doesn’t.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
“August: Osage County” will play one of the two centerpiece slots at this year’s Hamptons Intl. Film Festival, joining a lineup of buzzy festival-circuit alums including op…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMEstelle Parsons is the spitting, shouting — but by no means cursing — image of irascibility in “The Velocity of Autumn,” a tender-hearted dramedy by playwright Eric Coble (“Brigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMBig Block Theatrical, a new legit arm of VFX firm Big Block, will revive 1999 musical “Inappropriate” in an L.A. workshop staging this fall, with an eye toward returning the Off Broadway…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PMMonday, September 23, 2013
Broadway began the slow process of picking itself up out of the fall doldrums last week as a bit of sales momentum returned to the box office — even as the head count of total theatergoe…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMThe conflict of a divided soul — personal, political and national — sears onstage in A.R.T.’s sprawling, heady and thoroughly gripping drama “All the Way,” starring Bryan Cransto…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:49AMFriday, September 20, 2013
“Much Ado About Nothing” is the blueprint for rom-coms, but what makes it fascinatingly unique is that it’s both comedy and tragedy. Except that in the Old Vic’s ill-conceived, witle…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PMTake a look at Broadway’s 2013-14 slate, and one thing’s clear: Spring 2014 sure is crowded with notable new musicals.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMOrlando Bloom said it best, just after his opening night performance Sept. 19 in the Broadway revival of “Romeo and Juliet.” “It’s really hard not to sound pretentiou…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05AMThursday, September 19, 2013
The kids are all right. That’s the takeaway from “Romeo and Juliet,” with movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom and ingenue stunner Condola Rashad as Shakespeare’s star-cr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMDespite Bottom, the lovers, Oberon and Titania, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has either no leads or too many. No single character-line drives the action and everyone comes from differen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“The Last Ship,” the new Broadway musical with songs by Sting, has filled in its production timeline, with a Chicago tryout set for this summer prior to a fall bow on the Main Stem. Set …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Michael Barra, until recently the senior veep of Daryl Roth Theatrical Licensing, has struck out on his own to form Stageworks Media, a new production company that will focus on adapting con…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMTuesday, September 17, 2013
Beth Williams, currently CEO of Key Brand Entertainment’s theater division, will hang out her own shingle, launching a new production company called Grove Entertainment starting next y…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMThe Gotham Independent Film Awards have named indie stalwart Richard Linklater as the recipient of the kudos’ annual director tribute. Filmmaker will be honored alongside Katherine Oliver,…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, September 16, 2013
It was the same old song of September at the Broadway box office last week — pretty much the same verse as the prior frame, as Rialto sales held generally steady with minor upticks at sev…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PMJonathan Freeman, the actor who portrayed the villain Jafar in Disney’s 1992 animated pic “Aladdin,” will reprise his role onstage in the Broadway-bound legit adaptation of…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” an ambitious new work penned by Anne Washburn and developed with The Civilians, is a refreshingly original take on the fast-growing genre of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, September 13, 2013
Dennis Kelly, Tony-winning bookwriter of the musical “Matilda,” is second only to Caryl Churchill as the U.K.’s most ambitious and iconoclastic dramatist. “The Ritual Slaughter of Go…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Going to a Horton Foote play is like catching up with good friends and friendly enemies at a family reunion. His posthumous debut “The Old Friends” is only now having its world premi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWith a West End revival bowing in May and a smaller-scale, stand-alone production now running at the D.C. area’s Signature Theater, the 1989 mega musical, often mentioned in the same breat…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PMThe Film Society of Lincoln Center has tapped Andrea Arnold, whose features include 2009 Michael Fassbender outing “Fish Tank” and the 2011 adaptation of “Wuthering Heights…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMActress Shirley MacLaine, singer/songwriter Billy Joel, opera singer Martina Arroyo, jazz legend Herbie Hancock and musician/songwriter Carlos Santana will receive this year’s Kennedy Cent…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, September 9, 2013
The autumn back-to-school slump hit Broadway hard last week, with overall box office totals falling like leaves — and superhero tuner “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” emerging as the p…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PM“Casa Valentina,” the new play by “Kinky Boots” book writer Harvey Fierstein, has locked in a Broadway bow this spring in a production directed by “Wicked”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMWaylon and Willie gave wise advice to mamas when they sang, “Don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.” Someone should write another verse for playwrights: ”…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMFriday, September 6, 2013
Can’t make it over to London to check out notable stage shows there? Don’t fret: You can probably catch them in a movie theater near you. With the launch of a new West End Theater Series…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMThursday, September 5, 2013
There must be a lot of Lucy Thurber-envy going around Gotham, given the ambitious five-play retrospective of her work being produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and running concurrent…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMProducers of the Broadway revival of musical “Annie” have posted the show’s closing notice, announcing the production will shutter Jan. 5. “Annie,” which began …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMIl Divo, the popular four-member classical-pop group, will tubthump the act’s latest album, the Broadway-themed “A Musical Affair,” with a brief run of Rialto concerts set …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:19PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Michelle Williams has signed on to tackle the role of Sally Bowles in the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming Broadway revival of “Cabaret” — and it’s been long …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM 
