Thursday, 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 03:01AMSunday, October 20, 2013
Rupert Holmes’ stage adaptation of John Grisham’s first novel, “A Time to Kill,” comes at a sweet moment for the author, whose belated sequel to that 1989 book, ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMFriday, October 18, 2013
A cutthroat clique of Hollywood high school tales is moving from the bigscreen to the stage, with “Heathers” in the midst of a short initial run in Los Angeles, “Jawbreaker” coming o…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMThursday, October 17, 2013
Terence Rattigan's thought-provoking play gets a sterling Broadway revival from the Old Vic and Roundabout.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMChicago, Seattle, L.A., San Francisco: They’re all on the list of go-to towns for pre-Broadway tryouts of new musicals. Now? Add Paris and Hamburg. The brewing musical version of ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:31PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
Meryl Streep has been tapped to receive the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s annual Monte Cristo award, given each year to a legit creative singled out for distinguished contribut…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMAdd another star-driven play to Broadway’s 2013-14 slate, with Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts tapped to star in a Rialto staging of Will Eno’s ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
Autumn bounty came to Broadway last week, with major sales and attendance bumps logged at most shows on the boards and no fewer than four titles topping an impressive $1.8 million each. The …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PMLondon’s National Theater, the prominent government-subsidized legit company responsible for numerous Broadway transfers and an increasingly prominent series of HD cinemacasts, has tap…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
Daryl Roth, one of the lead producers of recent Tony champ “Kinky Boots,” has tapped Erica Lynn Schwartz as the new director of Daryl Roth Productions’ licensing arm, DR Theatrical Lic…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMThursday, October 10, 2013
As a musical biography, “A Night With Janis Joplin” is pretty much a bust. The book by Randy Johnson, who also helmed, skims lightly over the singer’s Texas childhood an…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe phrase that most fully captures the National Theater’s long-awaited fairytale tuner “The Light Princess,” the latest production from director Marianne Elliott (“War Horse”), is…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:14PMCAA has tapped agent Joe Machota as the new head of the agency’s theater department, replacing longtime topper George Lane, who’ll remain on board as an agent. Move reps somethin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Bizarre but true: For all its raucous soul sound, “The Commitments” turns out to be a reinvention of old-fashioned Mickey-and-Judy musicals. But where they “put the show on right here,…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMA decade of hits rivaling those in “Jersey Boys” and “Mamma Mia!” in terms of boomer nostalgia value is the estimable main selling point of “Beautiful — The …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMThe 2014 Tony Awards season will follow the kudos’ usual annual timeline, setting a June 8 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall following an eligibility cut-off in late April. The Tony ce…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:41AMMonday, October 7, 2013
Powered by the Broadway return of Daniel Craig, the starry revival of “Betrayal” made a boffo B.O. bow last week, vaulting into the millionaires’ club with just seven prev…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:25PMBroadway musical “Big Fish” is all about fathers and children and tall tales, so it was hard not to talk about all those things at the show’s opening night party at Roselan…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWith Bryan Cranston following up “Breaking Bad” with a Broadway bow and Matt Smith moving from “Doctor Who” to the “American Psycho” musical in London, th…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:39AMSunday, October 6, 2013
A show that speaks to anyone pining for a studiously heart-warming musical about the efforts of a dying man to justify a lifetime of lousy parenting to his alienated son.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Broadway musical “Kinky Boots” has become the first of the 2012-13 season’s tuner successes to recoup its capitalization costs, according to producers — and the show…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:59PMProducers and creatives have aimed to mold the show into a framework that will attract adventurous music types to explore jazz-age standards and dip a toe into Broadway waters.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM 
