Thursday, October 3, 2013
Producers 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 12:00PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
The third annual legit-focused Gotham symposium, TEDxBroadway, has locked in its 2014 date, with speakers including helmer Diane Paulus, actor Lea DeLaria and Metropolitan Museum of Art exec…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:14PMTribeca Film, the distributor loosely affiliated with the Tribeca Film Festival, has snagged U.S. rights to Neil LaBute’s “Some Velvet Morning” for a theatrical and digital…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Holiday entertainment just got a new stage tuner. “Holiday Inn,” based in the 1942 Paramount movie musical centering on a country inn that’s only open on major holidays, will have its …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMSpurred by largely stellar reviews in the wake of its Sept. 26 opening, the Broadway revival of “The Glass Menagerie” posted the largest individual jump of the week at the Broadway box o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24PM“Secondhand Lions,” the 2003 New Line Cinema pic that inspired the stage musical now getting its world premiere from Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater, got knocked by critics for being schm…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMFriday, September 27, 2013
Come aboard: They’re expecting you. “The Love Boats,” a stage musical version of the book that inspired the long-running TV skein, is charting a course for Las Vegas, where a team of p…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:27PMLet’s be honest: Nobody in the theater industry wants to sit through another production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” And for a long time, that includ…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58AMThursday, September 26, 2013
A commercial transfer of the American Repertory Theater’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” which premiered earlier this year Cambridge, Mass., op…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMWednesday, 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 12:00PM 
