Wednesday, 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 07:01PMCommercial Off Broadway productions are falling into place for theater-district runs this fall, with Dr. Ruth bio “Becoming Dr. Ruth” locked in for a run at the Westside Theater and down…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Who needs a helicopter anyway? In an inventive and satisfying remount of the tuner “Miss Saigon” for its 275-seat main stage, Arlington, Va.’s, Signature Theater turns the theatrical s…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PMBroadway box office held steady for the final week of summer 2013, keeping a tight grip on holiday-weekend sales ahead of a post-Labor Day sesh that traditionally sees sales slump. There wer…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:33PMTuesday, August 27, 2013
The Mark Taper Forum at L.A.’s Center Theater Group has lined up its 2014 season with a couple of world preems that legiters in Gotham and beyond will likely keep an eye on. Among the titl…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:27PMMonday, August 26, 2013
Broadway’s fall season launched a bit early this year, with Orlando Bloom topliner “Romeo and Juliet” bowing to strong numbers in a late-summer week that saw overall sales continue to …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMTony winner Victoria Clarke and Danny Burstein, nommed for Tonys in each of the last two seasons, are among the thesps signed on to appear alongside Mary-Louise Parker in the upcoming Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:01PMFriday, August 23, 2013
Freed at last from the show’s long-running legal dramas, producers can finally get moving on potential incarnations across the country and around the globe.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, August 22, 2013
“Broadway Idiot,” the documentary feature chronicling the creation of the legit musical version of Green Day album “American Idiot,” is on tap for release this fall i…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Broadway is making an exploratory attempt at a digital cinema series, with stage-to-screen production company Broadway Worldwide pacting with distributor SpectiCast for a fall series of thea…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PM“Baggage Claim,” the David E. Talbert movie starring Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Taye Diggs, Jill Scott and Adam Brody, will open 2013 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York. The 17th annual…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Add one more production to the list of shows vying for a Broadway theater in 2014: Producers of a new staging of “Dames at Sea,” the 1968 Off Broadway tuner that launched the car…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:06PM Call it a hat-trick of Scottish plays: The Kenneth Branagh-toplined staging of “Macbeth,” which bowed in a much-lauded U.K. run earlier this summer, will make the move to…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22AMMonday, August 19, 2013
Every summer must come to an end, and box office numbers indicate that last week might have been the beginning of the end of this year’s annual summer boom on Broadway. Nearly every pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMTyne Daly and playwright Terrence McNally are reteaming for their next Broadway effort with the latest play by McNally, “Mothers and Sons,” targeting a spring run on the Rialto…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMFriday, August 16, 2013
After a long stretch without any high-profile actor injuries, “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is grappling once again with issues of actor safety in a high-tech stage production: A perfo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PMThursday, August 15, 2013
Lots of luck marketing “Soul Doctor” to a general audience. This worshipful musical biography of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the so-called “Rock Star Rabbi” credited w…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMManhattan Theater Club has added “Taking Care of Baby,” a 2007 play by “Matilda” Tony winner Dennis Kelly, to its Off Broadway slate this fall. Off Broadway stalwart …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
While cherishing his ‘Harry Potter’ experience, Daniel Radcliffe eagerly tackles projects far across the creative spectrum.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Isn’t “Love’s Labour’s Lost” about Berowne and Rosaline, those intelligent, articulate lovers who carry on a fierce flirtation via a battle of wit and words? No…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMMore than once this summer, Broadway musical “The Lion King” has done something impressive: It’s beaten “Wicked” at the box office even when “Lion King” plays a traditional eig…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:19PM“Beautiful,” the incoming Broadway bio-musical of Carole King featuring tunes from the singer-songwriter’s canon, has found its Carole, with Jessie Mueller tapped to toplin…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMSunday, August 11, 2013
Shirley Herz, the storied Broadway press agent, died of complications from a stroke Aug. 11 in New York. She was 87. Herz, who suffered the stroke July 18, repped close to 100 Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:03PMFriday, August 9, 2013
For Zachary Levi, the musical “First Date” is indeed his first date — with Broadway. So he’s been getting acquainted. “I didn’t even know what previews were …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMThursday, August 8, 2013
“First Date,” a romantic musical comedy about the horrors, humiliations and occasional happy surprises of blind dates, is cute (but not too cute) and sweet (but not too sweet). …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe sentiment may not sound sexy, but it goes a long way toward explaining what led 20th Century Fox to tap Broadway producer Kevin McCollum for its new theatrical joint venture.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMBut I really want to direct, goes the common refrain in Hollywood. And these days on Broadway too. Jeffrey Seller, one of the producers behind “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “In the Height…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Surprisingly cumbersome switches between designer Scott Pask’s office and courtroom locations are an unintentional metaphor for the problem beneath “The Same Deep Water As Me.” Nick Pa…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMThe Independent Filmmaker Project has tapped Katherine Oliver, the commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, to receive the industry tribute at the 23rd …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Bill Maher, Wanda Sykes, Kathy Griffin, Anthony Jeselnik and Whitney Cummings are among the comics lined up to perform as part of the 10th annual New York Comedy Festival in November. Five-d…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PMMonday, August 5, 2013
As summer starts to wind down, so does the Broadway cume — but last week average ticket price actually climbed, in what’s been a strong season so far in terms of the average price paid …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PM 
