Monday, 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 05:47PMAny playwright can stick celebrity facsimiles together in a room; it takes real talent not only to render those portraits believable but also to invest the encounter with dramatic weight. In…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMFriday, August 2, 2013
Longtime Off Broadway producer Edmund Gaynes has hung out a new shingle, launching Gaynes Theatrical Booking to rep Off Broadway touring properties. The road market for Off Broadway shows is…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMThursday, August 1, 2013
An upcoming Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” touted by topliner Denzel Washington in the press but not yet confirmed, has locked in its details, booking the Ethel Barry…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
For anyone worried that all the really big stars would be packed onto Broadway in the fall, Denzel Washington has come along to add some wattage to the spring lineup. Nothing has been confir…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PMThe first film awards show of the season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards, has booked a 2013 date and set two new competitive acting categories for a ceremony that has a track record of…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, July 29, 2013
Last week’s Broadway box office chart didn’t give anyone much to talk about. And a lot of producers will tell you that there’s nothing wrong with that. After all, with tourist-fueled s…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PM“Captain Phillips,” the Tom Hanks topliner directed by Paul Greengrass, will launch the 51st New York Film Festival. Film, a look at the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. ship by Somali p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMSunday, July 28, 2013
If you’re going to make your directing debut under a harsh industry spotlight with minimal rehearsal time, it’s smart to appropriate a world-famous production’s concept and numerous ve…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:55AMFriday, July 26, 2013
Not many things can unite Broadway and non-profit theaters with major league sports and mega-churches. But they’re all part of the posse that has banded together for “Pardon the Interrup…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:22PMThursday, July 25, 2013
“Murder for Two,” a two-character spoof by Joe Kinosian (book & music) and Kellen Blair (book & lyrics) of an old-fashioned stage whodunit, is the first musical produced …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMProducer Jeffrey Richards will reteam with scribe-actor Tracy Letts and helmer Pam MacKinnon to bring Letts’ 1993 play “Killer Joe” to Broadway for a production aiming to h…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:56PM“Barnum,” the story of the legendary showman, takes place within the circus for which the title character became famous. Acrobatic choreography energizes Cy Coleman’s all-the-fun-of-th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Hugh Jackman has been touting his upcoming Broadway tuner “Houdini” from “The Wolverine” red carpets, and even if definite plans are far from finalized, the possible 2014 bow mention…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
For his lastest superheroic feat, Spider-Man has endowed Broadway theatergoers with the extraordinary ability to reserve tickets and pay for them later. It might not sound like much. But the…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMMonday, July 22, 2013
How much of a boost did Jane Lynch give to the box office at the revival of “Annie” on Broadway? About $175,000 a week, to judge from last week’s Rialto B.O. charts. “Glee” star Ly…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMFriday, July 19, 2013
Broadway observers can be forgiven for being skeptical when Disney Theatrical Prods. says it’s taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the latest Mouse House-affiliated stage outing, “The …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMWhen the off-network run of NBC skein “Smash” launches tonight, the Ovation network will be doing something NBC couldn’t: Banking on Broadway. Differences of scale between Big Four net…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PMWith new plays thin on the ground for the 2013-14 Broadway season, Manhattan Theater Club has lined up one to watch, reteaming scribe John Patrick Shanley, who wrote Pulitzer winner “Doubt…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:21PMThursday, July 18, 2013
With Fantasia Barrino’s toplining stint in upcoming stage musical “After Midnight” now confirmed, producers have locked in the Broadway return of the only “American Idol” alum to d…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMThe annual comedy and music benefit “Stand-Up for Heroes” gets an upgrade as part of the tenth annual New York Comedy Festival, moving from the Beacon Theater to the larger Theater at Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Trepidation is in the air. Crepuscular lighting and looming, gloomy sound envelop promenading audiences seeking mysterious stories played out in labyrinthine corridors, crannies and curated …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
With holiday stage productions now nailing down Yuletide plans, it’s beginning not to look a lot like Christmas on Broadway this year. Whereas last year’s holiday season saw an influx of…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Summertime looked a lot like Christmas on Broadway last week. Not because of the grosses — which, while robust, didn’t approach the stratospheric heights of the year-end holidays — b…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
For Broadway’s really big hits, the mega-bucks don’t come from a show’s outpost on the Main Stem – they come from all the title’s incarnations around the world. Proving the point: …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PMTuesday, July 9, 2013
After wending its way through the international festival circuit since its 2007 debut, “Monkey: Journey to the West” has arrived at Lincoln Center, which is running this eye-popp…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMIf two “Macbeths” is company, is three a crowd? That’s a question Broadway types have started to wonder in the wake of glowing reviews for the Kenneth Branagh-toplined revival of “M…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMMonday, July 8, 2013
Who says July 4 is bad for Broadway box office? Not spring openers “Kinky Boots,” “Motown” and “Matilda,” which all hit best-yet tallies in a frame that can sometimes be a rough …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:05PMSaturday, July 6, 2013
It can be tough to make it to Broadway banking on straight men: The producer of the stage adaptation of Tucker Max’s frat-boys-behaving-badly chronicle “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell�…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMFriday, July 5, 2013
It’s become a formula for Broadway success: Pick a well-known play, cast a star, limit the run to drive up demand and watch box office take off. But as Broadway’s current crop of plays n…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Veteran Gotham legiter Jodi Schoenbrun Carter has hung out her own shingle, launching 1022m Management and Marketing, an outfit that aims to match old-school talent management to new-media b…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PM 
