Wednesday, 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 02:53PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Believe the buzz. ”Choir Boy,” the small but mighty coming-of-age play by Tarell Alvin McCraney (“The “Brother/Sister Plays”) that melted frosty British hearts at th…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMHow drunk do you have to be to laugh yourself stupid at “I Hope They Serve Beer On Broadway”? Christopher Carter Sanderson’s raunchy adaptation of “the literary wo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, July 1, 2013
With a history of infusing classic tales with fresh theatricality, auteur-director Mary Zimmerman (“Metamorphoses”) is both a natural choice to adapt a Disney film to the stage and a nea…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMBroadway’s millionaires’ club expanded to a full dozen members last week, with a whopping twelve shows pulling in more than $1 million each in a robust summer frame. It wasn’t so long …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:10PMSteven Levenson raises some Big Issues in “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.” We’re talking about weighty matters like crime and punishment, guilt and resti…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMFriday, June 28, 2013
With the recent announcement by U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) of his intention to introduce the Stage Act of 2013, the legit industry may be one step closer to earning an IRS write-o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMThursday, June 27, 2013
Andrew Lloyd Webber has a new musical lined up for a West End world preem, and because it’s a new project from the creator of some of Broadway’s most enduring hits, it’s big news. But …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMFresh off his Kickstarter success in funding a film follow-up to “Garden State,” Zach Braff has booked his Broadway debut in the upcoming musical adaptation of “Bullets Over Broadway.�…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20PMWith musicals “After Midnight” and “A Night with Janis Joplin” now booked for fall runs, Broadway’s singing a familiar song. A whole slew of them, in fact. Catalog musicals — th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Drama has never been central to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Roald Dahl’s story and the two so-so movie versions used vivid prose or super-saturated-color visuals to disguise t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44PMMonday, June 24, 2013
Who says there’s only one Tony Award that means anything at the box office? With Broadway sales riding a late-June swell of holiday visitors, a good half-dozen shows logged best-ever talli…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMA Chinese restaurant deliveryman who speaks limited English is trapped in an elevator for 81 hours. This might not sound like the most natural hero for a musical, but “Stuck Elevator,” g…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, June 20, 2013
You don’t have to be British to lose your composure and howl with laughter at “The Explorers,” a witty spoof of all those bold Victorian adventurers who ravaged foreign lan…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThere’s barely a writer alive who is the best possible director of his or her own work: An outside eye can spot the dramatic and structural flaws the writer cannot or will not see. “The …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMFrank Langella will topline a new production of “King Lear” set to bow at the U.K.’s Chichester Festival Theater this fall prior to a early 2014 run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. P…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
The resurgence of the 1980s Brit megamusical continues, with producer Cameron Mackintosh locking in a West End revival of “Miss Saigon” that will open at the Prince Edward Theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMOne of the key differences between London and Broadway theatergoers is that Brits don’t applaud the first entrance of a star. But helmer Michael Grandage is taking no chances. He whisks Da…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Take a good look at Hamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the clown princes who are making a dazzling spectacle of themselves in Daniel Sullivan’s madcap version of “The Com…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMThere’s a drinks trolley downstage right. Good grief — where are we, the 1930s? Yes. But the cunning new play “Bracken Moor,” a cross between a thunderingly old-fashioned family dra…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMThe familiar faces aren’t just on Broadway next season: Off Broadway’s 2013-14 lineup has shaped up to include parts for Maggie Gyllenhaal and Mandy Patinkin, among other recognizable na…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Talk about shows that appeal to niche audiences! Daniel Pearle’s new play, “A Kid Like Jake,” should captivate yuppie parents from upscale urban neighborhoods who are ob…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMSummer tourism and the PR boost of the Tony Awards combined to land 11 Broadway shows in the millionaires’ club last week, with the four trophies scored by “Pippin” helping that reviva…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMHot on the heels of his fourth well-received stint as Tony host, Neil Patrick Harris has locked in a Broadway return with a spring 2014 production of John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThursday, June 13, 2013
For a title that’s famously cursed, legiters sure are saying “Macbeth” a lot these days. Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming Broadway staging of the Scottish play, toplined by Ethan Ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PMThe Tony Awards Administration committee has decided to open up eligibility for its annual Regional Theater Award to New York legit companies. Kudo, the recipient of which is selected every …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Broadway play ‘Ann,’ the solo show written by and starring Holland Taylor, has moved up its closing date, with the production now scheduled to close at the end of the month. TV a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
It’s payback time for the “regular” looking girls whose boyfriends humiliated them for being insufficiently gorgeous in Neil LaBute’s 2008 play, “Reasons to Be …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAt the parties following June 9’s Tony ceremony — which saw new musical "Kinky Boots" walk all over Brit hit and critical fave "Matilda" — the dominant topic was a postgame analysis th…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMDisney Theatrical Prods. has quietly initiated early explorations of a live stage show featuring the Muppets, commencing late last month with a short but elaborate presentation directed by A…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMMonday, June 10, 2013
With the Tonys out of the way, the Broadway productions featured on the kudocast have begun to lock in upcoming plans as winning play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” set a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:08PM 
