“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 03:00PMShirley 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 08:03PMFor 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 01:50PM“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 03:00PMSurprisingly 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 10:00AMBill 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 03:18PMAs 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 02:00PMLongtime 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 04:00PMAn 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 05:41PMFor 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 10:00AMLast 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 12:15PMIf 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 01:55AMNot 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 04:22PM“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 02:48PMHugh 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 06:08PMFor 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 06:00PMHow 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 05:44PMBroadway 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 03:21PMWith 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 09:00AMTrepidation is in the air. Crepuscular lighting and looming, gloomy sound envelop promenading audiences seeking mysterious stories played out in labyrinthine corridors, crannies and curated …
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