Thursday, July 18, 2013
The 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 02:53PMTuesday, 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 05:09PM 
