Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The 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 07:08PMThe good news just keeps coming for “Kinky Boots.” The musical capped its Tony Award triumph by posting its best weekly sales figure so far, sashaying its way up to number four in the fr…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17PMSunday, June 9, 2013
The Tony Awards are off and running, handing out an early thesping trophy to Courtney B. Vance, who appears alongside Tom Hanks in "Lucky Guy."
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20PMThis year it might have been something of a blessing that the pre-show awards weren’t televised: It gave the ceremony’s voice-over announcer a little time to work out the kinks.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02PMFriday, June 7, 2013
“I was surprised,” he says, when he heard the Tony Awards had decided to give him its annual Isabelle Stevenson Award for significant contribution to humanitarian or charitable causes.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMJudging by numbers alone, the 2012-13 Broadway season was kind of a bummer. Sales and, even more notably, attendance were down. So why is the nation’s network of road presenters so excited?
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMAt every performance of musical "The Phantom of the Opera," on Broadway and around the country, the tortured title character rips off his mask to reveal his disfigured face. That deformed mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMThe gestating musical version of “The Bridges of Madison County” has lined up its Broadway run, with the production inked in for a February opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMThursday, June 6, 2013
Brit thesp Mark Rylance will reprise his two lead roles in the Shakespeare’s Globe all-male productions of “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III” on Broadway this fall in a double bill …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMThe brewing Broadway adaptation of “Rear Window” has tapped scribe Keith Reddin and helmer Terry Kinney to bring the thriller to the stage. Reddin is a veteran legit scribe whose plays i…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM"The identification with the play, I think, is about family and what home means to you,” says producer Nelle Nugent. She’s talking about her Tony-nommed revival of Horton Foote’s "The …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
The Vineyard polishes its rep as an incubator of offbeat plays by eccentric playwrights with “Somewhere Fun,” another highwire act in twisted linguistics from Jenny Schwartz. G…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theater has booked David Hyde Pierce, currently up for a Tony for his perf in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” to star in its upcoming product…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PMThe world preem of “A New York Heartbeat,” a screening of upcoming Epix doc “TWA Flight 800” and a career kudo for Killer Films’ Christine Vachon are among the highlights of …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMSunday, June 2, 2013
It’s really hard to pull off a production style that says: “Yoo-hoo, I’m being ironic here!” without patronizing or caricaturing its targets of irony. Todd Haynes exe…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMThursday, May 30, 2013
Christopher Lloyd has made a career of playing mad geniuses, which makes this brilliant clown a perfect fit for Azdak, the wise fool who injects some cockeyed sanity into the state-sanctione…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM“I’ll Eat You Last,” the Broadway play toplined by Bette Midler, has become one of the first of the spring’s shows to make it into the black, according to producers, with the show re…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTurns out you can go home again: The incoming Broadway revival of “Les Miserables” will open next spring at the Imperial Theater, the venue where the original Rialto production played fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
How do you turn an analysis of contemporary East/West politics into a smart-mouthed, sharply paced drama? Pour it into a convincing thriller plot. That’s what Lucy Kirkwood has done in her…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Broadway left its B.O. records unbroken in the 2012-13 season, logging drops both in cumulative gross and, more notably, in attendance. It’s been a while since a Main Stem season didn’t …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31PMKwame Kwei-Armah’s play “Beneatha’s Place” has turned legit industry heads as part of an ambitious project at Baltimore’s Center Stage, which is presenting the new title, inspired …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM 
