Monday, May 20, 2013
Ambassador Theater Group, the largest owner/operator of theaters in the U.K., has at last planted a flag on Broadway with the acquisition of the Foxwoods Theater, current home to “Spid…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:25PMZachary Levi, the “Chuck” star soon to appear in upcoming Marvel sequel “Thor: The Dark World,” will make his Broadway debut this summer in “First Date,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:49PMSunday, May 19, 2013
Tony contenders including tuner “Matilda” and play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” were among the titles to emerge as winners at the 2013 Drama Desk Awards. “Matilda” led t…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:35PMFriday, May 17, 2013
The Drama League contributed its two cents to the 2012-13 awards season discussion, tapping tuner “Kinky Boots” and new play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” to …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMThursday, May 16, 2013
As Russian supper club entertainment goes, “Natasha,� Pierre� and the Great Comet of 1812″ could put belly dancers out of business. In this smartly engineered transfer, Dave Mall…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWith the selection of Broadway producer Jed Bernstein (pictured) as the next president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, one of Gotham’s major nonprofits looks poised to inject it…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMThe Broadway transfer of “The Glass Menagerie,” toplined by Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto, has snagged the Booth Theater for its upcoming Gotham run, beginning previews at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
With the eyes of the Gotham theater industry focused on the current Tony race, you might not notice that in an under-the-radar Down Under locale, there’s a big new stage show swinging into…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMRoger Rees will topline a Broadway revival of Terrence Rattigan’s play “The Winslow Boy” as part of the 2013-14 Broadway season at the Roundabout Theater Company, which als…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Producers grumbling about the revenue lost from all those comp tickets they have to hand out to Tony voters can now take heart: Tony noms and awards seem to be exerting a stronger influence …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMBilly Crystal has marked his calendar for the Broadway return of “700 Sundays,” the autobiographical solo show that proved a box office powerhouse when it preemed on the Rialto i…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMMonday, May 13, 2013
It didn’t hurt to be a Tony nominee last week, when a general upward trend at the Broadway box office proved most likely to bring increases at those individual titles currently enjoying a …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PMThe Broadway revival of “Pippin” scored seven awards from the Outer Critics Circle, with the musical notching kudos for musical revival, director (Diane Paulus) and lead actress in a mus…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:03AMSunday, May 12, 2013
There are two things you can pretty much count on in a LAByrinth production: fine ensemble acting and innovative shows. True to company form, a terrific LAB cast helmed by Philip Seymour H…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, May 10, 2013
Every year at this time, there’s usually a Broadway show that legiters say really needs a Tony — a worthy but underselling title for which an award looks like a potential box office savi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
“Annie Hall” remains celebrated for the scene in which Woody Allen and Diane Keaton’s spoken words are wittily contradicted by their thoughts presented in subtitles. Four years later, …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:51PMAfter a legit season that has underscored the financial viability of concert engagements on Broadway, the Beatles are back to give it a go: West End title “Let It Be” is gearing up for a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Cherry Jones, the Emmy winner (“24″) already lined up for a fall Broadway stint in “The Glass Menagerie,” has also locked in a 2014 run in the Manhattan Theater Club&…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThe legit awards season has barely begun, but Tony nominee Tom Hanks has already notched one trophy to take home with him once his toplining stint in Broadway play “Lucky Guy” en…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40PMMegan Hilty and Aaron Lazar have been tapped to star in a staged reading this summer of “Can-Can,” the Cole Porter tuner gearing up for a Broadway revival helmed by TV vet David Lee. A t…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, May 6, 2013
In Richard Nelson’s new play, “Nikolai and the Others,” George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Maria Tallchief and a full complement of other notable Russian emigres spend a C…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMLast week’s Broadway box office saw the trends established on the prior week’s sales chart hold true one more time, with a quartet of spring titles still camped out in the millio…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMThe Broadway revival of “Orphans” becomes the latest Tony contender to post a closing notice, with the Alec Baldwin topliner now set to shutter later this month. Like “The Testamen…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:45PMBilly Crudup and Gotham legit vet Shuler Hensley have been tapped to join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in “No Man’s Land” and “Waiting for Godot,” the Harold Pinter-Samuel Beck…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMThe Signature Theater Company’s much-lauded revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” scored with four Lucille Lortel Awards at Off Broadway’s annual kudofest. The Playwrig…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:34AMFriday, May 3, 2013
The New York Critics Drama Circle weighed in with its picks of the 2012-13 season, naming Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” top play and “Matilda” top musi…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22PMThursday, May 2, 2013
With the legit producing landscape and the nation’s network of nonprofit theaters evolving in major ways over the years, the 37-year-old Humana Festival of New American Plays may not occup…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMSome years, the Tony nominations are announced and Broadway shows fall like dominoes. But this year, two days after the nominations, the news is good: Tom Hanks starrer “Lucky Guy,” nomi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Ink on the Tony nominations is barely dry and already one show has called it quits: Sales-challenged “The Testament of Mary” will shutter May 5 after a short run. It’s common for strug…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMThe nominations for the 2013 Tony Awards shaped up into a title bout between two strong-selling and well-reviewed new tuners, with “Kinky Boots” notching a whopping 13 noms and &…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:50AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Playwright and activist Larry Kramer will be receive the annual Isabelle Stevenson Award as part of the 2013 Tony Awards June 9. The laurel, named after the former prexy of Tony co-presenter…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:18PM 
