Monday, 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 06:18PMThe spring season on Broadway already looks to have yielded a bumper crop of B.O. earners, with no fewer that four recent openers breaking the $1 million mark and landing in the Top 10 last …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:21PMScore one for the underdog: Short-lived Broadway musical “Hands on a Hardbody” led the Broadway pack of nominations for the Drama Desk Awards, with the tuner racking up nine nods and tyi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMSunday, April 28, 2013
The musical version of “Rocky” looks to K.O. Broadway next spring, confirming a U.S. opening in March 2014 at the Winter Garden Theater. Following a well-received world preem las…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:32PMMarianne Elliott’s National Theater production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” swept the boards at this year’s Olivier Awards with seven wins, equaling last ye…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMThursday, April 25, 2013
The Broadway revival of “Pippin” opened April 25 at the Music Box Theater after a world premiere earlier this year at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. The follo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM"Without Walls" at the La Jolla Playhouse; A festival of about a dozen site-specific works, including a new piece about sea monsters staged on the beach by puppeteer Basil Twist.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMCall it experiential; call it immersive; call it event theater. The work itself is often impossible to describe.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMVariety honored New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Katherine Oliver, the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, at an afternoon cocktail event in Gotham Apri…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
It isn’t the least bit funny, the mean treatment an old lady receives from her selfish family in “The Trip to Bountiful.” But that hasn’t dissuaded helmer Michael …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52PMLegit play licensing orgs Samuel French and Daryl Roth Theatrical Licensing have teamed up for an initiative called “30 Years of Charles Busch — A Celebration,” a national push that a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMVeteran legiters William Craver and Peter Lawrence, nonprofit org Career Transition for Dancers and North Carolina’s long-running historical drama “The Lost Colony” are set to receive …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Those crazy people at the Public really know how to have fun. “Here Lies Love,” an exuberant musical inspired by the life of Imelda Marcos and set to the pounding disco beat of a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAmid the annual onslaught of legit season announcements, the Public Theater’s 2013-14 slate stands out — not so much for what’s unexpected on the lineup, but for its array of projects…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMThe five shows to open on Broadway this week have all gotten an awards-season boost to contribute to their opening-night media spotlight, with the Drama League naming a wide-ranging slate of…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMWhen Michael Bloomberg became the mayor of New York on Jan. 1, 2002, he took the reins of a city still reeling from the devastating aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks just four months earlier.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Where to begin? Well, there’s a live vulture on stage, and an uprooted tree suspended in mid-air, and a pool of water that appears to be bottomless. And that’s before the house l…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSometimes, legit critics still sell tickets. Case in point: “Matilda,” the Broadway transfer of the Brit hit that won Stateside raves after its April 11 opening – and then topped $1 mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMAnd they’re off: The Outer Critics Circle launched the 2013 legit awards-season frenzy with its annual pack of nominations, led by Broadway revival “Pippin” with 11 nods and new Rialto…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:47PMNew musical “Big Fish” has a high-class problem. In the six months between the end of this Chicago tryout and its Broadway launch in September, creatives need to resist tampering too muc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMSpoiler alert: Here’s what’s going on with the tortured, institutionalized man depicted by Alan Cumming in the new Broadway production of "Macbeth."
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMSunday, April 21, 2013
The National Theater of Scotland’s production of “Macbeth,” starring Alan Cumming, opened on Broadway April 21. The following is Mark Fisher’s original review (June 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, April 18, 2013
After all the hoo-hah about the backstage battles that had Alec Baldwin climbing onto his high horse and Shia LaBeouf crawling off the field, you'd have expected this "Orphans" revival to be…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:49PMLongrunning Broadway tuner “Mamma Mia!” will shift from the Winter Garden Theater, its home of the last 12 years, to the Broadhurst Theater later this year. At 1,182 seats, the B…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMThe Broadway musical version of “Bullets Over Broadway” has targeted the St. James Theater, with the show locking the venue and the timeframe for an April 2014 bow. Production wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMWhatever headaches Richard Greenberg might be having, what with this month’s closing of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Broadway and next month’s opening of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center will produce the world premiere of new tuner “Little Dancer,” with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and score by Stephen Flaherty. Susan Stroman (“The…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
In 1949, when “The Big Knife” was first done on Broadway, Clifford Odets’ disenchanted Hollywood matinee idol Charlie Castle must have seemed like a tragic hero, a gifted…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Tribeca Film Festival will launch an annual award, named for the late writer-director Nora Ephron, to be given to a female writer or director. The Nora Ephron Prize, which comes with a $…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMA new play a Pulitzer winner and another by a fast-rising up-and-comer are among the brewing legit works tapped for development as part of the 2013 National Playwrights Conference at the Eug…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Lincoln Center Theater’s stunning production of Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Nance” is a textbook example of how to put on a classy show. It helps to have a bona fide …
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