Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Kwame 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 03:30PMRebecca Hall will topline a Broadway revival of American expressionist play “Machinal” at the Roundabout Theater Company, where the show will be directed by Brit helmer Lyndsey Turner. S…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSaturday, May 25, 2013
There are a couple of well-established paths to Broadway for a new play. “Blue Highway” isn’t taking any of them. The new work by David Marlett (pictured at left) is being developed si…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, May 23, 2013
This year the Tonys will launch a second-screen digital destination, with interactive content set to stream during the annual live kudocast on CBS — a measure other TV skeins, such as the …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMEthan Coen returns to Off Broadway this fall with new play “Women or Nothing,” set to bow at the Atlantic Theater Company in a run that precedes the December release of his latest pic, �…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMIf theater owners are the most powerful figures on Broadway, then there’s a new power player in town. The purchase this week of Broadway’s largest venue, the 1,930-seat Foxwoods, reps th…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
I love you, I hate you, I’ll kill you. That’s the lurid premise of “Murder Ballad,” the hot and sticky rock opera that made auds sweat when it opened six months ago a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
New York City Center’s long-running Encores! program, which has yielded a string of commercial Broadway transfers including the still-running revival of “Chicago,” has set …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:02PMComedian Carol Burnett has been selected by Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Award will be presented Oct. 20 at a kudof…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PMBroadway’s Walter Kerr Theater has found a summer tenant, with dance revue “Forever Tango” returning to the Main Stem for a ten-week run prior to the fall opening of new mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, 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 11:00PM 
