Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMIt was a good news-bad news week on Broadway last week, with the upbeat headline centered on “Kinky Boots,” which for the first time joined fellow spring openers “Lucky Guy” and “C…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:35PMAyad Akhtar’s play “Disgraced,” which preemed at Chicago’s American Theater Company prior to an Off Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater, has snagged the 2013 Pulit…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMSunday, April 14, 2013
The Broadway faithful (at least, the part that covers the Baby Boomer demographic ranging from “mature” to “doddering”) will have its mantra ready when cooler heads p…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, April 12, 2013
With tourists pouring into Gotham, summer can be a great time to be on Broadway. Off Broadway? The jury’s still out. It’s the big, splashy musicals that pull in the majority of warm-weat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:43PMThursday, April 11, 2013
The New York transfer of U.K. musical “Matilda” opened April 11 at Broadway’s Shubert Theater. The following is David Benedict’s review (Daily Variety, Dec. 13, 2010)…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
“The Last Goodbye,” the tuner mash-up of “Romeo and Juliet” and the songs of Jeff Buckley, will open the 2013-14 season at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater. Produc…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PMMary-Louise Parker circles back to Broadway this fall, returning to Manhattan Theater Club for the Gotham nonprofit’s co-production of Sharr White’s “The Snow Geese.”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThe Lark Play Development Center has awarded the 2013-14 Playwrights of New York fellowship to Kimber Lee, who nabs one of the heftiest legit development awards out there, including a year o…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” — coming soon to an arena near you? The legal settlement reached April 10 between Julie Taymor and producers of Broadway tuner “Spider-Man” not onl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Veteran Broadway group ticket seller Scott Mallalieu has opened the doors at his new group sales firm, GreatWhiteWay.com. Mallalieu was the prexy of Group Sales Box Office, the Street’…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMWASHINGTON — Signature Theater’s sassy revival of “Dreamgirls” and Folger Theater’s wild western take on “The Taming of the Shrew” drew top laurels April 8 at the Helen Hayes …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:51AMMonday, April 8, 2013
“Hands on a Hardbody” is taking its hands off the vehicle and withdrawing from the competition, with the Broadway musical posting a closing notice for the end of the week. Most legiters …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMAs Tom Hanks topliner “Lucky Guy” continued to rake it in at the Broadway box office last week, star-driven plays led by Better Midler and Alec Baldwin joined the fray and Midler outing …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMFriday, April 5, 2013
Producer Scott Rudin has lined up his latest star-heavy Broadway revival, tapping Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz to appear in a fall production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Never underestimate the power of a good-bad musical, which can make consenting adults yearn to be dancing queens and adolescent witches and, in the case of “Kinky Boots,” drag queens in …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTheater stints for William Friedkin, William Petersen and Amy Brenneman are on tap for the 2013-14 season at the Geffen Playhouse. Friedkin will direct the L.A. nonprofit’s revival of Haro…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PMWhen NBC confirmed the news “The Tonight Show” changeover in 2014, Broadway ears perked up. For legit publicists, the cross-country move could be a boon: The opportunity to promote Main …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
It’s an Off Broadway awards show, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of stars lined up for it: The roster of actors to score nominations for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards inclu…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40PMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference has lined up a trio of new tuner projects for development during the conference’s 2013 summer session, corralling …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Tom Hanks is a natural. Although he hasn’t trod the boards in years, the affable movie star takes to the stage like a fish to water in “Lucky Guy,” Nora Ephron’s affe…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Easter holiday is all about resurrection, and Broadway box office rose to the occasion. Sales spiked last week during the Easter-Passover frame, driving a full 13 productions above the $…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMThe “Romeo and Juliet” that arrives on Broadway next season starring Orlando Bloom may be the first Main Stem staging of the Shakespeare play since 1986 — but it’s not the first pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMThe Tony Awards have tapped two legiters with TV profiles, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster, to announced the 2013 Tony nominations later this month. Ferguson, who had logged several s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMThursday, March 28, 2013
Jenna Segal, a former production development exec at MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1, is pulling together her first Broadway project as a lead producer, tapping a team of creatives for a revival of…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:21PMWith twenty actors racing between fifty roles across a time-traveling plot, Bruce Norris’s “The Low Road” is a cross between a pageant and a parable. Dominic Cooke’s supremely witty,…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:26PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Add Patsy Cline to the list of music acts making their way to Broadway, with tuner “Always… Patsy Cline” aiming for a Rialto run this summer in a production that stars “American Idol…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM“What is growing up, precisely?” That’s an unusually loaded question since it’s asked by the woman who inspired “Alice in Wonderland” of the man who inspired “Peter Pan.” Hav…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PMMonday, March 25, 2013
Five Filipino immigrants in Tel Aviv work by day as live-in caregivers to elderly Hasidic men but by night they form a gleefully low-rent drag act. You couldn’t make it up, and guess what?…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSpring break is a great time to be a Broadway show — but not so much if you’re a new title. For proof, take a look at last week’s Main Stem box office. Four productions joined the fra…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Veteran legiters Bernard Gersten, Ming Cho Lee and Paul Libin have each scored the 2013 Tony Awards’ special kudo for lifetime achievement in the theater. Trio of prominent industry figure…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40PM 
