Monday, 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 06:18PMThe 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 10:42AM 
