Friday, 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 06:40PMThe movie stars who showed up for the March 21 opening-night curtain call of “Hands on a Hardbody” weren’t the usual Hollywood types. They were the real-life subjects of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMThursday, March 21, 2013
Well, Broadway finally got itself an all-American musical in “Hands on a Hardbody.” The question is, will an all-American audience go for it? It’s hard to picture hotel con…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMNew York legiters continued to lay the groundwork for the upcoming spring awards season, with the Tony Awards Administration Committee deeming the current Broadway staging of “Cinderella�…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PMOff Broadway company Playwrights Horizons has tapped former “Do No Harm” topliner Steven Pasquale to co-star in this season’s tuner adaptation of “Far From Heaven,” while also lini…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:29PMGotham partygoers are used to celebs in their midst. So it was remarkable that at least one star made everyone go all gushy at the March 20 opening night party of Broadway's new "Breakfast a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
It’s like trying to ignore the elephant in the room, watching Richard Greenberg’s stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s 1958 novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMLONDON — Inventive Brit legit outfit Punchdrunk, creators of current Gotham sensation “Sleep No More,” return to London with the world preem of “The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable,�…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMLONDON — Alex Beard has been appointed CEO of the Royal Opera House, succeeding Tony Hall, who ankled to become Director-General of the BBC. The £250,000 ($375,000) position is the key l…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:37PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Sex, drugs and lad-mag shenanigans are looking to make an unlikely move from the frat house to a Broadway house, with a stage adaptation of Tucker Max’s controversy-baiting book “I Hope …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMMonday, March 18, 2013
Spring breakers weren’t just a big deal at SXSW last week – they made a splash on Broadway, too. Vacationing families helped push Main Stem box office high enough that eight shows ended …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMThe Tony Awards will return to Radio City Musical Hall for their 2013 edition, locking in June 9 for Broadway’s headline kudofest. Eligibility cutoff for the 2012-13 legit season is …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:18AMSaturday, March 16, 2013
“Lucky Guy,” the Tom Hanks starrer that recently began perfs on Broadway, pulled in more than $1 million from just seven perfs in Week 41 (March 4-10), but girl power, from young-femme m…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Screenwriter-director Douglas McGrath has lined up a Broadway project, penning the book for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” which is aiming for a Rialto run in spring 2014, accordi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PMThe Barry Manilow musical “Harmony,” now gearing up for a regional nonprofit co-production that will play Atlanta and L.A. next season, has been an on-again, off-again Broadway contender…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMThursday, March 14, 2013
Christopher Durang’s play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” opened March 14 at Broadway’s John Golden Theater following an Off Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater, where the s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
A world premiere by Edward Albee and the U.S. bow of the new title by Caryl Churchill are among the notable additions to Off Broadway’s 2013-14 lineup. Albee play “Laying an Egg,” set …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PMJenna Fischer and Leslie Bibb are among the four-actor cast of the world premiere of the latest play by Neil LaBute, “Reasons to Be Happy.” Both Fischer (“The Office”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PMIt used to be that when a Broadway show booked an out-of-town tryout, it actually went out of town. Not anymore. The world premiere of Rialto-targeted musical “Honeymoon in Vegas” premie…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Kevin McCollum aims to grow 'Submissions Only'
SOURCE: Variety at 06:54PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Multiple factors contribute to musical's new boom
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMThursday, January 26, 2012
Kurt Peterson & Victoria Mallory,
Of the Original Casts of Follies and the Lincoln Center Revival of West Side Story,
Reunite On the NY Stage for the First Time in 40 Years: When Everythin…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:55PM 
