Monday, April 30, 2018
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Frozen,” and “Mean Girls” are ready to make a splash in the 2018 Tony nominations Tuesday morning — but those …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PMLa MaMa E.T.C., the downtown Manhattan theater that was one of the major birthplaces of the Off Off Broadway scene, will receive the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. Founded by the late Ell…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:59PM“The Writer” has split the critics — as proper writing probably should. Some have dismissed Ella Hickson’s new play at the Almeida Theatre, about a frustrated female playwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PMHarry Potter, Tina Fey, Denzel Washington, Panic! at the Disco: They could all end up sitting in the same room in six weeks, because they’re all contenders for nominations for the 201…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PM“Lettie,” a family drama about a woman emerging from prison and addiction with a desire to reclaim the teenage kids who have barely seen her in seven years, is that rare play that manage…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMSaturday, April 28, 2018
“To Dust,” Shawn Snyder’s comedy starring Matthew Broderick, and roller-rink documentary “United Skates” have won the top audience awards at the 2018 Tribeca Fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45PMThursday, April 26, 2018
With his buoyant air of all-American optimism and innate decency, Denzel Washington is well cast (by helmer George C. Wolfe) as Hickey, the long-awaited bearer of false hope, comforting lies…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:12PM“Diane,” writer-director Kent Jones’ drama starring Mary Kay Place, and actors Jeffrey Wright and Alia Shawkat were among the winners of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:55PMThe Broadway revival of “Carousel” and the new musical “SpongeBob SquarePants” led the list of nominations for the 2018 Drama Desk Awards, with “Carousel”…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
“There is something about the girl,” say several characters over the course of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan,” now receiving a smart, stylish and engaging Broadway revival by t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04PMTwo New York companies that specialize in live, interactive content have joined forces to create a new firm, Immersive Activations Group, with an eye toward scaling up their activities in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
In the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of “Travesties,” a sign (“Ruhe Bitte”) on the show’s set advises us to please be quiet in the Zurich reading …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24PMNick Scandalios, the executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization, will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award at this year’s Tony Awards ceremony. Scandalios — a longt…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMIs Captain America ready to hang up his shield? Chris Evans has said so in the past, and his contract with Marvel is up after “Avengers 4,” the 2019 follow-up to the imminent …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMIf that’s Donna Summer, then this must be the late 70s and early 80s, the era of disco dancing in the clubs and roller skating at the Roxy. (And let’s not even talk about the fashions.) …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:33AMA new musical by the Tony-winning duo behind “Spring Awakening,” Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, and another by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown are on tap for the 2018 se…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMMonday, April 23, 2018
The area of intersection between fans of iambic pentameter and doers of the “Cool Jerk” may be a limited one, so you can imagine the initial chore in store for anyone charged with target…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PMChita Rivera and Andrew Lloyd Webber will each take home a 2018 special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater, receiving their trophies at the awards ceremony this June. The lif…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThe “Harry Potter” novels spawned a massively successful film franchise, and now, with the April 22 opening of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the Boy Who Lived …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23AMSunday, April 22, 2018
This is no time for bogus expressions of sophistication. So, let’s just say: Hooray! With “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the Boy Who Lived has finally come to Broadway, bringin…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMSaturday, April 21, 2018
When first-time director Bradley Cooper was shooting his forthcoming remake of “A Star in Born,” his co-star, Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta), made a deal with him. “She…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:02PMFriday, April 20, 2018
Bette Midler will return to her box office-busting role in “Hello, Dolly!” this summer, stepping back into the part that won her a Tony Award, in a new six-week run that will cap…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05AMThursday, April 19, 2018
If you’ve got it, flaunt it. The splendid Beaumont stage at Lincoln Center was made for great classic musicals like Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” and helmer Bartlett She…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
The New York City Mayor’s Office and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) have locked in the details of a new grant program for film and theater projects by, for …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
The publicity material for “Tina — the Tina Turner Musical” actually doesn’t use the phrase “starring Adrienne Warren.” It should. And it will. Hitherto unknown in the U.K., …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMMonday, April 16, 2018
The week before last, the Broadway box office boomed. Last week came the inevitable dip out of the stratosphere. After boffo business fueled by spring-break and holiday traffic, nearly every…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:32PMThe New York Times and the New Yorker have jointly won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service for their influential exposes of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The explosive i…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:07PMThursday, April 12, 2018
Audiences encountering Joshua Henry’s electrifying performance as the charismatic but star-cursed Billy Bigelow will long remember the experience. In this new Broadway revival of Rodgers a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMLeslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee will announce nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards next month. Odom Jr. won a Tony in 2016 for his performance as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton.” M…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:28AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Mark Medoff wrote “Children of a Lesser God” specifically for Phyllis Frelich, a deaf actress who made her professional debut as the character Sarah Norman in the 1979 production at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMActors’ Equity Association, the union that represents theater actors and stage managers, has launched a push for two new categories at the Tony Awards that would collectively honor ens…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:49PM 
