Thursday, March 29, 2018
The moment Samantha Barks smiles and sings near the beginning of this musical adaptation of the film “Pretty Woman,” we know things are going to be OK. The sense that this show —…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ brewing musical adaptation of “Beetlejuice” has mapped out its road to Broadway, locking in a world premiere run at the National Theatre in W…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
There are lots of characters in the Off Broadway thriller “Harry Clarke.” But they’re all played by Billy Crudup — who gets lonely up there sometimes. “It gets …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, March 26, 2018
“Manchester By the Sea” didn’t come out of nowhere. The aching compassion for humanity in that 2016 Oscar winner is second nature to Kenneth Lonergan, going back at least to 2001, when…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07PMHarry Potter only just apparated onto Broadway, and he’s already making magic. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” played its first six previews and levitated all the way u…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PMSunday, March 25, 2018
The National Theater production of Tony Kushner’s phenomenal 1993 epic work doesn’t feel like a historical artifact that won the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emm…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:33PMFriday, March 23, 2018
When we meet him in the attractive person of Billy Crudup, the title character of the Off Broadway play “Harry Clarke” is casually dressed and sitting on a wooden deckchair, drin…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:47PM“Frozen” may have just opened on Broadway, but the Oscar-winning creatives of both the movie and the stage musical aren’t done with each other yet. They’re hard at w…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMThursday, March 22, 2018
As Princess Elsa says in this snowy, showy stage adaptation of the popular Disney movie, “I’m not as cold as I seem.” Credit the thawing trend in Broadway’s “Frozen” to the lovab…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
It’s nothing if not timely: Francis Turnly’s epic international mystery “The Great Wave” takes us into the soul of North Korea. A tale of two sisters – best of times, worst of time…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMSuperfans and hate-watchers, take note: You may not have seen the last of “Smash.” So says Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, on the latest episode of Stagecraft, …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:26PMEthan Hawke and Paul Dano will star next winter in a new Broadway production of “True West,” with the two actors playing the volatile brothers at the center of Sam Shepard’…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, March 19, 2018
“Mean Girls” is looking pretty nice for Broadway: The new musical — powered by the involvement of the film’s screenwriter Tina Fey — raked in well over $1 milli…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMFriday, March 16, 2018
Parrotheads, be warned that there aren’t enough parrots in this show. (Can somebody do something about that?) Otherwise, the hedonistic spirit of Buffett’s feel-good “gulf and wester…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
The upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — with a buzzy creative team that includes writer Aaron Sorkin and star Jeff Daniels — has been hit with a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Tony Kushner has said he doesn’t want Donald Trump to come see the new Broadway revival of “Angels in America.” But Lee Pace? He wouldn’t mind. “Oh God, I woul…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PMMonday, March 12, 2018
The Metropolitan Opera has fired its well-known music director and conductor, James Levine, after an investigation found that Levine had engaged in sexual harassment and misconduct. Accordin…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMDisney has long had two titles that show up regularly in the Top 10 of the Broadway box office. This week it’s got three — thanks to “Frozen,” the adaptation of the a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:23PMThursday, March 8, 2018
Here’s a real witches brew: a “Macbeth” so mangled it makes Hamlet look sane. For his first foray into Shakespeare’s Folio in 25 years, director Rufus Norris, also the artistic direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
A GoFundMe page in support of Tony winner Ruthie Ann Miles has raised close to $375,000 for the actress and her family in the wake of a car accident that critically injured Miles and killed …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:12PMHarold Wolpert, a longtime exec in the not-for-profit theater sector, has been appointed the new executive director of Signature Theater, one of Off Broadway’s most prominent companies…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
When adapting a movie into a Broadway musical comedy, you have to kill some darlings. But it can be tough. “I get a little bit like: Please put ‘Boo, you whore’ back in it!…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44PMMonday, March 5, 2018
Wintry weather — including a storm that caused power outages in the New York City environs over the weekend — helped push down the Broadway box office for a lot of big titles on …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
There aren’t many props in the Off Broadway political drama “Kings.” Among the most significant? Two margarita glasses, size XXL, from the restaurant chain Chili’s. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PMMonday, February 26, 2018
“Frozen” on Broadway is one hot ticket. Disney Theatrical Productions’ new stage version of the animated smash exploded out of the gate in its first week, raking in $926,84…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:10PMThe Geffen Playhouse has yanked its planned production of Neil LaBute’s “Fat Pig,” which would have starred Chrissy Metz of “This Is Us,” soon after Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMFriday, February 23, 2018
In its day, now long-past, the”Jerry Springer Show” was an only-in-America phenomenon, so it’s only fitting that the British-made “Jerry Springer — The Opera”…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PMDavid Mamet said he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. Mamet mentioned the new script in an interview in the Chicago Tribune. The new work is called “Bitter Wheat,” and t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:06AMThursday, February 22, 2018
Bernadette Peters’ return to Broadway puts the “doll” back in “Hello, Dolly!” Tiny, trim, and in terrific voice, the Tony Award-winning diva tops off previous triumphs like “Mack…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Representative Sydney Millsap is the kind of politician we all want to be, if we absolutely must be politicians. A Gold Star widow with the high ethical standards of an old school Texas Demo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:31PMFormer employees have accused Thomas Schumacher, the president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions and the president of the Broadway League, of sexual harassment and misconduct. Sc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PM 
