Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Former 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 12:28PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
How do you know expectations are high for a Broadway musical? When audience members arrive in costume. That’s what the stars and creators of “Frozen” faced in Denver, where…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMSunday, February 18, 2018
It’s been 30 years since the musical “Chess,” noted for its engaging score and inscrutable book, survived on Broadway for a scant two months. Could a high-profile revival finally be in…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFriday, February 16, 2018
Carey Mulligan started her career on the main stage of London’s Royal Court — playing a narcoleptic schoolgirl in Kevin Elyot’s family drama “Forty Winks.” Fourteen years o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:40AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Jeff Daniels will headline the cast of the upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” leading an ensemble that will also include Celia Keenan-Bolger, Stark Sands, G…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMKelli O’Hara, the Broadway favorite who won a Tony Award for her performance in the 2015 revival of “The King and I,” has signed with ICM Partners. O’Hara is a much-n…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMCC Theater, the non-profit, Off Broadway theater company where Neil LaBute has been a playwright-in-residence for several years, has abruptly terminated its relationship with the writer-dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
“Scorpion” star Katharine McPhee will step into the lead role of “Waitress” this summer, marking the Broadway debut of the “American Idol” contestant who&…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Both Kirstin Maldonado, a member of the popular a cappella group Pentatonix, and Jake Shears, a former member of the Scissor Sisters, have plenty of experience performing live. But performin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMMonday, February 12, 2018
With winter causing a slowdown in New York tourism and Bruce Springsteen on hiatus until the end of the month, the Broadway box office continued to deflate last week in the kind of slowdown …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
A number of major regional theaters are changing artistic leaders at the moment. Over the last few months, that number has only grown as charges of sexual harassment and misconduct roil the …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
“Do you have any idea who I am?” Eve Ensler tells a doctor from the Mayo Clinic after he suggests radiation therapy on her vagina as a preventative against the return of uterine cancer. …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMLea Salonga wants to get “hit in the gut.” That’s what gets her to Broadway, the busy international performer says in the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Varie…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PMMonday, February 5, 2018
A huge hit in London, this Royal Court production of the black farce “Hangmen” — by Martin McDonagh, currently an awards-season darling as writer-director of “Three Billb…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMHayley Atwell is the one person whose stock rises in this financial dud about zombie capitalism and its race to the bottom. Sarah Burgess’s play “Dry Powder,” first seen at the…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMLaurels are so last year. Today’s Caesars come crowned with combovers. In Central Park last year, the Public Theater’s Oskar Eustis caused controversy by drawing too definite a line betw…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:11AMThursday, February 1, 2018
Jennifer Lawrence will host “Unrigged Live!,” appearing alongside Tig Notaro and Nikki Glaser in a politically charged variety show of comedy, music and other acts that will cap …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
After several seasons playing half of the superhero Firestorm in Arrowverse TV shows like “Legends of Tomorrow,” Victor Garber is loving making his Broadway return in “Hell…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:20PMMonday, January 29, 2018
Mark Ruffalo invoked a positive vision for America’s future, Common rapped about Trayvon Martin and Michael Moore called for a cultural clean-sweep at “People’s State of the Union,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PMThe Go-Go’s musical “Head Over Heels” has booked a Broadway opening this summer, lining up the Hudson Theater for a run that begins previews in June. Already set for a pre-…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMBernadette Peters may not be raking in Bette Midler-level numbers for “Hello, Dolly!” — but she’s still doing plenty of business, to judge from her first full week in…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:39PMThursday, January 25, 2018
One of the producers of “Rock of Ages” on Broadway is hoping to get the 80s-rock musical up and running in a new L.A. venue that will host additional music and comedy programming…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMIt starts with a silence and a glassy-eyed stare. At the end of a housewarming party in north London, the last two left standing look at one another. Hostess Laura — fortyish, svelte &…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
“Tootsie” is on its way to Broadway, setting a pre-Broadway run in Chicago this fall, with producers hoping to open the show in New York in the spring of 2019. Santino Fontana, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:31PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Gordon Edelstein, the Connecticut theater leader who was accused of sexual harassment and misconduct during his tenure at the Long Wharf Theater, has been terminated from his position as the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMJohn Lithgow may have won two Tony Awards, six Emmys, and a couple of Golden Globes, but even he doubts his own skills sometimes. Take, for instance, every time he’s in a musical. R…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:41PMMonday, January 22, 2018
One pop star can be a good thing for the Broadway box office. But two pop stars? That can be a great thing. Current case in point: “Waitress.” Sara Bareilles, the singer-songwrit…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:25PMGordon Edelstein, the artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., has been accused of sexual harassment and misconduct, with the theater placing him on administrative le…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:34PM“The Birthday Party” is sixty years young. Harold Pinter’s first full-length play might be showing its age here and there, but it still seems more punk than it does pensionable. At lea…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20AMFriday, January 19, 2018
The Repertory Theater of St. Louis confirmed the political power of theater when it commissioned this one-person show written and performed by Dael Orlandersmith to capture the reactions of …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:36AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Bruce Springsteen was back on Broadway, Bette Midler was making her exit, and the two together kept the Broadway box office buoyant in the middle of the usual January slowdown. “Spring…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:22PM 
