Tuesday, 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“I don’t think there are a lot of performances on Broadway right now that are this fluid.” That’s Keegan-Michael Key talking about “Meteor Shower,” the Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PMThursday, January 11, 2018
John Lithgow is the most personable of performers, and his chatty solo piece “John Lithgow: Stories by Heart” finds him in a mellow mood, sharing loving memories of his family and of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMCelebrities, servicemen and entertainment industry insiders came together Jan. 11 for the inaugural Salute to Service luncheon, paying tribute to those in the media and entertainment communi…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47PMLin-Manuel Miranda will receive the 18th annual Monte Cristo Award from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the new-work development organization of which Miranda is one of the highest-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
The dresses had a little more color, but the National Board of Review’s 2018 Awards gala — honoring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Greta Gerwig, Jordan Peele and “The Post,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52PMThe playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis may have a Pulitzer Prize under his belt, but his latest honor — the Residency One retrospective season at Off Broadway’s Signature Theater &#…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PMMonday, January 8, 2018
In Playwrights Horizons’ “Mankind,” playwright-director Robert O’Hara envisions a future society when women have vanished from the face of the earth and men must shoulder…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Broadway box office fell more than 35% in the wake of the Christmas-New Year’s boom — but really, it could have been worse. Sales have always fallen off a cliff in the first …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMFriday, January 5, 2018
Ben Vereen, the Tony Award-winning actor who starred in musicals including “Pippin” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” has issued an apology following allegations of sexua…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Four women have accused Albert Schultz, the artistic director of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company, of sexual harassment and assault in four separate civil lawsuits, according to a …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:37PMFriday, December 29, 2017
A pack of ultra-hot shows, combined with the rising prominence and price tags of premium seats, will push the Broadway box office to a new calendar-year record of more than $1.6 billion in 2…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PMWednesday, December 27, 2017
Remember when a $2 million week was a big deal at the Broadway box office? That not-so-long-ago time is looking a little quaint these days, when “Hamilton” stands poised to break…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PMTuesday, December 26, 2017
The Broadway box office has a new high-water mark: $1,150, the top premium price for a ticket to “Hamilton” during the high-demand week between Christmas and New Year’s. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMThursday, December 21, 2017
“Hamilton” is going to be just fine here in London. In the Broadway smash’s first outing beyond American soil, there’s a lot riding on the West End transfer of Lin-Manuel…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PM“The Jungle” does everything theater does best, and more. It takes us to places we would never otherwise go, brings us face to face with people we wouldn’t ordinarily encounter…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Blair Brown is back on Broadway for the first time in more than 15 years. But “The Parisian Woman,” the new D.C.-set play by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon, c…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
Rachel Bloom, the Golden Globe-winning star of CW series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” has the book and songs for a full-length stage musical sitting in her drawer. “It’s basica…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“Summer,” the bio-musical about Donna Summer now playing its world premiere run at the La Jolla Playhouse, has locked in a Broadway plan that will see the production move in to N…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:35AMMonday, December 18, 2017
With a spate of mega-selling shows like “Hamilton,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “Springsteen on Broadway” now running, the Broadway box office is easily outpacing…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:05PMSunday, December 17, 2017
There’s not much to Claire van Kampen’s simplistic script for “Farinelli and the King,” the play now running on Broadway after premiering at Shakespeare’s Globe in …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:16PMThursday, December 14, 2017
How ironic that “Pinocchio” should be a bit lifeless. With Disney handing over the keys to a cherished classic for the first time, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” director John T…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMPack your bags, people — the apocalypse is coming. This warning comes to you courtesy of Lucy Kirkwood, whose cautionary disaster drama, “The Children,” scared the wits out of audi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMI call this my Magpie List for 2017, because like the magpie, I love pretty, shiny things that delight the eye — and if they also warm the heart, so much the better. “The Band’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” actor Adam Driver will return to Broadway in 2019, starring in a new production of the Lanford Wilson play “Burn This” to be directed by Mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Stories speak volumes in the playwright Anne Washburn’s work. In “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” she submitted an episode of “The Simpsons” to 70 years of hand-me-down d…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:38PMChrissy Metz, the “This Is Us” star who’s currently up for a trophy at the Golden Globes, will lead the cast of a new production of Neil LaBute play “Fat Pig,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“Death Becomes Her” is becoming a musical, with Universal Theatrical Group developing a stage adaptation of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis film and Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
John Leguizamo learned a lot in order to prepare for his new Broadway solo outing, “Latin History for Morons.” But his biggest takeaway? “I am a true ghetto nerd, is the re…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:51PMBroadway’s got the beat: “Head Over Heels,” the musical that takes it score from the catalog of the band The Go-Go’s, has mapped out its road to New York, with a San …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMMonday, December 11, 2017
The Broadway box office got a nice jolt last week, with Bette Midler’s final weeks driving up prices at “Hello, Dolly!,” Bruce Springsteen returning after a week off and Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PM 
