Monday, 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 05:11PMThursday, December 7, 2017
Chloe Sevigny plays a sexy-hippie drug addict like a pro in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s unfocused new play, “Downtown Race Riot.” But she also gracefully shows us the better side of…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Seven years on, Syria’s civil war is still raging. Its death toll is nudging half a million, and ten times as many people have been displaced. For those that remain, conflict is the new no…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
“True is what happens,” says a confidant Russian Red Army captain to a journalist who is having a difficult time describing things he has seen, be it the night sky or a war atrocity. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMBack in 1988, the Broadway play “M. Butterfly” played like “The Crying Game” — four years before the Neil Jordan film was even released. “In the original …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMDi Glazer has been named the co-head of the theater department at ICM, where she’ll share the post with the agency’s veteran department chief Patrick Herold. Glazer will work wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22AMThe Broadway League, the trade association of Broadway producers, have brought a legal complaint against the New York theater industry’s biggest casting directors, branding the casting…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37AMMonday, December 4, 2017
Children should feel free to take their parents to Tina Landau’s psychedelically inspired version of the whimsical kiddie cartoon show that’s been making a fortune for Nickelodeon since …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48PMPeter Martins, the artistic director of New York City Ballet and an instructor at School of American Ballet, has been accused of sexual harassment, and suspended from teaching his weekly cla…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PMWill “Hello, Dolly!” keep going up, up and up this holiday season? It looks poised to, with the ultra-hot revival moving into the final weeks of Tony-winning star Bette Midler…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMArmie Hammer — one of the stars of “Call Me By Your Name,” the buzzy film that looks poised to make a run at the Oscars — has lined up a Broadway debut this summer in…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMSunday, December 3, 2017
The ungainly in-the-round stage of Broadway’s Circle in the Square is put to imaginative use in director Michael Arden’s inspired revival of “Once On This Island,” the 19…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, December 1, 2017
Justin Huff, a casting director who has been involved in Broadway shows including 2013 Tony champ “Kinky Boots,” has been fired from his position at prominent casting agency Tels…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:46AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Writer Beau Willimon made his mark on the stage with “Farragut North,” which shape-shifted into the film “Ides of March,” starring George Clooney, and led to his role as the creator …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15PMIsrael Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film “My Old Lady,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward in a report in the N…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:40PMIsrael Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film “My Old Lady,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward to the New Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Steve Martin has a flair for surreal comedy — a style that suits “Meteor Shower,” his new play about the existential mischief caused one night in 1993 when a deluge of mete…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:15PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Julie Taymor’s production of “M. Butterfly,” which recently opened on Broadway with Clive Owen in the cast, has set its closing date, with producers announcing the show wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMThe young actor Ethan Slater has been involved in the “SpongeBob Squarepants” stage musical since its very first workshop five years ago. But back then, he had no idea he was auditioning…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMMonday, November 20, 2017
With his new play “The Minutes,” a simmering satire of a small-town city council meeting that evolves — or devolves — into something of a horror tale, Pulitzer-winning playwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:11PMThursday, November 16, 2017
Teenaged girls in Ghana prove they can be just as nasty– and as needy – as their international sisters everywhere. Delightful ensemble work from a cast of girlish thesps performing in �…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMYou know what you’re ordering with a musical comedy based on the music of Jimmy Buffett, an artist whose beach bum persona and preference for Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops contribute as m…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
When Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he thought: “Well, very little good can come of this.” Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” tal…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PMThe medium is the message – or so they say. If Paddy Chayefsky’s classic TV news satire isn’t just prescient, but positively prophetic in our age of fake news, the point is pressed hom…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:47PMFriday, November 10, 2017
With a real estate man in the White House as America’s Salesman-in-Chief, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet’s crisp 1983 evisceration of the common street salesman, takes on…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31PMThursday, November 9, 2017
The set’s a bit grander and the music sounds richer, but success hasn’t spoiled this embraceable musical fable about the surprising friendships that bloom in the middle of a political de…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTeachers who have already had Dennis (Ki Hong Lee) in class agree on one thing: the kid scares them. Like some disgruntled teenager planning to shoot up his school, Dennis dresses all in b…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
A Bee Gees stage musical is on the way, with Universal Pictures’ theater division, Universal Theatrical Group, pacting to develop a production based on the life story and hit tunes of …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMLin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of “Hamilton,” will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Miranda, who i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:30AMLin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of “Hamilton,” will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Mirand…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:09AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Bill de Blasio is cruising to an easy victory in the race for mayor of New York City, setting up a second term for the incumbent Democrat who faced weak opposition at the polls. With just un…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28PM 
