Tuesday, 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 09:28PMStephen Flaherty wasn’t sure he had permission to write “Once On This Island.” So says the Broadway composer in the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater po…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:01PMMonday, November 6, 2017
Amy Schumer made a big-money debut at the Broadway box office last week, playing to capacity crowds in the initial previews of the play in which she stars, “Meteor Shower.” Schum…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:52PMKelli O’Hara will star in a new Broadway revival of “Kiss Me, Kate,” playing one of the lead roles in a Roundabout Theater Company production set for spring 2019. O’H…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
The tepid tone and low energy level of “Illyria” would have us believe that the birth of the New York Shakespeare Festival was a walk in the park – Central Park, that is, where Joseph …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMFriday, November 3, 2017
“Hello Again,” the 1994 Michael John LaChiusa musical that hits screens next week in a new film adaptation, is expanding its reach to more than 230 cinemas for the movie’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMThursday, November 2, 2017
Maybe, someday, we can live down the 1980s. But not any day soon, if Ayad Akhtar has anything to do with it. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (“Disgraced”) returns with poisoned pen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:08PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Matt Bomer will make his Broadway debut (following a one-night-only appearance in “8”) in “The Boys in the Band,” a new revival of the landmark 1968 drama to be dire…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
David Fincher ordered Jonathan Groff to stop smiling. Repeatedly. Broadway favorite Groff (“Hamilton,” “Spring Awakening”) tells the behind-the-scenes tale in the la…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMMonday, October 30, 2017
Halloween weekend is usually pretty frightful at the Broadway box office, what with all the costumes parties and trick-or-treating that keep theatergoers — particularly family audience…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17PMEmma Rice is an old-fashioned romantic – no doubt about it. When she brought “Brief Encounter” to Broadway back in 2010, the whole stage seemed to swoon, as lovers were knocked…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PM“So Long Boulder City,” the solo stage spoof inspired by the recent Oscar contender “La La Land,” has lined up an Off Broadway run in December following a well-receiv…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
Donald Trump and Michael Moore dueled on Twitter over Moore’s recent Broadway show, with Trump taking a potshot at Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender” in the midst of…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13PMFriday, October 27, 2017
London has a brand new theatre in The Bridge – not only the biggest to be built here in 20 years, but the first new commercial playhouse of its size in 80. Dreamed up by former National T…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PMJulie Taymor had harsh words for Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul with whom she worked on her 2002 film “Frida.” “I think he should go to jail,” Taymor sai…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:17AMThursday, October 26, 2017
Clive Owen returns to Broadway in David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly,” a revised version of the 1988 drama about a French diplomat who was caught in a scandalous affair with a Chinese o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27PMNew York’s Museum of Modern Art has set the initial lineup for The Contenders, its annual screenings of awards-season buzzmagnets, opening the series in November with Martin McDonagh&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMUbisoft, the French company behind videogames including “Assassin’s Creed” and “Rayman Raving Rabbids,” will expand into the live entertainment market with R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMClint Black, the country music star who’s sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, is at work on a Christmas musical for the stage, with a theater industry reading of the new show s…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
There’s a lot of professional pizzazz assembled on the Manhattan Theater Club stage for “The Portuguese Kid,” the world premiere of the new play written and directed by John Patrick Sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMHow did Michael Urie shake the memory of original actor Harvey Fierstein when he took on the lead role of “Torch Song”? He didn’t even try. “He’s always there,&…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Some prisoners go out of their minds when confined to the 23-hour isolation wing of Rikers Island prison. In the Signature Theater revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “Jesus Hopped …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25PMA careful blend of sincerity and insults made for a raucous tribute to retired late-night TV host David Letterman at Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center on Sunday night, when th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Broadway musicals are already beginning to line up for next season, with comedy “The Prom” now signed up to hit New York in a production that opens in November 2018 following a 2016 debu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:04PMIn “Torch Song,” an affectionate if ill-considered revival of Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” Michael Urie makes a brave but bizarre effort to channel the playwright’s o…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AMThursday, October 19, 2017
“Get Out,” writer-director Jordan Peele’s surprise smash of a scary movie, led the pack of nominations for the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s ann…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
The Tony-winning actor Tracy Letts only discovered acting because somebody blackmailed his father into starring in a community theater play. Letts, who as a writer (“August: Osage Coun…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:42PMMonday, October 16, 2017
“Springsteen on Broadway” had the megabucks launch — and continues to do huge business — but the other show to begin previews around the same time, “The Band…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMFriday, October 13, 2017
“War Paint,” the musical that stars big Broadway names Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will go dark earlier than expected, setting an imminent closing for Nov. 5. The show, …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“I’ll handle it myself, thanks.” That was The Boss himself, jovially dressing down the few people in his Broadway audience who had begun to clap along to “Dancer in the Dark.” …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12AMThursday, October 12, 2017
Broadway, mark your calendar: The Tony Awards have set the date for the 2018 ceremony, locking in June 10, 2018 for the CBS telecast, live from the stage of Radio City Music Hall. At the sam…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM 
