Wednesday, September 6, 2017
“A Doll’s House, Part 2,” the buzzy play that burst onto the scene late in the awards-season run-up to the Tony Awards, has posted a closing notice for later this month, fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
A rainy Labor Day weekend brought a minor rise to the Broadway box office, with most individual shows upticking and “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” going dark aft…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMBroadway Across America, the presenter and producer that sends Broadway tours out to 44 markets, has amassed more than 400,000 in season subscribers — a number that muscles into the re…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMAndy Snyder, the longtime theater publicist who most recently served as creative director and vice president of theatrical PR firm DKC/O&M, has struck out on his own, launching the indep…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:36PMWill Bernadette Peters be Broadway’s next Dolly? It’s looking that way, after persistent rumors in the theater industry — potentially confirmed in a recent social media pos…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
“Springsteen on Broadway,” Bruce Springsteen’s buzzmagnet concert engagement that opens on Broadway in October, has extended by a whopping 10 weeks, stretching the run to F…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46PM“Itzhak,” Alison Chernick’s documentary about famous violinist Itzhak Perlman, will get its world premiere at the 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival, which will open…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
Hear ye the Gospel of Luke – as written for our times by the playwright Christopher Shinn. In “Against,” Ben Whishaw’s earnest Luke is a tech billionaire supposedly instructe…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMMonday, August 28, 2017
Summer is winding down, and the Broadway box office is winding down with it: Sales in one of the last weeks before Labor Day slipped by 7% as city tourism slowed. The majority of individual …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMThe 2017 New York Film Festival has lined up a roster of special events that includes world premiere screenings of documentaries about Steven Spielberg and Bob Dylan, as well as a conversati…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Apples and Oranges Studios, the firm that has been on the producing team of Broadway shows including “An American in Paris” and “Memphis,” has launched a nonprofit ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AMThursday, August 24, 2017
The best 16 shows on Broadway are all playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater in “Prince of Broadway,” a sumptuous revue celebrating the 60-plus-years of legendary director-producer Ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
The 2017 New York Film Festival’s Spotlight on Documentary lineup includes work by a number of notable directors, with world premieres by Vanessa Redgrave (“Sea Sorrow”), A…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“Latin History for Morons,” the John Leguizamo solo show that played Off Broadway earlier this year, will move uptown for a Broadway run that begins in October at Studio 54. Nell…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
Thomas Meehan, the co-writer of Broadway hits “Annie,” “The Producers,” and “Hairspray,” has died. He was 88. The winner of three Tony Awards, Meehan was …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:20PMMonday, August 21, 2017
Most of the Broadway box office found itself in the grip of the usual late-August slowdown last week — but not “On Your Feet!,” the bio-musical about Gloria Estefan and her…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMMatt Shakman, the director behind two recent watercooler episodes of “Game of Thrones,” has been named the artistic director of Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse. He’ll j…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39PMIn a theater festival with 3,398 shows, it can be hard to get your voice heard. But making his presence felt more than most on this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is Irvine Welsh, wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:18PMAl Gore and Jason Blum will be honored at the 2017 IFP Gotham Awards, with Gore set to receive the humanitarian tribute and Blum tapped to get the industry tribute. The Gothams, the Independ…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMDenzel Washington, one of Broadway’s biggest draws at the box office, is set to make his Broadway return this spring in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.” Sc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:19AMFriday, August 18, 2017
Stuart Thompson, the longtime theater producer and general manager of shows including “The Book of Mormon” and the upcoming musical adaptation of “Mean Girls,” died i…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PMThursday, August 17, 2017
The sincere and entirely enjoyable new musical “Trevor” is based on the 1994 short film of the same name, known for its Oscar win but even more for having inspired suicide prevention org…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08PMJudith Light sings! The actress, known for everything from TV work (“One Life to Live,” “Who’s the Boss?” “Ugly Betty”) to Tony-winning stage turns (“Other Desert Cities,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
You have to admire Alan Ayckbourn. At 78 years old, after more than 80 plays, he’s undertaken a work of size, sweep and ambition. But with “The Divide,” a two-part, six-hour an…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PMA well-received London revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 play “Travesties” is making the move to Broadway, with the Roundabout Theater Company giving a spring slot to the prod…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
“Groundhog Day,” the musical that won over critics and awards voters in the U.K. but never caught on in New York, has posted a Broadway closing notice for September after a run o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMJoshua Jackson will headline a new Broadway revival of the Mark Medoff play “Children of a Lesser God,” starring in a production that makes the move to New York following a well-…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMMonday, August 14, 2017
Did “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” benefit from its recent casting controversy? The musical was one of the few to report a significant rise at the Broadway box off…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PMFriday, August 11, 2017
Broadway smash “Hamilton” is going mobile with the launch of an official app, consolidating resources for the musical across its rapidly expanding portfolio of productions. The a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMGloria Steinem got a mid-show standing ovation at the Broadway opening night of Michael Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender,” after the feminist icon made a rousing surprise…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26AMThursday, August 10, 2017
The theater is something of a religion, and the venerable Belasco Theater does look a little like a church. So, professional kvetch Michael Moore and his savvy director, Michael Mayer, made …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:20PM 
