Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Barbara Cook, the golden-age Broadway ingenue who became a beloved cabaret and concert performer in the second act of her career, has died. She was 89. Her son, Adam LeGrant, confirmed to V…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Last-minute business was the driver at the Broadway box office last week, where the biggest gains were reported at “Indecent,” the play that closed Sunday, and at “Kinky Bo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMFriday, August 4, 2017
Didn’t we already see “Groundhog Day” onstage this year? Or is “A Parallelogram” playwright Bruce Norris’ private little joke? Just kidding. Both shows fiddle around with the c…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:18PMThursday, August 3, 2017
Some things are best left in the past, and “Apologia,” Alexi Kaye Campbell’s ambivalent examination of baby-boomer morality and second-wave feminism is one of them. Written just after …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Carrie Coon, the “Fargo” and “The Leftovers” star who’s currently in the race at this year’s Emmy Awards, will lead the cast of “Mary Jane,” a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PMSeven members of the West End company of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will open the Broadway production in the spring, including Olivier winners Jamie Parker, Noma Dumezwe…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:40AMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Who’d have thought that the Rude Mechanicals would rescue a floundering production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and turn it into a giddy delight? Galvanized by Danny Burstein’s o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Michael Moore got off to a promising start at the Broadway box office last week as the left-leaning provocateur’s new solo show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” played to near…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PMDespite Hollywood’s rising awareness of diversity issues and the growing movement in support of inclusivity, there has been little year-on-year rise in inclusion in films released in 2…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMFriday, July 28, 2017
Mandy Patinkin has decided to drop out of Broadway’s “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” just days after he was announced to join the cast, and before he even set…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:12PMThe more we understand, the less we understand. As human knowledge increases, so does individual ignorance. Every new discovery brings new things to fear. These are the paradoxes that “…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24AMThursday, July 27, 2017
“Mean Girls,” the musical version of the 2004 teen comedy, has locked in its cast ahead of a fall premiere in Washington, D.C. that stands poised to launch the show to Broadway, …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM“Bob Dylan: the Musical,” or something more sophisticated? Picking his way through the legendary songwriter’s back catalogue, Irish playwright Conor McPherson has come up with a portra…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMDon’t hold your breath for an aisle seat. Theatergoers in New York this summer are crouching on the floor in a simulated air raid, sirens blaring. Or they’re standing in a stairwell, wat…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Money can’t buy you class. Australian director Benedict Andrews gives Tennessee Williams’ inheritance drama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” a twist for the Trump era: Gone are the cream suit…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:23PMMonday, July 24, 2017
The addition of a star to a long-running Broadway show doesn’t always pay off — but sometimes it does, as the summertime stint of Brendon Urie in “Kinky Boots” has re…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
In the movies, Batman is a loner with a dark demeanor, Iron Man is a wealthy industrialist and Captain America is a superhero stalwart, using his mighty shield to defend justice. In the comi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Josh Lucas will star opposite Uma Thurman in “The Parisian Woman,” the upcoming Broadway production of a play by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon. The actor (&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMMonday, July 17, 2017
Bette Midler returned to “Hello, Dolly!” last week, and she brought $1.5 million with her to the Broadway box office. “Hello, Dolly!” ($2,232,162) had seen its sales …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PM“Dear Evan Hansen,” the Broadway musical that last month won six Tony Awards including the top trophy for new musical, has recouped its $9.5 million capitalization costs about ei…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24AMThursday, July 13, 2017
Oscar Isaac’s Hamlet is to die for, but director Sam Gold’s bizarre “Hamlet” is to shoot on sight. Shakespeare has always been an accommodating chap; whatever interpr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Danny Boyle will direct a starry stage benefit this fall for charity Dramatic Need and Carnegie Hall, featuring a big-name cast that will include Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Daniel Kaluuy…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMUma Thurman will make her Broadway debut in “The Parisian Woman,” a play by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon set in Washington, D.C. in the wake of the 2016 pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMUma Thurman will make her Broadway debut in "The Parisian Woman," a play by "House of Cards" creator Beau Willimon set in Washington, D.C. in the wake of the 2016 presidential
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Karen Pittman is giving a sensational performance in the new play at Lincoln Center Theater, “Pipeline,” starring as a mother who fights tooth and nail to save her son from the “sc…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PM“Wicked,” the musical that hit $1 billion faster than any other Broadway title, has now passed “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Broadway box office. The longrunning …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMMonday, July 10, 2017
Bette Midler won our love in “Hello, Dolly!” just by wiggling her pinky finger. Donna Murphy, who has slipped into Dolly Gallagher Levi’s trim little boots while Bette is o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:45PMHow much of a sales driver was Josh Groban’s name on the marquee at “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”? Looks like he was worth about half a million dollars a we…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMFriday, July 7, 2017
Seattle Repertory Theatre has commissioned a new musical set in the grunge scene in 1990s Seattle, featuring an original, fictional story told with pre-existing songs of the era by acts such…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:38AMThursday, July 6, 2017
In a move that brings two large-scale live entertainment brands under the same umbrella, Cirque du Soleil has acquired Blue Man Productions for an undisclosed sum said to number in the tens …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22PM“Wonderstruck,” the Todd Haynes film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, will screen as the Centerpiece title of the 55th New York Film Festival this fa…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM 
