Monday, 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 12:00PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Like David Hare before him, playwright James Graham — whose play “Privacy” ran Off Broadway last season with Daniel Radcliffe — goes digging for drama in Britain’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:23PMWhen it comes to the Fourth of July, the fireworks tend to keep auds away from the Broadway box office. That was the case this year too, with sales down thanks to the distractions of the hol…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMFriday, June 30, 2017
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda took to YouTube Friday morning to announce the Atlantic Records release of "The Hamilton Instrumentals," the instrumental edition of the Broadway cast r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:17PM“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda took to YouTube Friday morning to announce the Atlantic Records release of “The Hamilton Instrumentals,” the instrumental editio…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27AMThursday, June 29, 2017
It’s a good play. Honestly, it’s a good play. No, I really mean it. This mantra, or something like it, is necessary to keep your faith in “Marvin’s Room,” the m…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53PMWednesday, June 28, 2017
New York’s National Alliance for Musical Theatre has set the slate for its 2017 NAMT Festival of New Musicals, the 29-year-old event that has served as a Broadway stepping stone for ti…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMNigel Redden, the longtime chief of the annual Lincoln Center Festival, will step down from his post in the fall after a tenure of nearly 20 years. The summer festival, which mostly takes pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMMonday, June 26, 2017
Looks like “Indecent” really does deserve that new lease on life. The play, which had been set to close June 25 despite winning two Tony Awards, surged at the Broadway box office…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMA charity campaign announced on Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda has caught on with well-known names from the film, TV, and theater world, with donations to the Immigrants: We Get the Job Done …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
The membership of Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents theater actors and stage managers, has ratified a new five-year contract with the League of Resident Theaters, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:47AMFriday, June 23, 2017
The 2017 edition of The List, the index of underproduced female-written plays reported annually by the playwrights collective known as the Kilroys, focuses for the first time this year on pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:56PMThursday, June 22, 2017
The management of “1984,” the lauded West End import playing at Broadway’s Hudson Theater, felt it necessary to ban children under 13 from the stage production adapted by…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27PMStage trials are nothing new. Ayn Rand had a big Broadway hit with one back in 1935: “Night of January 16” was designed to put her philosophy, individualism, to the test. Ferdin…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
The Broadway revival of “Cats,” which opened last summer and is one of four Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals now running in New York, has posted its closing notice, sticking around t…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PMKenny Wax, the British producer who is currently represented on Broadway with “The Play That Goes Wrong,” has been appointed the new president of the Society of London Theater, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Does “Transparent” have the makings of a musical? That was the question — literally — at “Faith Soloway & Friends: Should ‘Transparent’ Become a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMMonday, June 19, 2017
“Bandstand” continued its upward trajectory, “Oslo” got a shot in the arm and “Hello, Dolly!” set its latest record at the Broadway box office last week, …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of “M. Butterfly,” set to star Clive Owen in a production directed by Julie Taymor, has planted its flag in the Cort Theater, where the show will op…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMFriday, June 16, 2017
It’s not surprising that Kevin Spacey would choose to resurrect David W. Rintels’ 1974 play about Clarence Darrow — the famed criminal lawyer who, for four decades, fought with unusual…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMThursday, June 15, 2017
An independent rally for New York’s Public Theater brought out a crowd of about 150 people in support of the organization that’s currently under fire for a controversial producti…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43PMFresh off the Tonys, from which their musical “Dear Evan Hansen” emerged with six trophies including best musical, songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have a horse in the Emmy rac…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
A.R. Gurney, the playwright who chronicled the foibles and mores of wealthy, white Anglo-Saxon protestants in plays such as “The Dining Room,” “The Cocktail Hour,” an…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:16PM“Indecent” became the third Broadway play to announce its closing in the wake of the Tony Awards, with the show now set to shutter June 25. The production — which earned go…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
There weren’t many surprises from this year’s Tony Awards ceremony, which handed “Dear Evan Hansen” its expected win for best new musical and saw major acting trophies go to Ben Plat…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMAbout six million people watched the Tony Awards Sunday night on CBS — but a live audience of only about 6,000 caught the show from inside the room itself. Here’s what you missed…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMTwo plays that walked away empty-handed from the Tony Awards ceremony have posted closing notices, now that it’s become clear that the awards-season attention hasn’t provided eno…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36PM 
