Monday, May 29, 2017
Among the many subjects of speculation about the Tony Awards this year: Bette Midler, and when she’ll perform during the awards telecast. At the start, kicking off the show with a bang…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMThursday, May 25, 2017
Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie is moving from the concert stage to the Broadway stage later this week, stepping into one of the lead roles in “Kinky Boots” this Friday…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
There’s a hold-your-breath inevitability to what is finally disclosed in “Building the Wall,” the powerful dystopian drama about life in the Donald Trump era by Robert Schenkkan. Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05PMThe paradox of “Woyzeck” is simple: Georg Büchner’s play is unfinished, but unimprovable. Based on a real-life murder case, a story of a soldier who self-destructs, it is bri…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:42PM“The Band’s Visit,” the Off Broadway musical that’s picked up a slew of trophies this year, has locked in the details of its Broadway run, opening at the Barrymore Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
“Can You Forgive Her?,” a whimsical piece of work by Gina Gionfriddo (“Becky Shaw,” “Rapture, Blister, Burn”), looks like a play, talks like a play, and s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWith “Hamilton” pushing premium ticket prices to new highs and a fresh crop of popular titles like “Dear Evan Hansen” powering hearty sales, the 2016-17 Broadway sea…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PMMonday, May 22, 2017
“Oslo” scored yet another playwriting trophy — as well as an ensemble acting honor — on its way to the Tonys, taking one of two 2017 Obie Awards for best new American…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMSunday, May 21, 2017
Writer-actor Hamish Linklater’s new play “The Whirligig,” expressionistic in form and melancholy in tone, examines the whirling emotions of the friends and family who are k…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26PMFriday, May 19, 2017
Glenda Jackson, the Oscar winner who hasn’t appeared on the New York stage in almost 30 years, will star on Broadway next year in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:09PMBroadway producers may have spent much of this week courting the theater industry’s Tony Awards voters at the Broadway League’s annual spring conference, but fans have signaled t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
“Come From Away,” the musical that slipped into the Broadway season to give “Dear Evan Hansen” a run for its money at the Tony Awards, picked up four trophies at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:58PMIdina Menzel, the “Frozen” star and “Wicked” Tony winner who was also one of the leads in Lifetime’s “Beaches,” will star Off Broadway in “Ski…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMMonday, May 15, 2017
The Tony nominations have seemingly helped “Groundhog Day” turn heads, with the Broadway musical lifted to its highest weekly tally yet in the wake of seven nods including best m…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:56PMThursday, May 11, 2017
Running a nice little family restaurant in New York isn’t what it used to be, what with spiking rent prices, competition with hipster eateries and ever-changing food tastes. These and more…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:05PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
The Broadway musical “School of Rock” has turned a profit, with producers of the show announcing the recoupment of its capitalization cost of $15 million. The Andrew Lloyd Webber…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:48AMAfter six seasons on “Downton Abbey,” Elizabeth McGovern will head back to Broadway in “Time and the Conways,” a revival of the 1937 J.B. Priestley play to be produce…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
Despite the mishap that saw this year’s Oscar ceremony end with the temporary announcement of the incorrect best picture winner, Michael De Luca, one of the producers of the 2017 Acade…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:23PMThe Broadway revival of “The Glass Menagerie,” with a cast led by Sally Field, has thrown in the towel earlier than initially expected, with the production, which had been schedu…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMMonday, May 8, 2017
The Tony-nominated Broadway play “Oslo” made it a hat-trick, winning the award for best play from the New York Drama Critics Circle after snagging the same honor from the Lortel…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06PMWith Tony nominations dropping early last week to add a jolt of awards-season buzz to the Broadway box office, plays were the biggest beneficiaries in an overall steady week as both “O…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMMark Rylance, the Oscar and Tony-winning actor who has been much employed in Stephen Spielberg’s recent films, will return to Broadway later this year in “Farinelli and the King,…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PM“In & Of Itself,” the solo show starring illusionist Derek DelGaudio and backed by a team of Hollywood veterans that includes Neil Patrick Harris, has proven successful enoug…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMThe megaselling revival of “Hello, Dolly!” and the sleeper success “Come From Away” walked away with five awards each from the Outer Critics Circle Awards, underscori…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:47AM“Oslo,” the play by J.T. Rogers that’s currently in the running for seven Tony Awards including best play, topped the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging four trophies inc…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:53AMFriday, May 5, 2017
Better on angels than it is on America, Marianne Elliott’s grand revival of “Angels in America” brings Tony Kushner’s sprawling fantasia back to London’s National Theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PMThursday, May 4, 2017
Director John Doyle is such a wizard, he could probably stage a show on a postage stamp. The stage at Classic Stage Company is larger than that — as reconfigured for this Off Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:24PMIn the first sign of fallout from the recent announcement of the Tony nominations, producers of the Broadway musical “Amelie” have decided to throw in the towel, posting a closin…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMDisney Theatrical Production’s stage version of Frozen is also due to open in spring 2018
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:57PMJez Butterworth tapped into England’s green and pleasant land in “Jerusalem,” summoning ancient feet and pagan spirits to the stage. “The Ferryman,” his first major…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:42PM“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End smash that extends the uber-popular “Harry Potter” franchise to the stage, has officially made a date with Broadway,…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:34AM 
