Thursday, April 20, 2017
Chris Evans will make his Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “Lobby Hero,” starring opposite Michael Cera in a production that will reopen the newly renovated Helen Hayes Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01AMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference has set its 2017 lineup of eight plays to be developed during the center’s summer season, including new …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
It wasn’t trick casting on the part of director Daniel Sullivan to have Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon alternate lead roles in “The Little Foxes,” Lillian Hellman’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMDaniel Craig, Cate Blanchett, Allison Janney, Josh Groban, Daniel Radcliffe, Sally Field and Corey Hawkins are among the actors nominated for the performance trophy at the 2017 Drama League…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMThe title of this engaging dark comedy by Tracy Letts (“August: Osage County,” “Superior Donuts”), “Linda Vista,” refers to the San Diego community in which protagonist Wheeler (…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMAudra McDonald is not only the winningest actress in Broadway history (with six Tony Awards and counting), she’s also a vocal activist and a new mom. A Variety Power of Women New York …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
“Indecent,” the production created by playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, opened April 18, 2017, at Broadway’s Cort Theater after an Off Broadway run last…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMGood Friday, Easter, the first night of Passover and spring break for New York City public schools all fell during the same week last week, and it added up to a huge boom at the Broadway box…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PMKevin Spacey has signed on to host the 2017 Tony Awards — thereby answering a major outstanding question about the upcoming awards ceremony, which this year has waited until late in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PMYou’re not imagining it: The Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” really has been unusually accident-prone. Following a couple of days of doubt, Andy Karl performed in the prod…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:43AMOnce you get involved in “Indecent,” “Indecent” doesn’t let you go. Just ask its cast and creative team. The production’s complete ensemble of seven actors (along with t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMMonday, April 17, 2017
As musical theater performers go, you couldn’t ask for a more personable fellow than Andy Karl. His high-energy athleticism kept “Rocky” on its toes. And his comic chops ea…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMDisney Theatrical Prods. has lined up the principal casting for its Broadway-bound musical adaptation of “Frozen,” with Caissie Levy and Patti Murin on board to play the sisters …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMA new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 musical “Carousel” has lined up a spring 2018 opening, in a production backed by Scott Rudin and Roy Furman and …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
The April 15 matinee of the previewing Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” has been cancelled after Andy Karl, the lead actor in the production, injured himself during the second ac…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Following a well-received Off Broadway run last year, the Lincoln Center Theater production of J.T. Rogers’ play “Oslo” opened April 13 at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWhen “Oslo” opened Off Broadway in the middle of July, it sounded like the opposite of summer popcorn fare. The latest play by J.T. Rogers was a meaty evening, a thinking theatergoerR…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Broadway names Sherie Rene Scott and Micah Stock and “The Blacklist” cast member Amir Arison have signed on to join Arian Moayed in the upcoming Off Broadway production of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMBrendon Urie, the lead member of rock band Panic! At The Disco, has signed on for a summer run in the Broadway musical “Kinky Boots,” playing Charlie, the young man who takes ove…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Last week was a busy one at the Broadway box office, with three shows opening, two more beginning previews and a couple — “The Play That Goes Wrong” and “WaitressR…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMCurrent Broadway play “Sweat” has scored playwright Lynn Nottage her second Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with the award this year going to a show that has proven a timely look at a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PMNew York State’s newly approved budget, passed by the state senate nine days after the April 1 start of the fiscal year, includes a three-year extension of the Film Production Tax Cre…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMSunday, April 9, 2017
Forget the Triwizard Tournament and the Hogwarts House Cup, Harry Potter has arguably won an ever bigger prize. The West End production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” due on…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMSaturday, April 8, 2017
Modern classics don’t come along very often. “Consent” is, without a shadow of a doubt, just that: an intricately constructed philosophical drama that does for love, law and la…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Hillary Clinton is a Broadway regular these days — but it felt particularly symbolic to see her at the opening night of the musical “War Paint,” the musical about two trail…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMThursday, April 6, 2017
“War Paint” is a musical about Catherine Zuber’s fabulous costumes and magnificent hats, as modeled by the great Patti LuPone as Helena Rubenstein and her Highness, Christi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:38PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee emerged from the Broadway season’s third eligibility meeting with new rulings on a small batch of shows, including productions with high-profil…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PMA married, middle-aged man falls in love with a goat. Edward Albee’s set-up might be simple, but it’s perfectly positioned – silly and shocking and, at its best, achingly sad. “T…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:11PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Can there be a romantic relationship between two gay men of different generations: one who grew up in the shadows, witnessing struggles, pain and hidden pleasures; the other growing up in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMWhatever would we do without Kevin Kline? In an age of lesser stars, he’s a bona fide matinee idol of the ideal age and with the urbane sensibility to do justice to sophisticated scrib…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMBroadway producer David Binder will serve as guest artistic director for LIFT, the London International Festival of Theater, for the biennial event’s 2018 edition. Binder, the producer…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PM 
