A 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 08:07AMThe 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 11:13AMFollowing 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 10:00AMBroadway 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 12:44PMLast 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 11:54AMForget 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 05:08PMModern 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 09:00AMHillary 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 01:30PM“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 01:11PMCan 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 05:32PMCurrent Broadway offerings “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Oslo” and “Indecent” are in the running for major trophies at the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards, the Off Broa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMThe only thing remotely Parisian about “Amelie” is the use of a bilious shade of green reminiscent of the outdoor pissoirs one used to see all over Paris. Hardly the image to tak…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“Hello, Dolly!” — but goodbye, house records. The ultra-hot revival led by Bette Midler broke the record for biggest week in the Shubert Theater with just seven performance…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PMOlivia Wilde will make her Broadway debut in “1984,” starring alongside Tom Sturridge and Reed Birney in the production that opens in June. Wilde (“Vinyl,” “Hou…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:48AMThe show must go on — but in the Broadway transfer of West End hit “The Play That Goes Wrong,” forgotten lines, lost props, technical gaffes and rebellious scenery all seem…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:08PMFrom a purely cosmetic standpoint, the Broadway musical “War Paint” seems to have all the makings of an over-the-top season of the FX series “Feud”: Two powerful, successful, ferocio…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMAs a former Doctor Who, David Tennant has done his fair share of regenerating. In Patrick Marber’s contemporary spin on the Don Juan legend, “Don Juan in Soho,” it’s as if the age-ol…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PMEver since the tempestuous presidential election season, the country at large can’t stop talking about politics. In Washington D.C., that’s always been business as usual — only now…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:48PMJaneane Garofalo will make her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming production of “Marvin’s Room,” starring alongside Lili Taylor and Celia We…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMRobert Greenblatt, the NBC Entertainment Chairman who has made live broadcasts of classic musicals an annual event on his network, has joined the board of directors at Center Theater Group, …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01AMIt’s never too late to be educated, especially when it’s as entertaining and personal as John Leguizamo’s class in culture, comedy and parenting in his latest solo show at The Public, …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Broadway box office pushed ever upward last week, in a spring break session that saw several fresh faces — particularly musicals that were previewing or had recently opened —…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:07PM“Once On This Island,” the 1990 musical by the songwriting duo also behind Broadway’s “Anastasia,” will return to Broadway later this year in a new production t…
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