Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Jo Lampert is so conspicuously exotic, with her pale, elongated face and icicle-thin body, that it’s entertaining just to watch her wave her flag and model her sexy armor. The performe…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
“In the Body of the World,” the solo show written by and starring Eve Ensler, will get its New York premiere next year, playing Off Broadway in a Manhattan Theater Club staging t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWith a winter storm pounding the East Coast and forcing school and road closures all across the Northeast, New York City is, despite some disruptions, largely open for business — at le…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:09AMMonday, March 13, 2017
There’s plenty of wattage but little illumination in the latest groupthink by The Debate Society, the theater collective that spent seven years making “The Light Years,” which tells tw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMThe new Broadway revival of “Present Laughter” only played two performances last week, but it might be a show to keep an eye on: Buoyed by a cast led by Kevin Kline, the Noel C…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:57PMLin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash “Hamilton” will continue to conquer the world — or at least the U.S. — with a second national tour, launching next year in S…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:49PMSunday, March 12, 2017
Here’s that feel-good show that audiences constantly pine for. “Come from Away” is a modest, earnest, life-affirming musical by Irene Sankoff and David Hein that makes peop…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15PMFriday, March 10, 2017
For theatergoers who don’t happen to be seated in the third row of “The Glass Menagerie,” take it from those who sat up close: In the intimate new Broadway production star…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PMThursday, March 9, 2017
Of all the plays in the American canon, “The Glass Menagerie” seems a most unlikely candidate for deconstruction. But that doesn’t deter director Sam Gold (“Fun Home,” “O…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is a play ruined by its reputation. Even people who’ve never seen Edward Albee’s celebrated scorcher know this bruising, bloody, no-holds-barred b…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMIt’s easy to imagine a project that could get J.J. Abrams‘ name on a Broadway marquee. A “Star Wars” stage outing from megaproducer Disney Theatrical Productions, may…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMWednesday was International Women's Day -- but it was also a two-show day for most of Broadway, so not many women in the New York theater industry -- many of whom work onstage and backstage …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:49PMWednesday was International Women’s Day — but it was also a two-show day for most of Broadway, so not many women in the New York theater industry — many of whom work onstag…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMBill Condon, the director of the live-action version of “Beauty and the Beast” that arrives in theaters later this month, has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Theater Ventures…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
The joke in “Hamlet” is that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the two stooges sent to spy on the great Dane, are interchangeable — the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Elsinore. And so it…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMShow-Score, the review-aggregator website that aims to become the Rotten Tomatoes of the theater world, has raised $2 million in new financing from a group of investors that reaches beyond t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, March 6, 2017
The heat is on in Saigon: “Miss Saigon,” one of the few megamusicals from the British invasion of the 1980s and 1990s not to have yet received a Broadway revival, has come in for…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PM“My Fair Lady,” the well-known musical that hasn’t been seen on Broadway in almost 25 years, has set dates for a Broadway return next year in a Lincoln Center Theater produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PMThe Quad Cinema, the Greenwich Village theater that was New York City’s first multiplex, will reopen in April with upgrades and renovations to its facilities, tech, seats and branding.…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End megahit that will apparate on Broadway next year, earned 11 nominations for the 2017 Olivier Awards, racking up a record haul fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Poor wallflowers. They’re the ones no one asks to dance, to go to the prom, to get married. The wallflower in “Significant Other,” Joshua Harmon’s bittersweet play ab…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
The Tooting Arts Club, a site-specific London community theater, has scored the ideal New York venue for its audience-pleasing version of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Stree…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PMAllison Janney may be best known for her TV work, but she got her start on stage. Now, after four seasons (and counting) on “Mom” — not to mention the seven seasons she spe…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMAndrew Scott’s electrifying debut as sing-song psychopathic Moriarty in the BBC’s “Sherlock” opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in 2010 was the most career-changing cameo since Judi D…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Janie Dee, comic royalty on English stages, applies her comedic chops to the title role in “Linda,” a feisty feminist play by Penelope Skinner that originated at London’s R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMonday, February 27, 2017
Richard III loses his kingdom for want of a horse. The main character in David Mamet’s new play, “The Penitent,” compromises his career because of a typo. Did this renowned…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMSignature Theater stages are currently filled with two quite different end-of-life accountings. In one theater there’s Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ expansive, lively and cautionary parable pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAfter last week’s spike from Valentine’s Day and President’s Day, the Broadway box office of several of the street’s biggest shows dipped — but those declines w…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:43PM“The Night of the Iguana” is Tennessee Williams’ darkly tragicomic 1961 musing on humanity’s difficulties in hanging on to love, faith and grace, set on the eve of World War II when …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PMThursday, February 23, 2017
A concert staging at City Center last fall of Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Sunday in the Park With George” went swimmingly, with Jake Gyllenhaal …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
The problem with many, if not most, family dramas is that the families are so often hateful. Playwright Steven Levenson (book writer of “Dear Evan Hansen”) avoids that trap in &#…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM 
