Wednesday, 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 10:00PMThe Geffen Playhouse in L.A. has lined up a 2017-18 season headlined by the world premiere of “Chasing Mem’ries,” a new musical starring Tyne Daly and featuring the songs o…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:55PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
The playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins (“Gloria,” “An Octoroon”) must be concerned about the state of our immortal souls, because his new work, “Everybody” —…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAfter a cold spell at the Broadway box office, sales heated up last week thanks to the date-night business around Valentine’s Day and the long-weekend traffic of President’s Day …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMGenocide, terrorism, a massacre, and police violence: Those are the not-so-cheery but exceptionally topical catalysts of four new plays opening within weeks of each other and continuing simu…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), the theatrical union that represents directors and choreographers, has signed on to become an affiliate of the Department of Professiona…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Tracy Letts’ kind and gentle play, “Man From Nebraska,” follows a nondescript Midwesterner who has a mid-life crisis of faith and goes to London to look for his absent God.…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:21AMThursday, February 16, 2017
“The Minutes,” the new play by actor and “August: Osage County” writer Tracy Letts, has locked in a Broadway slot in early 2018 with Scott Rudin producing. Anna D. Sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:58PMThe fingerprints of the film industry are all over the new Broadway revival of “Sunday in the Park With George.” There’s star Jake Gyllenhaal, for one thing. And there’s the unheard-…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMSinger-songwriter Sara Bareilles will play the lead role in “Waitress,” the Broadway musical for which she wrote the score, during a 10-week run that begins in late March. She…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
New Directors/New Films, the annual New York festival of work by emerging filmmakers presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has set a 2017 lineup of 29…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
With film and TV production in New York City filling local sound stages to capacity, the city will construct a new, 100,000-square-foot production facility as part of a $136 million developm…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39PMMonday, February 13, 2017
Marquee names and musical revivals made waves at the Broadway box office last week, with Glenn Close raking in a hefty tally in the opening week of “Sunset Boulevard” and Jake Gy…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMA new production of Harvey Fierstein’s seminal “Torch Song Trilogy” — now simply called “Torch Song” — will open the fall season at Off BroadwayR…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“In & Of Itself,” the Frank Oz-directed magic show that played L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse last year, will get an Off Broadway run this spring from a varied team of producers that incl…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
It may never snow on Sunset Boulevard, but it does on Broadway, where “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Glenn Close, opened Feb. 9 despite a winter storm that dumped a foot of snow on…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMThursday, February 9, 2017
Glenn Close makes a triumphant return to the star role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” a once-in-a-lifetime role that won her a Tony Award in …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:08PMWhen Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. played Aaron Burr in Broadway’s “Hamilton,” he seethed. Joshua Henry, who originally played the part in Chicago and will reprise the role in the upcomi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
She’s a Mexican-born writer, tenacious, insecure, a “diversity hire” for a popular television detective program. He’s an American-born janitor of Mexican heritage who works the night…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
“Love Never Dies,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to his long-running smash musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” will play the Hollywood Pantages next season, wher…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, February 6, 2017
The Super Bowl is always a tough time at the Broadway box office — but you’d never know it to look at “Hamilton,” the megahit that saw sales spike as its new premium …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PMAs cinema chains explore new ways to expand and eventize the moviegoing experience, a new venture will look to the past, creating a massive indoor replica of a 1960s American drive-in theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, February 2, 2017
The hit London stage adaptation of “1984,” the George Orwell novel that has suddenly become a bestseller in the age of Trump, will come to Broadway this summer in a production ba…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12PMThe New York Comedy Festival has found a new network partner in TBS, the Turner cabler that will integrate its talent into the festival — including Conan O’Brien, whose latenight…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
Even tucked away in her dressing room deep in the basement of Broadway’s Palace Theater, it proved impossible for Glenn Close to ignore what was happening in the outside world on a recent …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PMIt sounded like a stunt. Last year, the English National Opera, cash-strapped and hungry for a big draw, produced a semi-staged revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 musical “Sunset Boul…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
A lawsuit brought against the producers of “Hamilton” and the owners of the theater in which it’s playing has turned attention to issues of accessibility for disabled Broad…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMMonday, January 30, 2017
The barking dog locked in the next room isn’t the only animal neglected in Anna Jordan’s bleak, brutal yet surprisingly tender play “Yen,” making its American premiere in a powerfull…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Broadway box office barely budged last week, as a small slate of about 20 shows held steady in the days before the spring’s stars — among them Glenn Close, Sally Field and Ja…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMClive Owen will team with director Julie Taymor on a new Broadway production of “M. Butterfly,” the 1988 play about a romance between a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMSunday, January 29, 2017
The new plays on tap for the Roundabout Theater Company’s 2017-18 season include the world premiere of the latest by Joshua Harmon, whose play “Significant Other” will open…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM 
