Monday, November 18, 2024
“Swept Away,” a musical about four men stranded at sea, had a landlocked genesis. John Logan, the show’s Oscar-nominated and Tony-winning writer, started teasing out the idea for the m…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:50AMFriday, November 1, 2024
“Slumdog Millionaire,” the Oscar-winning film about a young man from an impoverished background who competes on India’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” could be headed…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:48AMThursday, October 31, 2024
“Sleep No More,” the immersive experience that revolutionized the theater scene, has announced its final performance. The influential, site-specific show will close following the…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThursday, October 24, 2024
“Back to the Future: The Musical,” a pricey stage adaptation of the beloved sci-fi adventure, is packing up the DeLorean. The production will have its final Broadway performance on Sunda…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMFriday, October 18, 2024
“I’m smaller in real life,” Laura Donnelly tells me after I admit that I didn’t recognize her, standing pensively by the entrance to the midtown bar where we’re meeting, scanning t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:16AMFriday, October 11, 2024
Playwright and actor Ryan O’Connor has written a modern, unapologetically queer take on Nöel Coward’s classic comedy “Hay Fever.” Entitled “The Cowards: A Marvelously Queer New Co…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:41PMMonday, September 23, 2024
The Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall for the show’s 78th edition. It’s the first time that the annual celebration of the best of Broadway has been held at the Midtown Man…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, September 19, 2024
Nicole Scherzinger sounds like a kid desperately clinging to those last fleeting moments of summer break before school starts. She’s calling from an airport in Portugal, having recently wr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59AMFriday, August 2, 2024
Elizabeth Lail, Zane Phillips and Nic Ashe are set to star in the off Broadway premiere of “Pretty Perfect Lives,” a look at sexual exploration, internet addiction and the dangers of…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, August 1, 2024
Jen Namoff, a prominent talent manager and Tony Award-winning producer, will join the New York office of Artists First. She is known for managing a deep roster of entertainment talent at her…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, July 29, 2024
Peter Friedman, the star of “Job,” takes his time getting to the theater each day. Sometimes he’ll board a local train from his home on the Upper West Side instead of the express that …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:02PMFriday, July 26, 2024
Betty Buckley, the Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated actor and singer, has signed with Sugar23. Best known for her performances in on stage, particularly for her soaring rendition of “Memo…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Willkommen, bienvenue Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho. There’s a new act at the Kit Kat Club. Lambert, a Grammy nominee and “American Idol” breakout, and Cravalho, the star of the m…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PMSunday, June 30, 2024
Is it a musical? Is it a roller derby? Is it a game-show? When the roller-skating phenomenon that is “Starlight Express” opened in London in 1984 it was all of those and more, as evidenc…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMWednesday, June 26, 2024
Regardless of one’s political allegiance, it’s almost universally agreed that in recent years political expediency rather than truth has been, literally, the governing principle behind s…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PMSunday, June 16, 2024
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren will team up for the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last Five Years.” The musical, a look at the flowering and dissolution …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23AMMonday, June 10, 2024
Actor and singer Skylar Astin will help theater lovers celebrate Broadway’s biggest night. The “Pitch Perfect” star has been tapped to host the American Express “Broadway Fanfare” …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, June 7, 2024
TodayTix Group has acquired Arthouse, a full-service digital advertising agency. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies said that Arthouse will operate independent…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMFriday, May 31, 2024
By the end of every performance, “The Outsiders” cast is caked in grime and dust. That’s a consequence of the Broadway musical’s sandy stage, which finds the actors who bring the the…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15PMThursday, May 2, 2024
“Lempicka,” a musical about Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, May 19. The show has struggled to draw crowds since opening on April…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMSunday, April 28, 2024
For more than half a century, “Cabaret” — the iconic American musical set in Nazi Germany — has been produced, revived and revived again. This story, which touches on sex work, abort…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:35PMThursday, April 18, 2024
“No extraneous commotion,” Jordan Fein, the associate director of “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club,” beseeches the small army of construction crew members who are drilling, hammering and…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
Maya Boyd will take over the title role in Broadway’s “& Juliet.” She joins the cast directly from the company of “Merrily We Roll Along,” where she made her Broadway debut ea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, April 4, 2024
Maia Novi’s “Invasive Species” has announced an Off-Broadway limited engagement at The Vineyard’s Dimson Theater. The production will reunite the cast and creative team from the dark…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright who specialized in a particular form of brainy and absurdist comedy, has died. He was 75. The cause was complications from a form of demen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22AMMonday, March 25, 2024
With his victory on Monday at the Critics’ Circle Theatre awards, Andrew Scott has made history. The British performer, recognized as best actor for his one-man West End show, “Vanya,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
A star-studded revival of “Merrily We Roll Along” has managed to accomplish something that eluded the ill-fated original production of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Turn a profit. The sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMThursday, March 14, 2024
Musical theater artist and historian Ben West is writing a new book, “The American Musical: Evolution of an Art Form.” The book will be released by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor &a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMFriday, March 1, 2024
Sean Cercone has stepped down as head of Broadway Licensing Global. It’s unclear why he left the company that he acquired in 2019. Broadway Licensing Global has announced who will lead th…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Things kicked off with Alicia Keys singing the galvanic ode to the five boroughs, “Empire State of Mind,” and ended with Pete Townshend rocking out to “Pinball Wizard.” Those perform…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:56AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Four whalers are set adrift after a violent storm sinks their ship. Lost at sea, exposed to the elements and on the brink of starvation, the men must make horrifying decisions in their strug…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:55PM 
