Tuesday, 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 06:00PMSaturday, January 28, 2017
The second annual BroadwayCon fan convention launched Jan. 27 with a headline panel about “The Lion King,” the musical-theater phenomenon celebrating its 20th anniversary this …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMFriday, January 27, 2017
Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones, three actresses from the original cast of “Hamilton,” will perform “America the Beautiful” during the 2…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PMThe movie version of “Speech & Debate,” the first play by “The Humans” Tony winner Stephen Karam, has lined up a day-and-date release in theaters and on VOD in Ap…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, January 26, 2017
The Tony Awards Administration Committee, the group that decides questions of eligibility for the Tonys, has met for the second time during the 2016-17 season, emerging with answers to outst…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMBroadway musical “Waitress” has recouped its $12 million capitalization costs, according to producers, less than 10 months after the show began previews in March. Although “…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PMFox Stage Productions’ brewing musical adaptation of “The Devil Wears Prada” has locked down two key members of its creative team, signing Elton John and Paul Rudnick to wr…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMNew Dramatists has named producer Daryl Roth and playwright Paula Vogel as the 2017 recipients of the organization’s Distinguished Achievement Awards. The honors are handed out every s…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Wayne Brady wants everyone to know he’s doing just fine. Toward the end of his first week playing Aaron Burr in the Chicago production of “Hamilton,” he jumped off a stair…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMMonday, January 23, 2017
Life, in all its messy glory, overflows the stage of the Atlantic Theater Company in this dynamically staged production of “Tell Hector I Miss Him.” Paola Lazaro’s animated…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMThe usual mid-January slowdown gave the Broadway box office a chill last week, as a reduced slate and a drop in traffic precipitated tumbles at most shows — including big ones at shows…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMFriday, January 20, 2017
“It’s like Woodstock for theater nerds,” quipped one theatergoer at “Concert for America,” the afternoon of songs, stand-up and speeches performed Friday after…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54PMThursday, January 19, 2017
With August Wilson’s “Fences” playing in movie theaters and Andre Holland attracting Oscar buzz for his star-making performance in “Moonlight,” Manhattan Theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFascism doesn’t kick the door down on arrival. It waits for an invite, then makes itself at home. A response to the rise of the far-right in Europe – or, more accurately, its re-rise –…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
The Broadway lineup continued to thin out last week as three more shows — “Jersey Boys,” “The Humans” and “Holiday Inn” — played their final b…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:11PM“Oh, Hello on Broadway,” the stage show based on characters created by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, has recouped its $2.9 million capitalization, according to producers, moving t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Brandon Victor Dixon has been nominated for two Tony Awards, but it took the election of Donald Trump to put him in the national spotlight. The New York actor, currently playing the role of …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMBrandon Victor Dixon has been nominated for two Tony Awards, but it took the election of Donald Trump to put him in the national spotlight. The New York actor, currently playing the role of …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AMFriday, January 13, 2017
With a new director and a new star, the Broadway transfer of the West End musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was always going to be a different show from the London original. Ju…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMIn an age of austerity, Britain’s dramatists are putting poverty onstage — with mixed results. Like Ken Loach’s film “I, Daniel Blake,” the stories often center on those that f…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AM 
