Thursday, 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 08:30AMThursday, January 12, 2017
The Tony Awards are moving back to Radio City Music Hall, returning to the venue after being held last year at the Beacon Theater on the Upper West Side. Organizers of the Tonys Awards have …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:03PMJoe Tracz is having a pretty good week. The first season of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” the Lemony Snicket TV adaptation on which he served as a story editor, bows Friday o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel “The Kite Runner” remains a literary sensation, tender, personal narrative that weaves through 25 years of Afghanistan’s history and has sold more than …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMMonday, January 9, 2017
The first full week of January brought the Broadway box office crashing down to earth, with sales plunging by 40%, or a whopping $20 million, compared to the previous week, when numbers were…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:23PMSunday, January 8, 2017
Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh lead the Sydney Theater Company in a sparkling production of “The Present,” Andrew Upton’s free-form treatment of Anton Chekhov’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMThursday, January 5, 2017
The $3 million week, which just a few years ago had seemed a faraway milestone for Broadway, is starting to become more common not just in New York but on the road as well, with “Wicke…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:38PMBroadway marquees will dim this weekend to memorialize the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, who made their Broadway debuts together in the 1973 production of the musical “I…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:15PMCate Blanchett is making her Broadway debut in “The Present,” an adaptation, directed by John Crowley, of an early Chekhov play. For her, the production — now in previews for a Jan. 8…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMMark Ruffalo will appear on Broadway for the first time in more than a decade, signing on to headline the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming revival of Arthur Miller’s “…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Powered by megahits like “Hamilton,” “Wicked” and “The Lion King,” Broadway box office hit a new high last week, ringing in just slightly less than $50 mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:11PMWednesday, December 28, 2016
Alexander Hamilton never became president, but he was the king of the Broadway box office in 2016 as “Hamilton” nudged past Disney blockbuster “The Lion King” to top …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Michael Mayer and Tom Kitt are working on a new version of “As You Like It” in Tokyo. In the same city, Broadway stars like Ramin Karimloo and Emily Skinner all starred in the 2015 world…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15PMGeorge Bernard Shaw was adamant that “there are no villains” in his play “Saint Joan.” Those who wrongly convicted Joan of Arc on heresy charges did so in good faith, he contended. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
Dick Latessa, the Tony Award-winning actor who co-starred in the original Broadway production of “Hairspray,” has died. He was 87. The stage veteran, who also had screen credits …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:34AM 
