Thursday, December 1, 2016
Mahershala Ali has won the 2016 award for best supporting actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, which has also announced special honors for Thelma Schoonmaker, the editor who’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
U.K.-based theater chain Ambassador Theater Group has named new executive leadership to its North American arm — including Kristin Caskey, the Broadway producer who was one of the lead…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, November 28, 2016
The annual bounty of Thanksgiving week gave the Broadway box office a record $35 million to be thankful for last week, with the hottest ticket on the street, “Hamilton,” blowing …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PMWednesday, November 23, 2016
How far we’ve come. Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeares were dismissed as “gimmicky” (and worse) four years ago. Today, genderblind casting is not the norm, but normalized: R…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:49PMMonday, November 21, 2016
The buzz that musical “Dear Evan Hansen” built up Off Broadway has apparently carried over at the Broadway box office, where the show’s first seven previews rang in an impr…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07PM“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” is now in the black. The Off Broadway play has recouped its capitalization costs with an unusual model that sees the show perform once a week with a dif…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMSunday, November 20, 2016
With Sutton Foster in the title role of “Sweet Charity,” we now know that even big, beautiful, corn-fed girls from the American heartland can be fragile Fellini waifs. Although c…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMThursday, November 17, 2016
Romantics will find much to embrace in writer Thomas Schulman’s stage adaptation of the 1989 film he wrote, “Dead Poets Society,” receiving its world premiere production at Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
The musical adaptation of “Amelie” has locked in a slot in the 2016-17 Broadway season, lining up a run that opens in April at the Walter Kerr Theater. Based on Jean-Pierre Jeune…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
The Broadway production of “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” may be much larger than the original version at Off Broadway’s tiny Ars Nova, which had an audience of less…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” with Josh Groban and Denee Benton in the title roles, is a luscious, 360-degree immersive experience that feels like being smothere…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24AMMonday, November 14, 2016
The many distractions of Election Day, including the spate of rescheduling it prompted as multiple Broadway shows got out of the way of Tuesday night’s main event, didn’t manage …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMThe Broadway revival of “Chicago” opened on Nov. 14, 1996 — and in the two decades since, it’s become one of the longest running musicals in Broadway history, second …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:47PMSuperstar producer-director J.J. Abrams will co-produce the Broadway transfer of hit London stage comedy “The Play That Goes Wrong,” joining a team of producers led by Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSunday, November 13, 2016
A giant tree limb slices diagonally across the stage, creating a looming image in Suzan-Lori Parks’ symbol-laden, language-rich, ritualistic play about the erasure of African Americans and…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, November 10, 2016
With “Women of a Certain Age,” Richard Nelson brings to a shuddering close “The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family.” Each of the plays in this poignant…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Returning to the stage after 25 years away, Glenda Jackson makes an extraordinary Lear: an elderly woman standing in for an old king. Her performance centers on a contradiction, her slight f…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:03PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Two healthy debuts — one for the musical adaptation of “A Bronx Tale” and one for Kristin Chenoweth’s — helped keep the Broadway box office steady last week i…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PMA trio of regional theater veterans have launched Mainspring Arts Cooperative, a new nonprofit organization that will produce and present theater productions aimed at touring regional theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThursday, November 3, 2016
In “Sweat,” currently playing somewhere in the airless attic of the Public Theater, Lynn Nottage goes where few playwrights have dared to go — into the heart of working-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Don’t let the throwaway title deceive you. In “Notes from the Field,” Anna Deavere Smith has created one of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race con…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMKeegan-Michael Key has signed on to host the 2016 Gotham Awards, the indie-focused awards show presented annually by New York’s Independent Filmmaker Project. The writer-producer-comedian …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMMonday, October 31, 2016
At the Broadway box office, “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” is selling like hotcakes. But behind the scenes a dispute over playbill credits has escalated into a lawsuit …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:41PMSunday, October 30, 2016
What did people ever do before iPhone games? In 18th century Paris, where the sophisticates in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” lived, members of the upper classes passed the time play…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM“The Color Purple,” the Broadway production that won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will close in January after 14 months on the boards. The show, which also earne…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMThursday, October 27, 2016
William Finn and James Lapine were ahead of the curve when they wrote a trilogy of plays about a married man, his family, and his gay lover in the age of AIDS. “In Trousers” debu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
If only we could see the world through each other’s eyes, we could finally achieve true understanding. That eternal quest, exploited so inventively in Mary Rodgers’ 1972 book “Freaky F…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:17PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Qui Nguyen’s biographical play, “Vietgone,” is a smart variation on what a colleague used to refer to as the “My Life So Far” play. Instead of being a salute…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFathom Events, the alternative-content distributor for bigscreen fare, has teamed up with streaming service BroadwayHD to present U.S. cinema screenings of select U.S. and international titl…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMGlenn Close has locked in her Broadway return in “Sunset Boulevard,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in which she reprises the role that won her a 1995 Tony Award. Close, last on…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMMonday, October 24, 2016
David Hyde Pierce is giving a quietly devastating performance at Playwrights Horizons in “A Life,” Adam Bock’s meditative one-act play about the meaning and implicit value …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM 
