Sunday, April 8, 2018
Those high-school girls who laughed themselves silly at Tina Fey’s 2004 movie “Mean Girls” are now old enough to take their own teenaged daughters to this bouncy musical adapta…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37PMWednesday, April 4, 2018
Off Broadway Korean-pop musical “KPOP” topped the nominations for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging nine nominations for the annual awards for Off Broadway fare. “KP…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PMAaron Tveit and Karen Olivo will headline the new musical adaptation of “Moulin Rouge,” the stage adaptation of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film. Tveit, a Broadway fan-favorite whose s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
“I didn’t want to be weaving baskets and lamenting about the oxen.” That’s the actress Billie Piper talking about “Yerma” on the latest episode of Stagecraft,…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMBig Broadway and TV names will come together later this month for “Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Parkland, USA,” produced to raise funds in the aftermath of the Parkl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMIn the theater industry, “secondary market” used to be dirty words, conjuring images of price-gouging brokers and risky, potentially fraudulent transactions on a street corner. But not a…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, April 2, 2018
Passover and Easter week gave the Broadway box office plenty to celebrate, with the holidays — and the academic spring breaks that are often timed to them — driving up sales by a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PMNot everyone watched NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” on TV: More than 1,300 people made up the live audience that cheered on the show from the bleachers. Here’s w…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:46AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Watching Glenda Jackson in theatrical flight is like looking straight into the sun. Her expressive face registers her thoughts while guarding her feelings. But it’s the voice that really t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:22PM“Angels in America” has cast a long shadow: Tony Kushner’s fantastical dramatization of the AIDS crisis has long seemed near definitive. But over six acts and seven hours at LondonR…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:34PMThe moment Samantha Barks smiles and sings near the beginning of this musical adaptation of the film “Pretty Woman,” we know things are going to be OK. The sense that this show —…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ brewing musical adaptation of “Beetlejuice” has mapped out its road to Broadway, locking in a world premiere run at the National Theatre in W…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
There are lots of characters in the Off Broadway thriller “Harry Clarke.” But they’re all played by Billy Crudup — who gets lonely up there sometimes. “It gets …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, March 26, 2018
“Manchester By the Sea” didn’t come out of nowhere. The aching compassion for humanity in that 2016 Oscar winner is second nature to Kenneth Lonergan, going back at least to 2001, when…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07PMHarry Potter only just apparated onto Broadway, and he’s already making magic. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” played its first six previews and levitated all the way u…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PMSunday, March 25, 2018
The National Theater production of Tony Kushner’s phenomenal 1993 epic work doesn’t feel like a historical artifact that won the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emm…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:33PMFriday, March 23, 2018
When we meet him in the attractive person of Billy Crudup, the title character of the Off Broadway play “Harry Clarke” is casually dressed and sitting on a wooden deckchair, drin…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:47PM“Frozen” may have just opened on Broadway, but the Oscar-winning creatives of both the movie and the stage musical aren’t done with each other yet. They’re hard at w…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMThursday, March 22, 2018
As Princess Elsa says in this snowy, showy stage adaptation of the popular Disney movie, “I’m not as cold as I seem.” Credit the thawing trend in Broadway’s “Frozen” to the lovab…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
It’s nothing if not timely: Francis Turnly’s epic international mystery “The Great Wave” takes us into the soul of North Korea. A tale of two sisters – best of times, worst of time…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMSuperfans and hate-watchers, take note: You may not have seen the last of “Smash.” So says Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, on the latest episode of Stagecraft, …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:26PMEthan Hawke and Paul Dano will star next winter in a new Broadway production of “True West,” with the two actors playing the volatile brothers at the center of Sam Shepard’…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, March 19, 2018
“Mean Girls” is looking pretty nice for Broadway: The new musical — powered by the involvement of the film’s screenwriter Tina Fey — raked in well over $1 milli…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMFriday, March 16, 2018
Parrotheads, be warned that there aren’t enough parrots in this show. (Can somebody do something about that?) Otherwise, the hedonistic spirit of Buffett’s feel-good “gulf and wester…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
The upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — with a buzzy creative team that includes writer Aaron Sorkin and star Jeff Daniels — has been hit with a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Tony Kushner has said he doesn’t want Donald Trump to come see the new Broadway revival of “Angels in America.” But Lee Pace? He wouldn’t mind. “Oh God, I woul…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PMMonday, March 12, 2018
The Metropolitan Opera has fired its well-known music director and conductor, James Levine, after an investigation found that Levine had engaged in sexual harassment and misconduct. Accordin…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMDisney has long had two titles that show up regularly in the Top 10 of the Broadway box office. This week it’s got three — thanks to “Frozen,” the adaptation of the a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:23PMThursday, March 8, 2018
Here’s a real witches brew: a “Macbeth” so mangled it makes Hamlet look sane. For his first foray into Shakespeare’s Folio in 25 years, director Rufus Norris, also the artistic direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
A GoFundMe page in support of Tony winner Ruthie Ann Miles has raised close to $375,000 for the actress and her family in the wake of a car accident that critically injured Miles and killed …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:12PMHarold Wolpert, a longtime exec in the not-for-profit theater sector, has been appointed the new executive director of Signature Theater, one of Off Broadway’s most prominent companies…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM 
