Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Harold 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 12:00PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
When adapting a movie into a Broadway musical comedy, you have to kill some darlings. But it can be tough. “I get a little bit like: Please put ‘Boo, you whore’ back in it!…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44PMMonday, March 5, 2018
Wintry weather — including a storm that caused power outages in the New York City environs over the weekend — helped push down the Broadway box office for a lot of big titles on …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
There aren’t many props in the Off Broadway political drama “Kings.” Among the most significant? Two margarita glasses, size XXL, from the restaurant chain Chili’s. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PMMonday, February 26, 2018
“Frozen” on Broadway is one hot ticket. Disney Theatrical Productions’ new stage version of the animated smash exploded out of the gate in its first week, raking in $926,84…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:10PMThe Geffen Playhouse has yanked its planned production of Neil LaBute’s “Fat Pig,” which would have starred Chrissy Metz of “This Is Us,” soon after Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMFriday, February 23, 2018
In its day, now long-past, the”Jerry Springer Show” was an only-in-America phenomenon, so it’s only fitting that the British-made “Jerry Springer — The Opera”…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PMDavid Mamet said he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. Mamet mentioned the new script in an interview in the Chicago Tribune. The new work is called “Bitter Wheat,” and t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:06AMThursday, February 22, 2018
Bernadette Peters’ return to Broadway puts the “doll” back in “Hello, Dolly!” Tiny, trim, and in terrific voice, the Tony Award-winning diva tops off previous triumphs like “Mack…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Representative Sydney Millsap is the kind of politician we all want to be, if we absolutely must be politicians. A Gold Star widow with the high ethical standards of an old school Texas Demo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:31PMFormer employees have accused Thomas Schumacher, the president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions and the president of the Broadway League, of sexual harassment and misconduct. Sc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
How do you know expectations are high for a Broadway musical? When audience members arrive in costume. That’s what the stars and creators of “Frozen” faced in Denver, where…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMSunday, February 18, 2018
It’s been 30 years since the musical “Chess,” noted for its engaging score and inscrutable book, survived on Broadway for a scant two months. Could a high-profile revival finally be in…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFriday, February 16, 2018
Carey Mulligan started her career on the main stage of London’s Royal Court — playing a narcoleptic schoolgirl in Kevin Elyot’s family drama “Forty Winks.” Fourteen years o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:40AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Jeff Daniels will headline the cast of the upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” leading an ensemble that will also include Celia Keenan-Bolger, Stark Sands, G…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMKelli O’Hara, the Broadway favorite who won a Tony Award for her performance in the 2015 revival of “The King and I,” has signed with ICM Partners. O’Hara is a much-n…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMCC Theater, the non-profit, Off Broadway theater company where Neil LaBute has been a playwright-in-residence for several years, has abruptly terminated its relationship with the writer-dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
“Scorpion” star Katharine McPhee will step into the lead role of “Waitress” this summer, marking the Broadway debut of the “American Idol” contestant who&…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Both Kirstin Maldonado, a member of the popular a cappella group Pentatonix, and Jake Shears, a former member of the Scissor Sisters, have plenty of experience performing live. But performin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMMonday, February 12, 2018
With winter causing a slowdown in New York tourism and Bruce Springsteen on hiatus until the end of the month, the Broadway box office continued to deflate last week in the kind of slowdown …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
A number of major regional theaters are changing artistic leaders at the moment. Over the last few months, that number has only grown as charges of sexual harassment and misconduct roil the …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
“Do you have any idea who I am?” Eve Ensler tells a doctor from the Mayo Clinic after he suggests radiation therapy on her vagina as a preventative against the return of uterine cancer. …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMLea Salonga wants to get “hit in the gut.” That’s what gets her to Broadway, the busy international performer says in the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Varie…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PMMonday, February 5, 2018
A huge hit in London, this Royal Court production of the black farce “Hangmen” — by Martin McDonagh, currently an awards-season darling as writer-director of “Three Billb…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMHayley Atwell is the one person whose stock rises in this financial dud about zombie capitalism and its race to the bottom. Sarah Burgess’s play “Dry Powder,” first seen at the…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMLaurels are so last year. Today’s Caesars come crowned with combovers. In Central Park last year, the Public Theater’s Oskar Eustis caused controversy by drawing too definite a line betw…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:11AMThursday, February 1, 2018
Jennifer Lawrence will host “Unrigged Live!,” appearing alongside Tig Notaro and Nikki Glaser in a politically charged variety show of comedy, music and other acts that will cap …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
After several seasons playing half of the superhero Firestorm in Arrowverse TV shows like “Legends of Tomorrow,” Victor Garber is loving making his Broadway return in “Hell…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:20PMMonday, January 29, 2018
Mark Ruffalo invoked a positive vision for America’s future, Common rapped about Trayvon Martin and Michael Moore called for a cultural clean-sweep at “People’s State of the Union,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PMThe Go-Go’s musical “Head Over Heels” has booked a Broadway opening this summer, lining up the Hudson Theater for a run that begins previews in June. Already set for a pre-…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMBernadette Peters may not be raking in Bette Midler-level numbers for “Hello, Dolly!” — but she’s still doing plenty of business, to judge from her first full week in…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:39PM 
