Sunday, December 17, 2017
There’s not much to Claire van Kampen’s simplistic script for “Farinelli and the King,” the play now running on Broadway after premiering at Shakespeare’s Globe in …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:16PMThursday, December 14, 2017
How ironic that “Pinocchio” should be a bit lifeless. With Disney handing over the keys to a cherished classic for the first time, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” director John T…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMPack your bags, people — the apocalypse is coming. This warning comes to you courtesy of Lucy Kirkwood, whose cautionary disaster drama, “The Children,” scared the wits out of audi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMI call this my Magpie List for 2017, because like the magpie, I love pretty, shiny things that delight the eye — and if they also warm the heart, so much the better. “The Band’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” actor Adam Driver will return to Broadway in 2019, starring in a new production of the Lanford Wilson play “Burn This” to be directed by Mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Stories speak volumes in the playwright Anne Washburn’s work. In “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” she submitted an episode of “The Simpsons” to 70 years of hand-me-down d…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:38PMChrissy Metz, the “This Is Us” star who’s currently up for a trophy at the Golden Globes, will lead the cast of a new production of Neil LaBute play “Fat Pig,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“Death Becomes Her” is becoming a musical, with Universal Theatrical Group developing a stage adaptation of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis film and Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
John Leguizamo learned a lot in order to prepare for his new Broadway solo outing, “Latin History for Morons.” But his biggest takeaway? “I am a true ghetto nerd, is the re…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:51PMBroadway’s got the beat: “Head Over Heels,” the musical that takes it score from the catalog of the band The Go-Go’s, has mapped out its road to New York, with a San …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMMonday, December 11, 2017
The Broadway box office got a nice jolt last week, with Bette Midler’s final weeks driving up prices at “Hello, Dolly!,” Bruce Springsteen returning after a week off and Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PMThursday, December 7, 2017
Chloe Sevigny plays a sexy-hippie drug addict like a pro in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s unfocused new play, “Downtown Race Riot.” But she also gracefully shows us the better side of…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Seven years on, Syria’s civil war is still raging. Its death toll is nudging half a million, and ten times as many people have been displaced. For those that remain, conflict is the new no…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
“True is what happens,” says a confidant Russian Red Army captain to a journalist who is having a difficult time describing things he has seen, be it the night sky or a war atrocity. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMBack in 1988, the Broadway play “M. Butterfly” played like “The Crying Game” — four years before the Neil Jordan film was even released. “In the original …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMDi Glazer has been named the co-head of the theater department at ICM, where she’ll share the post with the agency’s veteran department chief Patrick Herold. Glazer will work wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22AMThe Broadway League, the trade association of Broadway producers, have brought a legal complaint against the New York theater industry’s biggest casting directors, branding the casting…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37AMMonday, December 4, 2017
Children should feel free to take their parents to Tina Landau’s psychedelically inspired version of the whimsical kiddie cartoon show that’s been making a fortune for Nickelodeon since …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48PMPeter Martins, the artistic director of New York City Ballet and an instructor at School of American Ballet, has been accused of sexual harassment, and suspended from teaching his weekly cla…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PMWill “Hello, Dolly!” keep going up, up and up this holiday season? It looks poised to, with the ultra-hot revival moving into the final weeks of Tony-winning star Bette Midler…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMArmie Hammer — one of the stars of “Call Me By Your Name,” the buzzy film that looks poised to make a run at the Oscars — has lined up a Broadway debut this summer in…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMSunday, December 3, 2017
The ungainly in-the-round stage of Broadway’s Circle in the Square is put to imaginative use in director Michael Arden’s inspired revival of “Once On This Island,” the 19…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, December 1, 2017
Justin Huff, a casting director who has been involved in Broadway shows including 2013 Tony champ “Kinky Boots,” has been fired from his position at prominent casting agency Tels…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:46AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Writer Beau Willimon made his mark on the stage with “Farragut North,” which shape-shifted into the film “Ides of March,” starring George Clooney, and led to his role as the creator …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15PMIsrael Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film “My Old Lady,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward in a report in the N…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:40PMIsrael Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film “My Old Lady,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward to the New Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Steve Martin has a flair for surreal comedy — a style that suits “Meteor Shower,” his new play about the existential mischief caused one night in 1993 when a deluge of mete…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:15PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Julie Taymor’s production of “M. Butterfly,” which recently opened on Broadway with Clive Owen in the cast, has set its closing date, with producers announcing the show wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMThe young actor Ethan Slater has been involved in the “SpongeBob Squarepants” stage musical since its very first workshop five years ago. But back then, he had no idea he was auditioning…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMMonday, November 20, 2017
With his new play “The Minutes,” a simmering satire of a small-town city council meeting that evolves — or devolves — into something of a horror tale, Pulitzer-winning playwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:11PMThursday, November 16, 2017
Teenaged girls in Ghana prove they can be just as nasty– and as needy – as their international sisters everywhere. Delightful ensemble work from a cast of girlish thesps performing in �…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM 
