Thursday, 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 10:00PMYou know what you’re ordering with a musical comedy based on the music of Jimmy Buffett, an artist whose beach bum persona and preference for Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops contribute as m…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
When Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he thought: “Well, very little good can come of this.” Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” tal…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PMThe medium is the message – or so they say. If Paddy Chayefsky’s classic TV news satire isn’t just prescient, but positively prophetic in our age of fake news, the point is pressed hom…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:47PMFriday, November 10, 2017
With a real estate man in the White House as America’s Salesman-in-Chief, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet’s crisp 1983 evisceration of the common street salesman, takes on…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31PMThursday, November 9, 2017
The set’s a bit grander and the music sounds richer, but success hasn’t spoiled this embraceable musical fable about the surprising friendships that bloom in the middle of a political de…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTeachers who have already had Dennis (Ki Hong Lee) in class agree on one thing: the kid scares them. Like some disgruntled teenager planning to shoot up his school, Dennis dresses all in b…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
A Bee Gees stage musical is on the way, with Universal Pictures’ theater division, Universal Theatrical Group, pacting to develop a production based on the life story and hit tunes of …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMLin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of “Hamilton,” will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Miranda, who i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:30AMLin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of “Hamilton,” will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Mirand…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:09AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Bill de Blasio is cruising to an easy victory in the race for mayor of New York City, setting up a second term for the incumbent Democrat who faced weak opposition at the polls. With just un…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28PMStephen Flaherty wasn’t sure he had permission to write “Once On This Island.” So says the Broadway composer in the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater po…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:01PMMonday, November 6, 2017
Amy Schumer made a big-money debut at the Broadway box office last week, playing to capacity crowds in the initial previews of the play in which she stars, “Meteor Shower.” Schum…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:52PMKelli O’Hara will star in a new Broadway revival of “Kiss Me, Kate,” playing one of the lead roles in a Roundabout Theater Company production set for spring 2019. O’H…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
The tepid tone and low energy level of “Illyria” would have us believe that the birth of the New York Shakespeare Festival was a walk in the park – Central Park, that is, where Joseph …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMFriday, November 3, 2017
“Hello Again,” the 1994 Michael John LaChiusa musical that hits screens next week in a new film adaptation, is expanding its reach to more than 230 cinemas for the movie’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMThursday, November 2, 2017
Maybe, someday, we can live down the 1980s. But not any day soon, if Ayad Akhtar has anything to do with it. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (“Disgraced”) returns with poisoned pen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:08PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Matt Bomer will make his Broadway debut (following a one-night-only appearance in “8”) in “The Boys in the Band,” a new revival of the landmark 1968 drama to be dire…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
David Fincher ordered Jonathan Groff to stop smiling. Repeatedly. Broadway favorite Groff (“Hamilton,” “Spring Awakening”) tells the behind-the-scenes tale in the la…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMMonday, October 30, 2017
Halloween weekend is usually pretty frightful at the Broadway box office, what with all the costumes parties and trick-or-treating that keep theatergoers — particularly family audience…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17PMEmma Rice is an old-fashioned romantic – no doubt about it. When she brought “Brief Encounter” to Broadway back in 2010, the whole stage seemed to swoon, as lovers were knocked…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PM“So Long Boulder City,” the solo stage spoof inspired by the recent Oscar contender “La La Land,” has lined up an Off Broadway run in December following a well-receiv…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
Donald Trump and Michael Moore dueled on Twitter over Moore’s recent Broadway show, with Trump taking a potshot at Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender” in the midst of…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13PMFriday, October 27, 2017
London has a brand new theatre in The Bridge – not only the biggest to be built here in 20 years, but the first new commercial playhouse of its size in 80. Dreamed up by former National T…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PMJulie Taymor had harsh words for Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul with whom she worked on her 2002 film “Frida.” “I think he should go to jail,” Taymor sai…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:17AMThursday, October 26, 2017
Clive Owen returns to Broadway in David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly,” a revised version of the 1988 drama about a French diplomat who was caught in a scandalous affair with a Chinese o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27PMNew York’s Museum of Modern Art has set the initial lineup for The Contenders, its annual screenings of awards-season buzzmagnets, opening the series in November with Martin McDonagh&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMUbisoft, the French company behind videogames including “Assassin’s Creed” and “Rayman Raving Rabbids,” will expand into the live entertainment market with R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMClint Black, the country music star who’s sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, is at work on a Christmas musical for the stage, with a theater industry reading of the new show s…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
There’s a lot of professional pizzazz assembled on the Manhattan Theater Club stage for “The Portuguese Kid,” the world premiere of the new play written and directed by John Patrick Sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMHow did Michael Urie shake the memory of original actor Harvey Fierstein when he took on the lead role of “Torch Song”? He didn’t even try. “He’s always there,&…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PM 
