Tuesday, October 24, 2017
How 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 04:44PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Some prisoners go out of their minds when confined to the 23-hour isolation wing of Rikers Island prison. In the Signature Theater revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “Jesus Hopped …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25PMA careful blend of sincerity and insults made for a raucous tribute to retired late-night TV host David Letterman at Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center on Sunday night, when th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Broadway musicals are already beginning to line up for next season, with comedy “The Prom” now signed up to hit New York in a production that opens in November 2018 following a 2016 debu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:04PMIn “Torch Song,” an affectionate if ill-considered revival of Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” Michael Urie makes a brave but bizarre effort to channel the playwright’s o…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AMThursday, October 19, 2017
“Get Out,” writer-director Jordan Peele’s surprise smash of a scary movie, led the pack of nominations for the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s ann…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
The Tony-winning actor Tracy Letts only discovered acting because somebody blackmailed his father into starring in a community theater play. Letts, who as a writer (“August: Osage Coun…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:42PMMonday, October 16, 2017
“Springsteen on Broadway” had the megabucks launch — and continues to do huge business — but the other show to begin previews around the same time, “The Band…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMFriday, October 13, 2017
“War Paint,” the musical that stars big Broadway names Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will go dark earlier than expected, setting an imminent closing for Nov. 5. The show, …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“I’ll handle it myself, thanks.” That was The Boss himself, jovially dressing down the few people in his Broadway audience who had begun to clap along to “Dancer in the Dark.” …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12AMThursday, October 12, 2017
Broadway, mark your calendar: The Tony Awards have set the date for the 2018 ceremony, locking in June 10, 2018 for the CBS telecast, live from the stage of Radio City Music Hall. At the sam…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMCan you zap old material into new life? The perennial problem of the family Frankenstein is the same one facing the comedian Mel Brooks. Exhuming “Young Frankenstein,” his classi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Elizabeth McGovern, until recently the gracious mistress of PBS’s “Downton Abbey,” has a far more fractious household to manage in “Time and the Conways,” J.B. Priestley’s 1937 d…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:50PMIt’s official: The Boss is a Broadway blockbuster. “Springsteen on Broadway” ($2,332,108) exploded out of the gate with a huge first week, easily topping $2 million for jus…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PM“Come From Away,” the musical that surprised Broadway last spring when it turned into the season’s sleeper hit, has managed to recoup its $12 million capitalization costs i…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMMonday, October 9, 2017
Even those who are favorably inclined toward nostalgic recreations of beloved TV shows will find their affections tested in “The Honeymooners,” the lumbering, scattershot musical premier…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:59PMThursday, October 5, 2017
Lauren Ambrose will star as Eliza Doolittle in Lincoln Center Theater’s much-anticipated revival of “My Fair Lady,” one of the biggest titles in the Broadway canon. She lea…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMTony voters are still anxiously awaiting invitations to “Springsteen on Broadway” — which means that Bruce Springsteen’s much-anticipated blockbuster isn’t elig…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:40PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Dustin Hoffman and Sofia Coppola will be honored at the 2017 Gotham Awards, joining a lineup of tribute recipients that already includes Nicole Kidman and Al Gore, among others. Handed out a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Molly Barnett and Chelsea Nachman, two theater press agents who have worked together for years at DKC/O&M, have stepped out on their own to launch Grapevine Public Relations, a PR firm t…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:05PMMonday, October 2, 2017
A slow final week of September kept the Broadway box office humble last week, except at the biggest of hits like “Hamilton” and “Hello, Dolly!” In the aftermath of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:21PMSomething’s rotten in the state of, er, Britain. A country known for its unerring stability and sense looks, to all the world, like it’s lost its marbles of late, and director Jonathan M…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27AMThursday, September 28, 2017
Cinema has long been Ivo van Hove’s treasure trove. In turning to its old masters – Pasolini, Visconti, Cassavertes – the Belgian director has found new stories for the stage. He’s m…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:02PMJason Mraz, the Grammy winner known for hits including “I’m Yours,” will join the cast of the Broadway musical “Waitress” for 10 weeks beginning in November. He…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
The musical adaptation of the smash 1990 romantic comedy “Pretty Woman” has laid out its route to Broadway, with a creative team that includes musician Bryan Adams and Garry Mars…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AMMonday, September 25, 2017
“Mary Jane,” a heart-stopping play at New York Theater Workshop about women as domestic caretakers, was written by a woman, directed by a woman, largely designed by women, and pe…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:02PMSeptember is never a great month at the Broadway box office. There’s a whole host of reasons for that, including the back-to-school rush and, last week, the annual United Nations Gener…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:52PMA chance reference in “The Andy Warhol Diaries” to a collaboration on a play with Truman Capote led Rob Roth to 59 cassettes and 80 hours’ worth of taped conversation, a decade’s wor…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:01PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Question: What amenity does an urban center for homeless LGBTQ youth need more than anything? Answer: Why, an Emily Post charm class, of course – so long as it’s like the one in Philip D…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAfter the annual post-Labor Day slowdown, the Broadway box office climbed last week in a rise led by Bette Midler, back at “Hello, Dolly!,” and by two shows that got surges of la…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMSignature Theater keeps finding new ways to support and nurture worthy playwrights and to showcase their work with true (i.e., non-commercial) integrity. This season, artistic director Paige…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM 
