Monday, September 18, 2017
Signature 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 07:00AMFriday, September 15, 2017
The din during the intermission of a recent performance of the Broadway-bound musical “Frozen” might have broken decibel records at Denver Center’s Buell Theater. No doubt the house’…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Nicole Kidman and cinematographer Edward Lachman have joined the roster of industry figures to be honored with tributes at the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s annua…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
After recent TV stints in series including “The Blacklist,” “The Good Fight,” and “Hawaii Five-0,” Christine Lahti’s latest gig is an Off Broadway play with an unprintable titl…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57PMThe Shubert Organization, the company that owns 17 Broadway theaters, has given up efforts to construct a new Broadway venue on West 45th Street, after years of working to add one more house…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:53AMMonday, September 11, 2017
The annual post-Labor Day downturn took a bite out of the Broadway box office last week, with overall sales dropping 15% as locals shifted out of vacation mode and city tourism slowed. The b…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:34PMThursday, September 7, 2017
Guess that’s why they call him God. Stephen Sondheim’s paean to old Broadway, “Follies,” hasn’t had a full-bodied British revival since its West End premiere 30 years ago. With a c…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMThe National Theater’s revival of “Angels in America,” with a cast that includes Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield, will land on Broadway this season, with the production boo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
The hacker was nervous. Not to meet me; she was worried about getting caught passing secrets as we huddled together in the reading room of the New York Public Library. After a brief, silent …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM“Mean Girls,” the Broadway musical co-written by Tina Fey and produced by “Saturday Night Live” impresario Lorne Michaels, has locked in a Broadway run that opens in …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:32AM“A Doll’s House, Part 2,” the buzzy play that burst onto the scene late in the awards-season run-up to the Tony Awards, has posted a closing notice for later this month, fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
A rainy Labor Day weekend brought a minor rise to the Broadway box office, with most individual shows upticking and “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” going dark aft…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMBroadway Across America, the presenter and producer that sends Broadway tours out to 44 markets, has amassed more than 400,000 in season subscribers — a number that muscles into the re…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMAndy Snyder, the longtime theater publicist who most recently served as creative director and vice president of theatrical PR firm DKC/O&M, has struck out on his own, launching the indep…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:36PMWill Bernadette Peters be Broadway’s next Dolly? It’s looking that way, after persistent rumors in the theater industry — potentially confirmed in a recent social media pos…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
“Springsteen on Broadway,” Bruce Springsteen’s buzzmagnet concert engagement that opens on Broadway in October, has extended by a whopping 10 weeks, stretching the run to F…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46PM“Itzhak,” Alison Chernick’s documentary about famous violinist Itzhak Perlman, will get its world premiere at the 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival, which will open…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
Hear ye the Gospel of Luke – as written for our times by the playwright Christopher Shinn. In “Against,” Ben Whishaw’s earnest Luke is a tech billionaire supposedly instructe…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMMonday, August 28, 2017
Summer is winding down, and the Broadway box office is winding down with it: Sales in one of the last weeks before Labor Day slipped by 7% as city tourism slowed. The majority of individual …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMThe 2017 New York Film Festival has lined up a roster of special events that includes world premiere screenings of documentaries about Steven Spielberg and Bob Dylan, as well as a conversati…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Apples and Oranges Studios, the firm that has been on the producing team of Broadway shows including “An American in Paris” and “Memphis,” has launched a nonprofit ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AMThursday, August 24, 2017
The best 16 shows on Broadway are all playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater in “Prince of Broadway,” a sumptuous revue celebrating the 60-plus-years of legendary director-producer Ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
The 2017 New York Film Festival’s Spotlight on Documentary lineup includes work by a number of notable directors, with world premieres by Vanessa Redgrave (“Sea Sorrow”), A…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“Latin History for Morons,” the John Leguizamo solo show that played Off Broadway earlier this year, will move uptown for a Broadway run that begins in October at Studio 54. Nell…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
Thomas Meehan, the co-writer of Broadway hits “Annie,” “The Producers,” and “Hairspray,” has died. He was 88. The winner of three Tony Awards, Meehan was …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:20PMMonday, August 21, 2017
Most of the Broadway box office found itself in the grip of the usual late-August slowdown last week — but not “On Your Feet!,” the bio-musical about Gloria Estefan and her…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMMatt Shakman, the director behind two recent watercooler episodes of “Game of Thrones,” has been named the artistic director of Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse. He’ll j…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39PMIn a theater festival with 3,398 shows, it can be hard to get your voice heard. But making his presence felt more than most on this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is Irvine Welsh, wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:18PMAl Gore and Jason Blum will be honored at the 2017 IFP Gotham Awards, with Gore set to receive the humanitarian tribute and Blum tapped to get the industry tribute. The Gothams, the Independ…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMDenzel Washington, one of Broadway’s biggest draws at the box office, is set to make his Broadway return this spring in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.” Sc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:19AMFriday, August 18, 2017
Stuart Thompson, the longtime theater producer and general manager of shows including “The Book of Mormon” and the upcoming musical adaptation of “Mean Girls,” died i…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PM 
