Friday, 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 05:18PMThursday, August 17, 2017
The sincere and entirely enjoyable new musical “Trevor” is based on the 1994 short film of the same name, known for its Oscar win but even more for having inspired suicide prevention org…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08PMJudith Light sings! The actress, known for everything from TV work (“One Life to Live,” “Who’s the Boss?” “Ugly Betty”) to Tony-winning stage turns (“Other Desert Cities,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
You have to admire Alan Ayckbourn. At 78 years old, after more than 80 plays, he’s undertaken a work of size, sweep and ambition. But with “The Divide,” a two-part, six-hour an…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PMA well-received London revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 play “Travesties” is making the move to Broadway, with the Roundabout Theater Company giving a spring slot to the prod…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
“Groundhog Day,” the musical that won over critics and awards voters in the U.K. but never caught on in New York, has posted a Broadway closing notice for September after a run o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMJoshua Jackson will headline a new Broadway revival of the Mark Medoff play “Children of a Lesser God,” starring in a production that makes the move to New York following a well-…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMMonday, August 14, 2017
Did “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” benefit from its recent casting controversy? The musical was one of the few to report a significant rise at the Broadway box off…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PMFriday, August 11, 2017
Broadway smash “Hamilton” is going mobile with the launch of an official app, consolidating resources for the musical across its rapidly expanding portfolio of productions. The a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMGloria Steinem got a mid-show standing ovation at the Broadway opening night of Michael Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender,” after the feminist icon made a rousing surprise…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26AMThursday, August 10, 2017
The theater is something of a religion, and the venerable Belasco Theater does look a little like a church. So, professional kvetch Michael Moore and his savvy director, Michael Mayer, made …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:20PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Suddenly, a lot of Broadway is wondering: What’s Verified Fan? That’s because two of this season’s most hotly anticipated shows — beginning with Bruce SpringsteenR…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMConfirming weeks of rumors, Bruce Springsteen has officially locked in the details of a Broadway run this fall, setting an eight-week engagement for an intimate concert at the Walter Kerr Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
The Broadway musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” will close Sept. 3, following a turbulent couple of weeks that saw the show engulfed in a controversy over a la…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:45PMBarbara Cook, the golden-age Broadway ingenue who became a beloved cabaret and concert performer in the second act of her career, has died. She was 89. Her son, Adam LeGrant, confirmed to V…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Last-minute business was the driver at the Broadway box office last week, where the biggest gains were reported at “Indecent,” the play that closed Sunday, and at “Kinky Bo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMFriday, August 4, 2017
Didn’t we already see “Groundhog Day” onstage this year? Or is “A Parallelogram” playwright Bruce Norris’ private little joke? Just kidding. Both shows fiddle around with the c…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:18PMThursday, August 3, 2017
Some things are best left in the past, and “Apologia,” Alexi Kaye Campbell’s ambivalent examination of baby-boomer morality and second-wave feminism is one of them. Written just after …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Carrie Coon, the “Fargo” and “The Leftovers” star who’s currently in the race at this year’s Emmy Awards, will lead the cast of “Mary Jane,” a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PMSeven members of the West End company of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will open the Broadway production in the spring, including Olivier winners Jamie Parker, Noma Dumezwe…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:40AMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Who’d have thought that the Rude Mechanicals would rescue a floundering production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and turn it into a giddy delight? Galvanized by Danny Burstein’s o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Michael Moore got off to a promising start at the Broadway box office last week as the left-leaning provocateur’s new solo show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” played to near…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PMDespite Hollywood’s rising awareness of diversity issues and the growing movement in support of inclusivity, there has been little year-on-year rise in inclusion in films released in 2…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMFriday, July 28, 2017
Mandy Patinkin has decided to drop out of Broadway’s “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” just days after he was announced to join the cast, and before he even set…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:12PMThe more we understand, the less we understand. As human knowledge increases, so does individual ignorance. Every new discovery brings new things to fear. These are the paradoxes that “…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24AMThursday, July 27, 2017
“Mean Girls,” the musical version of the 2004 teen comedy, has locked in its cast ahead of a fall premiere in Washington, D.C. that stands poised to launch the show to Broadway, …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM“Bob Dylan: the Musical,” or something more sophisticated? Picking his way through the legendary songwriter’s back catalogue, Irish playwright Conor McPherson has come up with a portra…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMDon’t hold your breath for an aisle seat. Theatergoers in New York this summer are crouching on the floor in a simulated air raid, sirens blaring. Or they’re standing in a stairwell, wat…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Money can’t buy you class. Australian director Benedict Andrews gives Tennessee Williams’ inheritance drama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” a twist for the Trump era: Gone are the cream suit…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:23PMMonday, July 24, 2017
The addition of a star to a long-running Broadway show doesn’t always pay off — but sometimes it does, as the summertime stint of Brendon Urie in “Kinky Boots” has re…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
In the movies, Batman is a loner with a dark demeanor, Iron Man is a wealthy industrialist and Captain America is a superhero stalwart, using his mighty shield to defend justice. In the comi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM 
