Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Does “Transparent” have the makings of a musical? That was the question — literally — at “Faith Soloway & Friends: Should ‘Transparent’ Become a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMMonday, June 19, 2017
“Bandstand” continued its upward trajectory, “Oslo” got a shot in the arm and “Hello, Dolly!” set its latest record at the Broadway box office last week, …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of “M. Butterfly,” set to star Clive Owen in a production directed by Julie Taymor, has planted its flag in the Cort Theater, where the show will op…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMFriday, June 16, 2017
It’s not surprising that Kevin Spacey would choose to resurrect David W. Rintels’ 1974 play about Clarence Darrow — the famed criminal lawyer who, for four decades, fought with unusual…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMThursday, June 15, 2017
An independent rally for New York’s Public Theater brought out a crowd of about 150 people in support of the organization that’s currently under fire for a controversial producti…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43PMFresh off the Tonys, from which their musical “Dear Evan Hansen” emerged with six trophies including best musical, songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have a horse in the Emmy rac…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
A.R. Gurney, the playwright who chronicled the foibles and mores of wealthy, white Anglo-Saxon protestants in plays such as “The Dining Room,” “The Cocktail Hour,” an…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:16PM“Indecent” became the third Broadway play to announce its closing in the wake of the Tony Awards, with the show now set to shutter June 25. The production — which earned go…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
There weren’t many surprises from this year’s Tony Awards ceremony, which handed “Dear Evan Hansen” its expected win for best new musical and saw major acting trophies go to Ben Plat…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMAbout six million people watched the Tony Awards Sunday night on CBS — but a live audience of only about 6,000 caught the show from inside the room itself. Here’s what you missed…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMTwo plays that walked away empty-handed from the Tony Awards ceremony have posted closing notices, now that it’s become clear that the awards-season attention hasn’t provided eno…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36PMThe sins of the father revisited on the son — it’s a stage staple that tracks back to Ancient Greece. From Captain Alving in Ibsen’s “Ghosts” to Arthur Miller’s arms-…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMKirsten Childs’ high spirits are infectious. “Bella: An American Tall Tale,” a musical folk tale having its premiere at Playwrights Horizons, is her irresistible invitation…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:49PMThe Public Theater’s new Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar,” which has stirred controversy with its depiction of a Trump-like Caesar, opened Monday …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:42AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Brutus is a commanding figure in the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar.” The wily Mark Antony also looms large. But the most fearso…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32PMThe Public Theater, the longtime New York nonprofit currently taking fire for its Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar,” has responded to the outcry by refus…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27PMIn a year without a "Hamilton," the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AMIn a year without a “Hamilton,” the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably. But while there were a couple of dark horses (“Come From Away,R…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:34AMFriday, June 9, 2017
Access Entertainment, the banner launched last year by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, made headturning investments in film and TV right out of the gate. But theater is part of the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PMThere’s a lot of struggling in the messy musical adaptation of Jules Feiffer’s delightful young adult novel, premiering at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater in this summer enclave on Lon…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:16PMBroadway fortune tellers had it so easy last year: For every awards-season prediction, they could just point to “Hamilton.” In contrast, the 2017 race for the Tony Awards feels n…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMThursday, June 8, 2017
A group of some of the most-employed casting directors in the New York theater industry led a rally in front of Radio City Music Hall Thursday morning as part of an ongoing public effort to …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PM“Cost of Living” is a bittersweet play by Martyna Majok about people who need other people to survive — some of them quite literally. It’s also about people who absol…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
When hit Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” turned a spotlight on teen suicide and the challenges of responsibly telling stories about it, Broadway fans took note, because “De…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMPatti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Bartlett Sher: There are plenty of Broadway veterans among this year’s Tony nominees, but there are plenty of newbies on the list, too. In fact, several people w…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe small town of Ashland, Ore., lies just over the California border in the forested foothills of the Siskiyou and Cascade mountain ranges. It has a population of 20,000, a bustling restaur…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMAs far back as last fall, there were those in the New York theater industry whispering that the new musical “Come From Away” might turn into the 2016-17 season’s sleeper su…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Cyndi Lauper will write the songs for a new stage musical adaptation of “Working Girl,” the hit 1988 screen comedy that starred Melanie Griffith. Fox Stage Productions, the studi…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:48PMJason Alexander, the “Seinfeld” alum who won a 1989 Tony Award for “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway,” will return to the New York stage this fall, starring in the worl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, June 5, 2017
Psychodrama was a fun fad back in the over-sharing era of the 1970s. Well, now therapeutic theater is back, raised from the dead by onetime “Friends” fave Matthew Perry, who w…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMThe Broadway box office turnaround at “A Doll’s House, Part 2” has prompted producers to give the show a lengthy extension, with the new play, initially announced for 16 we…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:38PM 
