Tuesday, April 25, 2017
New musical “Anastasia” and the megaselling revival of “Hello, Dolly!” with Bette Midler took the lead in the nominations for the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards, wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:47AMMonday, April 24, 2017
Young women and girls in search of a new Broadway role model need look no further than the title character in “Anastasia,” the sumptuous fairy tale of a musical that should please the ki…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAfter the previous week’s boom, sales slowed predictably last week at the Broadway box office — although there were still plenty of strong earners on the chart, and one show in p…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PMThe Tony Awards will bring back two awards for sound design next season, restoring categories that had been summarily dropped in 2014. The move comes after a long review by the Tony Awards A…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PMWhen good playwrights are unable to write, they sometimes write bad plays about being unable to write. Annie Baker, who is normally a very good writer (of plays including Pulitzer Prize f…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AMIt was easy to spot the dash of Hollywood glam at the Broadway opening night party of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” There were the chocolate fountains and the all-you-can-…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15AMSunday, April 23, 2017
It’s hard to predict how grownups might feel about this inflated musical adapted from previous stage and film treatments of Roald Dahl’s beloved novel, “Charlie & the C…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40PMFriday, April 21, 2017
The producers of Broadway musical “Anastasia” knew they had a big built-in audience for their show. They just didn’t know how big. As the team behind the production discovered early, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35AMThursday, April 20, 2017
The audience claps at the overture and whistles at the set; and when Bette Midler makes her entrance, everyone falls into a dead swoon. “Hello, Dolly!” is back on Broadway, and i…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMTwo veteran Broadway stage managers, Nina Lannan and Alan Wasser, will be awarded the 2017 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater, recognizing long careers and work that has been integral…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:05PMChris Evans will make his Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “Lobby Hero,” starring opposite Michael Cera in a production that will reopen the newly renovated Helen Hayes Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01AMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference has set its 2017 lineup of eight plays to be developed during the center’s summer season, including new …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
It wasn’t trick casting on the part of director Daniel Sullivan to have Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon alternate lead roles in “The Little Foxes,” Lillian Hellman’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMDaniel Craig, Cate Blanchett, Allison Janney, Josh Groban, Daniel Radcliffe, Sally Field and Corey Hawkins are among the actors nominated for the performance trophy at the 2017 Drama League…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMThe title of this engaging dark comedy by Tracy Letts (“August: Osage County,” “Superior Donuts”), “Linda Vista,” refers to the San Diego community in which protagonist Wheeler (…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMAudra McDonald is not only the winningest actress in Broadway history (with six Tony Awards and counting), she’s also a vocal activist and a new mom. A Variety Power of Women New York …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
“Indecent,” the production created by playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, opened April 18, 2017, at Broadway’s Cort Theater after an Off Broadway run last…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMGood Friday, Easter, the first night of Passover and spring break for New York City public schools all fell during the same week last week, and it added up to a huge boom at the Broadway box…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PMKevin Spacey has signed on to host the 2017 Tony Awards — thereby answering a major outstanding question about the upcoming awards ceremony, which this year has waited until late in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PMYou’re not imagining it: The Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” really has been unusually accident-prone. Following a couple of days of doubt, Andy Karl performed in the prod…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:43AMOnce you get involved in “Indecent,” “Indecent” doesn’t let you go. Just ask its cast and creative team. The production’s complete ensemble of seven actors (along with t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMMonday, April 17, 2017
As musical theater performers go, you couldn’t ask for a more personable fellow than Andy Karl. His high-energy athleticism kept “Rocky” on its toes. And his comic chops ea…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMDisney Theatrical Prods. has lined up the principal casting for its Broadway-bound musical adaptation of “Frozen,” with Caissie Levy and Patti Murin on board to play the sisters …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMA new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 musical “Carousel” has lined up a spring 2018 opening, in a production backed by Scott Rudin and Roy Furman and …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
The April 15 matinee of the previewing Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” has been cancelled after Andy Karl, the lead actor in the production, injured himself during the second ac…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Following a well-received Off Broadway run last year, the Lincoln Center Theater production of J.T. Rogers’ play “Oslo” opened April 13 at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWhen “Oslo” opened Off Broadway in the middle of July, it sounded like the opposite of summer popcorn fare. The latest play by J.T. Rogers was a meaty evening, a thinking theatergoerR…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Broadway names Sherie Rene Scott and Micah Stock and “The Blacklist” cast member Amir Arison have signed on to join Arian Moayed in the upcoming Off Broadway production of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMBrendon Urie, the lead member of rock band Panic! At The Disco, has signed on for a summer run in the Broadway musical “Kinky Boots,” playing Charlie, the young man who takes ove…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Last week was a busy one at the Broadway box office, with three shows opening, two more beginning previews and a couple — “The Play That Goes Wrong” and “WaitressR…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMCurrent Broadway play “Sweat” has scored playwright Lynn Nottage her second Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with the award this year going to a show that has proven a timely look at a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PM 
