Thursday, March 23, 2017
Jerry Seinfeld will produce “Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy,” a new stage show based on the series of books by Ted L. Nancy, otherwise known as comedian Barry Marder. The sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
New York nonprofit Manhattan Theater Club has added Lucy Kirkwood’s play “The Children” to its 2017-18 Broadway season, along with an Off Broadway production of Anna Ziegle…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMTuesday, March 21, 2017
There is abundant sex and nudity in Sarah Ruhl’s new play, “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage,” along with some brainy conversation about the ethics of animal slaughter. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15AMMonday, March 20, 2017
Good golly, “Hello, Dolly!” The splashy new revival starring Bette Midler cemented its status as the hottest ticket at the Broadway box office this spring when it exploded right …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PMFriday, March 17, 2017
By Friday morning, most of Broadway had heard: Early during the first New York preview of the much-anticipated London hit “Groundhog Day,” the set’s revolving stage stopp…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMYou might not know the name William Daniels, but you probably know his face — and if not his face, certainly his voice. The actor made a name for himself in the 1960 Off Broadway premiere…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMDanny DeVito is having a lot of breakfast for dinner these days. Making his Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company revival of “The Price,” DeVito finds a lot of comedy …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Arthur Miller is back on Broadway with “The Price,” a rarely-revived play written in the 1960s, with strong references to the 1930s, that still reverberates with meaning for the …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has named actress Judith Light the recipient of its annual Monte Cristo Award, handed out each year to a theater creative whose work has had a major i…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMCanadian prime minister Justin Trudeau sat beside Ivanka Trump in the Wednesday night audience at Broadway musical “Come From Away” — and the pairing took on a political re…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Jo Lampert is so conspicuously exotic, with her pale, elongated face and icicle-thin body, that it’s entertaining just to watch her wave her flag and model her sexy armor. The performe…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
“In the Body of the World,” the solo show written by and starring Eve Ensler, will get its New York premiere next year, playing Off Broadway in a Manhattan Theater Club staging t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWith a winter storm pounding the East Coast and forcing school and road closures all across the Northeast, New York City is, despite some disruptions, largely open for business — at le…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:09AMMonday, March 13, 2017
There’s plenty of wattage but little illumination in the latest groupthink by The Debate Society, the theater collective that spent seven years making “The Light Years,” which tells tw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMThe new Broadway revival of “Present Laughter” only played two performances last week, but it might be a show to keep an eye on: Buoyed by a cast led by Kevin Kline, the Noel C…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:57PMLin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash “Hamilton” will continue to conquer the world — or at least the U.S. — with a second national tour, launching next year in S…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:49PMSunday, March 12, 2017
Here’s that feel-good show that audiences constantly pine for. “Come from Away” is a modest, earnest, life-affirming musical by Irene Sankoff and David Hein that makes peop…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15PMFriday, March 10, 2017
For theatergoers who don’t happen to be seated in the third row of “The Glass Menagerie,” take it from those who sat up close: In the intimate new Broadway production star…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PMThursday, March 9, 2017
Of all the plays in the American canon, “The Glass Menagerie” seems a most unlikely candidate for deconstruction. But that doesn’t deter director Sam Gold (“Fun Home,” “O…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is a play ruined by its reputation. Even people who’ve never seen Edward Albee’s celebrated scorcher know this bruising, bloody, no-holds-barred b…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMIt’s easy to imagine a project that could get J.J. Abrams‘ name on a Broadway marquee. A “Star Wars” stage outing from megaproducer Disney Theatrical Productions, may…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMWednesday was International Women's Day -- but it was also a two-show day for most of Broadway, so not many women in the New York theater industry -- many of whom work onstage and backstage …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:49PMWednesday was International Women’s Day — but it was also a two-show day for most of Broadway, so not many women in the New York theater industry — many of whom work onstag…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMBill Condon, the director of the live-action version of “Beauty and the Beast” that arrives in theaters later this month, has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Theater Ventures…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
The joke in “Hamlet” is that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the two stooges sent to spy on the great Dane, are interchangeable — the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Elsinore. And so it…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMShow-Score, the review-aggregator website that aims to become the Rotten Tomatoes of the theater world, has raised $2 million in new financing from a group of investors that reaches beyond t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, March 6, 2017
The heat is on in Saigon: “Miss Saigon,” one of the few megamusicals from the British invasion of the 1980s and 1990s not to have yet received a Broadway revival, has come in for…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PM“My Fair Lady,” the well-known musical that hasn’t been seen on Broadway in almost 25 years, has set dates for a Broadway return next year in a Lincoln Center Theater produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PMThe Quad Cinema, the Greenwich Village theater that was New York City’s first multiplex, will reopen in April with upgrades and renovations to its facilities, tech, seats and branding.…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End megahit that will apparate on Broadway next year, earned 11 nominations for the 2017 Olivier Awards, racking up a record haul fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Poor wallflowers. They’re the ones no one asks to dance, to go to the prom, to get married. The wallflower in “Significant Other,” Joshua Harmon’s bittersweet play ab…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM 
