Monday, March 6, 2017
“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 09:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
The Tooting Arts Club, a site-specific London community theater, has scored the ideal New York venue for its audience-pleasing version of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Stree…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PMAllison Janney may be best known for her TV work, but she got her start on stage. Now, after four seasons (and counting) on “Mom” — not to mention the seven seasons she spe…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMAndrew Scott’s electrifying debut as sing-song psychopathic Moriarty in the BBC’s “Sherlock” opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in 2010 was the most career-changing cameo since Judi D…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Janie Dee, comic royalty on English stages, applies her comedic chops to the title role in “Linda,” a feisty feminist play by Penelope Skinner that originated at London’s R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMonday, February 27, 2017
Richard III loses his kingdom for want of a horse. The main character in David Mamet’s new play, “The Penitent,” compromises his career because of a typo. Did this renowned…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMSignature Theater stages are currently filled with two quite different end-of-life accountings. In one theater there’s Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ expansive, lively and cautionary parable pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAfter last week’s spike from Valentine’s Day and President’s Day, the Broadway box office of several of the street’s biggest shows dipped — but those declines w…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:43PM“The Night of the Iguana” is Tennessee Williams’ darkly tragicomic 1961 musing on humanity’s difficulties in hanging on to love, faith and grace, set on the eve of World War II when …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PMThursday, February 23, 2017
A concert staging at City Center last fall of Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Sunday in the Park With George” went swimmingly, with Jake Gyllenhaal …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
The problem with many, if not most, family dramas is that the families are so often hateful. Playwright Steven Levenson (book writer of “Dear Evan Hansen”) avoids that trap in &#…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe Geffen Playhouse in L.A. has lined up a 2017-18 season headlined by the world premiere of “Chasing Mem’ries,” a new musical starring Tyne Daly and featuring the songs o…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:55PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
The playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins (“Gloria,” “An Octoroon”) must be concerned about the state of our immortal souls, because his new work, “Everybody” —…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAfter a cold spell at the Broadway box office, sales heated up last week thanks to the date-night business around Valentine’s Day and the long-weekend traffic of President’s Day …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMGenocide, terrorism, a massacre, and police violence: Those are the not-so-cheery but exceptionally topical catalysts of four new plays opening within weeks of each other and continuing simu…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), the theatrical union that represents directors and choreographers, has signed on to become an affiliate of the Department of Professiona…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Tracy Letts’ kind and gentle play, “Man From Nebraska,” follows a nondescript Midwesterner who has a mid-life crisis of faith and goes to London to look for his absent God.…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:21AMThursday, February 16, 2017
“The Minutes,” the new play by actor and “August: Osage County” writer Tracy Letts, has locked in a Broadway slot in early 2018 with Scott Rudin producing. Anna D. Sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:58PMThe fingerprints of the film industry are all over the new Broadway revival of “Sunday in the Park With George.” There’s star Jake Gyllenhaal, for one thing. And there’s the unheard-…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMSinger-songwriter Sara Bareilles will play the lead role in “Waitress,” the Broadway musical for which she wrote the score, during a 10-week run that begins in late March. She…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
New Directors/New Films, the annual New York festival of work by emerging filmmakers presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has set a 2017 lineup of 29…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
With film and TV production in New York City filling local sound stages to capacity, the city will construct a new, 100,000-square-foot production facility as part of a $136 million developm…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39PMMonday, February 13, 2017
Marquee names and musical revivals made waves at the Broadway box office last week, with Glenn Close raking in a hefty tally in the opening week of “Sunset Boulevard” and Jake Gy…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMA new production of Harvey Fierstein’s seminal “Torch Song Trilogy” — now simply called “Torch Song” — will open the fall season at Off BroadwayR…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM“In & Of Itself,” the Frank Oz-directed magic show that played L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse last year, will get an Off Broadway run this spring from a varied team of producers that incl…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
It may never snow on Sunset Boulevard, but it does on Broadway, where “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Glenn Close, opened Feb. 9 despite a winter storm that dumped a foot of snow on…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMThursday, February 9, 2017
Glenn Close makes a triumphant return to the star role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” a once-in-a-lifetime role that won her a Tony Award in …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:08PMWhen Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. played Aaron Burr in Broadway’s “Hamilton,” he seethed. Joshua Henry, who originally played the part in Chicago and will reprise the role in the upcomi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
She’s a Mexican-born writer, tenacious, insecure, a “diversity hire” for a popular television detective program. He’s an American-born janitor of Mexican heritage who works the night…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
“Love Never Dies,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to his long-running smash musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” will play the Hollywood Pantages next season, wher…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM 
