Monday, November 7, 2022
Hugh Jackman isn’t leaving River City just yet. “The Music Man” is extending its Broadway run and will now play its “positively final performance” on Jan. 15, 2023. The hit musical…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:26AMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker will return to Broadway for “Pictures From Home,” a new play about manhood, fatherhood and hidden truths. “Pictures From Home” is based…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:17AMMonday, October 24, 2022
“Life of Pi” is rowing to Broadway in the new year. A stage version of Yann Martel’s bestselling adventure novel, which also inspired the Oscar-winning movie by director Ang Lee, is be…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59AMThursday, October 20, 2022
Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors’ Equity for $50 million, accusing the theater union of defamation after he was placed on its “Do Not Work” list following his tumultuo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMMonday, October 17, 2022
Jesse Williams and the company of “Take Me Out” are especially grateful to the plumbing on Broadway. Without hot water flowing through the pipes at the Schonfeld Theatre, the infamous lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMFriday, October 14, 2022
Theater veteran Tovah Feldshuh has performed in 10 Broadway shows over the last five decades, garnering acclaim and Tony Awards love for “Yentl” and “Golda’s Balcony,” among others…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMThursday, October 13, 2022
At Carolines on Broadway, the legendary comedy club in Times Square, taking the main stage can be a death-defying proposition — and not just because the audience, likely several drinks…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
“A Strange Loop,” creator Michael R. Jackson’s meta comedy-drama, which won the Tony for best musical, is closing on Broadway in 2023. It will play its final performance on Jan. 15 at …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:33PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
“Beetlejuice” is closing on Broadway in January, ending its unconventional, fan-fueled run on the Great White Way. It will play its final show at the Marquis Theater on Jan. 8, 2023. But…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:05PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Lea Michele won’t be taking the stage in “Funny Girl” on Saturday due to “early signs and symptoms of COVID.” Even though the results of her COVID test were “inconclusive,” she…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:17PMWednesday, September 7, 2022
It appears the weather gods didn’t heed Fanny Brice’s humble request. But not even a dreary, drizzly Tuesday in Manhattan could rain on Lea Michele’s parade as the former “Glee” st…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15AMMonday, August 29, 2022
Barbie Ferreira, who broke out on HBO’s buzzy series “Euphoria,” is joining the cast of “House of Spoils,” a psychological thriller starring Ariana DeBose. The film is backed by Am…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMThursday, August 18, 2022
AMC Theatres, the world’s largest cinema chain, is honoring Olivia Newton-John by bringing “Grease” back to the big screen. Starting on Friday, the classic 1978 movie musical will play…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:51PMThursday, August 11, 2022
Lin-Manuel Miranda is praising lawyers who get the job done after a Texas church staged an “illegal, unauthorized” production of “Hamilton.” Producers of the hit Broadway musical hav…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PMTuesday, July 19, 2022
“Let It Burn,” the galvanic highpoint of the Broadway musical “Paradise Square,” pours out of star Joaquina Kalukango in a torrent of pain and frustration over the hurt that her char…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThursday, July 14, 2022
“Funny Girl” producers are attesting they knew about Beanie Feldstein’s earlier-than-expected exit from the Broadway musical. Amid the whirlwind drama over the actor’s abrupt departu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46AMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Hello, ticket sales! Looking to be among the first to hear Lea Michele’s dulcet tones take on the legend of Fanny Brice? Not to rain on your parade, but a seat to the “Glee” alum’s o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:04PMMonday, July 11, 2022
The rumors are true: Lea Michele is replacing Beanie Feldstein in Broadway’s revival of “Funny Girl.” Feldstein on Sunday night announced she would be leaving the show on July 31, roug…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMMonday, June 13, 2022
On Sunday night, the Tony Awards returned to Radio City Music Hall, where relaxed mask mandates made it easier than ever (OK, easier than last year’s ceremony) to spot the stars mixing and…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:14PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
“Dear Evan Hansen” won’t be playing on Broadway “for forever.” The show, about a socially awkward high schooler who tells a spiraling lie, is ending its run in September, five year…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:25PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Arthur Miller’s classic play “Death of a Salesman” is returning to Broadway this fall. Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke will reprise their roles as Willy and Linda Loman in the reviv…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38AMThursday, May 26, 2022
A star-studded production of “Into the Woods” is heading to Broadway. Following its buzzy, sold-out run at New York City Center, Encore’s rendition of “Into the Woods” is transferr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:27AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
A musical comedy based on the classic film “Some Like It Hot” will premiere on Broadway in the fall of 2022. The show, which was originally scheduled to open in Chicago last year before …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AMOutside New York City’s Ambassador Theatre, the name on everybody’s lips isn’t Roxie. It’s Pamela Anderson, the former “Baywatch” star who is making her Broadway debut in “Chic…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:43AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Broadway’s “Plaza Suite” has canceled Thursday night’s performance because the show’s lead Sarah Jessica Parker has tested positive for COVID-19. The news comes two days after Park…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PMSunday, March 27, 2022
For the second time in Oscars history, the Academy has recognized an actress for playing Anita in “West Side Story.” Ariana DeBose took home the best supporting actress Oscar for her ver…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:56PMMonday, March 21, 2022
Ben Stiller is in talks to star in Ivo van Hove’s upcoming stage adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic “The Shining,” Variety has confirmed. The play is scheduled to open on t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:47PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
AMC Theatres, the biggest cinema chain in the world, is buying a 22% stake in Nevada-based gold and silver mining company Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. AMC’s $27.9 million cash investment i…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
“West Side Story” star Ariana DeBose has joined the cast of Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter,” an upcoming superhero action-adventure featuring Aaron Taylor Johnson. More to come…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PMWednesday, February 9, 2022
“The Music Man,” a musical revival featuring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway. For students in the New York City area, the price of admission wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PMThursday, February 3, 2022
Marlee Matlin (“CODA”) and Bradley Whitford (“Tick, Tick … Boom!”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here. …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM 
