Thursday, April 17, 2014
Chutzpah isn’t the first trait you’d associate with the elegant, patrician Ruth Draper (1884-1956), intimate of Shaw and Henry James and creator of precisely observed monodramas on the f…
Linked From Variety at 03:29PMThe Lark Play Development Center and Playwrights of New York have named scribe Eric Dufault as the 2014-15 recipient of the PONY Fellowship, the hefty annual grant program that has a track r…
Linked From Variety at 03:29PM“Of Mice and Men” may be a particularly American tale, but Irishman Chris O’Dowd — who stars with James Franco in the Broadway revival that opened April 15 — st…
Linked From Variety at 07:26AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Mitchell Jason, who appeared onstage, in films and on TV, died in Doylestown, Penn., on March 11. He was 92. Jason studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, acted in numerous Br…
Linked From Variety at 11:43PMAnna D. Shapiro delivers a flawless, beautifully acted revival of John Steinbeck's 1937 play.
Linked From Variety at 11:43PMWalter Roy Beery, an actor who appeared in numerous television shows but whose first love was the theater, died at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., on April 6 from complications of lymphoma…
Linked From Variety at 11:43PMEveryone likes secrets, especially dramatists. So it’s no surprise that the unravelling of the mysteries of the current Queen Elizabeth’s famously undocumented weekly meetings with her P…
Linked From Variety at 03:23PM“The View” will bring all 11 co-hosts in the show’s 17-year history together for the first time on May 15 for a farewell salute to series matriarch Barbara Walters. The liv…
Linked From Variety at 11:27AMA skilled director can work magic, which is what Steven Soderbergh has done with “The Library,” a thin play penned by Soderbergh collaborator Scott Z. Burns (“Side Effects…
Linked From Variety at 12:33AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Hyper-alert Andrew Scott is ideal casting for Paul, the central role of “Birdland,” the latest play by Simon Stephens (“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time&#…
Linked From Variety at 07:13PM“Rock of Ages” producer Matthew Weaver has acquired the stage rights to “Soul Train” with an eye toward turning the property into a Broadway musical. The producer has…
Linked From Variety at 04:15PMMonday, April 14, 2014
“Sex and the City” creator Darren Star’s newest series “Younger” has found a home at TV Land. The cabler has ordered 12 episodes of the half-hour laffer, written, executive produce…
Linked From Variety at 07:22PMDaniel Radcliffe made a little Broadway box office magic last week, pulling in robust numbers in the first two previews of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” during a frame that saw springtime…
Linked From Variety at 07:05PMDonna Tartt’s sprawling story “The Goldfinch,” which is being adapted for Hollywood by “The Hunger Games” producer Nina Jacobson, took home the 2014 Pulitzer Pr…
Linked From Variety at 04:18PMNew plays by Tanya Barfield and Halley Feiffer are among the six works on tap for this year’s National Playwrights Conference, the annual new-play development program at the Eugene O’Nei…
Linked From Variety at 02:44PMSunday, April 13, 2014
“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s elegiac lament for the jazz singer Billie Holiday at the end of her broken-down life, has been knocking aro…
Linked From Variety at 09:36PMBroadway hit “The Book of Mormon” scored the same kind of awards love in London as the show got in New York: The tuner nabbed a total of four trophies, including the awards for …
Linked From Variety at 08:50PMDeaf, Tony-winning actress Phyllis Frelich, who both inspired and starred in the Broadway version of “Children of a Lesser God,” died Thursday in her Temple City, Calif. home. Sh…
Linked From Variety at 07:17PMFriday, April 11, 2014
Following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, her successor, the current Prince Charles, about to be crowned king, holds the government and the entire country to ransom. It’s not j…
Linked From Variety at 07:30PMOld Hollywood glamour was in the air on Thursday as Shirley Jones, Maureen O’Hara and Kim Novak turned out for opening night of the TCM Classic Movie Festival. The fifth annual fest kicke…
Linked From Variety at 03:31PMOn Broadway, you can’t throw an unusually opulent opening night party without people gossiping. Take the shindig for the musical “Bullets Over Broadway” after its April 10 opening…
Linked From Variety at 12:21PMThursday, April 10, 2014
A new superhero musical directed and co-written by Michael Mayer, the Tony-winning “Spring Awakening” helmer now directing Neil Patrick Harris on Broadway in “Hedwig and t…
Linked From Variety at 10:49PM“Who is Kevin Spacey? The man’s talent has more facets than a diamond,” said Chazz Palminteri at Museum of the Moving Image’s salute to the “House of Cards” actor Wednesday night…
Linked From Variety at 10:49PMSusan Stroman's energetic direction almost compensates for a weak book and a few key miscastings in Woody Allen's showbiz tuner.
Linked From Variety at 10:49PMCBS named Stephen Colbert to succeed David Letterman as host of “The Late Show,” handing the reins of its flagship latenight program to a cable host who has found success in attr…
Linked From Variety at 01:14PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Even the Mad Hatter needs a father. Disney seems to have found the man to play that part, as it is in negotiations with Mark Rylance to join Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska in Disney’s “T…
Linked From Variety at 06:00PM“There will be blood,” promises director Stuart Gordon of “Taste,” the stage play now running through May 17 at L.A.’s Sacred Fools Theater. That red stuff probably isn’t much o…
Linked From Variety at 04:05PMActor’s Fund president Joe Benincasa, Broadway photographer Joan Marcus and general manager Charlotte Wilcox will receive this year’s Tony Honors. The Tonys hands out its special honors …
Linked From Variety at 12:19PMMichael Cera and Kieran Culkin will star in a new production of Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 play “This Is Our Youth,” originating this summer at Chicago’s Steppenwolf The…
Linked From Variety at 06:14AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Variety has scored a nomination opposite The New York Times and other top-tier publications for best news website at the 18th annual Webby Awards. Variety.com will also compete against other…
Linked From Variety at 05:48PMJane Greenwood, the longtime theatrical costume designer whose first Broadway credit was 1963′s “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,” will receive a lifetime achievement trophy d…
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