Thursday, April 18, 2024
“No extraneous commotion,” Jordan Fein, the associate director of “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club,” beseeches the small army of construction crew members who are drilling, hammering and…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
Maya Boyd will take over the title role in Broadway’s “& Juliet.” She joins the cast directly from the company of “Merrily We Roll Along,” where she made her Broadway debut ea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, April 4, 2024
Maia Novi’s “Invasive Species” has announced an Off-Broadway limited engagement at The Vineyard’s Dimson Theater. The production will reunite the cast and creative team from the dark…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright who specialized in a particular form of brainy and absurdist comedy, has died. He was 75. The cause was complications from a form of demen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22AMMonday, March 25, 2024
With his victory on Monday at the Critics’ Circle Theatre awards, Andrew Scott has made history. The British performer, recognized as best actor for his one-man West End show, “Vanya,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
A star-studded revival of “Merrily We Roll Along” has managed to accomplish something that eluded the ill-fated original production of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Turn a profit. The sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMThursday, March 14, 2024
Musical theater artist and historian Ben West is writing a new book, “The American Musical: Evolution of an Art Form.” The book will be released by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor &a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMFriday, March 1, 2024
Sean Cercone has stepped down as head of Broadway Licensing Global. It’s unclear why he left the company that he acquired in 2019. Broadway Licensing Global has announced who will lead th…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Things kicked off with Alicia Keys singing the galvanic ode to the five boroughs, “Empire State of Mind,” and ended with Pete Townshend rocking out to “Pinball Wizard.” Those perform…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:56AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Four whalers are set adrift after a violent storm sinks their ship. Lost at sea, exposed to the elements and on the brink of starvation, the men must make horrifying decisions in their strug…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:55PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Tyne Daly will leave the upcoming revival of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt” after she was “unexpectedly hospitalized” on Friday. She will be replaced by Amy Ryan, the Oscar-nominat…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PMA stage adaptation of “Purple Rain” will have its world premiere in Minneapolis. The location makes sense because Prince, the musical superstar behind the cult classic film and mega-sell…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMTom Holland is hanging up the spandex and taking on Shakespeare’s most famous doomed lover. That’s right, the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” star will play Romeo this summer in London’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37AMThursday, February 1, 2024
It happens after almost every show. As “Days of Wine and Roses” stars Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are leaving the theater they will invariably run into an audience member w…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:36AMMonday, January 22, 2024
Michael Stuhlbarg will play billionaire Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch who bolstered and then broke with Vladimir Putin, in a new Broadway production of “Patriots.” The show, wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22AMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Douglas Lyons, the writer of “Chicken and Biscuits,” is adapting “Big River” as a film. The show, which features music influenced by country and gospel, is based on Mark Twain’…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AMThursday, January 11, 2024
“Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” a buzzy revival of one of John Patrick Shanley’s early plays, has recouped its initial investment. The show features Aubrey Plaza of “White Lotus” an…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMMonday, January 8, 2024
Forty years after “Purple Rain” topped the box office, winning an Oscar for its iconic soundtrack and solidifying Prince’s status as the high priest of pop, a new stage adaptation of t…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, January 4, 2024
Trey Curtis will take on the lead role of Alexander Hamilton in the Broadway production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton.” The actor, musician and rapper has been connected with th…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMNicole Scherzinger is ready for her close-up. The “X-Factor” judge and Pussycat Dolls singer is bringing her acclaimed interpretation of legendary diva Norma Desmond to Broadway with a n…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, December 13, 2023
These bloodsuckers can hit some high notes. “The Lost Boys,” the cult vampire film from the 1980s, is being turned into a musical. The show will feature music from The Rescues and will b…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
It’s a dramatic way to sell a new Broadway show. The Longacre Theatre is getting a high art overhaul as the home of “Lempicka,” a new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. T…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut playing the title character in a revival of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” The production, which will be performed at Lincoln Center’s Vivia…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
New Works Provincetown, a developmental theatre lab founded by producer Mark Cortale with Jonathan Murray and Harvey Reese to create and develop new theatrical works, has commissioned its ne…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AMThursday, September 14, 2023
Casey Likes fully expected to be performing on Broadway this year, but the plan was for him to be riding shotgun with Stillwater instead of sitting behind the wheel of a DeLorean. He’d app…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:38AMTuesday, August 29, 2023
The Drama League is expanding its artist development programs, which are collectively called The Directors Project, and include support for people working in film, television and on stage. A…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMFriday, August 18, 2023
Shia LaBeouf will make his stage debut in the world premiere of “Henry Johnson,” a new play from David Mamet. The production will be mounted at the Electric Lodge venue in Venice, Cali…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMMonday, August 7, 2023
After one major cast change and a lot of off-stage drama, “Funny Girl” has recouped its $16.5 million capitalization, the producers of the Broadway revival announced on Monday. At one po…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Juliet Stevenson seems almost ashamed. There was a moment a few weeks ago when the boundaries between Ruth Wolff, the gifted but abrasive physician whose downfall drives the action of “The…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
The American Theatre Wing has unveiled the panel of judges and eligibility details for the 2023 edition of the Obie Awards. The annual celebration of the best of Off and Off Off Broadway is…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PMFriday, June 9, 2023
“Some Like It Hot,” a musical adaptation of the classic film, arrived on Broadway in December with sizzling reviews and backed by some of the most prominent names in comedy and theater. …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:25PMThursday, June 8, 2023
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are checking in across the pond. The two actors (a real-life married couple) are bringing their relationship comedy “Plaza Suite” to London fol…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMonday, June 5, 2023
As Matthew López prepared for the London debut of “The Inheritance,” his epic drama about the AIDS epidemic and its painful aftershocks, he was simultaneously outlining a first draft of…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:39AMSunday, June 4, 2023
When I reach Jeremy O. Harris, he’s about to be whisked upstate to celebrate his birthday. And this one is hitting a little harder than others, and not just because, like all birthdays, it…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:07AMThursday, June 1, 2023
No-holds-barred psychological warfare is about to break out as “Doubt: A Parable” returns to Broadway. Two theatrical heavyweights, Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber, will try to put their o…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMFriday, May 12, 2023
Having explored the darker side of corporate amorality and greed in “Succession,” Jeremy Strong will delve into a more small town version of corruption. The Emmy winner is set to star in…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSunday, April 30, 2023
When it came time to create the more than 200 mini-skirts, sequined dresses, elegant suits and other outfits that the cast of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin'” hoofs it in, costume designers Reid …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:58PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
The alacrity with which the entire audience leapt to its collective feet the second that Ivo van Hove’s production of the trauma-filled “A Little Life” ended tells us two things. First…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:59PMCarmelo Anthony has come on as an executive producer of “The Harder They Come,” a new stage musical that is about to finish a sold-out run at New York’s Public Theater. In addition, An…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PMSome Broadway wags might have scoffed at the idea of a cornpone musical comedy and its punny promotions. But with its exuberance, heart and non-stop yucks, “Shucked” is the surprise deli…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06AM 
