Regardless of one's political allegiance, it's almost universally agreed that in recent years political expediency rather than truth has been, literally, the governing principle behind speec…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PM[SHARE]Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren will team up for the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's "The Last Five Years." The musical, a look at the flowering and dissolution of a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23AM[SHARE]Actor and singer Skylar Astin will help theater lovers celebrate Broadway's biggest night. The "Pitch Perfect" star has been tapped to host the American Express "Broadway Fanfare" Tony Award…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]TodayTix Group has acquired Arthouse, a full-service digital advertising agency. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies said that Arthouse will operate independent…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]By the end of every performance, "The Outsiders" cast is caked in grime and dust. That's a consequence of the Broadway musical's sandy stage, which finds the actors who bring the the gritty …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15PM[SHARE]Movie theaters can't sell tickets if they don't have a lot of new blockbusters to advertise on their marquees. And the actors and writers strikes that ground Hollywood to a standstill in 202…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:01PM[SHARE]"Lempicka," a musical about Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, May 19. The show has struggled to draw crowds since opening on April 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PM[SHARE]For more than half a century, "Cabaret" " the iconic American musical set in Nazi Germany " has been produced, revived and revived again. This story, which touches on sex work, abortion and …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:35PM[SHARE]"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 carryin…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PM[SHARE]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 earlier th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]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 comedy'…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07AM[SHARE]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 11:22AM[SHARE]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," previ…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PM[SHARE]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 show's…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]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 & …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PM[SHARE]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 04:44PM[SHARE]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 performances we…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:56AM[SHARE]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 01:55PM[SHARE]Like much better dressed students, Ethan Hawke, Cate Blanchett, Claire Danes, Holland Taylor and Sarita Choudhury filed into the basement theater at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday to ho…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:59AM[SHARE]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-nominated star of…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PM[SHARE]A 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-selling …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]Tom 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 West End.…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37AM[SHARE]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 with a …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:36AM[SHARE]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, whic…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22AM[SHARE]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's …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AM[SHARE]"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" and "Parks a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AM[SHARE]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 the fil…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]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 10:30AM[SHARE]Nicole 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 new p…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]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 be di…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]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. The the…
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