Thursday, September 29, 2016
John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, is a familiar figure. He's the real-life equivalent of George Etherege's "Man of Mode" and Aphra Behn's "Rover" — a licentious anti-hero of t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Splat! That’s playwright Neil LaBute with egg all over his face for penning “All the Ways to Say I Love You,” an embarrassingly clumsy one-act …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Elizabeth LeCompte, founding member and director of the Wooster Group, the pioneering experimental theater troupe, has won the 2016 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with a cash pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PM[SHARE]Garth Drabinsky, the Canadian stage producer who’s served jail time for fraud and forgery, has locked in plans for his comeback production. “Sousatzka,” a new musical…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Kevin Kline is set to return to Broadway in a new revival of “Present Laughter,” slipping into the St. James Theater for an April opening. Kline, who hasn’t been on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PM[SHARE]"Jackie," the biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy that picked up massive buzz at festivals in Venice and Toronto, has join the lineup of the 2016 New York Film Festival, where Pablo Larrain's film …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tony Awards, a Pulitzer, “Star Wars”: Lin-Manuel Miranda has had a damn good year. With everything that’s so obviously gone swimmingly for him, it seems like few people …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t playing Dick Van Dyke’s character in “Mary Poppins Returns.” But according to the “Hamilton” creator, who goes into production on…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda has long stumped for Hillary Clinton, but he explained why Donald Trump would be a dangerous president in a new interview with Variety. In a passionate conversation for th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda is standing in the graveyard behind Trinity Church, just a few feet from where Alexander Hamilton is buried. On the 212th anniversary of Hamilton's death, the playwrigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]It’s official: Tony Award-winning British director Michael Grandage will direct Disney’s Broadway musical adaptation of “Frozen,” which is on track to open on B…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
It looks like Broadway’s fall season has officially begun, with four plays starting previews last week and one of them — “The Front Page” — leaping int…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PM[SHARE]David Rabe ("Streamers," "Hurlyburly"), a playwright in the midst of a creative resurgence, delivers a heavy but fascinating drama on the futility of understanding human relationships in …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
The live musical adaptation of Disney animated hit “Frozen” is said to be eyeing Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage (“Red”) and his frequent collaborator, d…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
Broadway veterans Robert Ahrens and Chris Aniello have opened up Live Wire Theatrical Management, a new general management company for stage productions. The New York-based firm will focus o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM[SHARE]"Good Canary" is a very good film. Trouble is, it's on stage. Directed for the third time by John Malkovich, after productions in French and Spanish, Zach Helm's boulevard tragicomedy is a f…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:14PM[SHARE]Arnon Milchan, the founder and chairman of New Regency, will receive the annual industry tribute at the 2016 Gotham Independent Film Awards, as part of a slate of Gotham tributes that alread…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo, who played Jean Valjean in the latest revival of “Les Miserables,” has been cast in “Anastasia,” the new Broadway musical based on 20th Century Fox…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]“Allegiance,” the Broadway musical that starred George Takei in a four-month run last season, will come to movie theaters around the country in a one-night-only December scree…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the 31-year-old playwright who’s considered one of the theater world’s most important young creatives, is among the 23 artists and scientists to receive a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
The Marquis Theater seems to have found a profitable use for its Monday nights, with the Broadway venue — whose current tenant, “On Your Feet!,” is dark every Monday —…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PM[SHARE]The upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!,” featuring Bette Midler in the title role, is shaping up to be a major commercial player this season, with theater owners reporti…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM[SHARE]“The Humans,” the Broadway production that won the 2016 Tony Award for new play, has recouped its capitalization costs, according to Scott Rudin and Barry Diller, who lead the sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:24AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
Gavin Creel and Kate Baldwin are among the actors set to join Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce in the highly anticipated Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” this spring. Creel,…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
Broadway’s “Something Rotten!,” a raucous Renaissance musical comedy, will close in January after a run of a bit less than two years. The show, the tale of two brothers who…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s producing and licensing company, the Really Useful Group, has partnered with U.S.-based recorded music and publishing company Concord Bicycle Music to launch The …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The sound of gospel soars through the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, a re-commissioned church with excellent acoustics (if no organ.) The occasion is the limited engag…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM[SHARE]Longtime Sony executive Lia Vollack has been named president of Columbia Live Stage, the new live theatrical productions division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In her new post, Vollack,Â…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The new musical adaptation of “Groundhog Day,” currently wrapping up its critically adored premiere at the Old Vic in London, has set plans for Broadway, lining up an April op…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:20PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
“Aubergine,” a new play by Julia Cho (a winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and multiple other honors), poses a unique challenge. The language is lovely, the dramatic st…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]The annual slump that hits the Broadway box office immediately after Labor Day amounted to a decline of $3.2 million this year, or nearly 14%, compared to the previous frame, slimming the…
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