Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Broadway musicals including “Fiddler on the Roof,” and Circle Repertory Company founder Marshall W. Mason will be the recipients of the 2016 T…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer will lead the cast of “Les Liaison Dangereuses” on Broadway this fall, with Schreiber cast as the Machiavellian seducer Valmont. The actor steps i…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PM[SHARE]“Hamilton,” the Broadway smash that’s looked like an awards-season favorite from the moment it opened, has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Although it’…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PM[SHARE]Can Cirque du Soleil sell on Broadway? Looks like it, at least judging from the one preview that new Cirque show “Paramour” has performed so far. “Paramour” —…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
Original cast members of the Broadway megasmash "Hamilton" have reached a deal with the show's producers, led by Jeffrey Seller, to share in profits of the production, which has been one of …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:22PM[SHARE]Cirque du Soleil has joined the raft of entertainment-industry companies and individuals pressuring South Carolina to repeal recent legislation that is seen by many to be anti-LGBT, with the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM[SHARE]“Anastasia,” the new musical inspired by 20th Century Fox’s 1997 animated film, has made its Broadway intentions plain, with producers announcing a plan to arrive in New Yo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM[SHARE]Original cast members of the Broadway megasmash “Hamilton” have reached a deal with the show’s producers, led by Jeffrey Seller, to share in profits of the production, whic…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
The president of Lincoln Center, Jed Bernstein, has suddenly stepped down from the post after about three years in the job. The former head of the Broadway League and a Broadway producer, Be…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
Frank Langella has made a brilliant stage career of playing monumental heroes and villains, from King Lear to Count Dracula. So it makes sense that he would tackle the greatest hero-villain …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54PM[SHARE]Broadway musical “Matilda” will close in January, following a run that saw the show become a popular destination for family audiences and city visitors seeking something quirkier…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48PM[SHARE]Attorney Seth Gelblum, vocal coach Joan Lader and costume shop proprietor Sally Ann Parsons have been named the 2016 recipients of the Tony Honors for Excellence, the special annual awards h…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
News plays by Pulitzer winner Annie Baker, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Will Eno, plus revivals of a series of plays by another Pulitzer winner, Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as one by Athol Fu…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:42PM[SHARE]Daniel Radcliffe will be the latest big-name screen actor to show up onstage at the Public Theater, the Off Broadway company that has recently hosted Lupita Nyong’o (“Eclipsed…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:59PM[SHARE]The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference has lined up an eight-play slate for 2016 that includes a new work by Keith Huff, the “Mad Men”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:59PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Broadway’s overall sales took a breather last week, but its new spring shows ramped up, with highs hit by titles including “Waitress” and “Shuffle Along” as pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40PM[SHARE]Before playwright Tracy Letts and director Anna D. Shapiro teamed up at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater for the explosive, Tony and Pulitzer-winning family drama "August: Osage County…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
The current Broadway production of “Blackbird,” starring Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels, has been deemed a revival by the Tony Awards Administration Committee, while Jennifer…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:04PM[SHARE]Heather Headley, the theater-fan favorite who hasn’t had an ongoing Broadway role since she won a 2000 Tony Award for “Aida,” will take over for Jennifer Hudson in “T…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Jesse Eisenberg will reprise his role in his own play this summer in London, where “The Spoils” will open in June in a transfer that will star Eisenberg and a fellow member of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Sunset Boulevard" made Glenn Close an icon of musical theater. Twenty-three years later, at age 69, she returns to a part that, she claims, has "haunted" her ever since — former scree…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie,” with Cherry Jones reprising her lead role, will be the centerpiece of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival. The American Re…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]Anne Washburn writes weird plays, and “Antlia Pneumatica” is no exception, although it does seem more grounded in reality than her post-apocalyptic “Mr. Burns.” In th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]Last week's firestorm about the casting notice for the Broadway juggernaut “Hamilton” was frustrating, disappointing, enlightening and educational. On its face, it was a simple d…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]Diane Lane will lead the cast of the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming revival of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” As a child, Lane made her Broadway debut i…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
Last week Jessica Lange and Jesse Tyler Ferguson led the final push of new shows in Broadway’s 2015-16 season, with three titles — “Long Day’s Journey Into Night&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:36PM[SHARE]Sadie Thompson, that naughty lady of Pago-Pago, has had the struggle over her soul dramatized innumerable times on stage and screen since Somerset Maugham created her in his 1921 short story…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2016
Oscar Isaac, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actor who will next be seen on the bigscreen as the titular baddie in “X-Men: Apocalypse,” will play Hamlet in a 2017 …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42PM[SHARE]Dame Judi Dench is now the winningest performer in the history of the Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of the Tony Awards. The actress picked up her eighth Olivier during an April 3 cer…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:42PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
There’s bound to be head-scratching over Ivo van Hove’s peculiar Broadway production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s towering 1953 drama about the infamous 1…
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