Sunday, March 13, 2016
The much-lauded revival of “Gypsy,” starring Imelda Staunton, and the West End production of American Tony winner “Kinky Boots” led the pack of nominations for London…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PM[SHARE]“Nerds,” the long-aborning and much-delayed musical comedy about the rivalry of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has hit another roadblock, cancelling a Broadway opening that had been …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PM[SHARE]Sometimes the most powerful fights are the ones we have in our own minds — a fact vividly depicted on stage in “The Royale,” a riveting play by Marco Ramirez (“Dar…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PM[SHARE]It’s rare for an instant A-lister like Lupita Nyong’o to return to the stage just as her movie career is kicking into high gear. But that’s what Nyong’o did, starring…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM[SHARE]Jamie Lloyd is not the first director to cast black actors as Jean Genet's murderous maids. In doing so, he directly contravenes the playwright's advice. Genet warned against flattening a sl…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM[SHARE]Longtime Broadway favorite Barbara Cook will bring an evening of songs and stories to Off Broadway this spring in “Barbara Cook: Then and Now,” a new production conceived by J…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM[SHARE]It never fails. The minute you sit down to compose a Requiem Mass, Mom and Dad get on your case and perfect strangers show up on the lawn to keep a death watch. That’s the peculiar …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Broadway got a few intimations of its annual spring crush last week, as two notable titles — “Eclipsed” starring Lupita Nyong’o and the Steve Martin-Edie Brickell mus…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]The new play by “Eclipsed” writer and “Walking Dead” star Danai Gurira, “Familiar,” is indeed on common turf — in the bosom of a loving family that …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater has come aboard the Broadway revival of “Falsettos,” with the New York nonprofit theater company joining Jujamcyn Theaters to present the show at the Walte…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PM[SHARE]Broadway megahit “Hamilton” is heading to the White House next week, where the show’s creators and cast will test out plans for the production’s robust educational in…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Broadway box office showed signs of growth last week — if only in baby steps — as sales began their spring recovery from the deepest depths of winter. It’s around this …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM[SHARE]In the days leading up to Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut in “Hughie,” people were nervous. Gossip columns picked up on rumors that Whitaker couldn't remember his lines during p…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Hughie,” the Broadway play starring Forest Whitaker that opened last week, has posted a closing notice for the end of the month, abbreviating its run after weeks of very slow sa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM[SHARE]A contentious family grappling with a matriarch's dementia over the Christmas holiday might not seem an obvious template for humor, but in "Dot," playwright Colman Domingo sees the absurdity…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM[SHARE]Calling all disco queens. Get out your best polyester frock and fluff up your fro — it’s party time on the Barracuda, the casino riverboat bound for destruction in “Disaste…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]The following is an edited version of Marilyn Stasio’s Off Broadway review of “Eclipsed,” including new additions addressing the Broadway transfer that opened March 6. When…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]Mia Michaels, the choreographer best known for her work on “So You Can Think You Can Dance,” has taken the reins of the new live production featuring the Rockettes, a summer s…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]Chances are you’ve never heard of Hazel Ellis. And why should you? The Irish actress-playwright only wrote two plays, and after her second, “Women Without Men,” was produce…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]We’re still seven weeks away from the Tony nominations on May 3, but this year’s competition is already a horse race. “Hamilton,” which opened all the way back in …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]Was it love " or was it statutory rape? That’s the loaded question at the heart of Scottish playwright David Harrower’s profoundly unsettling drama, “Blackbird,” whic…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
George C. Wolfe, the director-writer at the helm of the upcoming, starry Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” will be honored by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center with the 201…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37PM[SHARE]Chicago swooned over an earlier production of “Smokefall,” a work written by playwright-screenwriter Noah Haidle (“Stand Up Guys”) and pristinely directed at Off B…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
With fewer tourists in town to pack into big-name musical crowdpleasers, plays got a little room to breath at the Broadway box office last week as nonmusical titles, including well-received …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20PM[SHARE]“Nice Fish” is both the title and the punchline of the deliriously funny existential ruminations that Mark Rylance (currently up for an acting Oscar for “Bridge of Spies…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28PM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2016
The formula for a family-reunion play goes like this: Multiple generations of a clan get together for a holiday, air their dirty laundry at dinner, start fighting over dessert and at t…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Actor-turned-director Joe Mantello is among New York's most regularly employed stage directors, but even so, things are unusually busy for him this spring. His critically lauded staging of S…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PM[SHARE]Sandy Duncan has made a hasty exit from Broadway musical “Finding Neverland,” with its producers — led by Harvey Weinstein — battling rumors that she quit with a stat…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AM[SHARE]Director Robert Icke has become the great hope of British theater. The 29-year-old has a rare talent for tapping into a text's driving forces. He staged "1984" not as a possible future, but …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AM[SHARE]We know “a Sam Shepard actor” when we see one. He’s lean and weather-beaten and never far from a bottle. A mean look in his eye suggests he might be dangerous, or maybe jus…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
After taking a bruising the previous week, the Broadway box office bounced back in a big way last week — thanks to valentines and presidents. Valentine’s Day always bring a sp…
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