Thursday, April 16, 2015
When Harvey Weinstein throws a Broadway opening, Hollywood shows up. There was Bryan Cranston, sporting a mustache and a full head of hair, chatting at intermission. Helen Mirren and Taylor …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
“It Shoulda Been You” is awfully funny. That’s strange, because there’s nothing especially clever about this musical comedy by Brian Hargrove (book & lyrics) and …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it's back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. "Gigi," which opened April 8, made the most of the laby…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it’s back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. “Gigi,” which opened April 8, made th…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Prudish American audiences can relax. There’s nothing to offend their tender sensibilities in this antiseptic version of “Gigi,” Lerner and Loewe’s enchanting 1958 fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PM[SHARE]God may have created the heavens and the earth and all living things -- but the Devil surely created Tyrone, the filthy-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet that has audiences howling at "Hand t…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
Alicia Silverstone, "True Detective" actress Kelly Reilly and Eve Best ("Nurse Jackie") have joined the casts of upcoming plays in New York, with Silverstone set to appear in Manhattan Theat…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:59PM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
The opening of “Skylight” on Broadway, in a production starting Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, stirred up a lot of important issues. For one: The enduring problems of economic in…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:58AM[SHARE]Groundhog Day," the hit 1993 Columbia Pictures comedy, will poke its head up on Broadway in spring 2017, bowing in a new musical version from the creators of current Broadway draw "Matilda."
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:40AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
New musicals brought new business to Broadway last week, with two of the week’s four new shows playing to full houses. The Broadway transfer of Off Broadway success “Fun HomeR…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PM[SHARE]Bill Berloni, Broadway's go-to dog trainer for stage canines, will get a TV showcase this summer with a new reality TV series set to begin airing in August on Discovery Family Channel. Both …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
With a whopping 14 shows yet to open before the end of Broadway's 2014-15 season, there's still plenty of time left for surprises in the upcoming race for the Tony Awards. But a couple of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]If you've ever thought your high school drama teacher deserved a Tony Award, now is your chance to make it happen. In an unprecedented move, the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards have teamed wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Imagine Alan Ayckbourn clawing his fingernails down a blackboard; that's Sam Holcroft's “Rules for Living.” She takes your average family farce — a social occasion su…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
Watch Elisabeth Moss play the title character in the Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles,” and you can’t help but see Heidi in relation to P…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Vincent Pastore and fellow "Sopranos" alumnus David Proval will rejoin the mob next month in "A Queen for Day," the mafia-themed play that's making its world premiere Off Broadway in April.…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:58AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
Cynthia Erivo, the London stage veteran who’s appeared in musicals there including “The Umbrella of Cherbourg” and “I Can’t Sing,” will reprise the starri…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
Boy, the cast of Broadway’s “On The 20th Century” is a wreck. Peter Gallagher, for one, was out of the show for a couple of weeks with a sinus infection that got really bad…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
James Houghton, the founding artistic director of Off Broadway’s Signature Theater, will step down from the organization after a 25-year tenure that has seen the organization’s e…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
Broadway box office held steady last week, with overall sales remaining about on par with the previous week as the Street looks forward to spring break sales and a spate of new productions t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PM[SHARE]West End transfers of Broadway musicals “Memphis” and “Beautiful” lead the 2015 nominations for the Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tony Awards. R…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32AM[SHARE]"The Audience" marks Helen Mirren's return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play's opening night March 8, the audience at "The Audience" was chuffed indeed to have her back.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:31AM[SHARE]“The Audience” marks Helen Mirren’s return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play’s opening night March 8, the audience at “The Audience” w…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2015
New York’s Roundabout Theater Company celebrated Helen Mirren March 2 by reminding her, repeatedly, that she can’t sing her way out of a paper bag. “Helen Mirren can do a l…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2015
Kevin Spacey will be presented with a special award at the 2015 Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of New York's Tonys.Spacey, while juggling film work and his starring role in "House of …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 04:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Darren Criss will return to Broadway in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” stepping into the title role after John Cameron Mitchell, the musical’s co-creator and its original …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Cynthia Nixon, a busy, bankable thesp who’s bagged Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Awards since appearing in her first film at age 12 and making her Broadway debut at 14, makes an assured direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Ivo Van Hove's revival of "A View from the Bridge" and Jonathan Kent’s staging of "Gypsy," starring Imelda Staunton, have picked up Critics Circle Theater Awards in London just ahea…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2015
The return of co-creator and original star John Cameron Mitchell to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” helped the Broadway musical post solid sales last week, a late-January frame…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
“Whorl Inside a Loop,” the latest stage show by Dick Scanlan and Broadway fave Sherie Rene Scott, will round out the 2014-15  season at Second Stage Theater, the New Yor…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Tony Danza shows off some mean tap skills in “Hpneymoon in Vegas,” the Broadway musical that opened Jan. 15. What, you’re surprised Danza can tap? Don’t be. He’…
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