Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Broadway musical "The Last Ship" is full of Sting's music, but the opening night crowd got something most audiences don't: Sting himself singing it.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:09AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of "A Delicate Balance" got off to a stellar start last week, as a cast that includes Glenn Close -- appearing in her first Main Stem gig in 20 years -- pushed the play …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:43AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
The Broadway revival of “A Delicate Balance” got off to a stellar start last week, as a cast that includes Glenn Close — appearing in her first Main Stem gig in…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PM[SHARE]Broadway musical “The Last Ship” is full of Sting’s music, but the opening night crowd got something most audiences don’t: Sting himself singing it. The musician took…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2014
Sting lives up to his nickname, “the King of Pain,” with “The Last Ship.” Melancholy tones of sorrow and regret saturate this highly personal and intensely felt music…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
Nathan Lane has done plenty of TV and film, but he's a Broadway baby. This season, he'll star in Eugene O'Neill classic "The Iceman Cometh," as well raucous comedy "It's Only a Play" (by fre…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Playwright Ayad Akhtar has seen his Pulitzer Prize winning play “Disgraced” open in productions around the country and around the world. But the show’s opening on Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2014
It always makes Broadway look good to have a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama on the boards. “Disgraced” won the 2013 prize for scribe Ayad Akhtar and fits the bill for an intellectu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57PM[SHARE]Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have set a legit production and development pact with the Shubert Organization. Deal covers the pair’s work on original plays and musicals, as well as reviva…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PM[SHARE]Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in "Therese Raquin," toplining a fall 2015 production from the Roundabout Theater Company.Knightley will play the title character in Helen Edmund…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:13PM[SHARE]Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in "Therese Raquin," toplining a fall 2015 production from the Roundabout Theater Company. Knightley will play the title character in Helen Edmun…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The musical timeline of “The Fortress of Solitude” is mid-1960s to late 1980s. But the theme of this blood-pumping, heart-thumping show — the indestructible links that bind…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PM[SHARE]David Binder, the Broadway producer of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” has signed on as an artistic associate of LIFT, the 33-year-old London Intl. Festival of Theater. The producer…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:02PM[SHARE]MSG Entertainment has brought on board producer Harvey Weinstein and creatives Warren Carlyle, Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner to retool the company’s large-scale theatrical event …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
In case you weren’t sure the Broadway transfer of sock-puppet comedy “Hand to God” was a risky commercial endeavor, the production’s ad campaign will go ahead and con…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PM[SHARE]Tatiana Maslany, the critically adored star of BBC America series “Orphan Black,” will make her New York stage debut this spring in the world premiere of Neil LaBute’s R…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]What’s an unhappy, suicidal, clinically depressed sourpuss like Raymond Chandler doing in sunny Hollywood — and working with that famously difficult writer-director, Billy Wilder…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
As play titles go, “brownsville song (b-side for tray)” won’t set off a stampede at the Lincoln Center Theater box office. That’s too bad, because Kimber Lee’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office experienced a predictable decline last week after the boost it got the prior frame from the Columbus Day weekend — but the larger dips at the Main Stem’…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:42PM[SHARE]It's been a while since a serious, period epic of redemption amid political turmoil formed the basis of a large-scale original musical, and for that reason alone this Broadway tryout in Chic…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
Three famous thinkers locked together in Hell is the jokey setup for Scott Carter's awkwardly-titled but sparkling "The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo To…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PM[SHARE]It was a patriotic night at the Oct. 16 opening of the Broadway revival of “On the Town.” One of the second act’s nightclub sequences included a fourth-wall-breaking singal…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
“On the Town” is back on Broadway, and whaddya know, it’s still a helluva show. Helmer John Rando (who directed the musical at Barrington Stage last year) has given t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater has lined up two productions to open in June, including the world premiere of “Shows for Days,” the latest play by Douglas Carter Beane, whose play “…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PM[SHARE]Al Pacino, one of only a few big-name actors who have proven consistent draws at the Broadway box office, has made plans for his Main Stem return, starring in a new play by David Mamet, R…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PM[SHARE]Second Stage Theater, the Off Broadway company that found itself with a hole in its season when its scheduled production of musical “American Psycho” was yanked by commercial pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Broadway will turn out to honor the late Elaine Stritch with a starry performance next month that will include theater-industry royalty including Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Hal Prin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Although there isn’t a kitten or a puppy in sight, “Found” is so cute, it’s almost too cute.  Helmer Lee Overtree has been extremely clever in staging this quir…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Columbus Day brought a surge of long-weekend tourism business to Broadway last week, with the holiday spurring major gains all along the Street at shows including newly anointed critical dar…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
The stage at Off Broadway’s Ars Nova is so long and narrow, there’s hardly room to swing a cat. So it might seem absurd to install a fully functioning hot tub as the centerpi…
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