Thursday, June 26, 2014
Off Broadway's New Group has lined up a slew of stars for its 20th season, setting a 2014-15 slate that includes acting stints from Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman, Jesse Eisenberg and Dianne Wie…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2014
In the immediate wake of a recent ruling that cleared former NewsCorp exec Rebekah Brooks of all hacking charges during her tenure at News of the World, the National Theater in London has an…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Manhattan Theater Club has tapped “The Swing of the Sea,” the new play by Richard Greenberg, for its 2014-15 season at the Gotham nonprofit’s Off Broadway venue. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PM[SHARE]Rose Byrne will follow up her role in Universal’s hit “Neighbors” with a gig on Broadway, joining the cast of the upcoming revival of Moss Hart’s “You Can’…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08PM[SHARE]At 26 years old, the young Broadway producer Megan Savage has two Tony Awards to her name. And a day job. Savage — a member of the producing team for this year's Tony favorite "A Gentl…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2014
It only took eight months, but "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" is finally inching closer to hit-show numbers. After sweating out an entire season of slow to middling sales, producer…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2014
“Newsies,” the modestly-scaled stage musical that surprised Disney Theatrical Prods. by finding a foothold on Broadway, will end its Main Stem run Aug. 24 after several mon…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
It’s no secret that “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” the Broadway musical that incorporates the songs of Tupac Shakur, is having trouble drawing crowds " just take a look at show…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2014
Remembered for its unconventional theme, its inviting score, its polarizing effect on audiences and its brief, 91-perf run on Broadway in 1997, the cult-favorite flop "Side Show" now emerges…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM[SHARE]Despite a clunky book, this show is on fire. But it's going to be a hard sell with traditional auds, and can the real fans spring for Broadway ticket prices?
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06PM[SHARE]Gerry Goffin, the lyricist whose work with songwriting partner (and wife at the time) Carole King yielded some of pop music’s most enduring hits, has died of natural causes at his L…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PM[SHARE]A star vehicle on cruise control this ain’t: Carey Mulligan's Kyra is all composure, a sense of purpose masking layers of hurt, while Bill Nighy's furiously brittle Tom blazes with sel…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Producers usually spend the opening night of a Broadway show sweating it out while they wait for reviews to come in. But the upcoming opening night of “Honeymoon in Vegas” wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Cherry Jones heads up a first-rate cast in “When We Were Young and Unafraid,” a provocative if loosely constructed play by Sarah Treem that looks back with pride (and a hint of h…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Rupert Grint will follow in the Broadway footsteps of fellow “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe this fall, with Grint signing on for the already starry production of Terr…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2014
All those giddy young lovers in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedies have a regrettable tendency to blur into one another. Except, of course, for Beatrice and Benedick, that quick-witte…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]Summer tourism helped tune up Broadway ticket sales last week, as Tony Awards attention prodded demand at titles including "All the Way," "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," "Hedwig an…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 14, 2014
Tony-nominated Broadway musical "After Midnight" will close June 29, following months of lackluster sales that did not sufficiently improve in the wake of the Tony Awards ceremony. The Cotto…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:38PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2014
A new solo stage show from Darrell Hammond, "The Darrell Hammond Project," has joined the 2014-15 slate at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, where the world premiere begins its run in February…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2014
Andrew Rannells, who starred in Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon” before going on to TV gigs in “The New Normal” and “Girls,” will take over for Neil …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:25PM[SHARE]In Donald Margulies' Geffen premiere "The Country House," genuine legend Blythe Danner effortly embodies fictional legend Anna Patterson, doyenne of a handsome summer home in that bastion of…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PM[SHARE]“Buyer and Cellar,” one of the rare Off Broadway titles to prove successful enough to carve out a yearlong run and spawn a national tour, will shutter at the Barrow Street Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Jake Gyllenhaal has booked his Broadway debut in “Constellations,” a project that will reunite him with writer Nick Payne and director Michael Longhurst of “If There Is I H…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2014
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has decided that the authors of some revival productions will be eligible for a Tony alongside producers in the revival of a play and revival of a mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:56PM[SHARE]With the Scott Rudin-produced Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” recouping its $4.25 million investment in the wake of the production’s three Tony wins, the 2013-14 …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]The compassion and concern for character in the plays of Irish master Brian Friel ("Translations," "Dancing at Lughnasa") has led him to be rated alongside the greats of Russian drama. So ex…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM[SHARE]Bob Greenblatt was on a plane when he won a Tony. It's no secret the NBC Entertainment chairman harbors an abiding love for musical theater. His first big creative risk at the network was…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Greta Gerwig, indie pinup girl for “Frances Ha,” proves stageworthy playing a sexually needy woman in “The Village Bike.” In this dark domestic dramedy, which preemed…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]“Disgraced,” the Ayad Akhtar play that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, has lined up a fall run on Broadway with a cast that includes Josh Radnor and Gretchen Mol, while th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
Remember when "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" was having trouble selling tickets? That phase may have passed, at least for a while: After the notching four Tony wins Sunday night, …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of "Of Mice and Men," which has posted robust sales since it began previews earlier this spring, has recouped its $3.8 million capitalization costs in about a dozen week…
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