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Thursday, May 22, 2014

West End Review: 'Miss Saigon' by Gordon Cox

What do want from a musical… the music? If so, Cameron Mackintosh's hotly anticipated revival of "Miss Saigon" is home free. In the title role, Eva Noblezada makes an astonishing stage…

SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Annette Bening to Join John Lithgow in Shakespeare in the Park's 'King Lear' by Gordon Cox

Annette Bening has booked a role opposite John Lithgow in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear,” starting performances in July. Bening w…

SOURCE: Variety at 05:51PM[SHARE]

Rhythm Is Gonna Get Broadway as Estefan Musical Targets a Fall 2015 Opening by Gordon Cox

“On Your Feet!,” the brewing musical about the lives and careers of Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan, has mapped out a conga-line to Broadway, with producers of the tuner pla…

SOURCE: Variety at 04:46PM[SHARE]

New Times Square Studio Caters to Theater Industry's Digital Content Needs by Gordon Cox

Producing and general management firm Martian Entertainment and production company All the Way Around have launched Stage + Screen Digital Studio, a new post-production and editing …

SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]
Monday, May 19, 2014

Obie Awards: Off Broadway Musical 'Fun Home' Adds to its Trophy Haul by Gordon Cox

Is “Fun Home” the first Tony contender of the 2014-15 Broadway season? The Lisa Kron-Jeanine Tesori musical has notched a slew of prominent legit kudos in advance of its planned…

SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]

London Theater Review: 'Donkey Heart' by Gordon Cox

Take three generations of a cheerfully squabbling family, put them into a spy drama, fill with lust, love and lies, whip everything along as a comedy and what have you got? "Donkey Heart." P…

SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PM[SHARE]

Broadway Box Office: 'The Bridges of Madison County' Goes Out with a Bang by Gordon Cox

Broadway musical “The Bridges of Madison County,” currently nominated for four Tony Awards, posted its highest B.O. numbers ever last week in the final stretch before the show…

SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Off Broadway Review: 'Too Much Sun' Starring Linda Lavin by Gordon Cox

In Nicky Silver’s previous play, “The Lyons,” which originated at the Vineyard under the direction of Mark Brokaw, Linda Lavin played a mother who ruins her children’…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Friday, May 16, 2014

Drama League Awards Add Momentum to 'Gentleman's Guide,' 'All the Way,' 'Hedwig' by Gordon Cox

With the theater awards race heating up on the way to Tony Awards, the annual round of New York legit awards has begun to highlights favorites — including musical "A Gentleman's …

SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Broadway's Latest Starry Revival: 'A Delicate Balance' with Glenn Close, John Lithgow by Gordon Cox

The 2014-15 season on Broadway is shaping up to be just as starry as the current one, with Glenn Close now confirmed for a fall opening in a Rialto revival of “A Delicate Balance”…

SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Kristin Chenoweth Rides Back to Broadway 'On the Twentieth Century' by Gordon Cox

Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher are set to make their Broadway returns in “On the Twentieth Century,” the 1978 musical that New York’s Roundabout Theater Company will…

SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]

Mark Ruffalo, Jim Parsons Praise Larry Kramer at HBO's 'The Normal Heart' Premiere by Gordon Cox

It's no secret Ryan Murphy assembled a wide pool of recognizable names for HBO's movie adaptation of "The Normal Heart." Possibly the most surprising among those names? Jason Blum, the produ…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM[SHARE]
Monday, May 12, 2014

Broadway Box Office: The Street Sticks to Its Guns Against TV Upfronts and 'Godzilla' by Gordon Cox

Univision, ESPN, "Godzilla": All of the above tried to take a bite out of Broadway last week, but Main Stem box office fought them off. Upfronts, the TV industry's annual sales pitch to adve…

SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PM[SHARE]

Outer Critics Circle Applauds Broadway's "Gentleman's Guide," Bryan Cranston by Gordon Cox

The Outer Critics Circle gave a thumbs-up to Tony nomination packleader "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," handing the musical four kudos including top tuner in the race for the or…

SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AM[SHARE]
Friday, May 9, 2014

L.A. Theater Review: 'Unorganized Crime' Starring Chazz Palminteri by Gordon Cox

Stars are called stars because they shine brighter than anyone else. Every time Chazz Palminteri sashays into "Unorganized Crime" as Gotham mob scion Sal Sicuso, cool and sardonic, seething …

SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PM[SHARE]

Off Broadway Review: Samuel D. Hunter's 'The Few' by Gordon Cox

Samuel D. Hunter is one playwright who legitimately deserves to be called eccentric. In “The Whale,” which picked up some prestigious awards last season, the central character is…

SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Hugh Jackman's Next Hot Ticket Gets Even Hotter in One of Broadway's Smallest Theaters by Gordon Cox

Big demand, small theater: Hugh Jackman’s next Broadway gig, “The River,” has lined up its venue and dates, setting a November opening at the 776-seat Circle in the Squa…

SOURCE: Variety at 11:52PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

For Tony Nominees, It's Too Many Frontrunners or Not Enough by Gordon Cox

It's a case of too many favorites " or not enough. Even now that the 2013-14 Tony nominations are set, the race for Broadway's biggest awards remains wide open. Voters find themselves facing…

SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]

Stage Director Jack O'Brien is the Latest Broadway Name to Sign With CAA by Gordon Cox

CAA has signed Broadway director Jack O’Brien, the prolific helmer whose Tony-winning Main Stem work ranges from razzledazzle tuner “Hairspray” to Shakespeare’s ̶…

SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Marshall Among the Nominees for Broadway's Astaire Awards by Gordon Cox

“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” topliner Neil Patrick Harris, “Cabaret” choreographer and co-director Rob Marshall,  “Aladdin” genie James Monroe Igleha…

SOURCE: Variety at 04:38PM[SHARE]

Bryan Cranston, Chris O'Dowd Win Theater World Awards for Broadway Debuts (COMPLETE LIST) by Gordon Cox

Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Zachary Levi and Sophie Okonedo are among the dozen performers to score this year’s Theater World Awards, the annual kudo that honors thesps making …

SOURCE: Variety at 12:03PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 5, 2014

Off Broadway Review: 'The City of Conversation' by Gordon Cox

Two gripping political dramas in the same season? How positively civilized. Bryan Cranston’s rip-roaring portrayal of LBJ in “All the Way” epitomizes Washington power polit…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]

New York Drama Critics Circle Says Thumbs Up to Off Broadway's 'Fun Home' and 'Night Alive' by Gordon Cox

Conor McPherson play “The Night Alive” and Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical “Fun Home” took the 2013-14 awards for best play and musical, respectively, from the New Y…

SOURCE: Variety at 06:51PM[SHARE]

Broadway Box Office: Tony Nominations Move the Needle at 'Gentleman's Guide,' 'Hedwig' by Gordon Cox

Notching a beltful of Tony nominations doesn’t bring the same enduring sales spike as an award itself, but it helps: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” and R…

SOURCE: Variety at 04:48PM[SHARE]

CAA Signs Songwriting Duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman by Gordon Cox

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the “Hairspray” composers whose musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is currently playing on the West End, have signed with CAA…

SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Off Broadway's Lortel Awards Like 'Here Lies Love,' 'Fun Home' and 'The Open House' (COMPLETE LIST) by Gordon Cox

"Here Lies Love," the immersive staging of the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim tuner about Imelda Marcos, got up and walked away with five Lucille Lortel Awards, the New York legit industry's Off Br…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:24PM[SHARE]

Off Broadway Review: 'Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!' by Gordon Cox

Anybody who got through this Broadway theater season alive deserves to see “Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!” — the latest edition of the irreverent satirical revue t…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Four Tony Nominations Can't Keep 'The Bridges of Madison County' From Closing by Gordon Cox

Broadway musical “The Bridges of Madison County” will shutter later this month, despite scoring four Tony noms earlier this week including one for Jason Robert Brown’s s…

SOURCE: Variety at 07:46PM[SHARE]

Two Musical Theater Creatives Score $100K Each from Kleban Foundation by Gordon Cox

Musical theater scribes Nathan Tysen (pictured above, right) and Arthur Perlman (above, left) have nabbed the 2014 Kleban Prize, the hefty annual award that comes with a $100,000 check fo…

SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]

Q&A: Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman Talk 'Annapurna' by Gordon Cox

Married actors Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are back onstage together for the New Group's Off Broadway run of "Annapurna," the two-character show in which they first appeared last year i…

SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

'After Midnight' Rides Tony Momentum with Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole by Gordon Cox

Broadway musical “After Midnight,” fresh off the publicity boost of its seven Tony nominations, aims to turn even more theatergoers’ heads with a trio of well-known musi…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AM[SHARE]

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