Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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]Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The Tony nominations have claimed their first victim: New play “The Velocity of Autumn” posted a closing notice for Sunday, after the struggling show came up short on love fro…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Another year, another batch of Hollywood names who didn’t claim a spot in the Tony nominations. Daniel Radcliffe and Denzel Washington, giving highly praised performances in the rev…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PM[SHARE]It was going to be the new musical category that would be widened to five this year. Or maybe the play revival race. But five for new play? That wouldn't happen. That was the thinking, an…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PM[SHARE]In a Broadway season without obvious awards frontrunners, musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” led the pack of Tony Awards nominees with ten nods, includi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2014
As all of Broadway holds its breath for the impending Tony nominations, new titles including "Aladdin," "Beautiful" and "If/Then" have already attained strong sales momentum even before awar…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PM[SHARE]Speaking of the Tony Awards: Off Broadway’s Signature Theater will receive the Tonys’ 2014 regional theater award, in the wake of a new rule initiated last year that made Gotham …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:41PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards have teamed with Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University to inaugurate a new national honor for theater educators. The kudo, which will be awarded every year to one …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
How about another wild card thrown into an anything-goes Tony race? The Tony Awards Administration committee, which meets periodically to decide eligibility questions regarding the season…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:22PM[SHARE]Four or five? That's the question everybody's asking about the upcoming Tony Award nominations now that the organizers of the theater world's highest-profile awards ceremony have decided tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" cleaned up in the nominations for the annual Drama Desk Awards, making off with an even dozen nods. Among the season's Broadway musicals, "Gentleman'…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]Alan Cumming, fresh off the April 24 opening night performance of the Broadway revival of “Cabaret,” emerged from backstage wearing plaid, brandishing a cigarette and eyeing the …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
Alan Cumming owns the debauched role of the Emcee in this redux of the dazzling 1998 revival, but Michelle Williams falters in her early scenes as Sally Bowles.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]James Earl Jones will return to Broadway this fall in a revival of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s “You Can’t Take It With You.” Scott Ellis helms the comedy about …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PM[SHARE]New plays by Pulitzer winners Annie Baker and Doug Wright are among the nine in-development stage projects tapped for the Sundance Institute's 2014 Theater Lab. Baker, who just picked up the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
The inspiration for Harvey Fierstein’s “Casa Valentina” was a discreet sanctuary in the Catskills where manly men (with wives and children and other baggage) could get thei…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Crackerjack comic timing was the last thing anyone expected from an alarming play about 21st-century concerns over data, secrecy and power. But it's all over James Graham's dazzler "Privacy.…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PM[SHARE]You could forgive John Cameron Mitchell for feeling a sense of ownership of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the 1998 musical he and Stephen Trask wrote. He also created the title…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22AM[SHARE]Producer Jeffrey Finn (“Seminar,” “Scandalous,” “Dead Accounts”) will shepherd new play “An Act of God” to Broadway, where the show — ba…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Harris channels Iggy Pop and Lou Reed by way of the Ramones, not to mention his inner Rockette, in this spectacular revival of the 1998 musical.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]A touring production of Broadway hit “The Book of Mormon” and local revivals of "Hello Dolly!" and "Glengarry Glen Ross" were each multiple winners April 21 at the Helen Hayes Aw…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10PM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2014
“We all think it’d be wonderful to be praised as much as Meryl Streep is, but actually I think it must be a nightmare.” So said “Angels in America” writer Tony …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:56PM[SHARE]The Easter Bunny brought a whopper of a basket to Broadway last week, as the overlap of the holiday with Gotham schools’ spring break schedule resurrected sales so boffo they wouldn…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:52PM[SHARE]A new musical from the writer-composer and director behind Tony winner “In the Heights,” another by the creatives of Off Broadway-to-Broadway transfer “Passing Strang…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]With Idina, Hedwig, and Sally Bowles in town, is it possible for a modest musical heroine like “Violet” to survive on Broadway? Let’s hope so, because helmer Leigh Silv…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2014
Before audience members at the April 20 opening of Broadway’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan” could congratulate Daniel Radcliffe on his performance, they had to get a stupid…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:17PM[SHARE]In “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” Martin McDonagh’s sublime tragi-comedy about life on Ireland’s desolate Aran Islands, there are two old biddies who desperately dote on…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2014
Everyone knows Mama Rose's first line in 1959's "Gypsy." It's "Count four before you start, Louise!" Or at least it was. But one day in rehearsal Ethel Merman crossed it out for the line eve…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
Moss Hart has a lot to answer for. Just think how many future brain surgeons and rocket scientists were lost, lured to Gotham to pursue a theater career after reading “Act One,R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM[SHARE]The Lark Play Development Center and Playwrights of New York have named scribe Eric Dufault as the 2014-15 recipient of the PONY Fellowship, the hefty annual grant program that has a track r…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Chutzpah isn't the first trait you'd associate with the elegant, patrician Ruth Draper (1884-1956), intimate of Shaw and Henry James and creator of precisely observed monodramas on the femal…
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