Thursday, April 17, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]“Of Mice and Men” may be a particularly American tale, but Irishman Chris O’Dowd — who stars with James Franco in the Broadway revival that opened April 15 — st…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Anna D. Shapiro delivers a flawless, beautifully acted revival of John Steinbeck's 1937 play.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Everyone likes secrets, especially dramatists. So it's no surprise that the unravelling of the mysteries of the current Queen Elizabeth's famously undocumented weekly meetings with her Prime…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
A skilled director can work magic, which is what Steven Soderbergh has done with “The Library,” a thin play penned by Soderbergh collaborator Scott Z. Burns (“Side Effec…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM[SHARE]Hyper-alert Andrew Scott is ideal casting for Paul, the central role of “Birdland,” the latest play by Simon Stephens (“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PM[SHARE]“Rock of Ages” producer Matthew Weaver has acquired the stage rights to “Soul Train” with an eye toward turning the property into a Broadway musical. The producer has…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
Daniel Radcliffe made a little Broadway box office magic last week, pulling in robust numbers in the first two previews of "The Cripple of Inishmaan" during a frame that saw springtime…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PM[SHARE]Donna Tartt’s sprawling story “The Goldfinch,” which is being adapted for Hollywood by “The Hunger Games” producer Nina Jacobson, took home the 2014 Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:10PM[SHARE]New plays by Tanya Barfield and Halley Feiffer are among the six works on tap for this year's National Playwrights Conference, the annual new-play development program at the Eugene O'Neill T…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s elegiac lament for the jazz singer Billie Holiday at the end of her broken-down life, has been knocking aro…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Broadway hit “The Book of Mormon” scored the same kind of awards love in London as the show got in New York: The tuner nabbed a total of four trophies, including the awards fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
Following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, her successor, the current Prince Charles, about to be crowned king, holds the government and the entire country to ransom. It's not jus…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]On Broadway, you can’t throw an unusually opulent opening night party without people gossiping. Take the shindig for the musical "Bullets Over Broadway" after its April 10 opening: …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
Susan Stroman's energetic direction almost compensates for a weak book and a few key miscastings in Woody Allen's showbiz tuner.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM[SHARE]A new superhero musical directed and co-written by Michael Mayer, the Tony-winning “Spring Awakening” helmer now directing Neil Patrick Harris on Broadway in “Hedwig and…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2014
"There will be blood," promises director Stuart Gordon of "Taste," the stage play now running through May 17 at L.A.'s Sacred Fools Theater. That red stuff probably isn't much of a surpri…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Actor's Fund president Joe Benincasa, Broadway photographer Joan Marcus and general manager Charlotte Wilcox will receive this year's Tony Honors. The Tonys hands out its special honors ever…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AM[SHARE]Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin will star in a new production of Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 play "This Is Our Youth," originating this summer at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater and moving on to Br…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:17AM[SHARE]Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin will star in a new production of Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 play “This Is Our Youth,” originating this summer at Chicago’s Steppenwolf The…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Jane Greenwood, the longtime theatrical costume designer whose first Broadway credit was 1963′s “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,” will receive a lifetime achievement trophy…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
Famous faces helped keep some Broadway titles buoyant in a ebb-tide week, as Neil Patrick Harris, Denzel Washington, Bryan Cranston and — indirectly — Carole King pumped interest…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PM[SHARE]Neil Patrick Harris, Harvey Weinstein, Bryan Cranston joined U.S. senator Charles E. Schumer in a public push to grant Broadway a tax incentive similar to the one offered to the film and …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PM[SHARE]Performance artist, poet and musician Saul Williams will lead the cast of incoming Broadway musical “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” which draws from the Tupac Shakur catalog for its scor…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Ambassador Theater Group, the U.K. legit company in the process of bolstering its position as an international player, continues to step up its expansion efforts with the promotion of David …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Producers at the April 6 opening night party of starry Broadway play “The Realistic Joneses” had plenty of cause for celebration as the positive reviews started to roll in. But t…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
It’s the words, stupid. That’s what Will Eno keeps telling us in his hypnotically quirky plays. What separates the men from the beasts? The words. What saves huma…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2014
Denzel Washington is back on Broadway in “A Raisin in the Sun,” which opened at the Barrymore Theater April 3. But the project was in the works long before that. Washington an…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
Denzel Washington gives a triumphant performance in this heart-stopping revival of Lorraine Hansberry's classic.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “Cabaret” will get a national TV spotlight later this month when “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”…
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