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…
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…
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