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”…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The organizers of the Tony Awards have tapped Rosie O'Donnell to receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award, handed out annually to a legiter who's made a significant contribution to humanitarian …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:22PM[SHARE]Two immersive Off Broadway buzzmagnets, the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim disco tuner “Here Lies Love” and Tolstoy-and-vodka musical ”Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 18…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]Anna Gunn is following her “Breaking Bad” co-star Bryan Cranston to the New York stage, where she’ll star this summer in Laura Eason’s “Sex with Strangers”…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]Broadway alum and “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will host the 2014 Drama League Awards, the annual legit kudos from Gotham’s 99-year-old theater developme…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PM[SHARE]The organizers of the Tony Awards have tapped Rosie O’Donnell to receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award, handed out annually to a legiter who’s made a significant contribution to h…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56PM[SHARE]Here are some of the ways the 1988 film “Heathers,” the blackest of high school comedies, could have ended: The school blows up. Or protagonist Veronica blows up. Or Veronica ask…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
Like the cult movie to which it pays homage, “Heathers” the musical should score with all those teen misfits who fantasized about getting even with the popular kids who humiliate…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:21PM[SHARE]If it were possible to gauge a Broadway musical's box office prospects from a single performance alone, then Neil Patrick Harris' turn in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" looks legendary. But we'…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
Everyone has an if/then moment that leaves them wondering what might have happened if life went another way, and the opening night performance of parallel-lives Broadway musical "If/Then" ga…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53PM[SHARE]In her belated return to Broadway after “Wicked,” powerhouse belter Idina Menzel is sorely misused in “If/Then.” Â ”Next to Normal” writing team Brian Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
Chris Pine and Lauren Ambrose will spend the summer doing a little play in the Berkshires, signing on to star in Sam Shepard’s 1983 play “Fool for Love” at the Williamstown…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway's go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," "Elf," "The Drowsy Chaperone"), Broadway's "Aladdin" marked the first work with Disn…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 09:33AM[SHARE]For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway’s go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," “Elf,” “The Drowsy Chaperone”), Broadway's "Aladdin" m…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
This super-costly extravaganza doesn't do justice to the movie, or to the spirit of the late Howard Ashman.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:29PM[SHARE]With no New York City film czar yet appointed some three months into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s  term, the local entertainment industry’s backchannel lobbying has grown increasing…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Ten world premieres, including new plays by Tom Stoppard and David Hare, and a stage stint for Ralph Fiennes spearhead the National Theater's 2014-2015 season led by outgoing a.d. Nicholas H…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Sheryl Crow's musical adaptation of "Diner" will finally have it world premiere at the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., following a long period of development that saw a pre-Broadway com…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57PM[SHARE]Nina Arianda certainly knows how to make an entrance. For her Tony Award-winning role in “Venus in Furs” — her last appearance on the New York boards — she blew o…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]A historical trilogy from two of Britain's national theaters and a new stage adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" are among the higher profile offerings on tap for the 2014 Edinbur…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
Newcomers poured new coin into the Broadway coffers last week as previewing titles "Les Miserables," "A Raisin in the Sun" "If/Then" and "Bullets Over Broadway" helped push the Street's over…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2014
What if David Fincher directed "Rocky"? It might look something like "Rocky" the musical. That was part of the concept, anyway, for Alex Timbers, the director of the spectacularly staged new…
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