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…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
Whatever your expectations going into “Rocky,” you come out rocking the technology. No mystery about where the $16.5 million capital investment went in this musical iteration…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Broadway Channel, a producer and distributor of legit-centric video content, has partnered with PIX11, the New York CW affiliate, to produce segments and primetime specials focusing on B…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PM[SHARE]Cynthia Nixon has signed on to star opposite Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “The Real Thing,” the 1982 play in …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PM[SHARE]"Harmony" confirms Barry Manilow's musical theater chops. The pop legend invests this biotuner of the Comedian Harmonists — a real-life German male sextet, pre-WWII toasts of two conti…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47PM[SHARE]If you haven't come across George Takei lately, you might be living under a digital rock. The former "Star Trek" actor has, over the past five years, morphed into one of social media's more …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Blythe Danner and scribes Donald Margulies and David Auburn have lined up world premieres as part of the Manhattan Theater Club’s 2014-15 season, a lineup that sees the Gotham nonpr…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Meet Tyrone, the dirty-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet who steals the show in “Hand to God,” Robert Askins’ pitch-black comedy about a teenage boy (a sensational perf from…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PM[SHARE]The Drama Desk has tapped Laura Benanti, the Broadway fave (“Gypsy”) whose TV credits include “Go On” and “The Sound of Music Live,” to host the org’…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
The movie adaptation may be a nonstarter, but John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” has taken its first steps toward the stage as producers announced a legit…
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