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…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:13PM[SHARE]Idina Menzel and Denzel Washington flexed their box office muscle on Broadway last week, as Menzel topliner "If/Then" and Washington starrer "A Raisin in the Sun" each posted impressive tall…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
Commercial producers aren't just commercial anymore. At least not all of them " not since the divide between the commercial theater industry and the not-for-profit legit sector has crumbled …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival has filled out its 2014 feature slate with a starry Spotlight section as well as midnight and special screenings, a group that taken together includes a new mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
"Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," the Royal Shakespeare Company's hit staging of Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning novels, has lined up a commercial West End run that will open at the Aldw…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
It was a best-selling novel and a profitable film, but Iris Rainer Dart's tear-jerker, "Beaches," struggles to find a footing as a compelling musical in its premiere at Arlington, Va.'s Sign…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
“Elliot:Â A Soldier’s Fugue” began the cycle of plays by Quiara Alegria Hudes about a young Marine’s re-entry into the land of the living after a soul-destroying t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Les Miserables" stormed back to Broadway and "Aladdin" made a little box office magic of its own last week, with the two big-name tuners beginning previews in a seven-day frame that saw ove…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PM[SHARE]John Travolta memorably mangled Idina Menzel’s name during the Oscars on March 3 and that may have been rough for Menzel right before she belted out the hit tune from Disney’s &#…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PM[SHARE]"Old-fashioned" is most often a derogatory term, but it can also mean traditionally well-crafted. That's definitely the case with "Versailles," Peter Gill's highly articulate, leisurely yet …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PM[SHARE]"Tuck Everlasting," the tuner that had been targeting a Broadway run during the 2013-14 season before getting detoured, and the world preem of the musical adaptation of "Bull Durham" are amo…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52AM[SHARE]A new musical adaptation of “Made in Dagenham,” the 2010 British indie that starred recent Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins, will premiere at the Adelphi Theater on the West End this …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:56AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2014
Commercial and not-for-profit theatres can't do without each other, but hooking up can be as problematic as it is profitable
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:00PM[SHARE]A movie helps a Broadway show. But will the film version of "Les Miserables" give a leg up to the new Main Stem revival of the title that inspired it? Beginning previews March 1, "Les Misera…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
Who says a matinee has to be on a Wednesday afternoon? Well, Broadway does, and has for years. But later this spring, a concerted push to institute a Thursday matinee option will bring the M…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
The Broadway-aimed revival of “Can-Can” and the world premiere of the musical version of 1998 Cinderella redux “Ever After” are among the titles on the 2014-15 slate …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PM[SHARE]Diane Ladd and Eden Brolin have been tapped to topline “I Dream Too Much,” an indie feature to be exec produced by Richard Linklater. Danielle Brooks (“Orange is the New Bl…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Most movies are regenerated on stage for one reason alone: No matter how unwieldy the material, familiarity breeds box-office contentment. But there's a solidly theatrical reasoning behind s…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PM[SHARE]Ask anyone in the theater industry with a horse in the awards-season race, and they’ll tell you that the Tony category for best musical — or any of the four major awards for over…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:27PM[SHARE]Tony favorite Audra McDonald will topline “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” in a last-minute addition to Broadway’s 2013-14 slate, confirming an expected move t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:12PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
Looks like “Kung Fu,” David Henry Hwang’s reverential homage to Bruce Lee, should have been a musical after all. Cole Horibe, Taekwondo Olympic medalist (and finalist o…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Is "Rocky" a Broadway box office contender? Too soon to tell, but sales for the large-scale new musical's initial string of previews suggest audiences are at least showing a steady curiosity…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PM[SHARE]At its fiercest, Ayad Akhtar's "The Who & the What" bares some of the same teeth as his riveting, 2013 Pulitzer-copping "Disgraced." Both explore Pakistani-American tensions arising from…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
With Broadway’s spring season barely begun, is it too soon to start worrying about the Tony races? Well, yes. But that hasn’t stopped legiters from forecasting an awards-season c…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
Everybody knows that playwrights shouldn’t direct their own plays. But composers might also think twice about doing their own orchestrations. In an intimate house, Jason Robert…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Yankees play “Bronx Bombers” has struck out at the Broadway box office, with dismal sales prompting producers to post a closing notice for the end of this week. The play, a fanta…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Vanessa Williams, the “Ugly Betty” star who is also a Broadway vet, will be the next guest star to have a stint in “After Midnight,” the Cotton Club-era revue that wa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Bryan Cranston showed some presidential power at the Broadway box office last week, as his toplining stint in LBJ historical drama “All the Way” posted sales strong enough to lan…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
Although there can scarcely have been a time when the warnings of "1984" didn't feel urgent, Edward Snowden's revelations about present-day governmental monitoring of private behavior have t…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:43PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
Short stories are rich resource material for plays. But Ken Urban’s new play, “The Correspondent,” would make a better short story. The plot is concise and spooky: …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard will topline a new West End revival of David Hare’s 1995 play “Skylight,” to be helmed by Stephen Daldry. Mulligan was last on …
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