Friday, January 24, 2014
The stage musical adaptation of Disney’s 1996 animated pic “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” which premiered in Germany in 1999 but never made it Stateside, will have its Amer…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
It may not be as dramatic as “Doubt” or as funny as “Moonstruck,” but John Patrick Shanley has not written a more beautiful or loving play than “Outside Mulling…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Looks like Hugh Jackman has some competition on Broadway next season: Producer James L. Nederlander has confirmed that Bradley Cooper will star in “The Elephant Man” this fall al…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:52PM[SHARE]A new digital venture is betting old-school Broadway is the key to a lucrative new-media audience. Stage 17, launching a public beta next month ahead of a wider rollout later in the spring, …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]David Gordon Green, Amber Heard and a co-founder of South by Southwest are among the honorees lined up to receive trophies at the Austin Film Society's 2014 Texas Film Awards. The kudos sing…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2014
For a while there, it was starting to look as if concerts on Broadway were the new star-driven play revivals: A go-to option for producers looking for one of the Main Stem’s safer fina…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PM[SHARE]Behind-the-music tale "Beautiful" is subtitled "The Carole King Musical," but it could have been something else. Or nothing at all.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]F. Murray Abraham and outgoing “Cinderella” star Laura Osnes are among the lead thesps in Martha Clarke’s new Off Broadway production of “The Threepenny Opera,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Although a little slow in the early going, "The Legend of Miss George McBride" — the new play by Matthew Lopez, whose title "The Whipping Man" was one of the most-produced plays in the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and a couple of newer shows gaining momentum combined to help perk Broadway up a bit in a winter month when the Rialto box office is usually at its…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:28PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
When Hugh Jackman hits Broadway next season in Jez Butterworth's play "The River," it'll mark his fourth stint on the Gotham boards in a dozen years. His return not only underscores his rema…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PM[SHARE]When former German international soccer player and sometime English league player Thomas Hitzelsperger came out earlier this month it made headlines not just in the U.K. but around the world…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2014
New York's Unsung Musicals Co. has lined up its 2014 season, including a world premiere of "Up in Arms!," a new musical incorporating material by Frank Loesser and TV scribe Arnold Auerbach,…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]So rare is a show that can run fundamentally unaltered for 26 years, bringing in global audiences galore, that this touring production of still-going Broadway megahit "The Phantom of the Ope…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Given Frank Langella’s rock-solid stage background, it should come as no surprise that the old lion makes a formidable monarch in “King Lear.” Under Angus Jackson’…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
Enthralled as we are to our digital gadgetry, you’d think we’d identify with the heroine of “Machinal,” Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Expressionistic melodrama (inspi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theater has locked in two more more titles for its 2014-15 season, skedding a new Broadway production of Michael Frayn’s farce “Noises Off” in winter 2015 and lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PM[SHARE]One last star-driven play has squeezed into a crowded Broadway season, with the Daniel Radcliffe-toplined production of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” locking in dates at the Cort Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:07PM[SHARE]Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers behind the Broadway revivals “Chicago” and “Pippin,” have teamed up with Canuck theater owner-producer David Mirvish to captain…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Cirque du Soleil will take a shot a diversifying its output with the launch of a new theatrical division to be led by Scott Zeiger of BASE Entertainment. The new branch of the Montreal-based…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
January chilled Broadway to the bone last week, with the annual post-holiday slump and the polar vortex joining forces to push the Rialto box office barometer down by a mammoth $11.5 million…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PM[SHARE]A spokesman for Disney Theatrical Prods. has confirmed that Disney Animation’s hit “Frozen” is in early development for the stage, following a Fortune interview in which…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PM[SHARE]Carole King didn’t even show up for the Jan. 12 opening of “Beautiful,” the new Broadway musical that features her songs. But that’s no surprise. Everyone knows she&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2014
The early life and career of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King surely deserves more imaginative treatment than the corny chronological storytelling (And then we wrote …) and old-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2014
Tourist biz, an increasingly dominant force on Broadway in recent years, hit a high-water mark last season, with out-of-town visitors accounting for a whopping 66% of all ticket sales during…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:56PM[SHARE]Let's face it: The Broadway industry's reputation for being hidebound isn't entirely undeserved. So you wouldn't expect a theater exec to be the one to create a digital social network aimed …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2014
Mark Rylance and Samuel Barnett, two major players in this season’s much-lauded and recently profitable revivals of “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III,” won’…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:21PM[SHARE]"Who will get me my divorce?" Thundered out by fierce Henry VIII (Nathaniel Parker), that's the problem underpinning Hilary Mantel's huge novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," now tr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare’s Globe’s repertory staging of “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III” has ticked over into the hit column, recouping its $3.1 million capitaliz…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Tupac Shakur, Broadway composer. “Holler If You Hear Me,” the musical inspired by the lyrics of the late rapper Shakur, has locked in a Broadway slot at the Palace Theater, where…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The current Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Â ”The Glass Menagerie” has recouped its $2.6 million in capitalization costs, according to producers, allowing produc…
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