Monday, September 30, 2013
"Secondhand Lions," the 2003 New Line Cinema pic that inspired the stage musical now getting its world premiere from Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater, got knocked by critics for being schmaltzy …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
Come aboard: They're expecting you. "The Love Boats," a stage musical version of the book that inspired the long-running TV skein, is charting a course for Las Vegas, where a team of produce…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:27PM[SHARE]Let’s be honest: Nobody in the theater industry wants to sit through another production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” And for a long time, that includ…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
A commercial transfer of the American Repertory Theater’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” which premiered earlier this year Cambridge, Mass., op…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Fans of Main Stem musical romance probably watch the Food Network. Own an espresso machine? You're a lot more likely to be a Broadway ticketbuyer than someone who doesn't.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
“August: Osage County” will play one of the two centerpiece slots at this year’s Hamptons Intl. Film Festival, joining a lineup of buzzy festival-circuit alums including op…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Estelle Parsons is the spitting, shouting "Â but by no means cursing "Â image of irascibility in "The Velocity of Autumn," a tender-hearted dramedy by playwright Eric Coble ("Bright Idea…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Big Block Theatrical, a new legit arm of VFX firm Big Block, will revive 1999 musical "Inappropriate" in an L.A. workshop staging this fall, with an eye toward returning the Off Broadway alu…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
Broadway began the slow process of picking itself up out of the fall doldrums last week as a bit of sales momentum returned to the box office " even as the head count of total theaterg…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PM[SHARE]The conflict of a divided soul "Â personal, political and national "Â sears onstage in A.R.T.'s sprawling, heady and thoroughly gripping drama "All the Way," starring Bryan Cranston ("Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:49AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2013
"Much Ado About Nothing" is the blueprint for rom-coms, but what makes it fascinatingly unique is that it's both comedy and tragedy. Except that in the Old Vic's ill-conceived, witless, i…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PM[SHARE]Take a look at Broadway's 2013-14 slate, and one thing's clear: Spring 2014 sure is crowded with notable new musicals.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Orlando Bloom said it best, just after his opening night performance Sept. 19 in the Broadway revival of “Romeo and Juliet.” “It’s really hard not to sound pretentiou…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
The kids are all right. That’s the takeaway from “Romeo and Juliet,” with movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom and ingenue stunner Condola Rashad as Shakespeare’s star-…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Despite Bottom, the lovers, Oberon and Titania, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has either no leads or too many. No single character-line drives the action and everyone comes from different worl…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]"The Last Ship," the new Broadway musical with songs by Sting, has filled in its production timeline, with a Chicago tryout set for this summer prior to a fall bow on the Main Stem. Set agai…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Michael Barra, until recently the senior veep of Daryl Roth Theatrical Licensing, has struck out on his own to form Stageworks Media, a new production company that will focus on adapting con…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Beth Williams, currently CEO of Key Brand Entertainment’s theater division, will hang out her own shingle, launching a new production company called Grove Entertainment starting next y…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]The Gotham Independent Film Awards have named indie stalwart Richard Linklater as the recipient of the kudos' annual director tribute. Filmmaker will be honored alongside Katherine Oliver, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
It was the same old song of September at the Broadway box office last week "Â pretty much the same verse as the prior frame, as Rialto sales held generally steady with minor upticks at sev…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PM[SHARE]Jonathan Freeman, the actor who portrayed the villain Jafar in Disney’s 1992 animated pic “Aladdin,” will reprise his role onstage in the Broadway-bound legit adaptation of…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” an ambitious new work penned by Anne Washburn and developed with The Civilians, is a refreshingly original take on the fast-growing genre of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
Dennis Kelly, Tony-winning bookwriter of the musical "Matilda," is second only to Caryl Churchill as the U.K.'s most ambitious and iconoclastic dramatist. "The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mast…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2013
Going to a Horton Foote play is like catching up with good friends and friendly enemies at a family reunion. His posthumous debut “The Old Friends" is only now having its world premier…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]With a West End revival bowing in May and a smaller-scale, stand-alone production now running at the D.C. area's Signature Theater, the 1989 mega musical, often mentioned in the same breath …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM[SHARE]The Film Society of Lincoln Center has tapped Andrea Arnold, whose features include 2009 Michael Fassbender outing “Fish Tank” and the 2011 adaptation of “Wuthering Heights…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Actress Shirley MacLaine, singer/songwriter Billy Joel, opera singer Martina Arroyo, jazz legend Herbie Hancock and musician/songwriter Carlos Santana will receive this year's Kennedy Center…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
The autumn back-to-school slump hit Broadway hard last week, with overall box office totals falling like leaves "Â and superhero tuner "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" emerging as the produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PM[SHARE]“Casa Valentina,” the new play by “Kinky Boots” book writer Harvey Fierstein, has locked in a Broadway bow this spring in a production directed by “Wicked”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PM[SHARE]Waylon and Willie gave wise advice to mamas when they sang, “Don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.”  Someone should write another verse for playwrights: …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2013
Can't make it over to London to check out notable stage shows there? Don't fret: You can probably catch them in a movie theater near you. With the launch of a new West End Theater Series of …
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