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]"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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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]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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]There must be a lot of Lucy Thurber-envy going around Gotham, given the ambitious five-play retrospective of her work being produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and running concurrent…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Producers of the Broadway revival of musical “Annie” have posted the show’s closing notice, announcing the production will shutter Jan. 5. “Annie,” which began …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Il Divo, the popular four-member classical-pop group, will tubthump the act’s latest album, the Broadway-themed “A Musical Affair,” with a brief run of Rialto concerts set …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:19PM[SHARE]Michelle Williams has signed on to tackle the role of Sally Bowles in the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming Broadway revival of “Cabaret” "Â and it’s been long …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]Commercial Off Broadway productions are falling into place for theater-district runs this fall, with Dr. Ruth bio "Becoming Dr. Ruth" locked in for a run at the Westside Theater and downtown…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05AM[SHARE]Who needs a helicopter anyway? In an inventive and satisfying remount of the tuner "Miss Saigon" for its 275-seat main stage, Arlington, Va.'s, Signature Theater turns the theatrical spectac…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PM[SHARE]Broadway box office held steady for the final week of summer 2013, keeping a tight grip on holiday-weekend sales ahead of a post-Labor Day sesh that traditionally sees sales slump. There wer…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:33PM[SHARE]The Mark Taper Forum at L.A.'s Center Theater Group has lined up its 2014 season with a couple of world preems that legiters in Gotham and beyond will likely keep an eye on. Among the titles…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:27PM[SHARE]Broadway's fall season launched a bit early this year, with Orlando Bloom topliner "Romeo and Juliet" bowing to strong numbers in a late-summer week that saw overall sales continue to slow i…
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