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…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PM[SHARE]Tony winner Victoria Clarke and Danny Burstein, nommed for Tonys in each of the last two seasons, are among the thesps signed on to appear alongside Mary-Louise Parker in the upcoming Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:01PM[SHARE]Freed at last from the show's long-running legal dramas, producers can finally get moving on potential incarnations across the country and around the globe.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]“Broadway Idiot,” the documentary feature chronicling the creation of the legit musical version of Green Day album “American Idiot,” is on tap for release this fall i…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56PM[SHARE]Broadway is making an exploratory attempt at a digital cinema series, with stage-to-screen production company Broadway Worldwide pacting with distributor SpectiCast for a fall series of thea…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PM[SHARE]"Baggage Claim," the David E. Talbert movie starring Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Taye Diggs, Jill Scott and Adam Brody, will open 2013 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York. The 17th annual eve…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Add one more production to the list of shows vying for a Broadway theater in 2014: Producers of a new staging of “Dames at Sea,” the 1968 Off Broadway tuner that launched the car…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:06PM[SHARE]Call it a hat-trick of Scottish plays:Â The Kenneth Branagh-toplined staging of “Macbeth,” which bowed in a much-lauded U.K. run earlier this summer, will make the move …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22AM[SHARE]Every summer must come to an end, and box office numbers indicate that last week might have been the beginning of the end of this year’s annual summer boom on Broadway. Nearly every pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PM[SHARE]Tyne Daly and playwright Terrence McNally are reteaming  for their next Broadway effort with the latest play by McNally, “Mothers and Sons,” targeting a spring run on the Rial…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PM[SHARE]After a long stretch without any high-profile actor injuries, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is grappling once again with issues of actor safety in a high-tech stage production: A performan…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PM[SHARE]Lots of luck marketing “Soul Doctor” to a general audience.  This worshipful musical biography of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the so-called “Rock Star Rabbi” credit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theater Club has added “Taking Care of Baby,” a 2007 play by “Matilda” Tony winner Dennis Kelly, to its Off Broadway slate this fall. Off Broadway stalwart …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]While cherishing his 'Harry Potter' experience, Daniel Radcliffe eagerly tackles projects far across the creative spectrum.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Isn’t “Love’s Labour’s Lost” about Berowne and Rosaline, those intelligent, articulate lovers who carry on a fierce flirtation via a battle of wit and words? No…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]More than once this summer, Broadway musical "The Lion King" has done something impressive: It's beaten "Wicked" at the box office even when "Lion King" plays a traditional eight-perf week a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:19PM[SHARE]“Beautiful,” the incoming Broadway bio-musical of Carole King featuring tunes from the singer-songwriter’s canon, has found its Carole, with Jessie Mueller tapped to toplin…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Shirley Herz, the storied Broadway press agent, died of complications from a stroke Aug. 11 in New York. She was 87. Herz, who suffered the stroke July 18, repped close to 100 Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:03PM[SHARE]For Zachary Levi, the musical “First Date” is indeed his first date "Â with Broadway. So he’s been getting acquainted. “I didn’t even know what previews were …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PM[SHARE]“First Date,” a romantic musical comedy about the horrors, humiliations and occasional happy surprises of blind dates, is cute (but not too cute) and sweet (but not too sweet).Â…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]The sentiment may not sound sexy, but it goes a long way toward explaining what led 20th Century Fox to tap Broadway producer Kevin McCollum for its new theatrical joint venture.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]But I really want to direct, goes the common refrain in Hollywood. And these days on Broadway too. Jeffrey Seller, one of the producers behind "Rent," "Avenue Q" and "In the Heights," stirre…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Surprisingly cumbersome switches between designer Scott Pask's office and courtroom locations are an unintentional metaphor for the problem beneath "The Same Deep Water As Me." Nick Payne "…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]The Independent Filmmaker Project has tapped Katherine Oliver, the commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, to receive the industry tribute at the 23rd an…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Bill Maher, Wanda Sykes, Kathy Griffin, Anthony Jeselnik and Whitney Cummings are among the comics lined up to perform as part of the 10th annual New York Comedy Festival in November. Five-d…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PM[SHARE]As summer starts to wind down, so does the Broadway cume "Â but last week average ticket price actually climbed, in what's been a strong season so far in terms of the average price paid pe…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PM[SHARE]Any playwright can stick celebrity facsimiles together in a room; it takes real talent not only to render those portraits believable but also to invest the encounter with dramatic weight. In…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Longtime Off Broadway producer Edmund Gaynes has hung out a new shingle, launching Gaynes Theatrical Booking to rep Off Broadway touring properties. The road market for Off Broadway shows is…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]An upcoming Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” touted by topliner Denzel Washington in the press but not yet confirmed, has locked in its details, booking the Ethel Barry…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PM[SHARE]For anyone worried that all the really big stars would be packed onto Broadway in the fall, Denzel Washington has come along to add some wattage to the spring lineup. Nothing has been confir…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PM[SHARE]The first film awards show of  the season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards, has booked a 2013 date and set two new competitive acting categories for a ceremony that has a track record …
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