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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Last week's Broadway box office chart didn't give anyone much to talk about. And a lot of producers will tell you that there's nothing wrong with that. After all, with tourist-fueled sales c…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PM[SHARE]“Captain Phillips,” the Tom Hanks topliner directed by Paul Greengrass, will launch the 51st New York Film Festival. Film, a look at the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. ship by Somali p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]If you're going to make your directing debut under a harsh industry spotlight with minimal rehearsal time, it's smart to appropriate a world-famous production's concept and numerous veterans…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:55AM[SHARE]Not many things can unite Broadway and non-profit theaters with major league sports and mega-churches. But they're all part of the posse that has banded together for "Pardon the Interruption…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:22PM[SHARE]“Murder for Two,” a two-character spoof by Joe Kinosian (book & music) and Kellen Blair (book & lyrics) of an old-fashioned stage whodunit, is the first musical produced …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Producer Jeffrey Richards will reteam with scribe-actor Tracy Letts and helmer Pam MacKinnon to bring Letts’ 1993 play “Killer Joe” to Broadway for a production aiming to h…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:56PM[SHARE]"Barnum," the story of the legendary showman, takes place within the circus for which the title character became famous. Acrobatic choreography energizes Cy Coleman's all-the-fun-of-the-fair…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM[SHARE]Hugh Jackman has been touting his upcoming Broadway tuner "Houdini" from "The Wolverine" red carpets, and even if definite plans are far from finalized, the possible 2014 bow mentioned by th…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PM[SHARE]For his lastest superheroic feat, Spider-Man has endowed Broadway theatergoers with the extraordinary ability to reserve tickets and pay for them later. It might not sound like much. But the…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]How much of a boost did Jane Lynch give to the box office at the revival of "Annie" on Broadway? About $175,000 a week, to judge from last week's Rialto B.O. charts. "Glee" star Lynch, who p…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PM[SHARE]Broadway observers can be forgiven for being skeptical when Disney Theatrical Prods. says it's taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the latest Mouse House-affiliated stage outing, "The Jung…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]When the off-network run of NBC skein "Smash" launches tonight, the Ovation network will be doing something NBC couldn't: Banking on Broadway. Differences of scale between Big Four net NBC a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PM[SHARE]With new plays thin on the ground for the 2013-14 Broadway season, Manhattan Theater Club has lined up one to watch, reteaming scribe John Patrick Shanley, who wrote Pulitzer winner "Doubt,"…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:21PM[SHARE]With Fantasia Barrino's toplining stint in upcoming stage musical "After Midnight" now confirmed, producers have locked in the Broadway return of the only "American Idol" alum to drive box o…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]The annual comedy and music benefit "Stand-Up for Heroes" gets an upgrade as part of the tenth annual New York Comedy Festival, moving from the Beacon Theater to the larger Theater at Madiso…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Trepidation is in the air. Crepuscular lighting and looming, gloomy sound envelop promenading audiences seeking mysterious stories played out in labyrinthine corridors, crannies and curated …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]With holiday stage productions now nailing down Yuletide plans, it's beginning not to look a lot like Christmas on Broadway this year. Whereas last year's holiday season saw an influx of mis…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PM[SHARE]Summertime looked a lot like Christmas on Broadway last week. Not because of the grosses "Â which, while robust, didn't approach the stratospheric heights of the year-end holidays "Â but…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:10PM[SHARE]For Broadway's really big hits, the mega-bucks don't come from a show's outpost on the Main Stem " they come from all the title's incarnations around the world. Proving the point: The jugger…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32PM[SHARE]After wending its way through the international festival circuit since its 2007 debut, “Monkey: Journey to the West” has arrived at Lincoln Center, which is running this eye-popp…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]If two "Macbeths" is company, is three a crowd? That's a question Broadway types have started to wonder in the wake of glowing reviews for the Kenneth Branagh-toplined revival of "Macbeth…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]Who says July 4 is bad for Broadway box office? Not spring openers "Kinky Boots," "Motown" and "Matilda," which all hit best-yet tallies in a frame that can sometimes be a rough one for Rial…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:05PM[SHARE]It can be tough to make it to Broadway banking on straight men:Â The producer of the stage adaptation of Tucker Max's frat-boys-behaving-badly chronicle "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]It's become a formula for Broadway success: Pick a well-known play, cast a star, limit the run to drive up demand and watch box office take off. But as Broadway's current crop of plays now a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Veteran Gotham legiter Jodi Schoenbrun Carter has hung out her own shingle, launching 1022m Management and Marketing, an outfit that aims to match old-school talent management to new-media b…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PM[SHARE]Believe the buzz.  ”Choir Boy,” the small but mighty coming-of-age play by Tarell Alvin McCraney ("The “Brother/Sister Plays") that melted frosty British hearts at th…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]How drunk do you have to be to laugh yourself stupid at “I Hope They Serve Beer On Broadway”?  Christopher Carter Sanderson’s raunchy adaptation of “the literar…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]With a history of infusing classic tales with fresh theatricality, auteur-director Mary Zimmerman ("Metamorphoses") is both a natural choice to adapt a Disney film to the stage and a nearly …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM[SHARE]Broadway's millionaires' club expanded to a full dozen members last week, with a whopping twelve shows pulling in more than $1 million each in a robust summer frame. It wasn't so long ago th…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:10PM[SHARE]Steven Levenson raises some Big Issues in “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.”   We’re talking about weighty matters like crime and punishment, guilt and…
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