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…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]With the recent announcement by U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) of his intention to introduce the Stage Act of 2013, the legit industry may be one step closer to earning an IRS write-o…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber has a new musical lined up for a West End world preem, and because it's a new project from the creator of some of Broadway's most enduring hits, it's big news. But given …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]Fresh off his Kickstarter success in funding a film follow-up to "Garden State," Zach Braff has booked his Broadway debut in the upcoming musical adaptation of "Bullets Over Broadway." As wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20PM[SHARE]With musicals "After Midnight" and "A Night with Janis Joplin" now booked for fall runs, Broadway's singing a familiar song. A whole slew of them, in fact. Catalog musicals "Â that is, tun…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PM[SHARE]Drama has never been central to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Roald Dahl's story and the two so-so movie versions used vivid prose or super-saturated-color visuals to disguise the lac…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44PM[SHARE]Who says there's only one Tony Award that means anything at the box office? With Broadway sales riding a late-June swell of holiday visitors, a good half-dozen shows logged best-ever tallies…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PM[SHARE]A Chinese restaurant deliveryman who speaks limited English is trapped in an elevator for 81 hours. This might not sound like the most natural hero for a musical, but "Stuck Elevator," getti…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]You don’t have to be British to lose your composure and howl with laughter at “The Explorers,” a witty spoof of all those bold Victorian adventurers who ravaged foreign lan…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]There's barely a writer alive who is the best possible director of his or her own work: An outside eye can spot the dramatic and structural flaws the writer cannot or will not see. "The Nigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Frank Langella will topline a new production of "King Lear" set to bow at the U.K.'s Chichester Festival Theater this fall prior to a early 2014 run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Product…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AM[SHARE]The resurgence of the 1980s Brit megamusical continues, with producer Cameron Mackintosh locking in a West End revival of “Miss Saigon” that will open at the Prince Edward The…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]One of the key differences between London and Broadway theatergoers is that Brits don't applaud the first entrance of a star. But helmer Michael Grandage is taking no chances. He whisks Dani…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Take a good look at Hamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the clown princes who are making a dazzling spectacle of themselves in Daniel Sullivan’s madcap version of “The Com…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]There's a drinks trolley downstage right. Good grief "Â where are we, the 1930s? Yes. But the cunning new play "Bracken Moor," a cross between a thunderingly old-fashioned family drama and…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PM[SHARE]The familiar faces aren't just on Broadway next season: Off Broadway's 2013-14 lineup has shaped up to include parts for Maggie Gyllenhaal and Mandy Patinkin, among other recognizable names …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PM[SHARE]Talk about shows that appeal to niche audiences!  Daniel Pearle’s new play, “A Kid Like Jake,” should captivate yuppie parents from upscale urban neighborhoods who ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]Summer tourism and the PR boost of the Tony Awards combined to land 11 Broadway shows in the millionaires' club last week, with the four trophies scored by "Pippin" helping that revival to b…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PM[SHARE]Hot on the heels of his fourth well-received stint as Tony host, Neil Patrick Harris has locked in a Broadway return with a spring 2014 production of John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]For a title that's famously cursed, legiters sure are saying "Macbeth" a lot these days. Lincoln Center Theater's upcoming Broadway staging of the Scottish play, toplined by Ethan Hawke and …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Administration committee has decided to open up eligibility for its annual Regional Theater Award to New York legit companies. Kudo, the recipient of which is selected every …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PM[SHARE]Broadway play ‘Ann,’ the solo show written by and starring Holland Taylor, has moved up its closing date, with the production now scheduled to close at the end of the month. TV a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM[SHARE]It’s payback time for the “regular” looking girls whose boyfriends humiliated them for being insufficiently gorgeous in Neil LaBute’s 2008 play, “Reasons to Be …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]At the parties following June 9's Tony ceremony " which saw new musical "Kinky Boots" walk all over Brit hit and critical fave "Matilda" " the dominant topic was a postgame analysis that wou…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Disney Theatrical Prods. has quietly initiated early explorations of a live stage show featuring the Muppets, commencing late last month with a short but elaborate presentation directed by A…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]With the Tonys out of the way, the Broadway productions featured on the kudocast have begun to lock in upcoming plans as winning play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” set…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:08PM[SHARE]The good news just keeps coming for "Kinky Boots." The musical capped its Tony Award triumph by posting its best weekly sales figure so far, sashaying its way up to number four in the frame'…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards are off and running, handing out an early thesping trophy to Courtney B. Vance, who appears alongside Tom Hanks in "Lucky Guy."
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20PM[SHARE]This year it might have been something of a blessing that the pre-show awards weren't televised: It gave the ceremony's voice-over announcer a little time to work out the kinks.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02PM[SHARE]"I was surprised," he says, when he heard the Tony Awards had decided to give him its annual Isabelle Stevenson Award for significant contribution to humanitarian or charitable causes.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Judging by numbers alone, the 2012-13 Broadway season was kind of a bummer. Sales and, even more notably, attendance were down. So why is the nation's network of road presenters so excited?
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