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?
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]At every performance of musical "The Phantom of the Opera," on Broadway and around the country, the tortured title character rips off his mask to reveal his disfigured face. That deformed mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]The gestating musical version of “The Bridges of Madison County” has lined up its Broadway run, with the production inked in for a February opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PM[SHARE]Brit thesp Mark Rylance will reprise his two lead roles in the Shakespeare's Globe all-male productions of "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III" on Broadway this fall in a double bill with a cas…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM[SHARE]The brewing Broadway adaptation of "Rear Window" has tapped scribe Keith Reddin and helmer Terry Kinney to bring the thriller to the stage. Reddin is a veteran legit scribe whose plays inclu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]"The identification with the play, I think, is about family and what home means to you," says producer Nelle Nugent. She's talking about her Tony-nommed revival of Horton Foote's "The Trip t…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]The Vineyard polishes its rep as an incubator of offbeat plays by eccentric playwrights with “Somewhere Fun,” another highwire act in twisted linguistics from Jenny Schwartz. …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theater has booked David Hyde Pierce, currently up for a Tony for his perf in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” to star in its upcoming product…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PM[SHARE]The world preem of "A New York Heartbeat," a screening of upcoming Epix doc "TWA Flight 800" and a career kudo for Killer Films’ Christine Vachon are among the highlights of the …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]It’s really hard to pull off a production style that says: “Yoo-hoo, I’m being ironic here!” without patronizing or caricaturing its targets of irony. Todd Haynes exe…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]Christopher Lloyd has made a career of playing mad geniuses, which makes this brilliant clown a perfect fit for Azdak, the wise fool who injects some cockeyed sanity into the state-sanctione…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]"I'll Eat You Last," the Broadway play toplined by Bette Midler, has become one of the first of the spring's shows to make it into the black, according to producers, with the show recouping …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Turns out you can go home again: The incoming Broadway revival of "Les Miserables" will open next spring at the Imperial Theater, the venue where the original Rialto production played for mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]How do you turn an analysis of contemporary East/West politics into a smart-mouthed, sharply paced drama? Pour it into a convincing thriller plot. That's what Lucy Kirkwood has done in her s…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Broadway left its B.O. records unbroken in the 2012-13 season, logging drops both in cumulative gross and, more notably, in attendance. It's been a while since a Main Stem season didn't brea…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31PM[SHARE]Kwame Kwei-Armah's play "Beneatha's Place" has turned legit industry heads as part of an ambitious project at Baltimore's Center Stage, which is presenting the new title, inspired by "A Rais…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]Rebecca Hall will topline a Broadway revival of American expressionist play "Machinal" at the Roundabout Theater Company, where the show will be directed by Brit helmer Lyndsey Turner. Sophi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]There are a couple of well-established paths to Broadway for a new play. "Blue Highway" isn't taking any of them. The new work by David Marlett (pictured at left) is being developed simultan…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]This year the Tonys will launch a second-screen digital destination, with interactive content set to stream during the annual live kudocast on CBS " a measure other TV skeins, such as the AM…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Ethan Coen returns to Off Broadway this fall with new play "Women or Nothing," set to bow at the Atlantic Theater Company in a run that precedes the December release of his latest pic, "Insi…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]If theater owners are the most powerful figures on Broadway, then there's a new power player in town. The purchase this week of Broadway's largest venue, the 1,930-seat Foxwoods, reps the fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]I love you, I hate you, I’ll kill you. That’s the lurid premise of “Murder Ballad,” the hot and sticky rock opera that made auds sweat when it opened six months ago a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]New York City Center’s long-running Encores! program, which has yielded a string of commercial Broadway transfers including the still-running revival of “Chicago,” has set …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:02PM[SHARE]Comedian Carol Burnett has been selected by Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Award will be presented Oct. 20 at a kudof…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theater has found a summer tenant, with dance revue “Forever Tango” returning to the Main Stem for a ten-week run prior to the fall opening of new mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Ambassador Theater Group, the largest owner/operator of theaters in the U.K., has at last planted a flag on Broadway with the acquisition of the Foxwoods Theater, current home to “Spid…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:25PM[SHARE]Zachary Levi, the “Chuck” star soon to appear in upcoming Marvel sequel “Thor: The Dark World,” will make his Broadway debut this summer in “First Date,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tony contenders including tuner "Matilda" and play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" were among the titles to emerge as winners at the 2013 Drama Desk Awards. "Matilda" led the pack with…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:35PM[SHARE]The Drama League contributed its two cents to the 2012-13 awards season discussion, tapping tuner “Kinky Boots” and new play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” to …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PM[SHARE]As Russian supper club entertainment goes, “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812″ could put belly dancers out of business. In this smartly engineered transfer, Dave Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]With the selection of Broadway producer Jed Bernstein (pictured) as the next president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, one of Gotham's major nonprofits looks poised to inject its …
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