The New York transfer of U.K. musical “Matilda” opened April 11 at Broadway’s Shubert Theater. The following is David Benedict’s review (Daily Variety, Dec. 13, 2010)…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]“The Last Goodbye,” the tuner mash-up of “Romeo and Juliet” and the songs of Jeff Buckley, will open the 2013-14 season at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater. Produc…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PM[SHARE]Mary-Louise Parker circles back to Broadway this fall, returning to Manhattan Theater Club for the Gotham nonprofit’s co-production of Sharr White’s “The Snow Geese.”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]The Lark Play Development Center has awarded the 2013-14 Playwrights of New York fellowship to Kimber Lee, who nabs one of the heftiest legit development awards out there, including a year o…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" "Â coming soon to an arena near you? The legal settlement reached April 10 between Julie Taymor and producers of Broadway tuner "Spider-Man" not only brings…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PM[SHARE]Veteran Broadway group ticket seller Scott Mallalieu has opened the doors at his new group sales firm, GreatWhiteWay.com. Mallalieu was the prexy of Group Sales Box Office, the StreetR…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]WASHINGTON "Â Signature Theater's sassy revival of "Dreamgirls" and Folger Theater's wild western take on "The Taming of the Shrew" drew top laurels April 8 at the Helen Hayes Awards, D.C.…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:51AM[SHARE]"Hands on a Hardbody" is taking its hands off the vehicle and withdrawing from the competition, with the Broadway musical posting a closing notice for the end of the week. Most legiters had …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]As Tom Hanks topliner "Lucky Guy" continued to rake it in at the Broadway box office last week, star-driven plays led by Better Midler and Alec Baldwin joined the fray and Midler outing "I'l…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PM[SHARE]Producer Scott Rudin has lined up his latest star-heavy Broadway revival, tapping Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz to appear in a fall production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PM[SHARE]Never underestimate the power of a good-bad musical, which can make consenting adults yearn to be dancing queens and adolescent witches and, in the case of "Kinky Boots," drag queens in stil…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Theater stints for William Friedkin, William Petersen and Amy Brenneman are on tap for the 2013-14 season at the Geffen Playhouse. Friedkin will direct the L.A. nonprofit's revival of Harold…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PM[SHARE]When NBC confirmed the news "The Tonight Show" changeover in 2014, Broadway ears perked up. For legit publicists, the cross-country move could be a boon: The opportunity to promote Main Stem…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PM[SHARE]It's an Off Broadway awards show, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of stars lined up for it: The roster of actors to score nominations for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards includes Ja…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40PM[SHARE]The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference has lined up a trio of new tuner projects for development during the conference's 2013 summer session, corralling a line…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tom Hanks is a natural. Although he hasn’t trod the boards in years, the affable movie star takes to the stage like a fish to water in “Lucky Guy,” Nora Ephron’s affe…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Easter holiday is all about resurrection, and Broadway box office rose to the occasion. Sales spiked last week during the Easter-Passover frame, driving a full 13 productions above the $…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PM[SHARE]The "Romeo and Juliet" that arrives on Broadway next season starring Orlando Bloom may be the first Main Stem staging of the Shakespeare play since 1986 "Â but it's not the first productio…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards have tapped two legiters with TV profiles, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster, to announced the 2013 Tony nominations later this month. Ferguson, who had logged several s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PM[SHARE]Jenna Segal, a former production development exec at MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1, is pulling together her first Broadway project as a lead producer, tapping a team of creatives for a revival of…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:21PM[SHARE]With twenty actors racing between fifty roles across a time-traveling plot, Bruce Norris's "The Low Road" is a cross between a pageant and a parable. Dominic Cooke's supremely witty, fleet-f…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:26PM[SHARE]Add Patsy Cline to the list of music acts making their way to Broadway, with tuner "Always… Patsy Cline" aiming for a Rialto run this summer in a production that stars "American Idol" alum…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]"What is growing up, precisely?" That's an unusually loaded question since it's asked by the woman who inspired "Alice in Wonderland" of the man who inspired "Peter Pan." Having issued the c…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PM[SHARE]Five Filipino immigrants in Tel Aviv work by day as live-in caregivers to elderly Hasidic men but by night they form a gleefully low-rent drag act. You couldn't make it up, and guess what? T…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Spring break is a great time to be a Broadway show "Â but not so much if you're a new title. For proof, take a look at last week's Main Stem box office. Four productions joined the fray du…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Veteran legiters Bernard Gersten, Ming Cho Lee and Paul Libin have each scored the 2013 Tony Awards' special kudo for lifetime achievement in the theater. Trio of prominent industry figures …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40PM[SHARE]The movie stars who showed up for the March 21 opening-night curtain call of “Hands on a Hardbody” weren’t the usual Hollywood types. They were the real-life subjects of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PM[SHARE]Well, Broadway finally got itself an all-American musical in “Hands on a Hardbody.” The question is, will an all-American audience go for it? It’s hard to picture hotel con…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]New York legiters continued to lay the groundwork for the upcoming spring awards season, with the Tony Awards Administration Committee deeming the current Broadway staging of "Cinderella"eli…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PM[SHARE]Off Broadway company Playwrights Horizons has tapped former "Do No Harm" topliner Steven Pasquale to co-star in this season's tuner adaptation of "Far From Heaven," while also lining up a 20…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:29PM[SHARE]Gotham partygoers are used to celebs in their midst. So it was remarkable that at least one star made everyone go all gushy at the March 20 opening night party of Broadway's new "Breakfast a…
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