Thursday, April 26, 2018
With his buoyant air of all-American optimism and innate decency, Denzel Washington is well cast (by helmer George C. Wolfe) as Hickey, the long-awaited bearer of false hope, comforting lies…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:12PM[SHARE]“Diane,” writer-director Kent Jones’ drama starring Mary Kay Place, and actors Jeffrey Wright and Alia Shawkat were among the winners of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:55PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of “Carousel” and the new musical “SpongeBob SquarePants” led the list of nominations for the 2018 Drama Desk Awards, with “Carousel”…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
"There is something about the girl," say several characters over the course of George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," now receiving a smart, stylish and engaging Broadway revival by the Manhatt…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04PM[SHARE]Two New York companies that specialize in live, interactive content have joined forces to create a new firm, Immersive Activations Group, with an eye toward scaling up their activities in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
In the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of “Travesties,” a sign ("Ruhe Bitte") on the show’s set advises us to please be quiet in the Zurich reading room…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24PM[SHARE]Nick Scandalios, the executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization, will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award at this year’s Tony Awards ceremony. Scandalios — a longt…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PM[SHARE]Is Captain America ready to hang up his shield? Chris Evans has said so in the past, and his contract with Marvel is up after “Avengers 4,” the 2019 follow-up to the imminent …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PM[SHARE]If that's Donna Summer, then this must be the late 70s and early 80s, the era of disco dancing in the clubs and roller skating at the Roxy. (And let's not even talk about the fashions.) But …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:33AM[SHARE]A new musical by the Tony-winning duo behind “Spring Awakening,” Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, and another by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown are on tap for the 2018 se…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
The area of intersection between fans of iambic pentameter and doers of the "Cool Jerk" may be a limited one, so you can imagine the initial chore in store for anyone charged with targeting …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PM[SHARE]Chita Rivera and Andrew Lloyd Webber will each take home a 2018 special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater, receiving their trophies at the awards ceremony this June. The lif…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]The “Harry Potter” novels spawned a massively successful film franchise, and now, with the April 22 opening of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the Boy Who Lived …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2018
This is no time for bogus expressions of sophistication. So, let's just say: Hooray! With "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," the Boy Who Lived has finally come to Broadway, bringing …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2018
When first-time director Bradley Cooper was shooting his forthcoming remake of “A Star in Born,” his co-star, Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta), made a deal with him. “She…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:02PM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2018
Bette Midler will return to her box office-busting role in “Hello, Dolly!” this summer, stepping back into the part that won her a Tony Award, in a new six-week run that will cap…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
If you've got it, flaunt it. The splendid Beaumont stage at Lincoln Center was made for great classic musicals like Lerner and Loewe's “My Fair Lady,” and helmer Bartlett Sher wa…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
The New York City Mayor’s Office and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) have locked in the details of a new grant program for film and theater projects by, for …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
The publicity material for "Tina — the Tina Turner Musical" actually doesn't use the phrase "starring Adrienne Warren." It should. And it will. Hitherto unknown in the U.K., the actres…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
The week before last, the Broadway box office boomed. Last week came the inevitable dip out of the stratosphere. After boffo business fueled by spring-break and holiday traffic, nearly every…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:32PM[SHARE]The New York Times and the New Yorker have jointly won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service for their influential exposes of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The explosive i…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
Audiences encountering Joshua Henry's electrifying performance as the charismatic but star-cursed Billy Bigelow will long remember the experience. In this new Broadway revival of Rodgers and…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee will announce nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards next month. Odom Jr. won a Tony in 2016 for his performance as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton.” M…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Mark Medoff wrote "Children of a Lesser God" specifically for Phyllis Frelich, a deaf actress who made her professional debut as the character Sarah Norman in the 1979 production at the Mark…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM[SHARE]Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents theater actors and stage managers, has launched a push for two new categories at the Tony Awards that would collectively honor ens…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:49PM[SHARE]Making a rare stage appearance, Elaine May will star alongside Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera in a new Broadway staging of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 play “The Waverly Gallery,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Immigration, parental absence and cyber-relationships all figure in to the road trip musical "Miss You Like Hell," an earnest " and now very Trump-topical " show that too often gets stuck in…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Lauren Ridloff is playing the lead role in the Broadway revival of “Children of a Lesser God.” Haven’t heard of her? That’s probably because this is her first acting …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:33PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
Well, that didn’t take long. In only its third week of previews, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” has set a new record at the Broadway box office — by a wide margi…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46PM[SHARE]Uzo Aduba (“Orange is the New Black”) and Janet McTeer (“Jessica Jones,” “A Doll’s House”) have signed on to headline New York stage productions tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]It’s been 14 years since “Mean Girls” hit cinemas — but it’s only gotten more timely. “The movie was about relational aggression among women,” said …
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