Marketing miscues hurt 'Brighton Beach' By DAVID ROONEY, GORDON COX

Neil Simon's name wasn't enough to sell tickets

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Understudy<br> Review By DAVID ROONEY

Funny but slight, clever but without any real depth, the one-act gains considerable fizz from Scott Ellis' punchy production and from the bristling interplay of its three fine actors, each o…

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Epic's Shakespeare Remix honored

Program receives Coming Up Taller Award

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Idiot Savant<br> Review By MARILYN STASIO

Since when has Richard Foreman been so grand -- and ever so elegantly French?

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Made in Heaven<br> Review By SAM THIELMAN

Helmer Andrew Shaifer wrings a lot of laughs from the play's reheated "Will and Grace"-style gags, but ultimately, Bernzweig's biggest innovation is his surprisingly bleak denouement, which …

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Creature<br> Review By MARILYN STASIO

It's quite spooky and a little ooky, but "Creature" is no ordinary fright fest.

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Seize the Day<br> Review By KAREN FRICKER

What begins as an entertaining and insightful look into the inner workings of the U.K.'s political establishment and its ethnic communities gets bogged down in overplotting and preachiness.

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Nightingale<br> Review By MARILYN STASIO

Lynn Redgrave holds us in the palm of her hand in this one-woman play about her family.

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

'Inspector' transfers to Wyndhams

Daldry's revival takes over for 'Shawshank'

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

CSA honors Laura Ziskin

Casting group also awards Ephron sisters

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

'Tudors"s Rhys-Meyers to age By LIZ SMITH

'Finian's Rainbow' opens on Broadway

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Obama selects Arts committee

Norton, Parker, Whitaker, Woodard picked

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

DreamWorks sets scribe for 'Guardians'

Lindsay-Abaire to adapt Joyce series

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Few treats at Broadway box office

Halloween, World Series distract audiences

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

McKellen enrolls in 'Academy'

Actor to star in half-hour mockumentary series

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Kahn's legendary legit track record By PAUL HARRIS

Artistic head of D.C.'s Shakespeare Theater makes strides

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Digital Theater isn't condescending By DAVID BENEDICT

Website offers look at Britian's leading legit companies

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

'Ragtime' revival centers on relationships By GORDON COX

New D.C. version is less lavish than original

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Finian's Rainbow<br> Review By DAVID ROONEY

From the moment music director Rob Berman raises his lighter-than-air baton on the show's soaring overture, blissful surrender is the only option.

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Jackman opts out of Oscarcast gig

Thesp didn't want to do show two years in a row

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Marc Cherry signs new deal with ABC By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER

Cherry is working with scribes Jeffrey Bowen and Hunter Bell (both of whom will write) on a multicamera comedy about two mismatched brothers.

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

DreamWorks cues up Gershwin

Doug Wright wrote script for composer biopic

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Orphans' Home Cycle - Review

In his final gift to the theater Foote has created a work of gentle existentialism. It asks: Why do things happen in life the way they do?

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Redgrave readies last 'Magical' show By LIZ SMITH

Actress encored play for UNICEF benefit

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

AmEx offers grant to theater org

Lower Manhattan Arts Leaders gets funds

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑