Following a pattern set by the original 1996 production and last spring’s West End revival, David Hare’s Skylight has paid off its Broadway capitalization costs in under two months. The producers, led by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin, declined to reveal how much they had raised to transfer the drama, starring Bill Nighy…

UPDATE, 11 PM with corrected figures and more information throughout: With 13 shows in pre-Tony-deadline previews, one opening (Skylight) and one closing (Honeymoon In Vegas), the Broadway box office rose significantly over the combo Easter and Passover weekend, with the week ending Sunday grossing $29.5 million for…

Bill Nighy returns to David Hare’s plays in this new revival of his 1996 work Skylight and, as I say in my video review above, it’s a very good thing. Nighy and co-star Carey Mulligan have a brilliant vehicle worthy of their complementary talents. The play is directed by Stephen Daldry (perhaps better known for his…

Bill Nighy made his Broadway debut almost a decade ago in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour. He returns in Skylight, an earlier but better Hare play from 1996, and it’s cause for celebration. In a season marked by alpha stars in beta plays (Bradley Cooper in The Elephant Man; Hugh Jackman in The River), Nighy and co-star…

Pray for the puppet. In an up week that saw eight new shows previewing on Broadway, several looked like early contenders for the pre-Tony homestretch, while others already bore signs of a coming struggle to stay in the race. Out front for Week 43 of the Broadway season that ended Sunday were Finding Neverland, the…

The Union Jack will be flying over Broadway big-time this coming season, as talk heats up about bringing Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan and the acclaimed National Theatre revival of David Hare’s Skylight to New York in the spring. I wrote a few weeks ago that while the Stephen Daldry production will be telecast in the…