Monday, June 13, 2022
Broadway celebrated its first full season after the COVID lockdown with the 75th annual Tony Awards, hosted by a newly minted Oscar winner and spotlighting stage work that included a media-d…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55AMFriday, June 10, 2022
The pool of people who vote for the Tony Awards is a small one — and this year, it’s probably even smaller. As Broadway gears up for its big night June 12, the industry’s annual progno…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Phylicia Rashad, Mary-Louise Parker, LaChanze: All of these 2022 Tony Award nominees are Broadway regulars, and they’ve had plenty of experience with nominatio…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMThe Tony Awards Landmarks on This Year’s Nominations List In a Broadway season that was the first after the devastating 15-month shutdown caused by the pandemic, the Tony nominations list …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMIn a Broadway season filled with star turns and individual standouts, maybe the biggest breakout performance came from … ensemble casts. From the queens of “Six” to the Thoughts of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
Playwright Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her 25-year-old play “How I Learned to Drive,” which has been seen in productions around the world and is now on Broadway in a staging nom…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PMAfter the Great Recession of ’08 — not to mention anxiety about the current economy — will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMonday, June 6, 2022
When the Tony-winning musical “1776” debuted on Broadway in 1969, it celebrated America’s ideals on the eve of its Bicentennial. Half a century later, a radical makeover brings critiqu…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMThursday, June 2, 2022
It’s June 2022, and Michael R. Jackson has a lot to be proud of. His musical “A Strange Loop” leads the Broadway awards-season race with 11 Tony nominations and stands poised to net th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
With a cast headed by Amy Adams making her West End debut, you’d be forgiven for imagining the latest production of Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” might be everything…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:02PMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Jesse Williams is coming to the end of his debut Broadway gig — but he’s already betting it’ll be the first of many stage engagements for him. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PMMonday, May 23, 2022
“What are you staring at? Have you never seen a murderer up close before?” Ever since her startlingly assured 2007 debut “Free Outgoing,” shrewd playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar has …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:25PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical “A Strange Loop” scored 11 Tony nominations last week — and the ensemble cast of “A Strange Loop” is inviting everyon…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PMMonday, May 9, 2022
On your mark, get set, go. The race for the Tony Awards has officially begun with the announcement of the 2022 nominations on Monday. In honoring and highlighting the work in a crowded, COVI…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34AMFriday, May 6, 2022
Broadway just wrapped up its first season after the pandemic lockdown, and boy, was it a doozy: After all the delays, COVID surges and cast replacements, a whopping 35 new productions opened…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:43AMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Debra Messing has only been in the Broadway play “Birthday Candles” since March, but in some ways, she feels more deeply connected to her character Ernestine than she felt to the leading…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMFriday, April 29, 2022
A bare set. Actors making stew on stage. An abundance of hand-held fog machines. Vague contemporary setting and costumes. A generally spooky atmosphere. Put all the ingredients together and …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMThursday, April 28, 2022
I am woman, hear me roar — with laughter, at “POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,” playwright Selina Fillinger’s delicious feminist farce …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:43PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Sometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film “Mr. Saturday Night,” which Billy Crystal starred…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Subjectivity is conditional. We can only understand our own points of view in relation to the differences that separate us. If art often intends to complete the circle (“look at how these …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMonday, April 25, 2022
Thornton Wilder’s allegorical play “The Skin of Our Teeth” is bizarre, abstract and convoluted; it’s not to be taken seriously. Or so Sabina (Gabby Beans) tells the audience at Linco…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSunday, April 24, 2022
“You ever feel like there’s someone watching from the shadows?” asks Beanie Feldstein’s Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star’s past waft in and out in a kind…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, April 22, 2022
In the theatrical annals of wild and wicked stage plays, there are black comedies, blacker comedies, and blacker-than-the-dead-of-night comedies like “Hangmen.“ Prolific playwright Mar…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Ntozake Shange’s iridescent choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf” is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experienc…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMommas, don’t give your daughters the kind of nicknames that would appeal to their pedophile uncles. Cursed with a cutesy moniker like “Li’l Bit,“ what do you think might happen to a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Some stories creep up in disguise, hiding a ghastly scowl. “The Minutes” is an astonishing feat from playwright and star Tracy Letts, not least for its brilliant finesse in orchestrating…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Since 1997, composer-singer Barry Manilow and lyricist-librettist Bruce Sussman — the team behind iconic ’70s pop classics such as “Copacabana” — have been looking to get their wis…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMike Bartlett’s latest play is monstrous. In a good way. Shapeshifting actor Bertie Carvel, having shot to fame creating the marvelously alarming Miss Trunchbull in “Matilda,” is back …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMMonday, April 11, 2022
When is a timeless children’s tale not quite right for children’s theater? When it is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved and ever-so-slightly surreal 1942 novella, “The Little Princ…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMSunday, April 10, 2022
One minute you’re a teenager ready to “rebel against the universe,” then in the blink of an eye you’re a senior making peace with the life that was handed to you. That’s the short …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Oh, what mean and nasty things men said about women who dared to fight for the right to vote in America. Here are some of those choice insults, taken from the very first song (“Watch Out f…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM 
