Thursday, November 17, 2022
Shakespeare's Juliet singing Britney Spears' "Oops…I Did It Again" is certainly a surprising and unexpected juxtaposition. While there is every reason to be skeptical of a Shakespearea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PM[SHARE]The use of the word "fuck" as a statement occurs approximately 62 times in Will Arbery's new play, "Evanston Salt Costs Climbing," and "Haha" or "Hahahaha" appears approximately 34 times, so…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2022
Mike Birbiglia's solo play "The Old Man and the Pool" opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on Nov. 13, 2022. The following is Peter Debruge's review of the same production when …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2022
The prospect of dying by age 16 hardly seems like obvious fodder for musical comedy. But "Kimberly Akimbo," transferring to Broadway after an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theater Company, i…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2022
In the 25 years since "The Lion King" opened on Broadway, the show has traveled all over the world and played to more than 110 million people. But there's one thing that often doesn't transl…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2022
Writer-director Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning screenplay about a teen rock journalist's coming-of-age in the '70s, "Almost Famous," lands pretty much intact in Broadway's latest pedestrian f…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2022
Who better to tell your story than … you? Gabriel Byrne won kudos for his intimate memoir "Walking with Ghosts," which he subsequently adapted into this heartfelt solo show now playing…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PM[SHARE]You can take anything and write a song about it. Whether it needs singing about is another question entirely. On the evidence of multitudes of recent musicals, it's one too few creative team…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Samuel L. Jackson is back on Broadway for the first time in a decade in "The Piano Lesson," the new production of the August Wilson play directed by Jackson's wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackso…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2022
It is a testament to the acuity of Suzan-Lori Parks' imagination and powers of perception that "Topdog/Underdog" feels as vital and electric today as it did 20 years ago. The first Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company doesn't usually sell out an entire run before opening, especially with a new play. But then, it has never had the audacity to stage one of the world's most belo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Charm, a sadly rare theatrical quality, is scarcely a fashionable theatrical virtue, but it's nonetheless valuable. And, to audiences' evident delight, it's there in spades in director Danie…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2022
The new musical "Kimberly Akimbo" has already beguiled New York critics. Now it has to win over Broadway audiences. Based on David Lindsay-Abaire's 2001 play of the same name, "Kimber…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2022
Every family has a skeleton or two in its closet. The starry new Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson" has a whole houseful of ghosts. Director L…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2022
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of "Take Me Out" returns this fall, and Jesse Williams is back with it. In Richard Greenberg's 2002 play, the "Grey's Anatomy" actor plays a biracial baseba…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2022
How is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play like a Marvel superhero? Ask Suzan-Lori Parks, the acclaimed writer whose 2001 outing "Topdog/Underdog" was her first show to arrive on Broadway after sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2022
Take two, and not a moment too soon. Lea Michele steps into one of Broadway's most iconic roles, which in her mind " or at least the mind of Rachel Berry, the character she played in TV's "G…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2022
In the new Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," Wendell Pierce's powerhouse performance firmly identifies Willy Loman as a tragic hero for these modern times. It's a searing portrait o…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2022
The opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of "1776" makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull's famous painting of the signers of the Declaration o…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Part of the instant appeal of "Friends" was that, from the get-go, the relationships between the members of the gang who hung out in the apartments above Central Perk felt not just likeable …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:19PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2022
What gives life value and makes it worth our daily toil? What does it mean to need another person, and what do we owe each other? It is a testament to the brilliant craft of Martyna Majok's …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2022
In a radical departure from his usual intellectually esoteric style, Tom Stoppard's new play is an intensely personal family drama. "Leopoldstadt," which takes its name from the Jewish quart…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
There is an opera of "The Crucible." Written by Robert Ward, it won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize. But this is not the opera… or is it? Lyndsey Turner's grandiloquent National Theatre production…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Madison Wells Live, the stage entertainment division of Gigi Pritzker's Madison Wells Media ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), has emerged from theater's lockdown phase with a lineup of brewing the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Broadway hasn't been the same since the pandemic. Just consider "The Phantom of the Opera." The recent closing announcement of the landmark long-runner underscored just how unpredictable the…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PM[SHARE]After a bunch of peppy up-tempo numbers, you just know there is going to be at least one ballad somewhere in "The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation," the new musical with Broadway aspirations pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PM[SHARE]For the actor Gregg Mozgala, his Broadway debut in "Cost of Living" isn't just a step forward for him " it's a step forward for all of Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2022
Jonathan Spector's 2018 comedy "Eureka Day" first attracted attention in productions in Berkeley and Brooklyn. But in its sharp U.K. premiere starring Helen Hunt, this often very funny satir…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Few theater performances are as indelible as the original Broadway production of "Into the Woods," which raised a generation of theater fans through a legendary American Playhouse recording …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Get thee to Arden " or at least to the Arden depicted in the glorious, delightful and big-hearted musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," created as part of the Public Theater'…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]The composer ("Once Upon a Mattress"), young adult author ("Freaky Friday") and philanthropist Mary Rodgers wanted to write a memoir that was candid, cutting, dishy and vanity-free " the exa…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PM[SHARE] 
