Wednesday, 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 10:30PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
On a superficial level, the new musical “Suffs” looks a lot like “Hamilton” — so much so that “some people are calling it ‘Hermilton,'” said one of the show’s stars, Jenn C…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57PMMonday, April 4, 2022
Public and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg’s “Take Me Out,” his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is r…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMSunday, April 3, 2022
The body can sometimes say more than words, but even the most expressive moves cannot make a coherent case for “Paradise Square.” The blunt and belabored history lesson of a new musical …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMFriday, March 25, 2022
“We’ve discussed this. We’ve discussed this many times.” That wearied line, which appears in the final scene of David Hare’s new play “Straight Line Crazy,” is spoken by Ariel …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40AMTuesday, March 22, 2022
Expanding accessibility is an ongoing concern for Broadway — and this spring, the musician Gaelynn Lea arrives with lessons she learned from advocating for the cause in the music industry.…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
John is desperate: “It’s not a competition. Please, please it mustn’t be that.” Cue his girlfriend’s snapped retort: “Then what is it really?” Good question. As revealed by the…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PMWednesday, March 9, 2022
Now that omicron is in decline, Broadway optimism is on the rise. After a bumpy holiday season rife with performance disruptions, show closures and hiatuses due to the highly contagious COVI…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:25PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Just how vocally demanding are roles in Broadway musicals like “Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Hansen” — and how much singing is too much? If two professors at New York University had th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMFriday, February 25, 2022
At the start of the second half of Anthony McCarten’s art-world bio-drama “The Collaboration,” the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s agent finds himself alone on the scrappy sofa of Basq…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:04PMTuesday, February 22, 2022
Brittney Johnson is currently making history as the first Black actor to play Glinda in “Wicked,” but she’s also had a lot of Broadway experience in jobs that are in many ways even mor…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
The gap between what you see and what you get has long proved fertile territory for playwrights. At his considerable best, not least his Oscar-winning adapted screenplay of his play “The F…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PMFriday, February 11, 2022
Hugh Jackman dazzles as Professor Harold Hill, the charismatic con man who fires up an entire Midwestern town, in this abso-tootin’-lutely smashing revival of Meredith Willson’s adorably…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Lynn Nottage has had a hat-trick of shows on New York stages this season: the new opera “Intimate Apparel,” the Michael Jackson musical “MJ” and the play “Clyde’s.” How does sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
In answer to the question of whether it’s possible to separate the art from the artist, “MJ” performs a slick, crotch-grabbing sidestep. Packed with nearly 40 hits from Michael Jackson…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMMonday, January 31, 2022
Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play “Intimate Apparel,” where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collabora…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, January 26, 2022
The playwright Dominique Morisseau knows what she is doing. That’s clear not only because she says it so convincingly in her Playbill note for Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of “S…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Playwright Dominique Morisseau has a lot going on right now — but then, she’s just following the advice that the late Chadwick Boseman once gave her. Listen to this week’s “Stagecra…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:39PMWednesday, January 12, 2022
“It just turned into triage.” That’s how Anne Quart describes the past few weeks on Broadway. As senior VP of production and co-producer at Disney Theatrical, Quart saw first-hand the …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMTuesday, January 11, 2022
Robin de Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominee who’s currently co-starring in “Tick, Tick… Boom!,” one of this year’s film awards season contenders. But de Jesús will be the f…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:06PMFriday, January 7, 2022
No one stages something set across mountainous ski slopes in a 251-seat, three-sided theater without a sense of humor. Which is why director Michael Longhurst has attached the bold and perky…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Peter Dinklage was never very interested in playing the lead role in “Cyrano de Bergerac” — until a new musical adaptation of the story got rid of the fake nose that has come to define…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:26PMMonday, December 13, 2021
In the midst of the deadly dull 1950s, Hollywood celebs Cary Grant, Claire Booth Luce and Aldous Huxley escape their ennui by dropping acid. No serious sex is involved and no one rushes out …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02PMEver since Bob Fosse cast a never-better Liza Minnelli in his Oscar-winning re-imagining of the musical “Cabaret,” revivals of the original musical have leaned toward being “All About …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:44AMFriday, December 10, 2021
Like all historical plays, James Graham’s latest, now playing at the Young Vic in London, is as much about the time in which it’s written as the time depicted. His version of the 2015 do…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PMThursday, December 9, 2021
Half a century has passed since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth first dazzled Broadway with “Company,” their tartly astute 1970 musical about a single Manhattanite dogged by coupled fr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05PMWednesday, December 8, 2021
At a moment of the highest possible tension, a character shoots a puppet. What makes that not just exciting, but truly extraordinary, is that you feel the entire audience shudder. “We’re…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:24PMTuesday, December 7, 2021
The cast of the new Broadway revival of “Company” was in the middle of a two-show Friday on Thanksgiving weekend when they heard the news that the musical’s legendary composer, Stephen…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PMSunday, December 5, 2021
A face smothered in banana cream has already sprung out from behind a refrigerator door. A silicone breast plate has been scorched over a stovetop. A man dressed like Margaret Thatcher on he…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, December 2, 2021
Bestseller though it is – 10 million copies and counting – it’s fair to say that “Life of Pi,” the extraordinary story of a shipwrecked 17-year-old who did (or maybe didn’t) spen…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMFor audience members checking in at the final dress rehearsal of NBC’s “Annie Live!” on Dec. 1, there was an additional stop along the usual security gauntlet. Between the airport-styl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01PM 
